The main part of the 2023 tax filing season is over. Many solo and small CPA firm owners are taking a step back to think about their next move. Some are planning for a more efficient 2024, many are ramping up their hiring efforts and still others are considering sales to larger firms. But for how much? Valuing a CPA firm can be [...]
It’s been a slog, this job search. And you’ve finally gotten an offer from a company you’ve had your eyes on. But hold up! Before you accept it, take some time to think it over. It can be easy to react from a place of fear: “What if this is the best or only offer I get? I need a job!” As a [...]
“One of the most difficult challenges leaders of all organizations face is managing diverse perspectives.” I grabbed this from a recent Harvard Business Review piece. Frankly, it could have been written by just about any of the organizational leaders I work with these days. We all know that having people on a team with different viewpoints is healthy and lends itself to diversity [...]
Update on Great Resignation If you’re a leader, you’re probably as tired of hearing about this subject as can possibly be, but it’s true: The Great Resignation continues. In November, we reached another apex: 4.5M people quit their jobs that month. On the other hand, according to a Tweet by Heidi Shierholz president of the Economic Policy Institute. “4.5 million people quit, but [...]
According to ZipRecruiter, jobs listed as “remote” get 300% more applicants than those that aren’t. Some say “the idea of a full return is dead.” And according to Ladders, the number of permanent remote positions doubled in 2021. I certainly hear this sentiment from certain clients as well. But while it might be true as a general statement across all industries and types [...]
How are you making your workplace more enticing for new people and existing employees? If you’re an HR leader, chances are, you’ve increased the number of employees eligible to receive a cash bonus. At least, according to a Grant Thornton report, which says 68% of HR leaders took that step in 2021. Other perks reported by HR Dive include companies paying for their [...]
Among the trends Harvard Business Review called out for 2022, the one that really caught my eye was “wellness as the newest metric companies will use to understand their employees.” Wellness as a concept has arguably always been important, but in business, it’s not officially important until it reaches the level of having its own metrics. And after two years of a pandemic, [...]
Remember offsites, those annual gatherings to get the team together for high-level strategy and planning work — not to mention extreme team-bonding activities? Now, in the hybrid era, when people aren’t always in the office — if ever — offsites are turning into onsites. As Erica Keswin describes it in Harvard Business Review: “Professional development is critical to stemming the tide of the Great [...]
Science fiction fans of a certain (long ago) era remember with fondness the Doctor Who television show on PBS. It was a nerdy British affair that still holds up pretty well today. But I’m not here to talk about TV. I’m here to talk about a really interesting study some folks conducted. By analyzing the contributors to each Doctor Who episode that aired [...]