Strategic Insight

We all want to be remembered for the right things but how can we make that possible? In today’s strategic insights podcast, Caroline Stockmann reflects on personal brand and the importance of being remembered for the right things. She shares tips on how being authentic can help build and develop a personal brand that ties into our purpose and core values.

With thanks to John Purkiss and David Royston-Lee, authors of Brand You

Caroline Stockmann was Chief Executive of the Association of Corporate Treasurers (ACT) until April 2023. The ACT is the only professional treasury body with a Royal Charter. We set the global benchmark for treasury excellence and lead the profession through our internationally recognised qualifications, by defining standards and by championing continuing professional development. We are the authentic voice of the treasury profession representing the interests of the real economy and educating, supporting and leading the treasurers of today and tomorrow. www.treasurers.org

Produced by Juris Productions

Why is it that we so often don’t see businesses reflecting the diversity of society? What can we do to attract more diversity and retain it? In today’s episode of our strategic insights podcasts, Caroline reflects on understanding the importance of diverse teams. She shares a few thoughts on how we can make our existing teams more diverse, inclusive, and functional as it’s proven that diverse teams outperform homogeneous teams.

Caroline Stockmann was Chief Executive of the Association of Corporate Treasurers (ACT) until April 2023. The ACT is the only professional treasury body with a Royal Charter. We set the global benchmark for treasury excellence and lead the profession through our internationally recognised qualifications, by defining standards and by championing continuing professional development. We are the authentic voice of the treasury profession representing the interests of the real economy and educating, supporting and leading the treasurers of today and tomorrow. www.treasurers.org

Produced by Juris Productions

Communication is critical, especially during these unprecedented times. In this episode of our Strategic Insight podcasts, Caroline talks about different audiences and how best to communicate with them. She explains the importance of understanding our audience as well as we can before we engage with them, and shares valuable tips and insights to apply when you are facing diverse groups.

Caroline Stockmann was Chief Executive of the Association of Corporate Treasurers (ACT) until April 2023. The ACT is the only professional treasury body with a Royal Charter. We set the global benchmark for treasury excellence and lead the profession through our internationally recognised qualifications, by defining standards and by championing continuing professional development. We are the authentic voice of the treasury profession representing the interests of the real economy and educating, supporting and leading the treasurers of today and tomorrow. www.treasurers.org

Produced by Juris Productions

Our voices are so important to our communication, especially in terms of the emotion we relay. The words themselves can at times score very low in communicating meaning, so experts such as Albert Mehrabian tell us, it’s the way we say them that indicates our intent. Caroline focuses on how we can use our voice and words, in different contexts, to help strengthen our communication.

Caroline Stockmann was Chief Executive of the Association of Corporate Treasurers (ACT) until April 2023. The ACT is the only professional treasury body with a Royal Charter. We set the global benchmark for treasury excellence and lead the profession through our internationally recognised qualifications, by defining standards and by championing continuing professional development. We are the authentic voice of the treasury profession representing the interests of the real economy and educating, supporting and leading the treasurers of today and tomorrow. www.treasurers.org

Produced by Juris Productions

Today we focus on the more physical aspects of influencing, and how we can successfully influence others to get our messages across. Caroline Stockmann shares the top tips we can apply in any situation to influence our audience.

With thanks to Chris Heimann, Janet Jones, Jessie Gordon

Caroline Stockmann was Chief Executive of the Association of Corporate Treasurers (ACT) until April 2023. The ACT is the only professional treasury body with a Royal Charter. We set the global benchmark for treasury excellence and lead the profession through our internationally recognised qualifications, by defining standards and by championing continuing professional development. We are the authentic voice of the treasury profession representing the interests of the real economy and educating, supporting and leading the treasurers of today and tomorrow. www.treasurers.org

Produced by Juris Productions

In today’s strategic insights podcast, Caroline reflects on 'being explicit'. Caroline explains how being clear and explicit can help get our point across in an effective manner. She also highlights the importance of finding time for explicit conversations, even if they are on general topics, especially with our colleagues. This approach not only builds relationships but gives a better understanding of how others view the world, which is useful to help overcome barriers and misconceptions.

