Leadership & people skills

Creating a culture of blameless problem-solving

6 leadership lessons for uncertain times

• Innovative techniques to better screen job candidates

  Traditional job interviews remain a popular recruitment tool, but talent scouts worldwide are supplementing them with innovative techniques to find better matches more efficiently.

• Wide-ranging advice from a winery CEO

  The CEO of a vineyard and winery speaks on getting up early, why she never watches TV in hotel rooms, and how tech is advancing winemaking.

• The rise of the gig economy finance professional

  The increasing need for specialist skills is boosting the market for interim senior finance professionals. Two seasoned finance professionals speak on how to make contract roles work.

• Minor mistakes that are sabotaging your career

  Here are a few of the small missteps experts see financial professionals making that can have a negative impact on a career in the long run.

• In Focus: Be a star at your next conference

  Just like at Cannes, finance and management conferences can help boost careers through speaking engagements and savvy schmoozing.

• Taking a late-career leap

  So how does one jump from company leader to adviser after the age of 50? We tapped several experts on how to successfully make this transition — and how to prepare for it.

• How to spot overlooked leaders

  To recruit and retain leadership talent that creates value, you need to know who your best people are. That’s not necessarily obvious, because your most valuable employees might not be the ones who get paid the most.

• Part-time roles suit CFOs and companies

  Proponents of the fractional CFO concept say that part-time CFOs help companies understand their CFO needs during early to mid-stage growth periods and save the time and cost of hiring a permanent CFO.

• The view from the President: The talent paradox

  ‘Companies remain short of the right talent. The solution is for employers to repurpose, redeploy, and retrain their employees.’

• 6 leadership lessons for uncertain times

  Wendy R. Carroll, Ph.D., and leadership coach Jennifer Gervès-Keen, who both spoke at CPA Canada’s National Conference 2018, offer lessons for leaders as they carry their organisations through uncertainty.

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