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When a CFO’s “Head In The Cloud” Is a Good Thing

N2Growth Blog

Having a CFO with a “head in the cloud” might be a good thing if we’re talking about cloud computing, cognitive technologies, and AI that has significantly influenced this role. Even though many are still behind the curve, there has been a considerable technological evolution of finance function.

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Executive Talent Trends: Navigating a Changing Landscape in 2024

N2Growth Blog

Talent Trends: Emerging Leadership Skills for the Future The continual development of digital technology and automation in today’s corporate world demands a new paradigm in leadership. These traditional soft-skill qualities must now be enhanced with new hard skill sets to future-proof one’s leadership style.

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5 Most Important Leadership Competencies for Function Leaders

Center for Creative Leadership

They carry titles such as vice president or senior director and have responsibilities for one or more functions — such as sales, marketing, finance, operations, engineering, technology, legal, and human resources. From a list of 13 leadership competencies for leading the function, here are the Top 5 that emerged: Executive communication.

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6 Essential Skills for Future Leaders

Career Advancement

Practice exercising your leadership skills within challenging situations in order to hone your ability to guide your team through the rough waters of change. 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. Emotional intelligence.

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

Career Advancement

Most people can’t understand it without having someone to translate it and make recommendations for how it should influence organizational direction. 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.

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6 Essential Skills for Future Leaders

Career Advancement

Practice exercising your leadership skills within challenging situations in order to hone your ability to guide your team through the rough waters of change. 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. Emotional intelligence.

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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

This White Paper is excerpted and adapted from Ultra Leadership: Go Beyond Usual and Ordinary to Engage Others and Lead Real Change (Giuliano, Lioncrest, 2016). Research by Gallup, as reported in The State of the American Workplace in 2013, discovered that roughly 70% of workers were disengaged. The problem is leadership on autopilot.