Emotional intelligence (also known as emotional quotient or EQ) is the ability to understand, use, and manage your own emotions in positive ways to relieve stress, communicate effectively, empathise with others, overcome challenges, and defuse conflict. Emotional intelligence helps you build stronger relationships, and succeed at school or work, and achieve your career and personal […]

Bruce Sheppard, CEO of Gilligan Sheppard and Damien Grant, Principal of Waterstone Insolvency, who have both featured in recent articles on the wage subsidy, hash out their points of view. Who’s side do you agree with most?

Within the coming months there will be a lot of discussion in the media about the macro-economic policy and direction of the country. They can be deceptive, as individuals in the media, politicians and policy advisors tend to discuss the outcomes of any particular action in average terms. Usually this is based on level 100 […]

Available to business owners, are many services who advocate that numbers beyond historical end-of-year compliance is important for your business. Some providers will delve into why these are important citing profitability, cash flow management, ability to fund growth, keeping overheads under control, etc. Some of these will go further and offer book-keeping / virtual CFO […]

“Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.” William Pollard It is undeniable that Covid-19 has, is and will continue to have, a significant impact on all our lives – personally, professionally and in business. Some […]

“Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.” Theodore Levitt “We don’t know who discovered water, but we’re certain it wasn’t a fish.” John Culkin Now more than ever, doing new things is going to be critical as we emerge from the lockdown and the subsequent realignment – both in our personal […]

Be strong enough to stand alone, smart enough to know when you need help, and brave enough to ask for it. The New Zealand 4-level Covid-19 alert system specifies public health and social measure to be taken against Covid-19. But there’s another system in play for New Zealand businesses… These are of course, very generalised […]

Allow me to introduce myself, I’m Amy Hua and it’s been almost five months since I started with Gilligan Sheppard, and I would like to express my gratitude to all of you; thank you for being so welcoming. While this is a new beginning, by no means is this an unfamiliarity, having known both Yi […]

At the end of last year, the New Year was a shining light for what 2020 was going to be – both personally and professionally. Call it a New Year resolution or, if you resent that term like me, (mostly because historically achievement rates have not been great), a goal, objective, or it remains nameless […]

Welcome to 2020. It’s that time of year, great weather, schools are back, traffic has returned, and for most people the run-in towards the end of the Financial Year has begun. We know the election will be September 19, so let the political fun and games begin. During the break most of us should have […]