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Leadership for Finance

When we hear leadership most of us think of how we lead our own teams. How we are showing up to the people “below” us in the finance team. Which is great but it is missing a key element of

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Structuring a presentation

Your Audience Needs a GPS This week I was lucky enough to sit through one of the most poorly structured and boring presentations I have ever seen. Lucky because it gave me material for my blog of what not to

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Storytelling for Finance

Do you have any workshops or material on Storytelling Andrew? It’s probably the one question I get asked the most. Like there is some magic elixir we can cover in two hours that will make every finance person brilliant at

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What is finance business partnering?

Having researched and studied the best, and trained thousands of finance professionals over the years I am always surprised at the breadth of definition of Finance Business Partnering. And accordingly the confusion it provides people. At worst we over complicate

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How finance can build relationships fast

At a recent keynote I was asked what piece of advice would you give entry level finance staff around how they can start to build stronger relationships with non finance. My answer……focus on being likeable. 92% of finance people, when

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The Worst negotiations are…

The Worst Negotiations are…. The past fortnight has been an interesting ride for me as I started the process of negotiating for a new property. And also had a separate negotiation with a client go south It’s been a pretty

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The Best Advice I Ever Received

For someone who has been in the finance profession for over 25 years, it’s a big call to isolate and label one piece of advice I received as the best. And yet here we are. The reason I want to

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Why is Finance Business Partnering hard?

I have been working in this space of Finance Business Partnering for over 10-15 years now. Some doing it in an organisation, but over the last 6-7 researching it and teaching and developing finance teams to do it effectively. So

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