Recruitment in the profession has long been a challenge, although the causes have evolved over time. If you are recruiting to scale your practice then the challenge takes on a different angle - building a team culture that empowers people - and then preserving that culture during rapid growth - will be crucial to success.

Outsourcing is certainly an option when you need to build your team. We have a section covering the regulation around outsourcing as well as members sharing their experiences of outsourcing and offshoring - you can explore that here. However in this section we're going to focus on the onshore team.

In the section on shifting your mindset from technician to strategist, we talked about identifying core values and ensuring you build a team that shares them. When your team shares your values, they are far more likely to make decisions that align with those values. This gives you the confidence to delegate client relationship work and reduces the reliance on you for every decision and problem.

Delegation is a core leadership skill - but it's also an art form. Session 2 of our Scale Smarter webinar series in partnership with AVN The Accountants' Network looks at all of the above and also considers outsourcing. You can register for this free series. 

Our From Practice to Business vodcast series has an episode on this topic in which host Carl Reader of the dt group talks to Nikki and Nigel Adams of Ad Valorem about creating a culture and building a team with purpose. You can watch a clip below or watch the full vodcast by clicking on the link in the box to the right. Want to listen to it on the go? It's also available as a podcast.