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Managing the Strong, Arrogant, Obnoxious Type

Let's Grow Leaders

Or the balding dude from finance who can out-gun anyone with a spreadsheet at twenty paces, who won’t even hear your argument for more funding unless you can outwit his wittiness. And that the next leader who manages this guy will have more courage. “After all, this guy’s clearly high-potential.”

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How Coaching Supports Management Decision

International Coach Academy

A Case Study By Wai Lan Kwan, Life Coach, HONG KONG How Coaching Supports Management Decision I was introduced by my human resources department to take a vocational coach program. The Issue/Challenge Miss T is the department head of Finance. One of my colleagues knows that I am studying to be a coach.

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How to Lead When Your Team Resists Change

Let's Grow Leaders

When Your Team Resists Change, It’s an Opportunity for Ownership You’ve noticed a problem, spent the last four days meeting with finance, strategizing, and building an action plan. You’re energized about what your team will achieve, your boss and peers are on […].

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How to Succeed With Limited Resources

Let's Grow Leaders

The finance crowd speaks and entirely different language than sales or IT. Whitney astutely pointed out, “the people who have the hardest time with this are middle managers. management. Figure out how to speak the language of the folks you’re trying to convince. Get the right people involved. ”I agree.

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How to Calculate ROI of Remote vs. In-Person Work? (How to Video)

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Your finance team did a bit of quick math to calculate ROI for making the transition to remote teams permanent based on real-estate savings and reduced communite times. Managers and employees are telling you t hey’re way more productive. 4:20 Reaction: How do people (employees and managers) see this situation?

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Reconceiving the global trade finance ecosystem

McKinsey

Trade finance does not work as well as it could, particularly for the millions of smaller businesses that help fuel the global economy. A new joint report sets out a vision for improving the ecosystem for all players.

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Why HR Gets a Bad Name

Let's Grow Leaders

I spent the next decade keeping my HR and Finance partners as close as possible. You need YOUR BEST players managing your people strategy, not your leftovers. And even letting one or two mediocre players hang on diminishes credibility for an organization proposing candidates or offering advice on performance management.

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