Communication & Relational Skills for Financial Executives

Influencing, likeability, persuasiveness and presentation skills for successful financial executives

Created by: Bruce Alexander
International Creative Thinker

What Will I Learn?

• Mastering first impressions: the unspoken signals that raise people’s expectations and favourably influence their interpretation of what you say next
• Speaking so others want to listen: improving the clarity and expressiveness of your voice, sounding more believable
• Leadership charisma: how natural leaders stand, move and look to convey authority, command attention and engender respect
• Mastering group interaction: winning support from colleagues and clients by connecting with and leveraging their perspectives, attitudes and points of view
• Maximising self-confidence: learn to control your nerves at pressure moments and communicate confidence that’s reassuring to people around you
• Compelling presentations keynotes and speeches: the techniques great speechmakers use to inspire audiences and change minds
• Multi-disciplinary thinking and accelerated creativity: tools and techniques for expanding your imagination and producing better new ideas and bolder innovation
• Developing an on-camera personality and screen presence to be likeable and influential in the virtual world and the ‘new normal’
• Winning the contest for ideas: being a powerful and persuasive advocate of your strategies and a boardroom champion for your innovations

Requirements

• Awareness of the role of relational skills in winning the contest for ideas and developing a network
• Adaptability to integrate advanced inter-personal skills with your specialised numerical training
• Ambition to be a stronger advocate for your proposals in a competitive multi-disciplinary leadership context
• Appreciation of the professional and personal value of a likable, interactive, outward-focused personality

Target audience

• Corporate Accountants, CFOs, Financial Controllers, high potential accounting/business graduates