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Leadership

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Based on the AICPA Competency Framework: Tax and Personal Financial Planning, these learning resources - primarily focused on US tax - are designed to help CPAs understand the knowledge and skills necessary to address the needs of their clients and firms.

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4 tips to persuade talented people to stay

This article provides information on the value of "stay" interviews and provides pointers to keep these interviews on track so your organisation can retain valued...

Article Team building Advanced

How to get—and keep—the best administrative staff

This article presents tips on finding and hiring excellent administrative personnel and keeping them happy once hired.

Article Team building Advanced

Building trust in the workplace

​Trust within an organization is essential to its success, but trust isn't a given. This article discusses a recent research report and provides tips to build trust.

Article Team building Intermediate

Recruiting the best: What CPAs could learn from college coaches

Accounting recruiters can learn from college coaches, who build relationships with, and are identifying talent early. Learn more in this article.

Article Team building Advanced

How gamification can help engage Millennial employees

With a generation of tech-savvy Millennials flooding the workforce, gamification has become a hot topic as a management tool.

Article Motivating & inspiring Intermediate

Nurturing the human element

This article discusses how PWC's global career progression framework and real-time feedback, is developing and retaining talent in the hopes of improving audit quality.

Article Talent retention Intermediate

Money isn’t everything: Nonfinancial rewards that retain the best workers

This article shares tips for implementing nonfinancial rewards and perks at your workplace.

Article Motivating & inspiring Intermediate

Collision course to collaboration

This article describes how blind dates, chance encounters, and creative onboarding built one company’s culture of ideas.

Article Team building Intermediate

If appraisals need a tune-up, then what’s next

Traditional employee performance appraisals are being called outdated and arbitrary. This article describes how to turn them into useful conversations.

Article Coaching & mentoring Intermediate

4 steps to start a reverse mentoring program

This article discusses how organizations can motivate and engage newer employees, and build the knowledge of established ones, through reverse mentoring.

Article Coaching & mentoring Foundational

6 key traits of business leaders with global ambitions

This article discusses six key traits that business leaders need to embody to convert diversity into insights that drive financial performance:

Article Team building Intermediate

The business case for diversity and inclusion at CPA firms

This article discusses several reasons why diversity and inclusion make good business sense for CPA firms.

Article Team building Intermediate