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3 Top Tips for Setting Your 2019 Goals
The start of a new year is often a time when people think about goals for the year. Of course thinking about goals and actually achieving them is very different. So often people start off with great intentions. They might actually get started. All good. So what are my 3 top tips to increase the […]
Continue readingWhat I Learned About Leading From Being A Finance Director In The NHS
When we start out in our career, most of us want to go as far they can in their career. For me it was always about challenging myself to see if I could perform at the next level. Over the years I climbed the career ladder from Payments Clerk to Finance Director. So what did […]
Continue readingWhat Type Of Leader Do You Want To Be?
As a leader there are plenty of demands on you. It just goes with the territory. You will always have targets to meet, stakeholders to satisfy and the likes. At times this will test and stretch you to the limit. While leaders need to deliver, there is also the question of what type of leader […]
Continue readingIt’s Just The Start
Many professional people want to get on in their career. They see success in terms of how far they climb the career ladder. Many aspire to get to senior level leadership and management roles. They may work really hard to build a range of skills and attributes to become effective leaders. Then when they reach […]
Continue reading7 Barriers To Having High Performing Employees
Employees can really make the difference to the results that are achieved. At the same time leaders and managers often do things that get in the way of having high performing employees. Here are the top 7 barriers I notice. Lack of Clear Expectations Vague expectations of what is required of people leads to sub-optimal […]
Continue readingPeople Who Have Helped My Business In 2011
Every year you have in business makes you realise just how important it is to have people around you for support, encouragement and to inspire you. I am a great believer of the impact of teams on the results you get. In this post I wanted to acknowledge some of the people in my team […]
Continue readingTeam Success: Lessons From The World Cup
As a keen football fan I have been following a number of matches in the World Cup in South Africa. What I have noticed is that there are some really useful learning points about team success for managers and leaders in business. There Has To Be Commitment It’s interesting to notice the difference between the […]
Continue readingLeadership Lessons From The Upcoming UK Election
In seven days time, Britain will go to the polls and vote on who should lead the country over the next 5 years. Without doubt whoever wins faces a challenging agenda. The run up to the election has provided some interesting lessons in leadership more generally. So what are some the key lessons. The Demands […]
Continue reading14 Business Partnering Characteristics and Finance Functions
A new report from The CIMA Centre of Excellence at the University of Bath (Finance Transformation – The Evolution to Value Creation) identifies 14 business partnering characteristics: Advises on and supports decision making throughout the organisation. Supports the management of risk and complexity. Is valued by other parts of the organisation for the support it […]
Continue readingTeam Effectiveness: How to Utilise Different Perspectives
Put the same problem in front of 10 different groups in any organisation and they will all view it differently. We all, to a greater or lesser extent view things through our own unique lens or perspective. Let’s look at something that is probably quite topical in organisations right now, which is cost reduction. One […]
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