A leader’s ability to manage and motivate a team will have significant influence over their morale and motivation. How you lead and guide your team is vitally important to them. Think about this…when a person smiles at you and is very welcoming towards you, it makes your day. As a leader of your organization, you have the power each day to make your people start their day feeling welcome and happy to be at work with a smile. You have the ability to empower them and get them charged up for the day, ready to be their most productive under your management direction. This post discusses three things you can do starting today to gain more productivity from your team.
Greet those you manage daily with a smile and let them know you are there. If you are too busy to talk to your team, send them a positive message of motivational inspiration. If you want motivational quotes, here is an eBook of 250 Motivational Inspiration we developed for you. It takes just a few minutes to select an inspirational quote to forward on to your team each day. These quotes are a great reminder of how some the biggest leaders in the world think or thought in many cases. In my own experience managing teams, people have told me these passages always seemed to arrive at the right time and it helped them throughout their professional and personal lives. These messages do have an impact on people’s lives and thoughts. Remind people each day that there are many reasons to be positive as you are adding pearls of wisdom to their lives.
Another way to motivate a team member is tell them they did a great job and why you appreciated the work they did for you. Let them know you appreciate having them there and part of the team. Mention a project they did that was beneficial to the company; and then mention it again another time in front of team members. Allow them to enjoy the accomplishment on more than one occasion when possible to do so. According to many experts in behavioral psychology, positive reinforcement involves the addition of reinforcing stimulus following behavior that makes it more likely that the behavior will occur again in the future. Bottom line, continually reinforce productive behavior. When a favorable outcome occurs after an action, the response will be strengthened. Additionally, praising those on your team encourages others to perform to a higher level of productivity.
Another way to motivate is to bring a team member into a conversation where you demonstrate, in a positive way a project they did, yet you give them more in-depth instruction. As an example, I was helping one of my researchers do a deeper dive into how to find people. I sat down with this person and instructed them how to locate substantially more information using information only an expert like me with years of experience would know. I explained that this research is very tedious and time consuming and most people are unwilling to go to the lengths it takes to get the correct information. I also explained to this person that most people are unwilling to do the hard work required and may take the easy way. This is precisely what separates our firm from the others who do in-depth search for tax executives while explaining in great detail how it was done. What I observed after that was extraordinary activity and extraordinary results followed. Personalized time and attention goes a long way to motivate and improve the production and accomplishments of your team members.
You have the ability to improve the lives of those around you each day. You have the ability to make a significant difference in the professional lives of those you manage. How you deal with your team in creating an environment that enables them to develop professionally has a significant impact. You have the ability to empower those around you by adding written and personalized motivation and inspiration to their environment.
Start by requesting our complimentary eBook of 250 Motivational Inspiration to manage your team throughout the year.
Kat Jennings, TaxConnections, CEO and Founder and Advisory Team provides three areas of services: 1) Internationally recognized, retained executive search services for multinational corporations, public accounting firms, and law firms; 2) Introductions of sellers to buyers of small and medium size accounting firms; and 3) Provide brand building and education services that support and prepare accounting firm owners to buy/sell an accounting practice. We focus on educating the journey to sell a practice and how to increase firm revenue prior to any sale. Our program ensures you start years prior to a sale by learning what is expected of you during the selling process, and introducing firm Partners to cross selling opportunities that are easy to implement and reduce your workload at the same time. We introduce you to value added connections to smartly grow revenue in your accounting practice.
Kat Jennings has been retained by organizations worldwide to locate tax professionals with highly specialized tax knowledge and expertise. She has a thorough understanding of the tax business community, with a proven record of stellar performances matching professionals with organizations. Bringing two parties together to work successfully is the art of understanding personalities, cultural fit, expectations by both parties, flexible or inflexible work environments, understanding what drives and motivates each party, and revolves around the personality and ethics of each executive team.
Kat is a widely recognized expert in high level, tax executive search, as well as connecting buyers and sellers of accounting firms. TaxConnections provides and educates small to medium size accounting firms owners and Partners how to prepare and sell their firms so they can build a succession plan for their retirement. With larger firms seeking to acquire smaller accounting practices, there is a real need to help firm owners prepare to be acquired. Most firm owners are unaware they are not ready to sell when they decide to retire. TaxConnections educates firm owners’ what they need to do years in advance of selling an accounting firm practice.
Senior tax executives expect the utmost privacy when being introduced to multinational organizations about a new tax opportunity under consideration. Having said that, companies searching for a new head of tax expecting tax executive candidates to submit their resume through a resume portal, will never see a full slate of outstanding tax executives available due to a candidates’ desire for greater privacy. This is why privacy focused Uber Tax Recruiters consistently outperform in-house recruiters on tax executive searches.
We offer our clients a Performance Retainer Agreement arrangement so their HR department can still recruit and compete with the tax candidates we present on Head of Tax searches. The client pays us a partial fee upfront, and if they find a candidate they deem better than we introduce to them, we forfeit the final fee. Most of the time, they love and prefer our private introductions to tax executive candidates better than what they source through their own resume portals.
When we represent selling/buying small to medium-sized firms, firm owners/partners also demand greater privacy when considering the sale of their practice. TaxConnections provides a safe place to discuss their business needs, elevate their practices’ online reputation, and increase revenue through new streams of business development by outsourcing work and partnering with other firms. Over three decades, we have worked tirelessly to build relationships between firm owners most organizations rarely have access to in the world of tax. There are numerous possibilities you may never have considered previously to bolster the value of your practice and service offerings.
As a globally recognized consultant to multinational organizations, accounting firms, and law firms searching for tax expertise, Kat has been retained by public accounting firms, law firms, and corporations worldwide including Apple Computer, AC Neilson, Accenture, Agilent Technologies, Allergan, Alza, American Express, American Media, Aon, Baker & McKenzie, Barclays Bank, Bechtel, Cargill, Carl Zieuss Vision, Century Aluminum, Chevron, Clorox, Citigroup, Commercials Metals, Constellation Energy, Countrywide, Del Monte, Deloitte Touche, DFS, DLA Piper, E&J Gallo Winery, Electronic Arts, Ernst &Young, Fox Entertainment, Fremont Investments, General Electric,General Motors, Herbalife, Hewlett Packard, Hyatt, Intel, Jones Lang LaSalle, Kimco Realty, KLA Tencor, Koch Industries, KPMG, Levi Strauss, Liberty Mutual, LKQ, Loews, Logitech, Lucas Film, Maersk, McKesson, Nalco, Newell Rubbermaid, Nissan, Oracle, Orbitax, Pacific Gas & Electric, PwC, QAD, SAIC, SanDisk, Sanmina, Sempra Energy, SONY, Synopsys, Ticketmaster, Trimble Navigation, Toyota, Univar, Wal-Mart, Wells Fargo, Vertex, Yahoo, Xilinx, and many more not listed here.
Contact Kat at 858,999.0053 Office/858.232.4415 Cell or kat@taxconnections.com to request a private consultation regarding the sale of your practice, adding top talent to your organization, or merging your practice with another firm owner with a book of business. The possibilities are endless; if you have a dream of a new vision for your professional life; we will scout opportunities throughout the market to make it happen.
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