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ACT Career Resources

Take control of your career and use the ACT career resources to develop your skills in key areas.

The content can be accessed by subject or through the competency framework.

By subject

Conflict resolution

  1. Effective conflict resolution 
  2. Four questions to keep workplace conflict from boiling over 
  3. How to deal with anger at work 
  4. Addressing conflict 
Emotional Intelligence

 

  1. A model for emotional intelligence 
  2. Developing your emotional intelligence 
  3. How to lead with emotional courage  
  4. The business case for kindness 
  5. Building relationships when you don’t think you’re naturally emotionally intelligent 
  6. Mindfulness for your career 
  7. Definitive guide to neurodiversity 
     
Influencing skills

  1. Strategic influencing for treasurers 
  2. Boost your negotiation technique 
  3. How to be an effective people person 
  4. Negotiations and partnerships
Interviewing techniques

  1. Asking the right questions in the interview
  2. Interview tips 
  3. Interview techniques
  4. Making a positive impact at interviews
  5. 10 smart questions to ask when you are at a job interview
  6. Treating job hunting like a project
Leadership

  1. Introduction to Applied Leadership and Self-development course: the fundamental tools (additional costs may apply) 
  2. Applied Leadership and Self-development course: expanding the toolkit (additional costs may apply) 
  3. Applied Leadership and Self-development course: the final steps to mastery (additional costs may apply) 
  4. The definitive guide to leadership development 
  5. Authentic leadership
  6. Leadership skills 
  7. Leadership skills and your network 
  8. Values-based leadership
  9. What type of leader do you want to be?
  10. Leadership and external stimuli
Member Career Stories

1. Webinar series: Career Stories - members discuss their career journeys 

2. 10 Questions - member stories from corporate treasurers, bankers and consultants completed as part of the ACT Membership Newsletter's 10 Questions series

Memory training

  1. Five ways to maximise your memory 
  2. How to turn yourself into a problem-solving hotshot 
  3. What is the growth mindset? 
Mentoring

  1. Celebrating National Mentoring Day
  2. Mentoring magic 
  3. Mentoring and career development in times of crisis 
  4. The difference between coaching and mentoring 
  5. Mentoring techniques 
  6. How to make a mentoring relationship work
  7. The power of a good mentoring relationship
  8. The role of the mentor and mentee
  9. Definitive guide to mentoring 
  10. How mentoring can help you reach your career goals 
  11. How to make the most of being mentored 
Mental health

  1. Stress test: getting mental health right
  2. Why looking after your mental health and wellbeing is critical? 
  3. Mentoring and career development in times of crisis
  4. Time-critical conversations: resilience
Non-Executive Director (NED) resources

1. Non-executive director webinar

2. How to be a non-executive director

3. The Treasurer's take

4. A role for thinkers

5. Strategic treasury

6. Build your network, build your skills, build your understanding

Performance management

  1. How to spot and manage unconscious bias 
  2. How to receive feedback 
Personal brand

  1. What's your personal brand?
  2. How to polish your personal brand 
  3. How to raise your profile 
  4. Social media and your personal brand 
  5. How to trade on the power of your personal brand – an interview with trading entrepreneur Samuel Leach 
Practical skills

  1. Communication: how to speak and write clearly 
  2. How to optimise meetings 
  3. How to work a room 
  4. How to manage digital presenteeism 
  5. How to feel at ease with saying no at work 
  6. How to say no in the workplace 
  7. Five tips for smashing your first board presentation 
Public speaking

  1. Increase your impact in public speaking 
  2. The definitive guide to public speaking 
  3. Succeed at public speaking
  4. Physical matters 
  5. Authority of voice
Reaching group treasurer and CFO

  1. Treasury careers - perspectives from group treasurers
  2. A crash course in making CFO 
  3. How to make group treasurer 
  4. How to move from treasurer to CFO
Resilience

  1. How to develop resilience 
  2. The importance of resilience 
  3. The importance of normalising 
  4. How to remain resilient in the face of COVID-19 
  5. Neuroscience and resilience
  6. Five ways to boost your resilience
Treasury success

  1. How the role of the treasurer is set to diversify
  2. Five ways to build the treasury of the future
  3. A day in the life of a treasurer - Equifax
  4. A day in the life of a treasurer - Dr Martins
  5. Diary of a treasurer
  6. Flexibility is the new normal in recruitment
  7. Tips for a successful career in treasury
  8. Five career tips on how to make your way to the top 
Well-being

  1. Well-being hub resources
  2. The four pillars of well-being 
  3. Find your self confidence 
  4. How to master the art of optimism
  5. How to fight the post-holiday blues 
  6. Mental health stories 
Working in teams

  1. Becoming a better leader on diversity and inclusion
  2. What is the most effective delegation style 
  3. How to strike up winning small talk with colleagues
  4. How to make friends with failure

Business Skills

Financial management

Cash forecasting

Risk management

Macro risk management

Data management

Data management

Cyber risks

Project Management

Implementing a TMS

Performance management

Work-place skills

Behavioural Skills

Commercial acumen

Becoming group treasurer

Memory training

Personal brand

Public speaking

Interviewing

Leadership and self-awareness

Leadership skills

Self-awareness

Influencing skills

Negotiation skills

Emotional intelligence

Ethics and culture

Ethics

Working with others

Mentoring

Resilience

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