Developing Leaders in Finance & Accounting: We Help You Advance Your Career
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 …
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 …