On October 26, 2023, the School of Finance at City University of Macau organized a series of financial lectures at the Ho Yin Convention Center. The lecture invited Professor Wu Yunqiao from Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Finance as the guest speaker to share the topic "Effective Leadership Construction in Investment Banking Team Management" through online participation. Guests in attendance at the lecture included Dean Adrian Cheung and Associate Dean Eva Khong of Faculty of Finance, City University of Macau.

Professor Wu is a Ph.D. in Management and a professor. He is the Vice Dean of the International School of Finance and Economics at Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Finance. He is also a visiting scholar at the University of Alberta in Canada. In addition, he serves as a member of the Education Guidance Committee for Professional Master's Degree in Business Administration in Shanghai, a member of the Shanghai Youth Federation, a national excellent innovation and entrepreneurship mentor, a director of the China Management Case Sharing Center, a member of the Shanghai Yangtze River Development Promotion Association, and a doctoral supervisor at City University of Macau.

Professor Wu has held various positions throughout his career, including Vice Dean of the International School of Business Administration at Shanghai International Studies University, Director of the IMA Smart City Research Institute at Shanghai International Studies University, Director and General Manager of the Training Center and Consultant at Jiushan Enterprise Management Consulting (Shanghai) Company, Head of the Investment Banking Department at TF Securities Co., Ltd., General Manager of JiaShan Enterprise Management Consulting (Shanghai) Company, and Director and Deputy General Manager of Wuhan Zhaorong Hui Investment Management Company. He has been actively engaged in practical work, teaching, and research in the fields of strategy, investment, and management. He has led or participated in multiple national and provincial-level projects and has received important instructions from provincial leaders for several think tank research achievements. He has been awarded multiple national and provincial-level awards for his research results and has published nearly thirty papers in management core journals such as SSCI and CSSCI, with several papers being reproduced in full by Renmin University. He has undertaken more than twenty projects or horizontal topics in enterprise management consulting and has guided students to win multiple national and provincial-level awards in innovation and entrepreneurship.

During the sharing session, Professor Wu first introduced the concept of teamwork. A team is a group of individuals who collaborate to achieve a certain goal. Teams can create a collective spirit, improve decision-making speed, promote workforce diversity, and enhance performance. Professor Wu mentioned that teams and groups differ slightly in terms of goals, coordination, responsibility, and skills. Work teams focus on collective performance, have an active performance, and complement each other, while work groups share information and are more individualized.

Next, Professor Wu shared the professional composition of investment banking personnel, including accounting, law, finance, financial management, mathematics, and asset valuation. He continued to discuss that leadership is a process of influence, and leadership is related to influence. It is the ability to influence others. The construction of leadership involves leadership matching, technical mastery, and diagnostic skills. Abilities and willingness influence each other, and each factor acts on the other, with their interactions varying from person to person. Leadership behavior can be mainly divided into directive behavior and supportive behavior. Directive behavior includes planning, organizing, teaching, and supervising, while supportive behavior includes encouraging, listening, questioning, and explaining.

Professor Wu shared several situational cases and engaged in in-depth discussions with the students on the diagnostic skills in leadership. The students actively participated in the discussions and expressed their opinions. This lecture provided the students with a deeper understanding of investment banking team management. The School of Finance expresses its gratitude to Professor Wu for his excellent sharing, which greatly benefited the students.