Effective communication has never been more important than it is now. In 2018 it often feels like people are talking at each other instead of listening and responding. Since effective communication tends to make for happier (and better) employees, now’s the time to focus on improving your communication skills.  1. Never make the conversation one-sided Employees […]

If you have an Alexa device in your home or office, you already know how handy it can be. You can ask Alexa for basic information, like the weather. Or you can have Alexa perform more complicated tasks, like order an Uber for you. With more than tens of millions of Alexa devices sold last year, it […]

When you think of accounting fraud, Enron likely comes to mind. The Enron and Arthur Anderson scandal rocked the accounting world, and ushered in the age of Sarbannes-Oxley and the PCAOB. But it’s important to note that all these changes and updates to regulation haven’t actually done much to prevent accounting fraud.&nbsp In fact, there […]

If your company isn’t focused on creating a positive work culture, you should be. In today’s current environment, you can’t afford to wait. It’s essential to be proactive and try to prevent any potential issues before they come up.  Create a Positive Work Culture If your company has a positive work culture, your employees will […]

It’s commonly said that employees leave managers, not companies. There are all kinds of issues that come up between managers and employees, but we’ve compiled five common problems that employees report in their everyday work lives.  Not knowing employees While it’s not possible for every manager to know who every single person in the company […]

Internal communication is a struggle for many companies, regardless of size. Yet effective internal communication is critical to your company’s success, according to Entrepreneur magazine. An easy way to improve internal communication is to automate it. Now that doesn’t necessarily mean set it and forget it. There should always be a human component to internal communication. […]

If there’s one part of work that people don’t like, it’s meetings. While they can be essential to your business, they can also be a huge problem. When employees dread meetings, the meetings are often less productive and less effective. To ensure your meetings are well-received and accomplish their goals, ask yourself a few questions.  […]

At medium- and large-sized companies there is frequently a group that HR and senior management refers to as “Hi-Po’s”, that is, High Potential employees. It is quite literally the top percent or two of any large organization who have been identified as those with the greatest potential to have an outsized impact at the company. […]

Corporate professional development is constantly evolving and changing, and it can be hard to keep up. Let’s look at a few of the latest trends in corporate development this year: Speed The desire for speed and having needs met on demand is usually attributed to millennials, but the truth is most of us expect a […]

We have closed out submissions to Illumeo’s 2018 Audit, Accounting and Corporate Finance Professional Development Survey and gathered the results. Let’s just say our eyes were opened quite a bit by what we saw and heard. Being from this world (audit, accounting and finance) in past lives we always knew that training for these professionals […]