Effective Leadership Communication Tools for Assigning Project Requirements and for Creating a Two-way Feedback Process

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During my extensive Army career, I learned several key leadership-oriented communication tools that ensured clarity in describing to my teams what was expected. These tools have been practiced by militaries throughout history using various methods. Further, they contribute to a greater exchange of critical information leading to a higher success rate for goal accomplishment. Communication …

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Benefits of Effective Communication to Improve Your Leadership Ability and Influence

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Effective communication helps to build trust and work toward a shared purpose. It gets the team working together with a better vision of what the end-state is. Without effective communication, your team will end up guessing and be confused. Additionally, when information is not being shared or the leader’s expectations are not clear, the risk …

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The Leadership Mindset Guide for Finance and Accounting Managers to Develop Great Teams and Create Positive Change

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Why is improving our leadership mindset important? Because we want to build a winning team that gets the work done, and we want to advance our career. Our leadership mindset contributes to how successful we will be. If we are positive, empowering, win-win, and relationship and people focused, then we have a greater chance to …

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Finding Time Savings for Your Finance and Accounting Teams

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How can we find more time savings during the workday for our finance and accounting teams who constantly juggle task and project deadlines? They are overworked, but why? Leaders must prioritize and deconflict tasks, talk with other leaders across the organization, and maximize the tools available. Further, we must analyze the team’s structure and skill …

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Six Steps for Building and Developing Accounting and Finance Team Collaboration

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How often do we find our accounting and finance team members sitting quietly in their cubicles without saying one word to each other through an entire day? We hope that team collaboration is happening to solve problems and develop new ideas. Do we want these normally reclusive, but dedicated individuals to talk to each other? …

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