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Leadership Series – Experiencing The World As An Ally
While social movements like #MeToo and Black Lives Matter have been changing important conversations about the rights of women and minorities, it’s as important as ever to speak up when you see or experience some form of injustice. But it’s also important to see...
The Secret To Setting Time Boundaries
Let me start by asking you a question - how good are you at setting boundaries, of any kind, and sticking to them? If you’re like most accountant moms, it’s probably something you struggle with on a regular basis. There’s no shame if you have an issue with setting...
Leadership Series – Sourcing Approval, Control and Security
As humans, we cannot escape the basic needs for approval, control, and security, no matter how hard we try. They are just an intrinsic part of our human nature. If you think about it, most of our wants are a version of these three basic desires. For example: I want...
How To Deal With A Negative Attitude
If you’ve ever seen the movie, Steel Magnolias, you might remember the scene where the very grumpy character, Ouiser, says, “I’m not crazy, M’Lynn. I’ve just been in a bad mood for 40 years”. It’s one of those movie lines that makes you laugh, but also makes you...
Leadership Series – Having Enough Of Everything
As a woman who leads others, whether that’s at work or at home, your mindset around lack and scarcity has a huge impact on how you show up in the world. Whether it’s a lack of time, resources, money, love, or people, how you think, feel, and behave directly impacts...
The Problem With To-Do Lists
If you’re like a lot of accountants and moms, you’ve probably got a running to-do list either nearby or easily reachable. You most likely have work things, family things, house things, and tons of other things on that to-do list.Most accountants couldn’t even fathom...
Leadership Series – Exploring The Opposite
As accountants, one of the most challenging things for our accountant brain is to be open to seeing things differently. We are trained to look at the facts of various situations and formulate an opinion and/or a solution. The issue though is that once we believe...
Leaving The Security Of Your Accounting Job
We are now in March of 2022 and as you are probably aware, we are still experiencing an unprecedented time of employment changes and upheaval. Although 2021 was considered the year of the “Great Resignation”, a year when workers quit their jobs at historic rates, it...
Warning Signs an Employee Plans to Quit and What to Do – ADP
4 Warning Signs an Employee Plans to Quit—and What to Do About It The costs associated with recruiting and training a new employee can be significant, especially for roles that require more experience. This is even more true now because of the difficulty many...
Leadership Series – Living A Life Of Play And Rest
One of the qualities that makes the accounting profession so successful is the seriousness with which we take our role in supporting companies and clients with their financial and accounting needs. But while seriousness can be beneficial, it can also be detrimental...
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