Is Your Firm Leaving Potential Leadership Successors Behind?
Firms around the country are struggling to recruit and retain experienced professionals to serve their clients. Partners are nearing retirement, and many don’t have clear successors in place to ensure...
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Monkey Mind: Taming the Chatter
Have you ever searched everywhere for your glasses and found them on top of your head? Or driven somewhere and not be able to remember the exact route you took to get there, or worse, ended up...
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Are You Undermining Client Transition?
Transition is top of mind for most CPA firms today. The topic emerges in almost every conversation we have with clients, at conferences and in our everyday interactions with firm leaders. Whether we’re...
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Breakthrough Your Conflict Barriers
Whether it is owner disagreements, performance issues, client concerns, or competitive situations, our professional lives are filled with potential conflict. But given the choice, most will shy away or...
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Communicate to Drive Change
“Every time I find the meaning of life, they change it.” ~ Reinhold Niebuhr Have you found the meaning of life? If we each had to define our meaning, the meanings we’d interpret would be as diverse...
View ArticleSorting Out My Stories
“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” ― Albert Einstein Some of the things I say about myself are true. I’m a mother, a...
View ArticleThe Power Is in the Ask
“The smart ones ask when they don’t know. And, sometimes, when they do.” –Malcolm Forbes, Entrepreneur and publisher of Forbes Magazine A client, coachee or prospect would like to learn more about our...
View ArticleInspired Ideas Podcast: Episode 1 – The Change Imperative
The amount of change in our profession can be overwhelming at times but it definitely is the word of the hour. Everything feels like it’s changing, and every one of us needs to change in a lot of...
View ArticleCouples Communication Tips Work in Business
Over the years, I have studied ways to help people work cooperatively with one another. A recent program helping marital partners create healthy ways to relate caught my attention. In his book,...
View ArticleThe Rush to Remote
With the current COVID-19 crisis brewing and firms being encouraged to implement social distancing, organizations around the country are scrambling to shift their employees to work remotely. Your firm...
View ArticleWinning at Work Requires Winning at Home
If your people aren’t winning at home, they will struggle, at best, winning at work. And if they have to choose between the two, they will almost always choose winning at home. You could argue, “It’s...
View ArticleTo Address Racism at Work: Stop Microaggressions First!
With this month’s trial of Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd, reflections about the past year’s events involving George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Christian Cooper, and Jacob...
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Reining in the Rambling Communicator
In my first real career position out of college, I worked for a newly formed community bank in Baton Rouge, Louisiana as their upstart Operations Assistant. I didn’t know much about banking or bank...
View ArticleLeadership Lunch Chat: Difficult Conversations
In the April 30, 2021 Leadership Lunch Chat, Jennifer Wilson and Amy Vetter discuss the challenges and approaches for providing feedback, including upward feedback. Join us next week for a live...
View ArticleTruly Unplugging Is in Your Control
I’m headed out on vacation next week and can’t wait for the opportunity to unplug and relax with my home team. It’s a challenge to get away though, because the to-do list is always too long and the...
View ArticleCollaborating in a Blended Environment
When we think of collaboration, images of people sitting around a table usually come to mind. Perhaps you remember the idea that blossomed from a chance encounter in the hallway, or a conversation you...
View ArticleHR Huddle: Being Open to Feedback
In the September 13, 2021 HR Huddle Tamera Loerzel and Jennifer Wilson address asking for and receiving feedback. In particular, Tamera and Jen encourage leaders to ask for the feedback, thanking your...
View ArticleConfidently Deliver Side-Stream and Upstream Feedback
At ConvergenceCoaching, we believe in a get-better culture, where every individual at all levels should be striving to continually improve. A critical element that drives the get-better culture is...
View ArticleThe Healing Power of Touch
Recreating the Healing Power of Touch Without a “Hug Shirt” I was talking on the phone to an old friend and remembered longingly how we used to share healing touch with each other through mutual...
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The Remote Extrovert
When the world shifted to a more remote and blended work environment, I was overjoyed! I was gaining back precious commuting hours every week with my family, my carbon footprint was shrinking, and so...
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