Higher Education Finance & Accounting Professionals Leadership Workshop

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

Insightful commentary through analysis and evaluation

- What does good analysis and evaluation look like?

- How can you add value through analysis and evaluation?

People management in the context of finance practice 

- Managing finance teams and growing talent in the academic setting

- Building trust-based relationships with internal and external stakeholders 

- Focus on individual and team performance to deliver results 

- Empower finance teams to reach their highest potential 

Stakeholder management and engagement

- Nurture strong internal and external relationships

- Manage competing agendas, tight timeframes, organisational changes, and confidentiality  

- Technical methods to support strategic engagement, stakeholder mapping/analysis and boundary spanning

Insights into action: Next steps for academic finance leaders

- Reflecting and responding to key lessons in Higher Education finance

- Conducting force field analysis for planning next steps in academic finance

- Developing a personal roadmap to becoming a successful finance business partner