Caroline Stockmann was Chief Executive of the Association of Corporate Treasurers (ACT) until April 2023. The ACT is the only professional treasury body with a Royal Charter. We set the global benchmark for treasury excellence and lead the profession through our internationally recognised qualifications, by defining standards and by championing continuing professional development. We are the authentic voice of the treasury profession representing the interests of the real economy and educating, supporting and leading the treasurers of today and tomorrow. www.treasurers.org

Produced by Juris Productions

In this episode of our Strategic Insights podcast series, Caroline welcomes guest Paul Boyle, ex-CEO of the FRC, ex-Chief Audit Officer of Aviva, experienced NED and current ACT advisory panel member Paul uses the analogy of a jigsaw puzzle to explain the importance of the picture in helping us to identify and successfully overcome business challenges, and illustrates how we can apply this in our daily professional and personal development.

Paul highlights the importance of us having a clear picture when taking on a new challenge. He then explains that the picture on our box might look different from others’ and shares his thoughts on how to understand that by having thorough conversations with our colleagues and teams.

Caroline Stockmann was Chief Executive of the Association of Corporate Treasurers (ACT) until April 2023. The ACT is the only professional treasury body with a Royal Charter. We set the global benchmark for treasury excellence and lead the profession through our internationally recognised qualifications, by defining standards and by championing continuing professional development. We are the authentic voice of the treasury profession representing the interests of the real economy and educating, supporting and leading the treasurers of today and tomorrow. www.treasurers.org

Produced by Juris Productions

In today’s episode Caroline looks at business partnering and explains how we can truly understand the business as a whole, irrespective of our roles.  Every day we work with others and collaboration and teamwork are extremely valued. Nevertheless, it can be very difficult to truly appreciate how others think, what their working life is like, and what their challenges and successes might be. Here, Caroline shares ideas on how to improve our ability to successfully partner with others.

Caroline Stockmann was Chief Executive of the Association of Corporate Treasurers (ACT) until April 2023. The ACT is the only professional treasury body with a Royal Charter. We set the global benchmark for treasury excellence and lead the profession through our internationally recognised qualifications, by defining standards and by championing continuing professional development. We are the authentic voice of the treasury profession representing the interests of the real economy and educating, supporting and leading the treasurers of today and tomorrow. www.treasurers.org

Produced by Juris Productions

As with a lot of thoughts, theories and analyses, if they remain just that and don’t translate into definite actions, then they don’t have any great value. In last week's episode of our ‘Strategic Insights’ series of 5-minute podcasts, we talked about identifying your core values. In today’s episode, Caroline talks about putting your core values into action and shares tips on how to do this in practice.

Caroline Stockmann was Chief Executive of the Association of Corporate Treasurers (ACT) until April 2023. The ACT is the only professional treasury body with a Royal Charter. We set the global benchmark for treasury excellence and lead the profession through our internationally recognised qualifications, by defining standards and by championing continuing professional development. We are the authentic voice of the treasury profession representing the interests of the real economy and educating, supporting and leading the treasurers of today and tomorrow. www.treasurers.org

Produced by Juris Productions

For this week’s strategic podcast we have a special guest presenter: Peter Cheese, Chief Executive of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development. CIPD is the professional body for those in HR and people development. In the podcast, Peter speaks about the challenges and opportunities for leadership, culture and organisations in the current COVID-19 crisis. He shares his thoughts and recommendations on how we respond positively to the issues caused by the pandemic, ensuring that our businesses re-set to emerge stronger. He emphasises the importance of staff well-being and the duty of genuine care leaders have towards their staff. Peter tells us how this crisis has shown we can work differently, with agility and flexibility.

Podcast brought to you by The Association of Corporate Treasurers. The Association of Corporate Treasurers is the only professional treasury body with a Royal Charter. We set the global benchmark for treasury excellence and lead the profession through our internationally recognised qualifications, by defining standards and by championing continuing professional development. We are the authentic voice of the treasury profession representing the interests of the real economy and educating, supporting and leading the treasurers of today and tomorrow. www.treasurers.org

Produced by Juris Productions