Tag: ICAEW managing partner programme

Accountants lack core competency skills

Accountants lack core competency skills

The ICAEW has confirmed that while technical competence is important, the majority of qualified accountants lack the core competency skills necessary to succeed in the workplace. This is according to their survey of CFOs, FDs and senior partners. What came out as critically important were three skills that are reflected in many practice ‘Competency sets’ – […]

Managing performance in professional service firms

Managing performance in professional service firms

It’s not what you preach it is what you tolerate that counts……   I took the title for this month’s blog from one of the key principles in a new book called Extreme Ownership by ‘Jocko’ Willink an ex Navy Seal. The book was a discovery by one of the Partners in a client law […]