developing top performers: how to grow your own, uacpa winter conference 2016
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Developing Top Performers: How to Grow Your Own
Trends You Can Take to the Bank
Aging Workforce
Tech Advances
Pace of Change
= Talent Shortage
Aging Workforce
Tech Advances
Busy season . . . then Costa Rica for 8 months.
Really???
Pace of Change200266 Pages
20102,319 Pages
65% of today’s Students will be employed in jobs that don’t exist yet . . .According to the Department of Labor
There’s Nothing Like Homegrown Tomatoes
[EY article – university requirements]
Nature vs. Nurture: Debunking the Common Wisdom
Is talent innate or can it be developed?
How can you accelerate their development?
What would happen if everyone at your company knew where you were going
and why?
How do we create clear linkages between my job and the company goals?
Embrace Radical Transparency
What separates truly great performers from everyone else?
Deep Domain Knowledge
Willingness to Repeat Hard Things, Even After Initial Failures
Push Themselves Just Beyond Their Current
Capabilities
"Organizations tend to assign people based on what they're already good at, not what they need to work on."
‐ Geoff Colvin
Developmental Goals
"The best performers set goals that are not just about the outcome, but about the process of reaching the outcome."
Deliberate Practice
Talent Development & Coaching
“If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.”— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Separate Coaching from Mentoring
Structured Coaching
3‐3‐1 in 15 minutes
•What’s working?•What’s not?•One goal
Coaching Tip: Ask Good Questions
• What’s the one thing that you could do now that would have the biggest impact on your future success in leadership?
• What's the one thing you could do that would have the biggest impact on your relationships with members of your project teams?
• What relationships should you be cultivating?• What are you doing to stretch yourself from a technical perspective?
Coaching Tip: Practice Reflective Listening
“What I hear you saying is . . .”
Mentoring“Not everyone at your firm is likely to be an effective mentor. Good mentors are typically a scarce resource at firms.”
Let’s Connect
Dan Griffiths is the Director of Advisory Services at Tanner, a CPA firm based in Salt Lake City. He provides strategic and business planning, business coaching, and leadership development. Contact Dan at: [email protected] connect with him on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/dangriffithscpa