Your financial role is changing. Are you?

If you’re a senior financial executive you’ve already made an important discovery: the bigger your job, the worse the consequences of failing to get your point across.

Your senior role guarantees there’s more at stake 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.

So how well do you do it? Too often, Management Accountants lose the boardroom contest for ideas to colleagues who aren’t smarter, just more persuasive.

The intelligence problem

Financial Accountants’ quick mental processes and advanced numerical skills are essential for their job. But they can also alienate them from clients and colleagues from backgrounds in general management, sales or marketing.

Charm School for Accountants is the solution for high-potential Management Accountants, Financial Accountants and CFOs who want to be more engaging, interactive, credible, personable, articulate, believable and influential.

The course distils the qualities of naturally influential people into workable interpersonal skills that give finance-based executives the charisma they need to be credible, compelling, persuasive, to effectively advocate their strategies and win the boardroom contest for ideas.

Each of the twelve intensive skill 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 an important career skill, not your ideal personality. Don’t let your accounting background dictate all of who you are!

Being Persuasive

MODULE 2 reveals four higher level skills: multi-disciplinary thinking, self-confidence, profiling yourself and your organisation effectively and making convincing presentations that win the room to your point of view.

Colleagues and clients will appreciate the difference. This in turn will build your healthy elf-esteem, outward focus and ability to make friends and business connections more easily.

Being Influential

MODULE 3 shows how to develop an on-camera persona for videos or video conferences, boost your creative imagination, make impactful speeches to large audiences and remain influential at the highest levels.

“In my 20-something years as an accountant I’ve seen the profile of the successful financial professional change from ‘bean counter’ to skilled thinker and communicator. But this is the first time I’ve experienced the success elements fully explained and expertly taught.” Roger Poignand, Chartered Accountant

Once you master these career-changing skills you’ll wonder why you waited so long to acquire them.

Examine the Course Content below, view the three videos on this site and when you’re ready click the ENROL NOW button or scroll down to start acquiring new skills right away.

There is a no-questions 30-day money back guarantee so your financial risk is zero. Realistically, there’s more at risk in the opportunities you’ll miss by not having the senior level skills in this course.

Course Content

Ask yourself …

Is this course worth your time investment and the USD 124.99 course fee? You’re an accountant … answer the question yourself by rating each skill below in terms of your proficiency and, separately, its relevance to your role, present and future. You can ‘crunch’ the totals to produce some revealing ratios:

MODULE 1

1 - Mastering First Impressions

What do you 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.

2 - Visual Interaction

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.

3 - Improving Your Voice

When people say "That sounds good to me" are they responding to the merits of an idea or the way it sounded? The answer is both. Here you will learn expert voice production techniques to develop a voice people want to listen to.

4 - Accelerated Dialogue

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 likable through a conversational style that's engaging and interactive.

MODULE 2

5 - Inspiring Confidence

Natural leaders have a certain charisma you notice even before a word is spoken. What exactly is leadership charisma and how to you acquire it? You'll know by the end of this session.

6 - Engaging Elevator Stories

Being recognised and respected by colleagues and clients 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.

7 - Multi-level Thinking

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. 

8 - Compelling Presentations

A good idea badly presented becomes a bad idea. This skills session unpacks step by step the techniques and tools of highly effective communicators to make sure you become one.

MODULE 3

9 - Creating a Screen Persona

Great camera presence and video conferencing technique allow you to be as communicative and persuasive in the virtual world as you are face to face.  This session teaches you to be effective and influential in the 'new normal'.

10 - Developing Inventiveness

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.

11 -Creating Memorable Speeches

 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 breakthrough effectiveness into keynote speeches into the vital design stage.

12 - Delivering Impactful Speeches

Few moments in business provide such an opportunity to inform, transform, equip, motivate and inspire than making an impactful speech. Here you will gain the performance techniques from an acclaimed international speaker.