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Our monthly review of the most important management and leadership articles in the accounting press.
Vol. 3 No. 3, March 2011
The Leadership Forum is a panel of the most prominent thought leaders in the profession. Each month we ask them to respond to a question dealing with CPA firm management and leadership.
This month's question is: What specific things are we seeing firms do to develop staff leadership skills and develop them into partners?
For the archive of Leadership Forum Reports, click here.
Consultants and Other Prominent Observers
| August Aquila | Aquila Global Advisor Group, LLC | www.aquilaadvisors.com [email protected] |
| This is perhaps one of the weakest areas in many firms today. Most partners ... More | ||
| Larry Bildstein | The Whetstone Group | [email protected] |
| ... A key role for leadership in a CPA firm is growth, ... More | ||
| Angie Grissom | The Rainmaker Consulting Group | www.therainmakeracademy.com [email protected] |
| ... It is imperative to define what a partner should be doing so that you can communicate the expectation ... More | ||
| Rita Keller | Keller Advisors, LLC | www.ritakeller.com [email protected] |
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| Bob Lewis | Visionary Marketing | www.thinkvisionary.com [email protected] |
| ... firms are bringing the next level of partnership into their opportunities to get the live sales experience on calls ... More | ||
| Jay N. Nisberg | Jay Nisberg and Associates | [email protected] |
| 2. Formal mentor programs conducted internally by the partner group ... More | ||
| William Pirolli | Bentley Consulting Group | www.bentleycg.com [email protected] |
| At our firm we needed to reach a consensus as to what attributes and core competencies we were looking for in our future leaders and partners ... More | ||
| Patrick Pruett | The APA and Enterprise Network Worldwide | http://enterprisenetworkworldwide.com [email protected] |
| ... These coaching and mentoring sessions, held regularly, work wonders in making sure there is a fit between what team members want and what the firm needs ... More | ||
| Marc Rosenberg | The Rosenberg Associates | www.rosenbergassoc.com [email protected] |
| To a large part, firms will continue to fall down in this area until partner compensation systems place significant emphasis in this area ... More | ||
| Joel Sinkin | Accounting Transition Advisors | www.transitionadvisors.com [email protected] |
| I have seen many trends lately as firms recognize they need to build larger internal succession teams ... More | ||
| Joe Tarasco | Accountants Advisory Group | www.accountantsadvisory.com [email protected] |
| ... For an accounting firm, utilizing customized competency models is one of the best methods to establish a foundation for key behaviors required for outstanding performance ... More | ||
| Lisa Tierney | TIERNEY Coaching & Consulting | www.TIERNEYCoaching-Consulting.com [email protected] |
| ... I am working with firms who are supporting staff to take responsibility and ownership of their contribution to the practice of the firm as a whole ... More | ||
| Sandra Wiley | Boomer Consulting, Inc. | www.boomer.com [email protected] |
| ... today's firm leaders are aware that they need to develop the future leaders of their firm, but they need to stop waiting and start acting ... More | ||
| Jennifer Lee Wilson | ConvergenceCoaching LLC | www.convergencecoaching.com [email protected] |
| ... progressive firms identify their rising stars and provide those individuals with personalized career roadmaps, coaching and mentoring ... More | ||
Firm Leaders
| Bob Knight | Lane Gorman Trubitt, PLLC | |
| We enroll 3-5 future leaders each year into Emerging Leadership Academy. | ||
| Patrick Riley | Braver PC | |
| Our firm has established a Developing Leader Program that has at its core the identification of emerging leaders early in their tenure at Braver and provides development programs and opportunities to accelerate their development into future owners in the firm. It is unfortunately a program misunderstood by many of the firms current leaders whose misunderstanding is exacerbated by the ravages of the recent recession. | ||