Inspiring episodes + interviews, helping shape the future for entrepreneurs, business owners + experts in their field.
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 notes
Episode 31: Emotional Intelligence and Empathy (In Demand Accountant Part 4)
Sam covers another element of the In Demand Accountant: emotional intelligence and empathy. Vital soft skills for accountants in navigating conversations and relationships with clients and their teams.
Episode 30: Growing an Accounting Firm During a Pandemic by Being a Real person, with Annette Tasker
Sam and Annette have been working together for the past four years and Annette really demonstrates the In Demand Accountant attributes, particularly around the empathy and emotional intelligence piece.
Annette also brings a vast range of business experience to the job, and not only does she generously work with her clients, she gives back to the industry as well.
Episode 6: How to shift from an Expert to an Advisory Mindset in 6 steps (Part 1)
Sam dives deeper still into the mindset shifts that accountants and advisors need to make to have better conversations with clients, build different styles of businesses and meet or even be the disruption in a more agile way going forwards.
Episode 4: The Art of Difficult Conversations
There’s two main aspects to why accountants find conversation difficult: the mindset piece and the training piece. Sam covers both of these, and shares practical advice on how to build conversation muscles in business and in life.