Staff Training and Delegation for Practice Owners

Categories: PD · Non-CE
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About Course

Most solo-grown practices reach a point where adding staff doesn’t reduce the owner’s workload the way expected — the owner ends up reviewing, correcting, and often redoing delegated work, and the practice’s growth stalls at exactly the point staff were supposed to remove that ceiling. This is usually not a sign delegation itself was a mistake; it’s a sign the practice never built an actual training system, just handed off tasks and hoped competence would develop on its own. This course is not about the delegation matrix and review-level structure covered elsewhere in this series for workflow management — it’s specifically about hiring the right person, building a real training curriculum, assessing when someone is genuinely ready for more independence, and keeping good staff long enough for the training investment to pay off.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT · NON-CE. This course does not provide IRS continuing education credit.

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What Will You Learn?

  • A framework for hiring the right person for a small tax practice, weighing trainability against existing skill
  • A structured onboarding and training curriculum that replaces informal shadowing with a real system
  • A tiered competency-assessment framework for deciding when a preparer is ready for more independence
  • A framework for retaining and developing staff over time, including career pathing in a small practice
  • A Staff Training & Development Toolkit — ten working tools built around this course's exact framework

Course Content

Module 1 – Hiring and Onboarding for a Small Tax Practice

  • Hiring and Onboarding for a Small Tax Practice

Module 2 – Building an Actual Training System

Module 3 – Assessing Competency and Signing Off on Independence

Module 4 – Retaining and Developing Staff Over Time

Staff Training & Development Toolkit

Self-Check – Staff Training and Delegation for Practice Owners

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