Influencing skills for CFOs

Influencing with integrity and strategic intent

New for 2012

CFOs - both existing and aspiring - and other senior finance executives and professionals keen to improve their ability to influence organisations, clients, teams and other leaders.

This intensive and highly interactive seminar is designed to give in-depth and hands-on exposure to the key concepts of how to influence with integrity and strategic intent. Enhance this critically important skills-set by developing:

• the ability to identify and address personal influencing strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and challenges
• specific thoughts and ideas for applying improved influencing skills in your present position
• inspiration and practical insights into change agency and how to influence change to achieve the desired results.

Stephen Berry MBA BSc(Hons) FCMA, CGMA, ACIB DipFS. Stephen is a highly qualified speaker, strategy consultant, author, trainer and international MBA lecturer in business strategy. He is director of NEOS Learning - one of Europe's most innovative training companies. Previously a finance director and banker, Stephen brings his extensive business experience and practical skills rather than academic theories to his courses, which focus on training executives in strategic thinking and strategic development.

• The change imperatives: growth, innovation, improvement, success, sustainability.
• Strategic change agency: why, who, when, where, what, how.
• Myths and realities of change management.
• Mindset, attitudes and behaviour.
• Organisational culture: how to direct its evolution and shape it.
• Resistance to change: how to engage it, channel it and overcome it when necessary.
• Communication.
• Inspiring great performance.
• Defining, planning for and achieving success.

6 CPD hours (where applicable)