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#Financeleaders – Why do we hold ourselves back with our own fears ❓😞

Sometimes we are our own worst enemies, dampening our spirits and limiting our potential.⛈️

These could be fears of :

🔧Losing control

🔧Looking bad

🔧Going outside our comfort zone

🔧Not having all the answers

🔧How people will view us or think of us

🔧Impacts on our career

🔧Being powerless

🔧Not getting the validation or approval from others that we need or seek

This week we release the eleventh leadership chronicle and a story of success shared by Sonia Aslam from the 19th conversation of #globalleadershiphypothesis – what makes a great leader.
The first step to conquering fear – become aware of the fear and understand the impact.
If we want to be great leaders, we need to focus on keeping a positive attitude, letting go of control and bringing out the best in our teams.

Have you encountered any other fears that hold leaders back ❓

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Why do joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions still have such high failure rates❓

Is it because we spend hardly any time thinking about merging or integrating the cultures before doing the deal?

Or because culture doesn’t fit on the due diligence spreadsheet.

#Culture is often the glue that holds an organisation together or it is the immune system that repels what does not fit.

Culture is nothing more and nothing less than the values in action – the behaviours that people live by and demonstrate every day.

This week we release the tenth leadership chronicle and a story of failure regarding a joint venture shared by Guillaume Turlin from the 21st conversation of #globalleadershiphypothesis – what makes a great leader.

Creating something new together, means that we need to define how we will ‘be’ together in future. Have you considered the following:

⚡Have we defined shared values?

⚡What are the vital behaviours for success?

⚡Do we have a budget for integrating cultures?

⚡Have all the parties had a voice in the cultural and behavioural design?

⚡What is the road map for getting the people in the different organisations to buy- in?

What are your experiences of culture & integration❓

#culturechange #cfos

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Does your boss ask you to make the tea for a meeting❓

Does your boss trust you?

Hopefully, we can all recall a boss that supported us, helped us to grow and develop and pushed us forward to help us succeed.

When Jane Gunn told me the story of her boss saying he would make the tea while she ran the meeting, my unconscious bias raised its head. I answered, “oh dear”.

I just assumed he would let her make the tea. Actually, it was totally the opposite. He trusted her enough to let her lead the meeting while he made the tea and this was a good 20 years ago.

This week we release the seventh leadership chronicle and a story of success shared by Jane from the 4th conversation of #globalleadershiphypothesis – what makes a great leader.

Food for thought. We trust leaders based on the Trust Triangle (Harvard Business Review – May 2020):

💡 Authenticity

💡 Empathy

💡 Logic

Common trust wobbles are caused by:

⚡Misrepresenting parts of yourself (inauthenticity)

⚡Putting yourself ahead of others

⚡Not enough rigour in your analysis, an inability to execute or communicate your thoughts properly

What causes you to mistrust a leader❓

#leadershipdevelopment #CFO #financeleaders #trust

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Finance Leaders – are you afraid to share vulnerability❓

Brené Brown defines vulnerability as uncertainty, risk and emotional exposure.

Vulnerability and leadership are symbiotic friends.

I am not saying that we should be crying in the office. When finance leaders share how they feel, their teams are more willing to open up and share what they are feeling, thinking and experiencing.

It does require us to be more courageous though and embrace that feeling of being outside our comfort zone.

This week we release the sixth leadership chronicle and a story of success shared by Mohamed ELRouby ACMA, CGMA, FPAC, MBA from the 6th conversation of #globalleadershiphypothesis – what makes a great leader.

Food for thought. Leaders who allow themselves to be vulnerable with their teams:

💡 Build better relationships

💡 Connect at a deeper level with individuals and teams

💡 Create the conditions for psychologically safe teams where people are not afraid to be authentic and bring more of their real selves to work

💡 Bond their teams through trust

💡 Positively impact the creativity and culture of the team

Are you comfortable to share vulnerability to achieve more ❓

Take your leadership to the next level

#leadershipdevelopment #CFO #financeleaders

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Finance Leaders – are you leading from where you are❓

Leadership is not about being at the top of the tree or having the title of a leader.

Anyone can choose to have an impact and make a difference from where they are within an organisation.

This week we release the fifth leadership chronicle and a story of success shared by Brad Eisenhuth from the 20th conversation of #globalleadershiphypothesis – what makes a great leader.

Food for thought:

💡 Do you believe you can make a difference and have an impact❓

💡 You can take responsibility for creating awareness and transparency around a topic or issue – finance is very well placed to do this with all the information we have at our disposal

💡 We can either suggest solutions or alternatives or help facilitate a process for the business to find solutions or alternatives

💡 Once the direction is set, we can help others deliver on the results and hold people to account

💡 It is always good practice to assess what went well and what we can improve following delivery to ensure we remain agile and focus our abilities.

How are you leading from where you are at, in your organisation❓ Do you see any good examples❓

Take your leadership to the next level

#leadershipdevelopment #financeleaders #cfoinsights

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Finance Leaders – do you always have to have all the answers and know what to do❓

What is the point of having a team filled with brilliant individuals if we never access their creative brilliance?

