Human Resources

Abandon Parity to Retain Your Top Performers

Finding the best and brightest can be a challenge in any market, but with today's talent shortage, it's harder than ever. Attend this session to learn tried and true recruiting strategies, garnered from our work with some of the best HR professionals in accounting, to help elevate your recruiting efforts and enable you to source both on-campus and experienced hires more effectively. In this discussion, you will:

• Identify strategies to position your firm as unique, special and different
• Recognize how to leverage social media to find experienced hire potentials
• List ways to develop a community of prospective employees and making your firm's brand known
• Discover innovative strategies to employ for standing out on campus and with interns

Leave this session with ideas to enhance your ability to add talent to fuel your firm's future growth.

Addressing Common Objections to Remote and Hybrid Work

Challenged with firm leaders or team members who aren’t convinced remote or blended work will work? ConvergenceCoaching facilitators and remote-work experts address the common objections that impede the move to a more-remote environment. In this session we'll discuss strategies for addressing objections including:

• Understanding the latest market drivers causing firms to embrace the remote and blended paradigm
• How to manage a remote or blended workforce
• Why remote resources are productive and how to communicate this to your team
• How to train and develop remote resources
• How to maintain firm culture in a remote or hybrid environment

Attend this course to increase buy-in of remote and hybrid work at your firm!

Advanced Recruiting Ideas To Drive Practice Growth

Finding the best and brightest can be a challenge in any market, but with today's talent shortage, it's harder than ever. Attend this session to learn real-life recruiting strategies, garnered from our work with some of the best HR professionals in accounting, to help elevate your recruiting efforts and enable you to source both on-campus and experienced hires more effectively. In this discussion, we'll explore:

• Positioning your firm as unique, special and different
• Using social media to identify experienced hire potentials
• Developing a community of prospective employees and making your firm's brand known
• Employing innovative strategies for standing out on campus and with interns

Leave this session with ideas to enhance your ability to add talent to fuel your firm's future growth.

Questions about this course or a training? Contact us.

Are Your Leaders Causing Talent to Leave?

According to Gallup’s CEO and Chairman, Jim Clifton, “The single biggest decision you make in your job—bigger than all of the rest—is who you name manager.” Gallup cites a person’s manager as one of the top reasons given for a lack of employee engagement. Old norms and methods of managing team members don’t work anymore— and with today’s labor shortage, it’s imperative that all leaders in your firm learn new strategies to lead and manage their teams. In this session, we’ll:

• Identify outdated management tenets that no longer work and new management approaches that inspire team members and produce results
• Learn the attributes and skills your people managers— at all levels—should develop and exhibit
• Explore ways to move from a “command and control” management style to a transformational management style
• Understand how a manager can use coaching and on-the-job experiences to develop their team members and build more rapport and retention, too

Leave this session armed with a new understanding of how to support and develop your firm’s most critical talent resources!

Attracting and Engaging Millennials

Millennials make up 36% of today’s workforce and they’ll represent 50% of our workforce in just four short years. Bright, progressive, change-minded and impatient, these young people are driving significant change in both our firms and in our clients, too. In this session, we’ll discuss strategies for being a preferred employer for Millennials including:

• Understanding Baby Boomer, Gen X, and Millennial differences and similarities
• Understanding what makes Millennials unique, special, and different
• Changes you’ll need to make to motivate and manage your youngest team members effectively
• Methods to retain your top performers and develop them into your firm’s future leaders

Leave this session with practical strategies you can implement to ensure that you contribute to your firm engaging and retaining this powerful employment segment and significant force for change!

Avoiding Common Remote and Blended Work Pitfalls

Want to ensure that you firm's remote or blended work strategy is a viable, long-term solution for your firm? Join this interactive discussion facilitated by remote-work experts from ConvergenceCoaching, LLC. Together we’ll prioritize and address the common pitfalls that impede the move to a more-remote environment. After completing this course, you will be able to:

• Identify the mindset and strategies that allow leaders to manage a team they can’t always see
• List common misconceptions about productivity and recognize the importance of creating new measures
• Recognize the strategies that will accelerate learning and growth in a remote or blended environment
• List specific approaches that will protect your culture and have your people feel connected to one another no matter where they work

Attend this session to expand your ability to overcome the common remote and blended work obstacles!

Becoming an Inspiring, Difference-Making Coach

Are you doing all that you can to motivate your talent and provide feedback in ways that are meaningful to them? Coaches that provide motivational and engaging experiences with timely, specific feedback will win in the recruiting-and-retention race. In this session, you will:

• Understand the role of a coach and strategies to make it successful for all involved
• Identify strategies to build rapport with your coachees and questions to ask to learn their motivators, interests and desires
• Recall the fundamentals of delegation and discuss different strategies that lead to accountability including effective goal setting
• Generate ways to deliver feedback to help your coachees thrive

Leave this session prepared to motivate and inspire team members who partner with you to drive firm results!

As a partner and firm leader, you play an important role in securing the future of the firm by the way you relate to and support each other and your people. You have a direct opportunity to influence the engagement of your fellow partners and team members in meaningful ways. Transparent communications act as a critical foundation for truly “get better” relationships with others.  Attend this workshop to explore how to increase your effectiveness as a leader of people, including:

• Deepening trust with one another and with your people
• The mindset, attributes and investment needed to be the people developer your people expect – and need – you to be
• Developing rapport and identifying the “current state” for each other and your people
• Mapping learning or “practice” opportunities to accelerate development and achieve goals
• Advocating so your team members are represented and have visibility with current leadership and clients
• Developing effective coaching techniques including delivering feedback that inspires change
• Being open to feedback on how you and the entire leadership team can better support your people
• Quick and effective communication techniques to stay close to your team members, including holding regular huddles

Leave this session with the tools to be a more trusting leader and an impactful and engaging talent developer to further the growth, success and sustainability of the firm.

Transparently Managing New Recruit Expectations

Our profession is struggling to inspire young accounting graduates to pass the CPA Exam and stay in public accounting. Some young people are attracted to accounting’s plentiful career opportunities – only to find that the firm environment and the work itself aren’t what they expected. Disappointed, they leave public for industry, or for another profession altogether. This is why firm leaders must work hard to communicate clearer expectations for what life is like in the early years of public accounting to those entering the profession. In this session, we’ll

• Review the imperfections, neutral realities and special elements of the early years of a public accounting career
• Outline steps to progress career goals and maintain work-life balance
• Identify strategies to create a career path that inspires you

Leave this session with clarity about why public accounting is a great career choice and actions you can take to drive your success.