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The Wize Way — 201 episodes

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Episode 201: The Power of Proven Systems and Accountability with Jeremy Eckert from Trail CPA.

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Episode 200: Reflections and Lessons of the Wize Way with Jamie Johns and Bren Ward

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Episode 199: The Mindset Shift That Buys Back Your Time

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Episode 198: Is Your Firm Leaking Money Without Knowing It?

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Episode 197: Your Job Ad Is Costing You Great Candidates (Here's How to Fix It)

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Episode 196: People, Structure and AI vs Recruitment: Straight Talk with Ed Chan

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Episode 195: The WizeTalent Blueprint: Finding the Right Person Every Time

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Episode 194: Busy But Not Scaling? How to Map the Revenue and Services that Drive Growth

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Episode 193: Turn SOPs into a Growth Engine: Build a Policy Factory that Runs on Autopilot

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Episode 192: Meetings, Rhythms & Remote Teams

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Episode 191: The Art of Letting the Right Work Find the Right Hands

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Episode 190: Why Your Team Is Out of Sync and How Daily Huddles Fix It in 15 Minutes a Day

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Episode 189: Building a Strong Team Connection in 30 Minutes a Week

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Episode 188: How to Run Your Firm in 5 Metrics

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Episode 187: Vanity Metrics vs Real KPIs: Which Are You Tracking?

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Episode 186: The KPI Meeting Rhythm that Scales Your Firm

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Episode 185: Authority Flows Where Accountability Lives

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Episode 184: The Real Legacy of Leadership with Jane Pollard

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Episode 183: The Four Step Pricing Playbook for Accounting Firms

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Episode 182: If You Want Better SOPs, Listen to Your Team's Questions

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Episode 181: The Scalable Firm Blueprint: Structure, SOPs, Teams, and the Fab 5

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Episode 180: The Most Dangerous Myth Accountants Believe About AI

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Episode 179: “It’s Faster If I Do It” Solves a Moment and Sets Up a Mess

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Episode 178: Your Time Costs More Than Any Client Will Ever Pay

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Episode 177: The Bad Habit Every Firm Owner Must Break to Scale

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Episode 176: The Hire That Changed Everything

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Episode 175: Why Most Accountants Never Reach Their Genius Zone (and How You Can) with Gay Hendricks

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Episode 174: Policies and SOPs That Power Firm Growth

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Episode 173 - Onboarding Secrets for Retention

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Episode 172: Why Most Accountants Struggle With Marketing (And How to Fix It)

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Episode 171: Turn Your Board Meetings Into a Growth Engine

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Episode 170: How to Keep Top Talent Engaged

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Episode 169: M&A 101: Must-Knows Before Buying a Firm

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Episode 168: Clients Only Want to Deal with You? That’s a Problem

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Episode 167: Monetise Before You Market: The Growth Stategy Most Firm Owners Miss

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Episode 166: Are You Getting the Right Numbers in Your Business?

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Episode 165: Top 4 Marketing Strategies for Accounting Firms

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Episode 164: Should You Sell to Private Equity? What Firm Owners Must Know

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Episode 163: How to Keep Your Team Aligned and Productive

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Episode 162: The Habits of a High-Performing Senior Client Manager

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Episode 161: Maximising Productivity: The Delegation Strategies You Need to Know

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Episode 160: 3 Golden Tips for Becoming a Better Client Manager

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Episode 159: Implementing the 4 Quads in Your Firm

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Episode 158: How to Convert Leads Every Time: Your Lead Allocation System

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Episode 157: Retention Secrets Every Accounting Firm Needs to Know

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Episode 156: How to Set Up Your Accounting Firm's Meeting Rhythm

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Episode 155: The Wize 7-Divisions: Your Blueprint to Building a Business That Runs Without You

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Episode 154: Wize Factor Chat: Daniel Vasin - Vasin Holdings Pty Ltd

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Episode 153: Why Hiring an Admin is Key to Scaling Beyond $1M

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Episode 152: How to Create a No Blame Culture in Your Firm

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Episode 151: The Art of Delegation and Building a Business That Works for You

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Episode 150: Wize Factor Chat: Gary Doran - Crescendo Accounting & Consulting CPA

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Episode 149: Timesheets are dead says the gurus - The 5 firm-saving reasons why you need to keep and be religious about timesheets if you want to scale

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Episode 148: How to Run A Discovery Call For Your Accounting Practice┃Questions to Ask

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Episode 147: Top 5 Hiring Mistakes That Cost Firm Owners Thousands

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Episode 146: Personal Exertion vs. Passive Income: What’s Your Firm Worth?

