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Module 1: Embed finance across the company5 Lessons
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Module 2: Identify profit and cash initiatives7 Lessons
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Module 3: Oversee and drive business change13 Lessons
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The CFO’s role in driving change
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Driving change across your business: Top tips from a finance leader
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How to encourage innovation across your workforce
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The emotional reaction to a change initiative
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Obtaining people’s buy-in
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Change management: Create a sense of urgency
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Change management: Build a guiding coalition
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Change management: Form a strategic vision
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Change management: Enlist a volunteer army
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Change management: Enable action by removing barriers
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Change management: Generate short term wins
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Change management: Sustain progress
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Change management: Embed the changes
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The CFO’s role in driving change
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Module 4: Deliver data-driven strategic insights6 Lessons
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Module 5: Challenge your Board and influence strategy9 Lessons
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Challenging your CEO and Board
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Challenging the board – A CFO’s perspective
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The CFO’s role in influencing strategy
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The five levers of influential CFOs
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Providing your unique perspective
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Demonstrating you are more than a numbers person
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Ensure that you are always consulted
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How to avoid being seen as the blocker
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Adding value: A CFO’s perspective
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Challenging your CEO and Board
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Module 6: Drive key decision-making11 Lessons
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The modern-day decision-making process
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Gathering the facts
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How Data Savvy is your Board?
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Using data to help business activities
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Support decision-making with data
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Express your opinion
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Communicating financial information to non-finance people
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Reading a situation
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Knowing when to compromise
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Managing conflict at Board level and beyond
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Driving a group consensus
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The modern-day decision-making process
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Module 7: Represent your business externally6 Lessons
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Module 8: Become a critical and influential voice5 Lessons
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Module 9: Deliver the business plan7 Lessons
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Driving change across your business: Top tips from a finance leader
Dan Wells October 11, 2023
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During this video, finance leader James Grinstead shares his top tips regarding driving operational change across the business.
- Prior to implementing operational change, it is important to build focus groups and make time to properly obtain people’s buy-in;
- Consider how your proposed changes will impact on people’s anxiety levels and manage this accordingly;
- Set smart objectives up-front and communicate regularly with those affected;
- Allocate change champions and ensure that they are properly supported; and
- Select small businesses as a test pilot before rolling out the change firm-wide.
Finally, remember to set some time aside to celebrate success as driving operational change can be very challenging…!