{"id":23094,"date":"2025-01-11T17:46:37","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T17:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/accounting\/leaning-into-crucial-conversations-blumer-cpas\/"},"modified":"2025-01-11T17:46:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T17:46:37","slug":"leaning-into-crucial-conversations-blumer-cpas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=23094","title":{"rendered":"Leaning into Crucial Conversations \u2013 Blumer CPAs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How you have conversations in your organization, and the intention with which you speak, matters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u201cHalf the world is composed of people who have something to say and can\u2019t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.\u201d<\/b><b><br \/><\/b><b>\u2013 Robert Frost<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Overspeaking, looping with no point, and speech riddled with generalities or exaggerations do no good to move your organization and your team forward. But transforming speech turns out to be a difficult challenge.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your speech patterns are habitual, and likely have been allowed by those around you for years and years. So if you loop in your speech and never come to a conclusion, it is likely based on situations of trying to make your point, yet never getting to the point, and others around you <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">allowing<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> you to do this.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can notice others\u2019 speech patterns more than you can recognize (and change) your own. So you need others in your life to practice talking and allow them to reflect back to you what is working and what is not working. This process requires safety and trust with those involved in the communication.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a firm, we believe in the power of speech, noticing and seeing the results of our speech, and changing that speech to what benefits the greater good and the culture of our community. This year our team will dive into a deep study of crucial conversations. We\u2019ll be reading the book <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Crucial-Conversations-Tools-Talking-Stakes\/dp\/0071401946\/ref=sr_1_5?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ISzjC04XT9oNYVlH76lANEy2ZXMAHHRGYnrTxu-YuQQNjgYQIn_jtTtz027nBku9o2H3lPgVG41eoEn2w3JEsEpmkaikOhr9nSUq2I5BsVTyJXGb2cs8lbUI2OCta_1P6E6iYSpOo9qsEHoV2Jsh-p2Trn8FAnkS_rJO2Q6AQbYKdW6LxD75gzA5FyjZAfiYj9ItCL3FBmwZb6hNlvs20RvBAwIjrFj37JiIr9pwip4.hZD2XSmj1cDnFhxnZQth_B7Q-MAXvwb_jYq6B9lt5oY&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=crucial+conversations&amp;qid=1734184600&amp;sr=8-5\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Crucial Conversations<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> together and leaning into our safe community to allow us to challenge one another to grow in this important area of service to our clients. Our conversations, or <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lack of<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> effective conversations, change how we serve our amazing clients. We work with high-level entrepreneurs who require efficient and strong communication. So we commit to this work as a community so that we can be effective as a team.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It may be time for you to evolve into an organization that works on these types of speech and communication changes. As a firm, we commit to our own communication so we can effectively deliver services that change our clients. And we do change our clients when we:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clean up their accounting so that it reflects what they are selling and how profitable it is<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Format and benchmark their agency financials so they can glean growth insights (meaning they learn what to continue doing, what to stop doing, and new things to start doing)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Budget and project their financials into the future so they can compare their actual vs. budget financials<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Communicate with their team in ways that helps us run their financial department, invoice their clients, pay their bills, provide cash flow to the owners on a weekly basis, and use financials to tell them things about their business they can\u2019t know without our team\u2019s intentional communication<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We teach and talk a lot about growth conversations with agency and design owners. You may want to come talk to us! <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blumercpas.com\/newsletter-signup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sign up for our Newsletter<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@blumercpas\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">subscribe to our YouTube channel<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to learn more about the design of growth!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How you have conversations in your organization, and the intention with which you speak, matters. \u201cHalf the world is composed of people who have something to say and can\u2019t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.\u201d\u2013 Robert Frost Overspeaking, looping with no point, and speech riddled with generalities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11759],"tags":[15588,15587,15589,15586,7580],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-23094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accounting","tag-blumer","tag-conversations","tag-cpas","tag-crucial","tag-leaning"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - 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