In this moment from his interview with Bob Evans at Workday Rising, AICPA vice president and managing director, management accounting and ESG, Ash Noah talks about the human skills today’s CFO needs.
Highlights
00:08 — Partnering requires human skills such as empathy, communication, and being able to collaborate and achieve consensus and work through the differences.
00:24 — In order to achieve an outcome, there won’t always be consensus. But it’s important to make an effective case through collaboration, understanding emotional decision-making, and bringing empathy to discussions.
00:50 — These are all human skills that have always been required. But in the future where most of the report creation and production has been automated, people skills are needed even more.
