Humanise The Numbers - for ambitious accountants in practice
Welcome to the 'Humanise The Numbers' podcast series. Here you'll find a whole series of interviews with the leaders of accounting firms who are building (or have already built) a firm of the future now! You'll hear key insights, key skills and key habits that underpin the success of these firms. Insights, skills and habits that can underpin your firm's future success too. It seems that when an accountancy firm connects their team and their clients to the numbers that really matter to them they transform the results for everyone. This is accelerated when the humanity of the way they work shines through too. That's why we're talking about ambitious accountants humanising the numbers.Here's what a director of a multi-partner multi-national firm said recently ."What I like about your podcasts is that they are real. They are not scripted and I appreciate the fact that your interviewees admit they don’t have all the answers but are willing to let you put that fact out on a podcast. It is what is going on at the front lines of great small accounting practices. I have now listened to about half of them, I intend listening to them all as each one just has a nugget that I am writing down to see if I can use in our practice at some stage."
Humanise The Numbers - for ambitious accountants in practice
Phool Ashraf & Cheryl Sharp - ACCA Strategy Series 4/5
Where's the value in your firm around pulling together absolute clarity around the behavioral standards, values, and beliefs, that you want to live by in your accountancy firm?
Is the hard thinking, hard work going to pay off for you and your firm?
Well, on this Humanise The Numbers podcast discussion with Phool and Cheryl, owners and leaders of two different accounting firms, they share their insights on how getting clarity on values has actually paid off for them.
Whether it be in recruiting new team members, setting standards of performance with their existing team or even the impact of sharing values with clients.
I've just finished a workshop with eight different accounting firms, the smallest with a team of 12, and the largest with a team of more than 200 people.
We openly discussed the merits of having no values, having good values that aren't really lived, and having great values that genuinely exist in their firm, values that are lived, that you can see happening every week, every day, across the firm.
Now clearly, if a team of people seriously buy into a set of values, seriously buy into the purpose you have for your firm, they're going to have a reference point for all the decisions and all their actions, which will sponsor the future success of your firm.
So why not join me, Phool and Cheryl on this Humanise The Numbers podcast discussion and see what they have to say about interaction with team members, interactions with potential future team members, interactions with clients and how values impact those really key conversations that ultimately fuel the future success of their firm and can fuel the future success of your firm too.
When on this episode page, please scroll down for the contact information for Phool and Cheryl and to find additional resources mentioned in the podcast.