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Episode 145: Firm transformation starts with the owner: becoming a better leader

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Episode 144: What is the Concept of Having a Deep and Narrow Team Structure?

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Episode 143: Leadership Lessons for Firm Owners: The Three C's Framework To Become a Better Leader

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Episode 142: Wize Factor Chat: Jamie Johns - Sky Accountants

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Episode 141: Mastering Capacity Planning for Your Business

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Episode 140: The importance of time management for every business owner

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Episode 139: How to Design Your Life and Business to Success

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Episode 138: Reflections of 2024 and setting your goals for the new year

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Episode 137: The benefits of having a deep and narrow team structure

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Episode 136: How to Effectively Manage Offshore Teams

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Episode 135: Leading by Example: The Role of Mentorship in Accounting and Bookkeeping Success

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Episode 134: How to Onboard and Train New Staff

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Episode 133: What are the essential skills of a client manager?

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Episode 132: Building a team in another country - How to dramatically change the future of your firm using our Wize offshoring strategy?

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Episode 131: Mindset Shift: How to Cultivate a Growth Mindset in Running a Business

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Episode 130: Wize Factor Chat: Jake Douglas - Church Finance Pros

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Episode 129: Why You Should Start Scheduling your Workflow for your Accounting Firm

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Episode 128: The 3 Barriers to Growth- Leadership, Logistics and Marketing

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Episode 127: How to Build a Sustainable Business with The Wize 7 Division Organisational Chart

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Episode 126: Mastering Change Management: How Trust Transforms Your Firm

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Episode 125: Wize Factor Chat: Brett Angus & Jaycen Wilson - Element Accountant & Advisors

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Episode 124: What High-Performing Leaders Do Everyday In Their Firm

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Episode 123: The Power of Capacity Planning for Accounting and Bookkeeping Firms

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Episode 122: The Labor Shortage Tsunami - Are You Prepared?

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Episode 121: Wize Factor Chat: Johanna Eddy - MarginKeepers

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Episode 120: Offshore Teams: Your Path to Business Growth

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Episode 119: Hiring Tips to create a team that can excel your business into growth

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Episode 118: How to build client portfolios for your firm

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Episode 117: Bottom-up VS Top-down Management

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Episode 116: Wize Factor Chat: Byron McBroom - Measured Results

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Episode 115: Time Management for Accounting Practice Owners

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Episode 114: Critical Policies For Instilling Better Leadership in your Firm

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Episode 113: The Importance of Staff Review Meetings

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Episode 112: Wize Factor Chat: Kristy Fairbairn - The Business Oasis

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Episode 111: How to build client portfolios for your accounting & bookkeeping firm

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Episode 110: Keeping your team healthy - More Givers and Less Takers!

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Episode 109: The Accountant's & Bookkeeper's Guide to Designing a Lifestyle-Driven Business

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Episode 108: Wize Factor Chat: Michael Hanrahan - Hanrahan & Associates

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Episode 107: UPFRONT PRICING: Crafting Winning Pricing Strategies in Accounting & Bookkeeping

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Episode 106: Time Management for Accounting & Bookkeeping Practice Owners

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Episode 105: The path to a 7-hour work week - How to build a scalable business that can run without you

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Episode 104: The Importance of Staff Review Meetings

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Episode 103: Wize Factor Chat: Thomas Sphabmixay - TMS Financials

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Episode 102: The Single Best Way to Find and Recruit Qualified Staff for your Practice

