Are technical skills enough?
Posted by Mark Lee in CPD on Tue, 26/01/2010 - 09:10
- Many accountants ignore the importance of non-technical skills
- Most accountants fall into one of four categories: Finders, minders, grinders and binders
- Honing a range of skill sets is important, particularly in smaller firms
- Skills such as networking, pitching and managing people are essential to being a good accountant
Many accountants assume non-technical skills can be developed on the job but is this really the case? Mark Lee makes a case for soft skills training.
Most accountants are justly proud of their technical skills. It is also common to find that firms rarely invest time and money in ensuring that partners and prospective partners have all the business skills they require to be profitable in the short-term and valuable in the longer term.
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