Succession Planning in Accounting Firms: How to Recruit, Develop and Retain Successors 1 Credit
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Running your accounting firm all by yourself sounds cool, but let’s face it: you won’t be able to run your business forever. Everybody has to face retirement, even accountants and financial advisers.
Your organization has a reputation to maintain, even after your time as founder or CEO has passed. The future of your accounting firm after your departure is very real, and it’s important that you plan ahead for it, starting right now.
Success in succession!
While it might sound daunting, the succession process doesn’t have to be an administrative headache
This CPE Business Management course on succession planning discusses the importance of leadership continuity for your accounting firm, along with various methods by which you can ensure as hassle-free a succession process as possible.
While succession planning may sound simple to those who have never done it—some claim it is merely an exercise in getting prepared to move from one box on the organization chart to another box! —there is more to it than it appears at first glance.
As an accountant, you will always have questions like:
You will get all the answers to these and other challenging questions in this online CPE webinar.
Major topics discussed in this course:
Valid upto : Dec 31, 2024
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Vice President (VP), Rothwell & Associates, Inc.
William J. Rothwell, Ph.D., SPHR, SHRM-SCP, RODC, CPLP Fellow is President of Rothwell & Associates, Inc. & Rothwell & Associates, LLC. His consulting focuses on succession planning and talent management. He is also a Professor at Penn State University, University Park, where he teaches graduate courses in Organization Development and Change.
Before becoming a professor 28 years ago, he had nearly 20 years of full-time human resource management experience in government and in business. He has consulted on succession planning with corporations, small businesses, family businesses, charities, and Federal, State and local government agencies. He has traveled to China 83 times and has consulted on succession on nearly every continent. Among his 127 published books are these, which are relevant to this webinar: The essential HR guide for small businesses and startups; Optimizing talent in the federal workforce; Building a talent development structure without borders; Effective succession planning: Ensuring leadership continuity and building talent from within; The leader’s daily role in talent management: Maximizing results, engagement and retention; Career planning and succession management: Developing your organization’s talent for today and tomorrow; The competency toolkit; Talent management: A step-by-action-oriented guide based on best practice; Becoming an effective mentoring leader: Proven strategies for building excellence in your organization; Working longer: New strategies for managing, training, and retaining older employees; Invaluable knowledge: Securing your company’s technical expertise-Recruiting and retaining top talent, transferring technical knowledge, engaging high performers; The manager’s guide to maximizing employee potential; and Cases in government succession planning: Action-oriented strategies for public-sector human capital management, workforce planning, succession planning, and talent management.
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