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Accountants vs Headteachers

You've seen it in the news this week.  What do you think? PwC's report for the Department of Education and Skills reckons accountants and business executives should be allowed to run some schools.

As a parent governor who has recently participated in a head teacher selection panel, I have my own views, but what are yours?

New Year Resolutions

Did you make any New Year Resolutions?  Have you kept them so far? Coming to the end of week two of the new year its a sad fact that many of us have already veered off the course we set ourselves.  Why is this?  Why do we set them every year and find ourselves running out of steam by February if not the middle of January? Well do not despair.  I am going to tell you why your New Year resolutions have proved a bit flaky in the past and give you some guidance on tweaking them so that you have the best chance of achieving what you really want in 2007.

Time Management Top Tips for Accountants 1

Short and simple.  Each month I will provide 3 new top tips on time management.  If you are looking to improve your work life balance and/or time management, my suggestion is this: read the 3 tips and undertake to try out just one new one each month.  Just try it, it may not work for you, but there will be loads more to try.  And I'm only suggesting you try one new one per month. Why?  Well, you know that feeling you get when you are so busy, you know what you should be doing, you know there is a better way, but just can't find the time to introduce any new changes into your schedule (change usually means investment of some sort doesn't it, surely time investment is the last thing I can afford right now).  Well that feeling is permanent with some of us, we are always too busy to change.  So, try just one thing for one month, that's not a huge extra time commitment is it? Here goes, 3 top time management tips:

This Life + 10

This Life + 10: the accountants view

So who watched the return to This Life, last night? Well I did and I suspect shed-loads of my 30 and 40-something peers who were smitten the first time round. Remember the 1990s, being holed up for weeks on end in some god-forsaken hotel learning the new audit methodology? This Life was our only respite. The appeal? Well parallels between the life of the trainee barristers in This Life and trainee accountants in practise I guess.  For me in particular, during my 20s, I had a training contract in London, lived in a shared house with accountant peers, and worked in pretty much the same location as This Life's lawyers - just around the corner from Chancery Lane and the Law Courts.  And well no, despite the similar location, my big 4 experience in London was infinitely less glamorous, cool or chaotic than the This Life version (but then that was just me)........

Company Registration

Carol McLachlan Coaching Limited is a company registered in England & Wales, registered number 5579738.
While the company's reach is both national and global, the registered office is 26 Alton Road Prenton CH431XA