Episode 1: The Ideal Team Structure

Episode 1: The Ideal Team Structure

“The first thing you've gotta master is you've gotta master leading yourself. So that's about self-discipline, that's about the experience, that's about controlling your feelings, and so you've gotta lead yourself and then to lead others, that's another level again.”

Welcome to The Wize Guys podcast! In this, our very first episode, I chat with Ed Chan, founder of Chan & Naylor, an accounting firm with offices in major cities around Australia that services thousands of clients. Jamie Johns also joins us. He is the founder of Sky Accountants, recognized as one of the top 57 accounting firms worldwide.

Ed and Jamie, along with me, your host, Brenton Ward, founded Wize Mentoring to help Accounting and Bookkeeping firm owners scale their businesses.

Find out to become a better leader, team structures, and productivity. Also, learn useful tips on how accounting firms can foster healthy team structures today!

Timestamps:

0:35 - The concept of an ideal team structure

6:00 - Analogy of water getting through the pipe

7:05 - The importance of pushing the work down

8:48 - Reasons why you should have the people in the right seat

9:23 - Getting the resource mix right

10:42 - How to implement a ‘no-blame culture’

14:42 - How to manage teams

16:54 - Becoming a better leader for your firm

20:09 - 3 common areas to focus on

23:52 - Top-down VS bottom-up management

28:24 - How timesheet creates a system-dependent firm

Quotations:

“Focus on the problem, focus on fixing the problem, and focus on finding solutions to the problem…” - Ed Chan

“People don't lead companies, they lead their managers.” - Brenton Ward

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