CFO Services – Developing Strategic Finance Leaders & Transforming Organizations
You may be currently a finance or accounting manager who desires to achieve more leadership growth. We must all continually strive to move from managing everyday tasks to focusing on empowering our team members. Our first duty as leaders is to grow more leaders. I want to have an entire team of leaders who are …
To grow our leadership, we must work to recognize bias in our thoughts and perspective. It’s easy to say, “let’s eliminate bias and be open minded to everything,” but it is a complicated issue. We were all raised with various values and different traditions. What I consider important may not be important to a person …
How you establish the priorities of your personal workload and the workload of your team affects performance and your own career advancement. Leaders who fail to prioritize correctly will find themselves behind their peers. They risk career promotion and a team with low morale. Your team is busy, and you are busy. Very busy. Prioritizing …
Working your job every day as expected will not automatically guarantee you career advancement. You may become a manager and maybe have a small team of 2 or 3 people, but you will probably not rise above that by just showing up and doing your regular job. You must get out of your comfort zone …
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 …