Developing Leadership Skills

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Developing Leadership Skills

• Hays Public Services
• Break-out session

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Introductions

• Heidi Adcock Deputy Director, Finance Group
  DCSF
• Paula Duncan Associate Director at Hays
  Assessment Development
• Charlotte Pond Senior Consultant at Hays
  Public Services
• Andie Cooper Regional Director at Hays Public
  Services

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Agenda

• Evolution of finance professionals
• Effective leaders
• Consider your natural skill set
• Influencing and engagement
• Credibility
• Future Actions

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Evolution of finance professionals

• Many routes to the top

technical excellence
teamwork
proactivity
stakeholder management
Leadership
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Evolution of finance professionals

• Internal Non- Finance
• Policy
• HR
• IT
• Procurement
• Customer Service/Advisory
• Audit
• Research
• Administration
• Operations

• Internal Non- Finance possible AAT studier
• Data Entry Assistant
• Financial Administrator
• Accounts Assistant/Supervisor/Team Leader
• Purchase Ledger Clerk/Supervisor/Team Leader
• Sales Ledger Clerk/Supervisor/Team Leader
• Finance Assistant
• Finance Officer
• Reconciliations Clerk
• Payroll
• Credit Control
• Analyst

External University Entrance
External Applicants
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Effective leaders

• Achieve results through others
• understand requirements
• know the best way to achieve results
• motivate and enable their team
• influence peers and senior colleagues
• ensure approach is fit for purpose

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Effective leaders

• Leaders in Government Finance Survey
• May/June 2009
• communication
• integrity
• vision

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Consider your natural skill set

• Take 5 minutes
• Review the brief list of descriptions of
  behaviour and choose the 3 most like you
• These are your greatest assets
• However they could be your greatest weaknesses in
  certain circumstances

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What is your Darkside?

• Volatile
• Mistrustful
• Detached
• Narrow-minded
• Manipulative
• Perfectionist
• Dependent

• Enthusiastic
• Shrewd
• Independent
• Focused
• Charming
• Diligent
• Dutiful

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Influencing and engagement

• 'You can only manage people if they are prepared
  to let
• you  manage them, Earning the respect of the team
  is therefore
• key.' (HoFP, Government Department)
• 'No man is good enough to govern another man
  without that other consent.' (Abraham Lincoln)
• How do you influence?
• A wide range of strategies are available
• We often only use the technique that works best
  on us

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Consider

• Your are working with a colleague on long
• term project, and you disagree on the
• approach to take.
• You are confident your preferred approach is
• right but they seem unwilling to take on board
• the facts you have provided.
• What do you do? Discuss next steps with your
  neighbour.

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Possible options
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Credibility

• 'The ultimate measure of a man is not where he
  stands
• in moments of comfort, but where he stands at
  times of
• challenge and controversy.' (Martin Luther King)
• If you're walking down the right path and you're
  willing
• to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress
• (Barack Obama)
• How credible are you as a leader?

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Building your credibility

• Think of a leader that you admire, someone
• who inspires people and leads them, President
• Obama perhaps, or one of your no less
• illustrious managers, either now or in a previous
• job that you have held?
• Take 5 minutes to talk about the top 3 things
• that make them a great leader

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What kind of leader do you aim to be?

• Our recent survey of leaders in government
• finance hit on common themes including

Approachable
Intellectual
Communication
Integrity
Drive
Honesty
Role Model
Self awareness
Vision
Passionate
Commands Respect
Committed
Empathy
Decision Making
Inspires Trust
Motivator
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What kind of leader do you aim to be?

• Which of the list fit well with your own key
  strengths and which are areas that you need to
  develop in?
• Take 5 minutes to list the 2 or 3 areas of
  leadership skills that you would like to develop
  next

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Future Actions

• Identify where you are
• Identify where you want to be
• Develop coping mechanisms
• Monitor yourself
• Ask for feedback from others
• Put yourself forward
• Change will not come if we wait for some other
  person
• or some other time. We are the ones we've been
• waiting for. We are the change that we seek
• (Barack Obama) Feb 09

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• Thank you for listening, were availableall day
  and tomorrow morning on the Hays stand to answer
  any questions.