Successful practice management starts with your most valuable asset – your employees. These workshops focus on elements such as policy development, HR systems evaluation and strategy and performance management.

• Learn how to proactively address HR issues by removing barriers to achieve results
• Increase retention and engage your current workforce
• Define the necessary skills, competencies and characteristics of each position and ideal candidate
• Increase the marketability of your firm by developing a more “employee-focused” culture
   

Clear communication and overall effectiveness is critical to professional performance and the key to professional advantage. These workshops will help you:

• Express your ideas succinctly without leaving anything to interpretation
• Learn about quality writing and speaking standards
• Apply a process to plan, design, draft, review and revise documents and presentations
• Approach writing, speaking and meetings with confidence
• Take ownership of your own performance and results
• Balance multiple projects and focus on the right project at the right time
• Prepare effectively before a meeting, participate productively during a meeting and perform successfully after a meeting
   

Effective leadership is dependent on transforming individual performance and organizational results. Using an empowered learning model that meets the unique needs of the adult learner, these workshops will help you:

• Improve your strategic thinking, long-term vision and positive influence on others
• Lead rather than just manage
• Discover how to anticipate and influence change in your firm rather than merely react to it
• Get the results your firm needs while you model principles of effectiveness
• Recognize that people are your most important assets rather than your most perplexing problems
   

Practice Development is crucial in today’s competitive business environment. There is increasing pressure for CPA firms to grow and sustain positive, mutually beneficial and profitable business relationships. These workshops will help you:

• Experience a paradigm shift from a “sales and marketing” mentality to “discovering unmet needs”
• Acknowledge the external environment and its impact on practice development strategy
• Recognize behavioral tendencies, the effects of your behavior on others and how to adapt to behavior to meet the buying needs of others
• Create realistic personal practice development plans that align with your firm’s overall marketing strategy
• Apply best practices in client development and retention, referral opportunity development and management, prospective client development and supporting activities
   

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At The Growth Partnership (TGP), each of our highly sought-after professionals can deliver “on point” messages that cover relevant topics of the day. Each presentation is known for its results-oriented take-aways, and is always delivered in a professional, compelling and entertaining manner. The client “footprint” of The Growth Partnership currently includes 346 accounting firms in the United States - including 43 of the Accounting Today “Top 100 Firms”; 31 associations / state societies; and 10 international firms.