Focusing on the gift, not the gift wrap

How does one become a better communicator? And why would you want to?

Automation in accounting and finance is today's reality. It's reshaping how organizations hire and, ultimately, your careers as professionals. Businesses now entrust software with many of the manual operational tasks, and this trend will only grow and become more sophisticated. That leaves senior finance leaders asking their teams to do more beyond processing accounting tasks and conducting spreadsheet acrobatics.

In short, your very human voice will be needed in the future of automated workloads.

This dynamic is even more pronounced in the pandemic era of remote and hybrid work. In every meeting you attend, you may only get a few minutes to state your case before everyone adjourns to the next meeting and forgets what was said in the last. To get results, you need to make sure your message reaches its destination.

Gen-F just had an amazing gathering featuring speaking coach phenom Yasir Khan. Over 500 of you attended and stayed on for the entire session. Yasir described how terrified he was to join our session (because he?failed accounting two times) and that many folks have that same anxiety when it comes to speaking.

A key message SpeakLikeACEO.com imparted was that your perspective is what's valuable, and your responsibility is to make sure it's understood. Everyone, from the CFO to the AP clerk, can benefit from their teams sharing their ideas for better collaboration.

He also said that as you communicate, you can't forget the gift (core message) when you're showing off the gift wrap (the presentation).

To hear more advice from Yasir about how to manage speaking anxiety and build more confidence, click the link below to watch the playback. You're welcome to send this to your peers and friends who you think would benefit from the session as well.

This is the last newsletter from Gen-F for the year. Thank you for your support. We hope to see you in 2023!