{"id":63699,"date":"2019-07-28t12:00:41","date_gmt":"2019-07-28t16:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/48e130086c.nxcli.net\/?p=63699"},"modified":"2024-08-14t09:35:04","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14t13:35:04","slug":"3-ways-to-emphasize-the-one-firm-concept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/2019\/07\/28\/3-ways-to-emphasize-the-one-firm-concept\/","title":{"rendered":"3 ways to emphasize the one-firm concept"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a>… and 8 likely obstacles. by bill reeb<\/i><\/p>\n in the past, we’ve written a multi-part series on partner compensation that started out discussing the following:<\/p>\n more bill reeb:<\/strong> 8 steps for a successful change process<\/a> | building competency on every level<\/a> | change happens: how to master it.<\/a> based on our experience, these are all issues that need to be discussed and addressed before a firm will make the decision to move from an ewyk to a bav compensation system. because examples of compensation goals and how they work are built around strategy, and i don\u2019t know what your strategy is, i am going to provide some examples of strategy and then talk through how those might be reflected in a partner compensation model.<\/p>\n let\u2019s say one of your key strategic objectives for the next three years is to leverage the partners by increasing the average book size each could effectively manage. based on our series of columns about the upside-down pyramid, it is common to find that firms evolve through success to the point that the partners are doing too much of the detail work and acting more like overqualified managers than filling the role they are being paid to do \u2013 that of being a partner. this typically occurs because the firm does not hire enough staff and adequately train them in proportion to the growth the firm is experiencing.<\/p>\n given this lag in capacity, not only does workload compression increase throughout all levels in the firm, but this is especially true for the partners and managers. in order to meet the client demand, partners and managers spend more and more time doing chargeable work, which is then rewarded by a short-term gain in profits (which gives a false sense that the partners and managers are doing the right thing for the firm).<\/p>\n however, because the partners and managers are doing too much chargeable work, they fall short on many other fronts, such as developing the people immediately below them, implementing firm strategy, regularly visiting their good clients and referral sources, etc. so, short-term, because of the extra billing hours partners are delivering, while profits go up, a dysfunctional spiral starts to build speed. because the partners are not spending enough time taking care of critical partner duties,<\/p>\n the gap in competency occurs because the partners or managers don\u2019t have enough time to train those below them because their personal chargeable workload is so high. revenue starts to flatten because the partners and managers don\u2019t have time to fill basic business development expectations. and firm strategy doesn\u2019t make any headway for the same reason \u2013 there is no time left to do it. this commonly results in partners and managers needing to deliver a higher than reasonable (reasonable meaning the extra hours required start cutting into the time necessary to perform other critical partner\/manager functions) number of billable and collectable charge hours each year. and in many cases, the number of expected charge hours will continually grow as well.<\/p>\n we tell all of our cpa firm clients that by the time you get to be a partner or manager, what you do with your non-charge hours becomes as important as what you do with your charge hours. and how (the quality of) you spend your charge and non-charge hours becomes more important as well.<\/p>\n for example, while we expect every partner to deliver a minimum amount of revenue based on their own billable time, we don\u2019t want them racking up charge hours doing work others below them should be doing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n what i am saying is that all charge hours are not alike. at the partner level, we are looking at advisory work, high-level review work, client-facing work like understanding client needs, keeping them looped into progress, planning work, etc. as being reasonable. but even more important, we want to have this same level of selectivity when it comes to how partners are spending their non-charge time.<\/p>\n most firms track all non-charge time in a nondescript account as if it doesn\u2019t matter. and while i am not suggesting that if you created multiple, more descriptive non-charge hour buckets to track how that time is being spent that it won\u2019t be easily gamed by the partners, it is at least more accountable than the way it is handled in the vast majority of systems today. most firms track both, and don\u2019t care much what you did to be chargeable or what you accomplished with your non-charge time. our premise is that if you want to create profitable and sustainable leverage that allows your people to have work\/life balance, it has to start by caring a lot about how partner and manager charge and non-charge hours are spent.<\/p>\n so, circling back to our strategy of partner leverage, that might break down \u2013 customized to each individual partner and their current level of performance in this area \u2013 to these kinds of initiatives:<\/p>\n as you can see, now that these points have more clarity, it doesn\u2019t seem so complicated. but it always is. so, let\u2019s look at some of the likely issues that will get in the way of achieving these objectives:<\/p>\n so, in order to achieve the firm strategy and overcome common hurdles such as these, firms incorporate individualized goal systems to focus the partners on the various actions each needs to take to play their part.<\/p>\n all partners have their strengths and weaknesses, hence the need for customization in order to make sure that each partner is paying attention to those hurdles that are perceived to be directly in their way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" <\/a>
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