{"id":349566,"date":"2021-08-10T06:00:34","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T20:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=349566"},"modified":"2021-08-10T06:00:34","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T20:00:34","slug":"palaus-ministry-of-finance-to-conduct-assessments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/palaus-ministry-of-finance-to-conduct-assessments\/","title":{"rendered":"Palau\u2019s Ministry of Finance to conduct assessments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Palau Ministry of Finance has engaged the Asia Pacific Association for Fiduciary Services to conduct a series of assessments of the ministry\u2019s key decision-makers.<\/p>\n<p>The assessments will be conducted by the Center for Board Certified Fiduciaries and are designed to measure specific leadership and stewardship behaviors that are known to have an impact on the quality of a decision-making process.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_349567\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-349567\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-349567\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Caleb-Udui-Jr-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Udui \" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-349567\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Udui<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re committed to accelerating the leadership and stewardship development of our management team, all of whom will participate, including myself,\u201d said Minister Kaleb Udui Jr. \u201cMy expectation is for the assessments to help us better appreciate and develop our skills in fiduciary and financial leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The assessments are based on the groundbreaking research that\u2019s been conducted in the field of neuro-leadership. The studies demonstrate that there are certain people whose brains, partially through genetics but more so through development over the individual\u2019s lifespan, are better wired to lead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCBCF is excited to work with the Ministry of Finance,\u201d said Don Trone, chief executive officer of CBCF. \u201cI have been instructing similar trainings in Micronesia on behalf of APAFS for a number of years and I\u2019ve always enjoyed working with the region\u2019s leaders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Udui said he find\u2019s Trone\u2019s approach unique as it addresses the interrelatedness of fiduciary, steward, and leader characteristics for management. \u201cWe have shared our plans with other organizations in Palau who would also like to participate,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_349568\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-349568\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Wilfred-P-Leon-Guerrero-Pic-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Leon Guerrero\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-349568\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-349568\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leon Guerrero<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dr. Wilfred Leon Guerrero, chairman of the APAFS board of governors, said, \u201cWe are continually impressed by the desire of Palauan leadership to improve stewardship, whether it be relating to the environment or fiduciary best practices and we welcome this synergistic partnership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>APAFS (www.apafs.org) is a Guam-based 501c3 association whose membership includes institutional investment funds throughout the Pacific Region. Its mission is to promote prudent stewardship through fiduciary education and to lead advocacy efforts on behalf of its membership.<\/p>\n<p>CBCF is a\u00a0public benefit corporation founded and funded by fiduciary advocates. It is affiliating with a leading university to provide a graduate-level certificate in fiduciary leadership, stewardship, and governance. <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Palau Ministry of Finance has engaged the Asia Pacific Association for Fiduciary Services to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":349569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[319],"class_list":["post-349566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-palau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}