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Why do we enter awards?
As a company we encourage our members to enter awards and as company we practice what we preach! So AVN entered the Lloyds Bank National Business Awards UK. We encourage our members to enter awards because its a great opportunity to reflect on what you have done. We are often too involved in the day…
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Benchmarking Your Accountancy Clients
I recently had a conversation with an Accountancy Practice about our benchmarking software (no this is not a sales pitch!). Whilst the software is intuitive, easy to use, gives great visual reports and highlights the areas you can really add value that your clients appreciate, this is just obvious value… the real value comes from…
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How to Prioritise Systemising your Business Part 2
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How to Prioritise Systemising your Business Part 1
There are many different ways to prioritise the systemisation of your business, and today I’m going to touch on one of these. In a previous article, I have already mentioned listing all of the tasks that you, as the business owner do, that could be passed onto another team member, with just a little bit…
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Fantastic Teams #8 – Terrorists
Values are incredibly important in every day life. You will know that there are some people you can instantly connect with, strike up a great dialogue and become friends very quickly. Other’s no matter how hard you try, you simply can’t connect, you almost take an instant dislike to them and you don’t always understand…
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Fear Setting – We suffer more in imagination than in reality
Everyone talks about Goal Setting – but some of us just aren’t that motivated by goals. Some of us are instead crippled by fear. In this amazing TED talk Tim Ferris explains a simple exercise that can help us avoid self destruction and give us the confidence to do things that we currently feel we…
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Fantastic Teams #7 – Be Grateful!
It’s so easy to fall in to the trap of accepting great work and effort from members of your team and forget to express your gratitude. Often, I hear people say – ‘I thank them through their salary’. A salary is simply an enabler for someone to be able to work for you. It enables…
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Fantastic Teams #6 – Do YOU really understand?
How well do you really understand your team? How much time do you invest in getting to know them? What motivates every individual in your team? Most often it’s assumed to be financial incentives but in fact, that’s not always the best motivator. Do you understand what might be holding them back from giving their…
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Fantastic Teams #5 – Passion needs patient zero
Everybody wants their teams to be more engaged and passionate about what they do but passion is contagious, it’s infectious. In order for it to spread, it has to be present in the first place. It has to be present in you. Are you, the leader/business owners truly engaged and passionate about what you do…
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Fantastic Team #4 – Whose fault is it anyway?
When things go wrong in your business are you quick to blame others? Or do you take responsibility yourself? In my blog about the Initiative Ladder (Fantastic Teams #1) I explained that mistakes must be allowed to happen – on the understanding that the team member who made the mistake is ready to take the…
