Change Your Mindset

“Higher education needs to change how accounting is taught and align it with the critical power skills required to succeed in today's business climate.” Peter Margaritis As an accountant, understanding how to sell yourself, both in an educational setting and in the workplace can help you succeed professionally. Technical accounting skills are the foundation of accounting education. However, in today's accounting profession, technical skills are not enough to grow your career by themselves. You need to develop your power skills. Power skills, aka soft skills, are helpful in just about any career and essential to communicate accounting complexities to those non-accounting business leaders. They include aspects like curiosity, self-awareness, empathy, and more. According to the Josh Burson company blog, titled, ‘Let's Stop Talking About Soft Skills, They’re Power Skills’, states that the skills of the future are not technical, they're behavioral. The article goes on to state that IBM's latest research lists the