By Lenore Goldberg
November 3, 2021
6 min read
November 3, 2021
6 min read
As an accounting and finance leader, you have many job expectations resting on your shoulders. You're continuously monitoring, evaluating, and identifying strategic business initiatives while maintaining sound financial records and mitigating various risks. Alongside these departmental duties, you look to prioritize, plan and lead your team through effective communication and continued support and development. With your focus on so many jobs, how can you help your team focus on overall business strategy? When strategies need to be implemented, what tools can you rely on to support your team when rolling out initiatives correctly and successfully?
The three steps identified below can provide you with the tools needed to support your team and give them the ability to focus on strategic initiatives crucial for long-term growth, productivity, and even retention.
Building up trust and strengthening relationships can foster a sense of belonging and pride within a company and its culture. A supported and valued individual can build confidence within their role and perform better. A happy employee is a more productive employee. Providing your team with these avenues to build up their relationships can put them in a better position to help the team focus on strategic goals and work together to achieve them.
Lenore Goldberg has been with DeVry University since 2010 and serves as the National Dean of Colleges and Curriculum. As National Dean, ...