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Leadership Series – Feeling All Feelings
One of the biggest misnomers in professional development in the accounting profession is that understanding your feelings is a “soft skill”. Unfortunately, the belief that feelings have their place, but typically not at work, is incredibly shortsighted when it comes...
4 Ways To Get Your Calendar To Work FOR You, Instead Of Against You
As we roll into a new year, and those of us in public accounting roll into a new tax year, I thought it would be a great time to talk about your calendar. It doesn’t matter whether you have a super organized calendar or you’re a hot mess, understanding how to get...
Leadership Series – Learning Through Curiosity
Knowledge is power, right? Especially in the accounting profession. But in order to be a good leader you have to begin noticing when you are closed off to the idea that you don’t know, or could be wrong about something or someone. It might be humbling, but it can...
How To Switch From Unhealthy To Healthy Pressure
Whether you are in public or private accounting, if there’s one thing that all accountants have to deal with, it’s pressure. Before the pandemic, the accounting profession was already dealing with a fair amount of pressure as a whole, but since the pandemic shifted...
Leadership Series – Taking 100% Responsibility
Whether you’re a leader at work or at home, leadership skills are incredibly important, both professionally and personally. As you’ve probably experienced examples of good and bad leadership in your own life, you already understand that you’re either empowered and...
Being An Example Of What’s Possible
If you are subscribed to newsletters or read online articles or blogs, you’ve most likely gotten used to seeing things about setting goals as each new year begins. You may even be sick of the TV advertisements for gym memberships or new diet plans, promising to have...
10 Must-Have Policies for 2022 – ADP
Some laws require employers to provide information to employees via a written policy. Policies are also important for communicating company expectations and requirements. Here are 10 policies that are considered must-have for 2022: #1: COVID-19 By now, many...
The Importance Of Having A Personal Brand
Is it just me, or are you also hearing a lot more about having a personal brand? It’s funny how you hear something a few times and then all of sudden you hear it in many different places - it’s as if your brain filters things, just like those ads that mysteriously...
How To Get Closure
As 2021 comes to a close, I was thinking about the past few years and how much our lives have been turned upside down with the world wide pandemic that began in early 2020. I was considering all the changes that have happened to me both professionally and personally,...
One Of The BEST Time Saving Tips – Knowing The Difference Between Data Versus Drama
We just hired a new employee at my firm and my boss was explaining to this employee who I am and what I do for the company, especially since I only work 6 hours a day, 4 days a week in the office. He explained to this employee that “Dawn gets more done in less time...
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