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Glass Elevators: Why Elevator Speeches Matter

Let's Grow Leaders

Until… a good friend of mine in Finance (p.s. always have a good friend in Finance) batted the conversation my way. Yesterday I attended an important meeting with important people. I was not scheduled to speak. What’s our channel’s mission? How are our results? What’s our team best at? How have we improved?

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When Things Get Crazy, Look for Ways to To Empower Your Team

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” One of my early bosses and mentors, Gail, said this to me almost daily during a turbulent time at Verizon. For example, Gail was clear about which decisions we needed to include our finance partners and which did not. It’s also the perfect time to empower your team, to step up and take the lead.

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Snap, Crackle, STOP– What’s Your Brand?

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He has worked in a variety of verticals including Finance, Utilities, Tech, and Telecom. Jonathan is a culture evangelist who focuses on leadership development behaviors and communications strategies. His expertise is service models that provide world-class experience. Green has spent the last seven years working for [.]

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6 vital workplace skills you’ll need to succeed in the future

Career Advancement

Having a strong understanding of how to analyze reports will help professionals in departments from finance to HR to help steer their organization in the right direction. To help employees enhance their skillsets, give them consistent mentoring and other resources that can help them develop their abilities. Critical thinking ability.

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6 Essential Skills for Future Leaders

Career Advancement

That means if you know how to mentor people, engage your team, be transparent with your staff, and guide your team through changes, you’ll be an asset in any organizational context. For example, in the HR field, you could focus on compliance or succession planning , or if you work in finance, you could study healthcare accounting.

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Six Types of Stakeholders Leaders Need to Influence

Career Advancement

Her mentor helped her to map out the key people she needed to influence at this stage in her career, and this is what they came up with. Finance departments. Finance departments are another group of stakeholders that leaders must influence in order to gain their trust as well. Executives. Other colleagues.

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Providing Business Coaching to a Training and Leadership Company

International Coach Academy

I was introduced to the two founders of T4M by a mutual acquaintance thinking that I might be empaneled by T4M as a consultant, mentor, or coach. What I didn’t realize until our first meeting was that the goal of the T4M founders was not to look for someone to join their panel, but to coach and mentor them about their own business.