The Exuberant Accountant - Scott Heintzelman

Employee Ownership Roundtable: Making Your Organization Excel with Engaged Employees

Do you want to attract, engage and keep great employees?  Is succession planning important to you? Are you looking to increase your company’s performance? If yes, then you may want to attend the Lancaster County Chamber’s Employee Ownership Roundtable. 

Chip Cargas, CEO of Cargas Systems and I will be leading this roundtable.  Chip is a dynamic business leader and Cargas Systems is an employee owned company.  Cargas has been recognized as a Best Places to Work in Pennsylvania for 5 consecutive years.  Chip will share how his company became employee owned and how this has fueled growth and success.

I plan to share strategies related to succession, valuation related issues and how employee ownership increases corporate performance.  I also plan to share how McKonly & Asbury has been able to engage our employees and consistently make the list of Best Places to Work in Pennsylvania.

This breakfast meeting will be held on Tuesday, April 6^th at 7:30 in Lancaster.  If you would like more information, please click this link or feel free to contact me.

Learning Culture

During these challenging economic times many organizations look for ways to control (i.e. cut costs) expenses and often reduce the training and learning budget.  In our profession this is called Continuing Professional Education (CPE).  However this is such a vital component to be a great organization.  I did an interview with Boomer Consulting last year explaining just how important staff development is to our organization.

Most organizations focus on sales and production, but spend little time developing the employees.  This is important, but particularly so to our young people (the Generation Y).  This group is looking for Meaning, Voice, Membership, Appreciation, Harmony and Enrichment.  It is this Enrichment component that is about providing opportunities for growth and development.  If your organization intends to keep this generation on the team and engaged, you will need to invest in them.  Leaders that create a Learning Culture will find this creates better customer service and staff that are engaged employees.

The Power of Engaged Employees

One of my favorite things to learn about and to discuss with others is the subject of employee engagement.  As a CPA firm we work in a profession known for burning through the young talent (staff).  I always felt we could do it better, investing in our employees, focusing on communication and respect and this would lead to long-term success.  I believe the results speak for themselves.  McKonly & Asbury is in the midst of a 5-year run on the Pennyslvania statewide list of Best Places to Work and we have grown at an amazing rate.  We have opened 4 additional offices during the past 3 years and continue to experience so many positive results, which I believe are a direct result of having engaged employees.