{"id":131652,"date":"2024-09-26t12:00:38","date_gmt":"2024-09-26t16:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/?p=131652"},"modified":"2024-10-25t13:01:09","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25t17:01:09","slug":"the-importance-of-great-bosses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/2024\/09\/26\/the-importance-of-great-bosses\/","title":{"rendered":"the importance of great bosses"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/strong><\/p>\n do your employees want to spend time with you?<\/strong><\/p>\n by marc rosenberg<\/i> in most organizations, everyone reports to a specific individual. early in his career, marc rosenberg was the controller of a valve manufacturing company. the company grew to the point where he needed to hire an assistant controller. guess who that person reported to 100 percent? guess who was totally responsible for the success of that assistant controller? marc, in both cases. if that person failed because of no fault of marc\u2019s, it still reflected negatively on him. marc was held accountable.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n but cpa firms operate differently, and therein lies the rub. staff have multiple bosses because each client they work on has a different team consisting of a partner, a manager and\/or a senior. we call this the \u201cwho\u2019s my boss\u201d syndrome. staff often feel like they have no boss and therefore, no one is looking out for them. or they feel like they have too many bosses when each of their engagements is with a different team.<\/p>\n these are two of the many reasons mentoring is so important. one of the mentor\u2019s jobs is to make their mentees feel like someone is looking out for them. \u201ca boss says \u2018go!\u2019 a leader says, \u2018let\u2019s go.\u2019\u201d \u2013 e.m. kelly<\/p><\/blockquote>\n there are two parts to being a good boss:<\/p>\n it\u2019s good to be a nice boss, but that\u2019s not enough. not by a mile.<\/p>\n we began collecting research on this topic many years ago, starting with a new york times article, and have read countless corroborating articles since then.<\/p>\n you may already feel overwhelmed by the number of things your firm should be doing to retain and develop staff. but the biggest takeaway from all of this advice is this:<\/p>\n the #1 reason staff leave cpa firms is their relationship with the boss. as the famous saying goes, \u201cpeople leave managers (or bosses), not companies.\u201d for our purposes, let\u2019s agree that the \u201cboss\u201d at a cpa firm is the collective group of partners and managers.<\/p>\n \u201cpeople with crummy bosses leave.\u201d \u2013 charles o\u2019reilly, harvard business school professor<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u201cstaff with bad bosses are four times more likely to leave than people with nice bosses,\u201d according to spherion, a staffing and consulting firm in ft. lauderdale. lou harris associates concurs.<\/p>\n the gallup organization did a study that shows that most workers rate having a caring boss even more highly than pay.<\/p>\n we are sure you are already getting a key message: hiring, retaining and developing great staff is key to a cpa firm\u2019s success. very few cpa firms would disagree with this.<\/p>\n so why do firms\u2019 partner compensation systems almost totally lack any meaningful incentive for partners to develop and retain staff? it makes no sense. caveat: larger firms\u2019 compensation systems are more likely to have a meaningful component for staff development. when we work with cpa firms designing their partner compensation systems, these items fall into a bucket we refer to as intangibles.<\/p>\n one top 50 firm told marc: \u201cin our system, partners are evaluated on, among other factors, the extent that staff, by name<\/strong>, have advanced under a partner\u2019s tutelage.\u201d<\/p>\n you get what you measure.<\/p>\n soft skills<\/strong><\/p>\n technical and work methods<\/strong><\/p>\n avoiding the following behaviors will yield many benefits. it will keep you and your staff happier and healthier, improve the firm\u2019s atmosphere and make everyone more productive.<\/p>\n do your employees want to spend time with you?<\/strong>
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\n<\/p>\ndefinition of a good boss<\/h3>\n
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why bosses are so important<\/h3>\n
one of the biggest disconnects in cpa firm practice management<\/h3>\n
checklist: things cpa firm supervisors do to be \u201cgood bosses\u201d<\/h3>\n
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outrageous behavior by cpa firm bosses<\/h3>\n
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\nby marc rosenberg<\/i>
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