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Meyners Does a Reality Check

Four years ago Meyners + Co. began an intensive business development initiative to align staff performance and compensation with its core values and competencies to better prepare employees to handle additional work. Difficulty in executing the plan surfaced over time.

Get the Most Out of Training Day

Be systematic about finding trainers who understand your business. This article, published by the AICPA's Journal of Accountancy, offers strategies for CPA firms that are looking to enhance their training and staff development function.

Merge With Care

CPA firms that are merging face many opportunities and challenges. This article offers a 10-step plan to ensure that your firm merger is a success.

Click here to read an abridged version of Get the Most Out of Training Day, published by AccountantsWorld.

The People Measure

Benchmark your human capital to ensure wise investment of your staff development dollars. This article, published by INSIGHT Magazine, the magazine of the Illinois CPA Society, provides a step-by-step approach for establishing internal staff performance benchmarks and associated training and staff development programs.

Multi-Purpose Training

Published by Leader's Edge, the newsletter of the Michigan Association of CPAs, this article discusses strategies for incorporating several competency-building topics and activities into one high-quality training program.

Retain and align around development

In today's highly competitive marketplace for accounting staff, retaining and developing junior accounting professionals is increasingly important for local and regional CPA firms. In growing numbers, these firms are investing in enhanced learning and development initiatives.

Does Your Organization Produce Leaders?

Successful organizations today recognize the importance of attracting, cultivating, and retaining top talent and increasingly implement enterprise-wide Leadership Development Programs (LDPs). Find out how by reading this article which was published in the March 2004 newsletter of one of Point of Action's clients, Berry, Dunn, McNeil & Parker.

Teaching Oral Communication: It's All in the Presentation

Educators and employers alike are beginning to emphasize the importance of public speaking. Bowdoin College's approach is to begin embedding oral presentation assignments into the first-year seminar curriculum, where students can develop these important skills from the get-go.

Point of Action Newsletters

"Creating An Alumni Program"

"Register for MSCPA CPE Workshops"

"Re-Recruiting Strategies for CPA Firms"

"Linking Compensation and Performance"

"Fostering Firm-Wide Communication through Training"

"Enhance New Hire Orientation Programs"

"Maximizing the Performance Feedback Process"

"Post-Busy Season Training"

"Surviving the Busy Tax Season"

Summer 2004 issue.

Spring 2004 issue.