by Rob Pillans | May 18, 2021 | Articles
Recently I participated in an interactive webinar with Marcus Buckingham who is a well known author and speaker on management and leadership topics. The topic was resilience. If there was one thing the COVID pandemic has shown us it is that not everyone has the same...
by Rob Pillans | Apr 19, 2021 | Articles
As an accounting firm coach, consultant and mentor I get to see inside many accounting firms. One thing I observe is a high proportion of senior people, partner/director and manager level in particular, doing work that could and should be done by someone at a lower...
by Rob Pillans | Mar 17, 2021 | Articles
As an accounting firm coach, consultant and mentor one of the questions I am getting from firm owners and managers is what are other firms doing about work from home options post COVID? Unlike some businesses that cannot exist without face to face contact the reality...
by Rob Pillans | Nov 18, 2020 | Articles
A few of my clients have recently commented that as a result of the pandemic they are thinking about their office space differently. It was also one of the topics I talked about in a vodcast I produced (See it here here. ) One firm owner in one of my groups noted that...
by Rob Pillans | Aug 26, 2020 | Articles
I wrote an article comparing accounting firm management to wine making and finished by saying: Your team and your clients are like the grapes in wine making. You source the best quality you can and then cultivate them and care for them. The result is season after...
