A New Year’s Guide of Leadership Focus Areas to Inspire and Grow Your Team

It’s a new year so this is a great time to review some essential leadership focus areas, so we can inspire and grow our teams. We have a great responsibility to invest the time and energy to lead with purpose and establish a path to achieve team and individual goals. As leaders, we get to …

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Essential Soft Skills for Managers and Leaders of Finance and Accounting Teams

Soft skills are critical attributes and abilities that can greatly improve your interaction with others. These skills sometime come naturally to a person and can greatly define one’s character. Lacking in these essential soft skills often sets you apart negatively and can hinder your ability to lead and influence others in a positive way. As …

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Guide to Taking Risk in Your Career to Create More Opportunities for Advancement and Greater Responsibility

I am writing this to encourage you to build more risk into your career path. If you play it safe in your role, you may collect the weekly paycheck, and no one will bother you. If you expect others to reward you for just doing your daily job, you got it wrong. Those who actively …

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Critical Skills, Actions and Leadership Expertise Guide for Career Advancement Above Manager

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 …

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

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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