Leadership - Hays Senior Finance
The pressure is on for UK leaders to demonstrate exceptional strength in both management and leadership.
Businesses are heavily investing in mentoring and development programmes for staff, putting leadership skills high on the list of personal development plans, and recruiters are increasingly seeking out leadership skills in their candidates. Hays Senior Finance has been facilitating forums across the UK that enable Senior Finance professionals to discuss leadership in finance, and share their ideas and experiences.
Up to 60% of managers assume management or leadership roles without training in how to manage people. It is assumed that because a person is successful in their role they will become successful manager. Bridging this gap is a key focus for Hays Senior Finance. The reality for an accountant is that they will quickly go from knowing their numbers and advising on them to leading the business with them. At the majority of Hays leadership forums, under half of the professionals that attended said they had ever worked with a great leader; this only further highlights how much further we have to go.
Developing leadership skills is an ongoing process for both organisations and individuals. No matter where you are at in your career it is important to continuously work on honing and improving leadership skills. Leaders create leaders out of their team members, often by harnessing their passions strengths and potential. Make sure that as a candidate you are doing everything you can to ensure that these skills are at the forefront of your mind…
- Are you positive and motivational?
- Do you provide clear vision and direction?
- Do you make things happen?
- Have you inspired people to aim higher?
- Have you analysed your interpersonal and communication skills?
- Have you considered how you appear to others? What example do you set?
- What sort of manager are you?
Speak to your employer about what they are doing to nurture your development, and contact Hays Senior Finance should you wish to find out where the next forum will be held.
For more information about Hays Senior Finance, go to our senior finance jobs and qualified accountant jobs section.
Notes to Editor
Hays Senior Finance has been developed from Hays’s established Accountancy & Financebusiness to provide a specialist service for qualified accountants and clients. Hays has a national network of experienced Senior Finance consultants. Hays Senior Finance recruits qualifieds accountants across commerce and industry, financial services, practice firms, public services and not for profit organisations at all levels, up to finance directors and partners in practice firms.
Hays Senior Finance team is a subdivision of Hays Plc, the FTSE 250 Company which employs 7,753 staff operating from 376 offices in 27 countries across 17 specialisms. Hays Plc placed circa 68,000 candidates into permanent jobs and paid circa 46,000 temporary workers weekly during the year ending 30 June 07.
For further press information please contact:
Sarah Swailes
PR Executive
Hays Senior Finance
T: 020 7222 8575
E: sarah.swailes@hays.com
