Episode 150: Jonathan Gaunt Resources

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Every so often you have the opportunity to enjoy a deep conversation with someone who has worked in industry, has set up multiple businesses, has run his own accountancy practice and, at the same time, is doing everything he can to influence the success of the profession.

I was privileged to have that discussion with Jonathan Gaunt from FD Works. He set up Xavier, which was sold to Dext and became Dext Precision, and he then set up Socket.

In this conversation with Jonathan, we struggled to get to the numbers part of Humanise the Numbers and talked quite a bit about some very specific small things that have big results when it comes to enabling you to build a culture, a working environment, that you can be proud of, enjoy, and which delivers real financial success as well.

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1. Listen to this Humanise The Numbers podcast with Jonathan Gaunt of FD Works. Jonathan talks about the difference between your comfort zone and your adventure zone, and why reframing something new as being in one's adventure zone can remove the element of fear.

2. Listen to this Humanise The Numbers podcast with Jonathan Gaunt of FD Works, where Jonathan discusses the importance, when providing feedback, of using the right words and listening more. It is essential that you develop and adapt these skills.

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4. Listen to this Humanise The Numbers podcast with Jonathan Gaunt of FD Works, where Jonathan explains why he thinks we all need to come to work as adults. He feels it is important to lead with intention and allow your team to experiment.

5. Listen to this Humanise The Numbers podcast with Jonathan Gaunt of FD Works. Jonathan talks about the importance of your customers' experience and uses the phrase 'moments of delight'. He shares insights from Disney and the World of Baseball and what they have done to make a 'boring' game (Jonathan’s word) interesting by looking at it from the customer's point of view.

6. Listen to this Humanise The Numbers podcast with Jonathan Gaunt of FD Works. Jonathan discusses the phrase 'what's in it for them?', and why, when having conversations with his team, he talks to them about their life plan, their current and future state and the obstacles in the middle. Think about what you want to do in the future, think about what you are doing now and what is stopping you from achieving your future goals. He shares the use of visualisation boards with pictures of dogs, places, houses, etc., and how these discussions helped one team member achieve his dream for his 30th birthday.

7. Listen to this Humanise The Numbers podcast with Jonathan Gaunt of FD Works. Jonathan talks about recruitment and the courage to increase your team before you increase your growth, and how you make the decision. Jonathan uses something he calls the 'Labour efficiency ratio', and he shares how it works and how it has allowed them to make the right decision when it comes to capacity and growth.

8. Listen to this Humanise The Numbers podcast with Jonathan Gaunt of FD Works. Jonathan and Paul talk about calling people out and how to manage these accountability conversations. They discuss the importance of creating an environment of psychological safety for your team and why you need to empower your team to speak up, not sit back.

9. Listen to this Humanise The Numbers podcast with Jonathan Gaunt of FD Works. Jonathan shares how they manage the feedback conversations in his business and why FD walks and speed back have been useful tools.

10. Listen to this Humanise The Numbers podcast with Jonathan Gaunt of FD Works. Paul and Jonathan talk about the Toyota production system and why small teams and simple lines of communication can be beneficial, and why, for Jonathan, it is all about his team delivering value.

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