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FMI PD Presentation
Competency Skills
of Exceptional FIs
11 June 2014
SLIDE 1
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Presentation Objective:
Describe practical examples of how FIs
demonstrate in their everyday work that they
have the key leadership competencies essential
to become a CFO.
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AFSTP Skills of Exceptional FIs
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Exceptional FIs:
1. Take Ownership
2. Take Action
3. Pursue Excellence
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Take Ownership of Problems
1. When a problem arises, whether or not you
caused it, take the initiative and make it yours
to resolve.
2. If you don’t take ownership, then the problem
becomes someone else's, most likely your
boss.
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Take Action
1. Focus on solving problems, not process.
2. If at the end of the day you haven’t solved
actual problems, you’re not taking action.
Problem Matrix
Important and
Urgent
Important but
not Urgent
Not important but
Urgent
Not important and
not Urgent
Take Action
Avoid Process
“If you're just another layer in the bureaucracy,
you aren't doing your job.” Bill Matthews
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Pursue Excellence
• Good enough isn't good enough.
• Add your intellectual property to everything
you touch.
• Every time you deliver a product to your boss
or client, give them more than they expect.
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If you take ownership of problems, take action
to fix them, and deliver more than expected,
you will:
• stand out as an exceptional FI;
• continually strengthen your own skill sets;
• be firmly on the FI to CFO career path.
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DCFO
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Questions?
11 June 2014
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