UK-based Japanese firm Kajima has a wealth of experience in developing and managing projects that span a full range of sectors – and also has its hooks in the property investment landscape. Triggering our curiosity, we spoke with FD Nigel Chism to discuss the challenges that come with handling such a multi-faceted business.
A statement of the obvious: every FD faces a huge variety of issues and have fiduciary duties that require much more than accounting skills. As such, we asked TotallyMoney.com’s head of finance, Graham Crowe, about the demands of his current role and the lessons he learned on his journey in the financial space.
By Staff writer
Mentoring has become a hot topic across the business landscape, with more industries wanting either to start schemes or revise existing ones. So this may be a good time to stop and think about what mentoring can do for your firm, and whether or not you can truly mentor your own staff.
By Jan Cavelle
My HR people tell me there is a shortage of good administrators – and this would certainly be reflected in my own current and frustrating attempts to add quality staff to our offices.
By Ben Houghton
There has been a lot of press recently about millennials and the type of leadership development that will be beneficial to this generation. As such, Noggin CEO Ben Houghton ponders what we will be looking for from the next generation of employees and how we will evaluate, remunerate and reward these individuals
I think we’d all agree that the UK is an enterprising, technologically savvy and forward-thinking nation – so it really surprises me that there are still so few women who hold senior roles in the technology sector.
With growth on its mind, international payments firm World First hired its first CFO, appointing an ICAEW mentor to assist the company in its expansion. As such, we talked to Alexander Filshie about avoiding the common pitfalls in the pursuit to growth, as well as what changes CFOs now face.
By Karen Meager
It’s a rare person who doesn’t find others a little weird sometimes, and it’d be a terribly tedious world if we were all the same. But while our uniqueness can sometimes separate us from others, it’s possible to take the mystery out of other people’s behaviour with the right attitude of curious enquiry and a genuine willingness to understand.
By Edward Brown
Author Edward Brown believes the single most essential third-space skill for managers in today’s world is courage – and there are five ways this can be taught.
There is only one thing more certain than chancellor George Osborne’s assertion that we are now faced with a “cocktail” of threats from a tanking global economy; and it is that the best insurance policy against this sort of Armageddon in the future lies firmly with apprenticeships.