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Episode 101: How to educate clients with your firm's accounting services

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Episode 100: Be a Next Level Client Manager

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Episode 99: Wize Factor Chat: David Burnes - Asset Accounting

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Episode 98: Understanding the 3 phase process of discovery, proposal, and production

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Episode 97: Tracking the right metrics- your Fab 5 Dashboard

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Episode 96: Mapping Out Your Withdrawal Journey (How Life-Changing is the Current System for Business Firms)

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Episode 95: Wize Factor Chat: Shayan Rashid - SRJ CPA

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Episode 94: How to Deal with Pushbacks In Your Firm?

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Episode 93: Testing Out a Candidate on Speed and Accuracy Before Hiring

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Episode 92: How to Achieve Your Business Ideal Income

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Episode 91: The Secrets to Making of a High-Performing Team

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Episode 90: Wize Factor Chat: Tim Causbrook - Causbrook & Associates

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Episode 89: Accounting and Bookkeeping Best Practices to Adopt in 2024

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Episode 88: The Different Concepts of Quad Activities for Every Firm

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Episode 87: New Year's Resolutions & Finding and Keeping Great Talent

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Episode 86: Ready for 2024! Setting your goals for the new year

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Episode 85: The 12 Wize Tips of Christmas (2023 Edition)

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Episode 84: WizeHub: The Next Level Business Intelligence

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Episode 83: “Systems Dependent” and not “People Dependent”

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Episode 82: Wize Factor Chat: Anthony Luvisetto - iCompass Professional Advisors

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Episode 81: The Role, Responsibilities & KPIs of a Senior Production Manager

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Episode 80: What is the Concept of Having a Deep and Narrow Team Structure?

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Episode 79: Managing a High-Performing Offshore Team

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Episode 78: Building Capacity VS Advertising: What is it and Why it Matters for your Accounting Firm

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Episode 77: Wize Factor Chat: Lacey Harnar - Pathway CPA Group, LLC

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Episode 76: How to Make Instructional Videos for your Business

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Episode 75: Buying back your time - how to stop working IN your practice

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Episode 74: Understanding Standard Operating Procedures Definition, Importance and Tools

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Episode 73: Wize Factor Chat: Stephanie Anderson - Tax Prose Inc.

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Episode 72: Tips for Implementing a Sales Process in Your Firm

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Episode 71: M&A Crash Course: How to Successfully Buy Another Practice

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Episode 70: Best Practices for Lead Conversion

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Episode 69: Wize Factor Chat: Luke Gheen - Gheen & Co.

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Episode 68: Why WizeTalent is the #1 solution in finding the right talent

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Episode 67: What is The "No Triangles" Policy and Why Should you Start Implementing in Your Firm?

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Episode 66: How to Implement a Client Manager in your Firm

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Episode 65: Wize Factor Chat: Bryant Zwart - Calyx CPA

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Episode 64: Choosing the work you want to do and not wearing all the hats in your practice

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Episode 63: Working Less Hours in your Accounting or Bookkeeping Firm

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Episode 62: Enhancing Productivity and Strategic Focus through Quad Activities Implementation

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Episode 61: Wize Factor Chat: Leah Hall - Player Hall

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Episode 60: How to Achieve the Successful Accounting Owners’ Mindset

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Episode 59: Where to invest your marketing budget to find new quality clients consistently

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Episode 58: How To Build an Extraordinary Marketing System for your Accounting Practice

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Episode 57: Let's Deep Dive into the Wize Capacity Planner

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Episode 56: Wize Factor Chat: Terry Chung - Factor 1

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Episode 55: How to up skill grad accountants and bookkeepers to intermediate/ senior level in 12 weeks flat

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Episode 54: Understanding the Context of ‘No Bypass Policy’ for Your Accounting Team Structure

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Episode 53: Why use NPS for staff and clients

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Episode 52: Wize Factor Chat: Jennifer Hickey - TaxStore

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Episode 51: Are you working IN your business? or ON your business? - overcoming the barriers to growth and implementing the Wize 7-Division Org Chart

