4 tips for telling your boss you don’t want to return to the office
To ensure that discussion goes as smoothly as possible, aim to tailor your approach to your manager, focus on the positive, and remain open to creative compromise.
Communication
Year-end tax planning advice and a grammar quiz
Tax planning is a year-round activity. Here is some advice to consider before the year end. Also, get a preview of a grammar quiz on commonly confused word pairs.
Quiz: Practice choosing the right word from these pairs
This quiz will help you distinguish the better choice in 10 word pairs.
6 tips for writing better emails
This article offers tips to make your emails direct and easy to read.
Top soft skills for accounting professionals
This article discusses the four soft skills most prominent for professionals looking to improve their work and their employability.
Helpful feedback: Give it. Receive it. Encourage it.
Providing and receiving professional critiques can be challenging. Operating with empathy and authenticity can help.
6 proactive steps accountants can take to get promoted in 2021
Individuals who are proactive about their professional development and excel at communication and other soft skills have the best chance of promotion in a remote-working environment.
Zoom meetings — without the awkwardness
Leading an online meeting involves managing the technology as well as the participants.
Trust and technology keep productivity up during pandemic
One company discusses how it found a way to magnify the strengths of remote work by employing a more informal check-in style and building on technology’s democratizing effects.
Give your staff great feedback — from a distance
This article discusses ways to make giving remote feedback easier and more effective.
Keeping microaggressions out of your workplace
This article offers steps firms and individuals can take to make sure microaggressions are not part of their organization.
Get a remote job off to a great start
Use these tips to help ensure a smooth transition in a new job.
Tough interview questions: ‘Why should we hire you?’
Researching the organization and the interviewer beforehand can equip you to give a strong answer.
‘Feel’ your way to a new gig
Finding a job while working can be a delicate balance.
Advice from ENGAGE
The ENGAGE 2020 conference went all virtual this year because of the pandemic but still featured useful tips on accounting, auditing, technology, client services, and more.
The art of the client email
Make sure your messages are getting noticed and opened in clients’ inboxes.
When disorganization derails your workflow
Workplace experts offer strategies to help you gain more control of your workflow, even when others cause the chaos.
The must-have items for traveling accountants
CPAs share tips for on getting back on the road when the COVID-19 crisis is over.
Spreading the word to youth about financial literacy
CPAs active in volunteer efforts share their advice on how to give back through financial literacy work.
When perfectionism becomes a problem
Perfectionism can be counterproductive and even damaging to one’s health, but it is possible to do a great job without being perfect.
