Prevailing economic conditions have increased the number of accountants and bookkeepers who find themselves in the job market.  

Until a covid vaccine is commonly available and economies recover, employers will find themselves able to shortlist seve...

Judging the performance of your team members based on the way they look and deal with clients or other team members is very short-sighted because it doesn't focus on productivity or outcomes.

Leaders must focus on facts and outcomes in order to make...

Hiring offshore staff is something new for a lot of business owners and can be an intimidating strategy. 

However, when executed well, having an offshore team can help you maximise your profit, improve your team’s capacity and ultimately save you ti...

What is a No Bypass Policy? In this video, Ed and Brenton discussed the policy, its goals and how you can effectively implement it in your own firm.

This is one of the most critical leadership policies so that owners of firms can step back from the ...

In the spirit of helping you deal with people issues in your team, we’d like to share with you this excerpt from Dr Steven Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People book:

"If I were to summarize in one sentence the single most important princip...

One flipside of having more accountant and bookkeeper candidates in the job market this year is when you get to shortlist several potentially suitable people for your vacancy, there are going to be more candidates who don’t get a job offer.

Let’s...

In this short snippet from a previous Wize Live video, Brenton and Ed discussed the process of withdrawing from the client management division of your firm.

It's important to manage your clients and not the other way around.  So how do you get your ...

In order to really seek the facts, you cannot have already judged a person or situation. You need to develop a desire to understand — meaning a desire to see things from others' point of view, to see their reasons, and feel what they feel.

Seekin...

As a leader of your team, you have to have the ability to "confront" situations and have those difficult conversations and not shy away from them otherwise problems fester and grow into bigger problems.

"Confront" is not the same as being "confronta...

The mantra “Hire for Attitude, Train for Skills” has been pushed at all employers for years now to the point where it is considered the prevailing opinion, with anyone suggesting the opposite subjected to accusations of being out of step in places li...