Have you ever suffered, felt sad, let down and fearful that you did not know how to do something? Perhaps you were trying to solve the problem yourself, instead of asking for help.

This week we release the fourth leadership chronicle and a story of failure shared by Gosia Gorna from the 2nd conversation of #globalleadershiphypothesis – what makes a great leader.

Food for thought:

💡 Do you regularly brainstorm with your team to unlock creative brilliance❓

💡 Do you regularly assess whether you are actually solving the right problem or addressing the right challenge❓

💡 Do you regularly include a “wildcard” in your brainstorming meetings – someone who thinks differently at a cognitive level❓

💡 Have you ever used the six thinking hats from Debono Group to assign different responsibilities to elicit higher thinking patterns i.e. red = emotion, green = creativity, black = challenge/caution

What else do you do to unlock the creative brilliance in the team❓

#leadershipdevelopment #CFO

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Did you get all the issues out on the table❓

There is often something deeper going on, and it is up to us as leaders to unlock what it is.

I remember so many one-to-one conversations where my intuition was shouting that something else was going on.

In my early career, I did not trust this. I wanted to do everything in an analytical way – fact and figures. The more I self-developed, the more I learnt that not trusting my gut would be a huge mistake.

This week we release the third chronicle and a story where Anders Liu-Lindberg shows genuine openness and vulnerability to share a “not so great story” for others to reflect on, from the 1st conversation of #globalleadershiphypothesis – what makes a great leader.

Food for thought – the power of great questions and getting to the bottom of things

💡 The power of “why” – Why did you proceed in that way? (understanding no blaming).

💡 Where am I falling short? So, I can learn, grow and develop as a leader.

💡 If something bothers you – ask why? Get it all out on the table.

💡 How can I get to the next level? Don’t tell me I’m great, and then you don’t help me to get to the next level.

Which other great questions do you regularly ask or reflect on❓

#leadershipdevelopment #financeleaders #cfo

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Does your boss have your back❓

Have you ever felt that rewarding feeling when you achieved something great and your boss shows the necessary appreciation or when things go wrong, and your boss is there protecting you and taking overall responsibility❓

This week we release the second leadership chronicle and a story of great leadership by Andy Burrows BSc BFP ACA from the 5th conversation of #globalleadershiphypothesis – what makes a great leader.

Food for thought – empowering our team members has multiple dimensions:

💡 Believing in their abilities.

💡 Trusting them to get the job done well.

💡 Taking responsibility & accountability as the leader (no blaming).

💡 Having their backs when things go wrong.

Which other elements are crucial to feel empowered and bring your A-game ❓

#leadershipdevelopment #CFO #empowerment #financeleaders

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Cracking the code on Great Leadership 🎯

Last year I interviewed 27 amazing contributors to crack the code on great leadership.

I asked four questions and to share a story of great leadership or an epic fail.

This is the result of those interviews:

Great Leadership Chronicles – their stories of success or failure and additional insights

Learning from others is a very powerful tool for learning 💡 and inspiration 🦋

We will be posting stories from the contributors:

Anders Liu-Lindberg
Gosia Gorna
Christopher Argent
Jane Gunn
Andy Burrows BSc BFP ACA
Mohamed ELRouby ACMA, CGMA, FPAC, MBA
Professor Vlatka Hlupic
Aliyyah Abdullah
Eugenio Cibruscola
Hiltrud Dorothea Werner
Robin Kiziak
Cheryl-Jane (Cj) Kujenga
Lance Rubin
John Reed
Dr. Deborah Benson
Fran Borg-wheeler
Andrew Codd CGMA MBA
Tracey Rob Perera CA FCMI PMP
Sonia Aslam
Brad Eisenhuth
Guillaume Turlin
Ibilola Amao Ph.D FEI FNSE FIoD
Zahra Bahrololoumi
Arif Kamal
Sir David Walker
Jenny Okonkwo
Jack McCullough

The first chronicle is based on the #globalleadershiphypothesis – what makes a great leader conversation with Aliyyah Abdullah – a Finance Manager and very inspirational leader.

Link to access the interviews ⬇️ ⬇️

Take your leadership to the next level

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Do finance leaders unlock potential in other individuals?

Can you see the potential in others that they aren’t able to see themselves?

Are you helping others to become better versions of themselves?

Our success as leaders comes from and through the success and results being delivered by others. People value authenticity, being humble and not knowing it all in leaders.

The key prerequisite is the relationships with other individuals.

These were some of the great opening remarks from the interview with Jenny Okonkwo for the 26th conversation of
#GlobalLeadershipHypothesiss – what makes a great leader?”.

Some of the other key themes and insights:

❇️Technical skills are more muted in senior positions

❇️ Using your privilege as a leader to enable access for others

❇️ Encouraging others to speak up

❇️ Differing inputs + differing perspectives = enriched outcomes

❇️Managing the diversity and complexity of a diverse team is a growth opportunity for a leader

❇️Focus on what you can control

❇️Culturally intelligent leaders = awareness of biases & levels of privilege + inclusive traits,

❇️Self-awareness = awareness of own & team strengths and weaknesses

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