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29th Oct, 10:00

7 Steps to Making 2025 Your Best Year Yet

Speaker: Des O'Neill - OmniPro

This workshop is an opportunity for you take some time out to reflect on 2024 and plan for a better 2025. Together we will walk through 7 key areas in your business that will help you and your firm a get better result in 2025.

It will not just be about me talking and you thinking. Together we will and complete a practical workbook based on the 7 key areas identifying 3 practical actions that you can realistically take in each area. You will walk away with a documented plan of the 7 Steps you are going to take to make 2025 your best year yet.

This 100 minute workshop is for firm owners and senior team members who are involved in leading, growing and driving the business.

Des O’Neill will cover the following topics during this webinar:

• Identifying what is not working in your business what you need to let go of to make real progress
• Getting your People Strategy right and getting in the Internal WHOs and External WHOs to get the result you want
• Overhauling your pricing strategy ensuring you are getting paid the optimum price for everything you do
• Creating and implementing a Marketing and Sales Strategy that reflects you and your personality that will work for you, so you get to work with more better ideal clients
• Assessing your technology and developing a plan for upping your technology and automation game to the next level in 2025
• Taking a look in the mirror and seeing what you need to do to grow and develop as a person and a business owner. •
• Creating an executable plan that will help you take action and actually get a result.

By attending this session:

• You will walk away with clear insights into what is working in your business and what is not working so well for you.
• You will create 21 ideas for improvements in your firm
• You will document your Top 7 Actions for 2025 in an executable plan
• You will identify your ONE thing and number 1 priority for 2025

This session is for firm owners and senior team members who want to lead a better accounting, bookkeeping or tax advisory business. This is for decision makers. This workshop is for influencers who want to get a better result in 2025.

If you have a closed mindset and don’t believe in personal and professional development this session is probably not for you.

Course Level: Advanced

29th Oct, 12:00

Time Management 101 - 10 Practical Steps to Finding 180 Minutes a Week

Speaker: Des O'Neill - OmniPro

Time Management is the source of and solution to all of our problems

This Practical Time Management for Accountants Programme is for

• Firm owners who want more time
• Senior team members who want to be more effective in what they do
• Any accountant who can never find enough hours in the day
• Anybody who wants to win back 180 Minutes a week

The first part of this workshop takes a look at the bigger issues surrounding time, our perception of time and some of the common mistakes that people make. The second part of the workshop looks at 10 Practical Tactics and Strategies that you can implement to win back 180 minutes a week.

What could you do with an extra 180 minutes a week? No matter how busy you are and no matter how many clients you have you can win back a half day a week by being more effective. What would having a half day extra a week make possible and what would you do with it

We work with firm owners every day and the single biggest challenge we hear that accountants face is time.

• The lack of time.
• The amount of things to be done in the time we have.
• The challenge around getting time to work on our business.
• Having the time to switch off and relax
• The hamster wheel of the never ending to–do list

Des O’Neill will cover the following topics during this webinar:
Part 1 – Changing Your Time Paradigm
• Identifying the Real Problem - Time is not a 1 dimensional problem
• Priorities V Priority - Finding your ONE Thing
• Creating an Executable Plan
• Energy V Time – Personal Effectiveness & Engagement
• Accountability and Keeping Focus – The Power of Habit

Part 2 – Practical Tactics and Strategies to win back at least 4 hours a week
• Taking Stock
• Working in Your Unique Ability
• The NOT to do List
• Diary Zoning & Time Blocking
• The Power of Sprints
• Working with Your Circadian Rhythms
• The Power of Habit
• Think WHO not How
• One Touch - Systemise your Way to Success
• The ONE Thing and 90 Day Sprints

By attending this session:

• You will get insights into how you perceive time and where yours goes
• You will get practical tips and advice that you can take away and apply from today
• You will get new thinking on how you can create more time and space for you irrespective of how buys your business is right now
• You will walk away with tools and checklists that you can apply from today to save you four hours a week

Everyone who works in the accounting profession would benefit from more time and better personal effectiveness. You should attend this if you are a

• A partner or firm owner.
• A manager or a senior accountant in a firm.
• A tax advisor, auditor, accountant or bookkeeper.
• An accountant who wants to learn skills for life that are transferrable to any role in any business.

No matter where you are or what level you are at you will gain insights, ideas and time by attending this webinar series.

Course Level: Need to Know

29th Oct, 14:30

Business Development Simplified - Double Your Profits

Speaker: Des O'Neill - OmniPro

This workshop is for people who want more profit in their firm. Over the last 20 years Des has worked with thousands of firms and has witnessed firsthand the drivers of profit and the dampeners of profit. He has seen why some firms are more profitable than others. This workshop distils 20 years of thinking and insight into 5 crucial things that attendees can do that will have a direct impact on their firm’s bottom line profitability.

In this fast paced session you will reflect on what you are currently doing and what you need to change if your profit is not where you want it to be or where it should be. Des will lead with 3 steps that will instantly improve net profit by up to 30%. Des will then work through a practical case study of a firm showing how the changes impact on the bottom line and lay out the 5 key areas of focus and 12 practical steps to doubling your profits in 3 years.

This is not about getting bigger for the sake of getting bigger. This is about the most important success indicator in any business – profitability.

This 100 minute workshop is for firm owners and senior team members who are involved in leading, growing and driving the business. This is for people who want more profit in their business.

Doubling your Profits requires you making progress in multiple different areas of your business at the same time. During this workshop we will practically lay out the steps to Double Your Profits in 3 years by:

• Growing your Existing Clients
• Growing Your Efficiency
• Growing Your Top Line Turnover
• Growing Your Team
• Growing Your Mindset

By attending this session:

• You will be able to optimise the pricing and profitability of your existing clients.
• Get clear on how to improve the efficiency of your team and your business.
• Be able to develop a business growth strategy that will allow you grow your revenues with a marketing and sales strategy that will attract the type of clients you really want to work with without you becoming an internet marketer or sleazy sales person
• Allow you create a plan for growing the team you want and need
• Walk away with an executable Marketing and Sales Plan

This session is for firm owners and senior team members who want to lead a better accounting, bookkeeping or tax advisory business. This is for decision makers. This workshop is for influencers of firm strategy and people who actually want to drive firm profitability.


Course Level: Advanced