Clients receive ‘Good to Great’ bestseller
Hays Senior Finance recruitment team give clients the Jim Collin’s bestseller -‘Good to Great’ in recognition of the importance of leadership skills in senior finance roles today.
The New Year brings with it resolutions, depressing bank balances and leftover Christmas chocolates (usually those that are of the coffee flavoured variety). We are all victims of half-baked resolutions; resolving to exercise more; to see our family more; and indulge less… But how many of us resolve to make improvements in the one area of our life that affects us the most? That is of course - work.
In a proactive fashion to kick off 2008, Hays Senior Finance team has given clients reason for a unique and inspiring resolution, in the shape of a book. The book ‘Good to Great’ celebrates business leaders and their journeys through a variety of case studies, looking at what turns a good company into a great one that gets sustained results.
The leadership themes in this book run parallel in other initiatives that the Hays Senior Finance team has planned for 2008; the Hays Leadership Forums for example. These networking forums are designed to run across the UK allowing clients to openly discuss their views and experiences on what makes a good leader, and the way in which their own leadership roles and businesses have developed.
The prevalent theme of leadership comes from the recognition that more and more in Accountancy and Finance the skills that make a good accountant are not just the mathematical. Businesses are beginning to understand that these accountants are future leaders, that will one day have to be able to advise on the numbers and lead from the front, not just knowing the numbers but knowing what to do with them.
Businesses need to learn to think in the long term, strategic thinking that will involve not only exerting their own power and influence in their leadership but identifying those who will succeed them. As a recruitment company Hays are trying to do just this for the clients.
Teresa Thorrington-Allen, Director of Hays Senior Finance is behind the Good to Great books initiative: "At Hays we are encouraging all of our consultants to look for leadership qualities in potential candidates. It is incredibly important particularly within Senior Finance roles where the promotion gap is bridged so abruptly. The vast transitions that professionals make in their roles need to be understood and better supported.
"We appreciate for example that an accountant must have a great eye for numbers when we hire but how many of us think forward to the inevitable stepping stone that follows this role? It is infinitely important, and the more we begin to recognise this the more we will see trained accountants taking on these new challenges with a greater ease. By giving these books as gifts we hope to reiterate the importance of these skills and help our clients to recognise them in their own future leaders."
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Notes to Editor
Hays Senior Finance has been developed from Hays’s established Accountancy & Financebusiness to provide a specialist service for qualified accountants and recruiters. 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 25 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.
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Sarah Swailes
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Hays Senior Finance
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