
Your journey to the most effective version of yourself begins here. Your expert instructor Bruce Alexander presents an overview of the four skills designed to enhance your personal credibility and maximise your opportunities in work and life.
What do you have to do to create a first impression? Absolutely nothing. You always create a first impression but it may not be one that works to your advantage. In this first skills session you'll learn how to manage those vital first few moments to create high expectations and a favourable interpretation of what you say and do next.
When people understand you they say "I see" or "I get the picture." The mind works in pictures and communicating visually give you a language far more persuasive than words alone.
When people say "That sounds good to me" are they responding to the merits of an idea or the way it sounded? The answer's both and this skills session give you expert techniques to develop a quietly authoritative voice that communicates with credibility.
Think about the people you know who are interesting to talk to. Better still, be one of them. Here we unpack the keys to becoming more likeable through a conversational style that's engaging and always worth listening to.
Natural leaders have a certain charisma you notice even before a word is spoken. What exactly is leaders' charisma and how to you acquire it? You'll know by the end of this session.
Establishing rapport with colleagues and contacts starts from the first time you introduce yourself. Here you will learn how to create a rapid mental picture of your organisation's uniqueness and a clear and interesting profile of yourself that encourages people to get to know you better.
Once you say "I'm strictly a numbers person" you're admitting to a limited mental perspective. Your role today demands you adopt the thinking styles of highly inventive people to produce better innovations and breakthrough strategies.
A good idea badly presented becomes a bad idea because poor presentation technique prompts an unfavourable interpretation of the content of your message. This skills session unpacks step by step the techniques and tools of highly effective communicators to make sure you become one.
Great camera presence and video conferencing technique allow you to be as persuasive and likeable in the virtual world as you are face to face. This session demonstrates on-screen proficiency to keep you influential in the 'new normal'.
Is there a difference in naturally creative people? Can we all be like them once we know? In the most mentally testing session so far Bruce Alexander draws on his experience as an internationally recognised creative thinker to unlock your imagination and combine it seamlessly with your numerical proficiency to become an innovator and thought leader.
Do great speeches really happen spontaneously? No they don't. The greatness is created and never left to chance. This session shows you how to build the breakthrough effectiveness of important speeches into the vital design stage.
From impactful speech design we now move to charismatic speech delivery. Few other moments in business provide such an opportunity to inform, transform, equip, motivate and inspire. Our final skills session gives you the vital performance techniques to ensure you never let the inherent opportunity of a great speech pass you by.
Now we have come to the end of your journey to your best self. You have a skills repertoire you may never have believed could be yours. Where will your new skills take you? That chapter hasn't been written yet. In this final session Bruce Alexander challenges you to make it a good one!
Do the numbers really 'speak for themselves'?
Senior financial executives know this already: the bigger your job, the worse the consequences of failing to get your point across.
Your senior role guarantees you fail worse if you don’t win others to your point of view or don’t convincingly advocate the strategies you know are right.
We say ‘the numbers speak for themselves’ but of course they don’t. You speak for the numbers. And too often Accountants, CFOs and Financial Controllers lose the contest of ideas to colleagues who are not smarter, just more persuasive.
The intelligence problem
Financial executives’ quick mental processes and advanced numerical skills are essential for their job. But they can also alienate them from senior colleagues with backgrounds in general management, sales or marketing.
Charm School for Accountants gives you the high level relational skills to build rapid rapport, powerfully advocate your ideas and win others to your point of view
For the first time, this program presents the high level skills essential for high-potential financial executives to be more engaging, interactive, credible, likeable, articulate, believable and persuasive.
About your instructor
Bruce Alexander received a standing ovation from a live audience of 7,000 financial advisors at the Million Dollar Round Table conference in Tokyo. Bruce knows how to get his point across.
Charm School for Accountants/CFOs distils the qualities of naturally persuasive people into workable interpersonal skills that give finance-based executives the personal charisma they need to be influential and effectively advocate their recommendations and win the contest for ideas.
Each of the twelve intensive sessions focuses on a key attribute of naturally influential, naturally charismatic people in a way that financial specialists can relate to and rapidly integrate into their financial role and negotiations with clients and colleagues.
Being Believable
Module 1 teaches you four vital interpersonal/relational skills. You’ll master creating first impressions, improving your voice, looking like a leader and interactive conversational techniques.
‘Analytical’ describes a career skill, not your ideal personality. Don’t let your accounting background dictate all of who you are!
Being Persuasive
In Section 2 you’ll acquire multi-disciplinary thinking, self-confidence, expressing ideas persuasively and making convincing boardroom presentations that produce lasting change.
Colleagues and clients will appreciate the difference and this in turn will build your self-esteem, outward focus and ability to make friends and business connections easily.
Being Influential
Module 3 shows how to develop an on-camera persona to master video conferencing, boost your creative imagination, make impactful speeches to large audiences and remain influential at the highest levels.
Once you master these career-changing skills you’ll wonder why you waited so long to acquire them.
Take the first step now and enrol - no-one's going to do it for you! Remember, this information-rich course comes with a no-questions 30-day money back guarantee. You can examine the course content below and view a preview video by clicking the play button upper right.