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Tune into the Business Habitat podcast with Sam Dean.
[Previously known as ‘The In Demand Accountant’ podcast].
In our expert professional services businesses, where the rules were written last century and the world keeps changing around us...how do we as experts who have spent years, sometimes decades getting our technical skills to the ultimate level and proportionally little time learning the ones required to grow our businesses based on our own terms, re-write the rules for ourselves.
That’s the question and this show explores the answers.
Stay tuned and enjoy some brave conversations.
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Episode 61: Living your WHY in Life and Business, with Troy Morgan
Sam interviews Troy Morgan, a wellbeing specialist, CEO of Willows Health Group, Director and Shareholder of health companies Well360 and SpringDay. Troy is also a sought after speaker in the areas of wellbeing, leadership and culture.
Sam and Troy discuss his background in Exercise Science and fitness/health businesses, the business model Troy is working on now and what we can learn from it as an Accounting Industry.
Episode 60: Boundaries to Empower Your Business and Yourself
Sam explores the concept of boundaries and how you can use them to empower yourself and your business. This is a follow up from Episode 59, which was about rethinking our capacity for personal and business success, and boundaries are a part of how we can increase our capacity individually, in business and with our teams.
Episode 59: Rethinking Capacity for Personal and Business Success
Sam dives into why the accounting and and professional services industries need to rethink the way we approach our individual and collective capacity. Sam explores what ‘capacity’ is and why individual and business capacity matters for both individual and team success.
Episode 58: The Value Pricing Revolution We Need
Sam explores the value pricing revolution we need to have in accounting and professional services industries. This is a conversation that has been around for at least three decades, and still 90% of firms are stuck in hours-for-dollars pricing models.
Episode 57: The Fixed Versus Growth Mindset
Sam dives deep into one of the fundamental missing pieces in efficiency, effectiveness and success and that is the mindset shift from a fixed to a growth mindset. This comes from Carol Dweck’s research and hugely popular book ‘Mindset’.
Episode 56: Renovating Our Firms and Careers in 2021
Sam explores the renovations we need to make as accountants in our day to day, and as an industry. She touches on what 2020 highlighted for us as changes that are needed in our industry, and how we can use what we’ve learned to be a catalyst to renovate our practices and our businesses going forwards.
Episode 55: Time to Celebrate and Re-energise!
Sam explores the power of celebration and how we can use it to re-energize ourselves. As it’s Christmas and you hopefully are getting a little break, now is the perfect time to make some space to acknowledge and celebrate your achievements. It has been a tough year and we are exhausted, but this concept of celebration can be so powerful in helping recharge and re-energise.
Episode 54: Reviewing the Way We Do Reviews
This episode follows on from previous episodes by reviewing the way we do reviews in our industry.
Sam explores why we need to rethink some of the everyday processes around our job reviews and the different kinds of reviews we have to do, as well as some of the ways reviews are approached in our industry.
Episode 53: How We Can Inspire and Keep Our Teams
In Episode 53, Sam explores how we can inspire and keep our staff, both in our firms but also in our industry.
Sam discusses why the industry needs to pay attention to the attrition of Millennial staff and some of the actions we can take as leaders that either retain them or drive them out.