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Episode 50: Introducing the NEW WizeHub

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Episode 49: Drowning in emails? How to manage traffic flow so you can be productive with your time and be profitable at the same time

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Episode 48: The concept of implementing a no-blame culture

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Episode 47: Sales Tips for Senior Client Managers

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Episode 46: Referrals: Do’s and Don'ts

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Episode 45: Your practice sales playbook - the best way to convert new clients every time

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Episode 44: The Rule of 33% by Jamie Johns

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Episode 43: How to do competency tests and assess candidates in your recruitment process

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Episode 42: How to Structure your Accounting Practice's Org Chart

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Episode 41: How to start your next deep and narrow production team

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Episode 40: Wize Mentoring: Build a business that runs without you

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Episode 39: Your fab5 dashboard crash course - the KPIs that build the business to run without you

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Episode 38: The Wize Fab 5 Key Performance Indicators

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Episode 37: Becoming the plumber in your practice - How to remove blockages in your practice traffic flow

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Episode 36: Wize Mentoring for Accountants and Bookkeepers

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Episode 35: How to lead ourselves and our teams better ~ discussing big challenges and big opportunities of 2023

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Episode 34: The 12 Wize Tips of Christmas

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Episode 33: Planning your 2023 business growth strategy

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Episode 32: The First 90 Days of onboarding a new recruit

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Episode 31: How To Test Potential Hires In Your Accounting Firms ┃For Grinders & Minders Role

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Episode 30: Client Portfolios: How to Allocate Clients to Teams Effectively

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Episode 29: How to Transition from Top-down to Bottom-Up Management

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Episode 28: Selling the sizzle not the sausage - Get paid for your advice with our 3-phase discovery, proposal, and production system

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Episode 27: Why firms need scalable technology

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Episode 26: How to Get Your Capacity Plan Humming

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Episode 25: How to identify the best candidate for your practice

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Episode 24: Step-by-step Guide for every Accounting Practice’s Withdrawal Journey

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Episode 23: How to Set Up Your Accounting Firm's Meeting Rhythm

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Episode 22: Let's talk about REFERRALS! How to build a solid referral program and system in place

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Episode 21: How To Improve Your Accounting Firm’s Sales Process ┃ Wize Mentoring Business Tips

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Episode 20: Micro-training your team - how to teach them about the deep and narrow team structure

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Episode 19: How Accounting Firms Can Track their Performance┃Best Approach to Measure KPIs

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Episode 18: How to Create a Perfect Work Schedule for your Accounting Team ┃Wize Mentoring

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Episode 17: Managing the Production and Communication Traffic in your Accounting Firm | Wize Mentoring

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Episode 16: The Best Plan in Running a Discovery Session for Your Accounting Firms ┃Wize Mentoring Business Tips

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Episode 15: Learn how to become a BETTER LEADER┃Three Keys to Leadership for your Accounting Practice

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Episode 14: How to develop Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for Your Accounting Practice

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Episode 13: Accounting Best Practices to Adopt in 2022 ┃ Wize Mentoring Business Tips

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Hot Seat: Thomas Sphabmixay ┃How to Establish An Ideal Organizational Structure and Culture for Your Accounting Practice

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Episode 11: Hire Slow, Act Fast: Understanding the Concept and Importance of Hiring the Right People

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Episode 10: What is the Role of a Senior Production Manager in Managing your Traffic Flow?

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Episode 9: Understanding The Job Description And KPIs Of A Senior Production Manager

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Episode 8: The First Steps of Onboarding New Recruits for your Practice

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Episode 7: Testing Potential Hires - For Grinders & Minders Role

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Episode 6: How to Onboard Your Team Members - Finders, Minders & Grinders

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Episode 5: Identifying the best candidates for your practice

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Episode 4: How to make your clients deal with your client managers and not you

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Episode 3: How to stop drowning in all the communication traffic flowing through your firm right now

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Episode 2: Are you on the right track to building a business that runs without you?

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Episode 1: The Ideal Team Structure