Bold Behaviour with Alex Bond Burnett

05. Humanising the Numbers with Paul Shrimpling

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Paul Shrimpling is the Managing Director of Remarkable Practice Ltd, a UK-based company set up to challenge ambitious accountancy firms to ‘humanise the numbers.’ Their role is to connect and help transform the thinking and behaviours of the accountancy firms.

In this episode of My Brand of Impact, Paul talks about his journey to help firms humanise the numbers, and how having high quality interactions is a win-win situation for business and clients. He also shares some of the biggest challenges he has seen accountants face, including the brutal truth of adopting change and becoming 'skilled'. Tune in to listen:


Timestamps:

[01:25] Influencing how a client feels

[02:10] How high-quality interaction with accountants help businesses

[03:43] Where it all started: Paul’s history with helping accounting firms

[07:06] Some of the biggest mistakes people make

[11:50] Facing the brutal truth of change

[14:20] The biggest challenge accountants face

[17:17] How to build skill work

[18:48] Helping your team to grow

[25:10] The human accounting practice


Notable Quotes:

  • If the accountants have more human interactions as opposed to email interactions, then they will feel a great sense of value.
  • My passion, zeal, and energy to work with accountants came from the fact that every business owner has taken the risk and faces challenges on a daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly basis.
  • There are two different types of accountants: the one who took humanity seriously and the one who only takes the numbers work seriously
  • We think we can take someone who is a particular style of person in terms of their natural tendencies to do a particular type of work.
  • We assume we got to be extroverts to be good human beings. We just have to be exactly who we are, a blend of the two (introvert and extrovert).
  • If you don’t grow your people, you will not grow your accountancy firm.
  • If you're going to build skill;  accountants want to be right first time, okay? When you to go build skill, that just won't work. You've got to be willing, open up a little bit to "Oh, I might make a few mistakes" Yeah, well, you're right, you will. And it's the repetition at the edge of your skill that means you're going to mess up. And so it's going to be a struggle.


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    Mindset: The New Psychology of Success By Carol Dweck https://www.amazon.com/Mindset-Psychology-Carol-S-Dweck/dp/0345472322


    Connect With Paul

    Remarkable Practice Website https://www.remarkablepractice.com/

    Humanise The Numbers Podcast https://humanisethenumbers.online/

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/shrimpers

    LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulshrimpling/?originalSubdomain=uk


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