Influence Strategies: Elevating Your Leadership Presence
Overview
In today’s dynamic business landscape, finance leaders must go beyond technical skills to become credible, forward-thinking influencers. Influencing Strategies for Finance Leaders helps CFOs and senior finance professionals elevate their strategic presence, shift from a reporting role to a commercially-minded leadership position, and build strong stakeholder alignment. Through five proven levers of influence, participants learn to craft a distinctive leadership voice, add value beyond the numbers, and avoid common pitfalls that hinder influence. The course provides actionable strategies to position finance leaders as trusted decision-making partners and enablers of business growth.
Learning Objectives:
After completing this course, participants will be able to:
- Identify the core components of a CFO’s role in influencing company strategy.
- Recognize the five levers that enable finance professionals to build and sustain influence.
- Differentiate between value-adding finance insights and transactional finance outputs.
- Select effective strategies to gain stakeholder alignment and drive strategic conversations.
- Determine how to avoid common behaviors that cause finance leaders to lose influence.
This course includes practical exercises, mentor insights, and scenario-based questions to reinforce learning and ensure participants can apply key concepts in real-world finance leadership situations. Upon successful completion, participants will receive a CPD-accredited certificate.
Lessons:
Lesson 1: Establishing Your Influence as a Strategic CFO
Build your identity as a strategic finance leader by mastering the five core levers of influence and learning how to translate financial insight into business impact—shifting from technical expert to trusted advisor at the leadership table.
Lesson 2: Building Strategic Relationships and Visibility
Learn how to build trust, visibility, and strategic timing to ensure your voice is heard early in key decisions—transforming your role from perceived blocker to proactive business partner and influential finance leader.
Lesson 3: Maximizing Value Through Influence
Strengthen your ability to drive sustained strategic impact by aligning finance with key business priorities, influencing without authority, and adapting your leadership approach through change, complexity, and transformation.
Additional Information
CPD Hours: 2
Field of Study: Management Services
No prerequisite knowledge is required to be successful in this course.
No advance preparation is required.
Program Level: Basic
Delivery Method: QAS Self Study
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