What's the difference between UVA's Audit & Compliance department and UVAFinance's Compliance Team?  What do they do, how do they work with people across Grounds, and how can we best work with them?  Carolyn Saint and Gary Nimax from Audit & Compliance, along with JJ Sullivan and Christine Kennedy-Tyburski of UVAFinance Compliance, join Patty and Brandi to give answers and insights into these two vital functions. 

Resources Mentioned: 

• Staff Senate Podcast

• Audit Charter

• GOV-002:  Reporting and Investigation of Fraudulent Transactions

• https://www.coso.org/_files/ugd/3059fc_77d5d0f3d569439990b170bd3b909d7e.pdf

Amanda Meares and Reshma Gali, UVAFinance's staff senators, drop by to talk about the importance of Staff Senate and how the UVAFinance Team can interact with them to everyone's benefit.  

Resources Mentioned: 

Form to share feedback: https://staffsenate.virginia.edu/contact-us

Patty and Brandi talk with UVAFinance's 2nd cohort of summer interns:  Hayden Peper, Audrey Hanger, Jeffrey Zhang, and Lillian Durden.  This impressive group shares what they've learned and what's next.

The relaunched version of Finance Matters is back for installment number two of our Values Series.  This time, Patty and Brandi focus on Collaborative Partnership with guests Joey Carls and Kellyn Morris of the Finance Solution Center. 

Resources Mentioned: 

Service Excellence podcast

UVAFinance Values

Symbiotic Relationship between Ants & Acacia trees

Finance Matters returns, this time with a focus on the UVAFinance values.  Each quarter, Brandi and Patty will bring you guests from UVAFinance who have demonstrated the value.  This first episode focuses on Service Excellence, with guests Danielle Hancock and Kevin Crabtree. 

Resources Mentioned: 

UVAFinance Vision, Mission, Values: https://uvafinance.virginia.edu/about-uvafinance

Finance Team Page (for Service Excellence, Collaborative Partner stories) https://uvafinance.blogspot.com/p/finance-team.html

Patty and Brandi discuss Ryan Holiday's book Stillness is the Key, a NY Times bestseller that describes how to stay steady and draw on inner peace while the world is anything but quiet.  We go over the book's main concepts, historical examples, and practical applications, in the hopes that you'll find at least two or three ways that you can increase your own clarity, calm, and happiness.  We learned much from Holiday's book and hope you will, too!

See also:  

Stillness is the Key (summarized by the author)

Stillness is Key (on the Daily Stoic)

Vice President for Finance Melody Bianchetto will retire from UVA on February 3 after 26 years of service. She sat down with Patty and Brandi to reflect on her career and her pursuit of diversity, equity, and inclusion in UVAFinance.  

Resources Mentioned: 

UVAFinance Mission, Vision, Values

Melody's Brown Bag Series (under "Resource Library")

Melody's Career Reflections Podcast

Vice President for Finance Melody Bianchetto will retire from UVA on February 3 after 26 years of service.  She sat down with Patty and Brandi recently to reflect on her career.   

Resources Mentioned: 

UVAFinance Mission, Vision, Values

Melody's Brown Bag Series (under "Resource Library")

Melody's DEI Podcast

Our fight or flight response kicks in when we perceive a situation as potentially dangerous or threatening.  It's an automatic and unconscious impulse that stems from caveman days (thanks, evolution!) and could be causing you to burn out, make bad decisions, and all around feel pretty crummy at work and at home.  Patty and Brandi talk to Augie Maurelli, James Gorman, Gretchen Kriebel, Sarah Fleming, Addie Coe, and Stacey Rittenhouse about what they've learned about managing this response and prioritizing competing demands without letting their brains kick into overdrive. 

Resources mentioned: 

The Eisenhower Matrix

Steven Covey Time Management Matrix

More about Fight or Flight

Two of the Business Analysts who joined the Change Management team during Finance Strategic Transformation share their perspectives on change, big projects, and what sets UVA and FST apart from other projects they've been a part of.  Featuring guests Derrick Carter and Detria Thomas.

Resources Mentioned:  The Change Curve