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By Joanne Wharam, AVN Practice Growth Expert How DiSC profiling works and how the measure of the four factors of personality explains the ‘language’ we speak. I am confident that as an accountant in practice, there will be times when you find it hard to motivate yourself to do certain tasks. You might feel overwhelmed…

By Jenny Lukas, AVN Practice Growth Expert Why I don’t like the word ‘staff’ In a small business it’s crucial that everyone, from the business owner to the newest recruit, works together well. That’s something I’ve learned after 23 years of working with accountancy practices – and working in a small business myself. If they…

By Shane Lukas, MD AVN, author, speaker, coach It’s one of the questions I hear all the time from accountancy practice owners. They want to grow their business but they just can’t get their team to take on more responsibility. The truth is, very often the problem doesn’t lie with the team – it lies…

By Kerry Riley, Wellness and AVN Practice Growth Expert   As humans we are constantly bombarded with messages that we aren’t good enough. We always need to work harder, work faster, do more, be more, be slimmer, be taller, be prettier. And as accountants, there always seems to be someone more successful than you. When…

… and how to avoid the post-holiday blues! By Kerry Riley, AVN Practice Growth Expert   When I think about the 6 weeks summer holiday my palms start to sweat and my stomach goes into knots. How am I going to juggle work and the school summer holiday??? If you’re like me and suddenly have…

Guest post by Philip Webb, Investors In Community. Political leaders are currently pushing the message of “Levelling Up”, our economy. For too long, they say, the divide between the South of England, and the rest of the UK has deteriorated and widened. Quite right too, that the distribution of infrastructure and government spending needs to…

By Susan Clegg, AVN Team A compelling USP (Unique Selling Proposition) helps to position your accountancy practice in the right way within your target market. By focusing on the areas you want to focus on, your USPs help to attract the kind of clients you want to work with and develop a strong brand identity…

By Kerry Riley, AVN Practice Growth Expert Anger, sadness, physically tense, overeating and drinking, snappy, sharp, don’t think before I speak… These are the words I used when I answered this survey question – ‘Think about a time when you have felt stressed – what effect did the stress have on your emotions, behaviour, and…

By Emma Slack, AVN Practice Growth Expert Do you remember Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs? As the cost of living soars and global events make the future very uncertain, many people are right back at the bottom of the pyramid. They’re worrying about paying the bills and being able to feed their family. It’s easy to…

By Shane Lukas, speaker, coach and MD of AVN Inspiring Accountants. If your improvements aren’t improving things, you could be in the loser trap Have you started a journey of change in your business but you feel like you’re not seeing progress? Or even that things are actually getting worse? It’s demotivating, isn’t it? And…