Foundations of finance leadership in Higher Education: From ledger to leader
- Characteristics of a valued finance business partner in higher education
- Leadership concepts and practical skills tailored to academic leadership capability
- Tactical, strategic, and practical finance leadership in the academic environment
- Transitioning from subject matter expert to a valued finance business partner
Develop a strategic perspective as a Higher Ed finance leader
- Leveraging the finance value chain as a true academic business partner
- The role of finance and accounting in understanding and supporting educational strategy
- Explore the emerging power of big data and analytics
- Strategically focused financial and business process analysis tools
Skills for adaptive finance leaders
- Different leadership models and practical approaches in a finance context
- Understand the distinction between technical and adaptive challenges
- Identify your strengths and weaknesses
- Develop emotional competence, founded on the Emotional Intelligence (EQ) mode
Collaboration, influential communication and reporting
- Tailoring your communication to different audiences
- Having constructive interactions with others - when to ask vs. when to tell
- Building strong working relations with others, in both professional and academic spheres
- Identify the attributes of effective written and verbal reports