If you want to achieve the highest levels of success in the financial industry, you must be intelligent, ambitious and good at the role you perform.

But is that all that you need?

Definitely not.

Think about the last time when you failed to convince a colleague or an investor about your point of view and failed to get them to do the thing that you knew was the right thing to do. These are the moments we often feel the greatest frustration, anger and disappointment.

Think about the frustration you’ve experienced in your career, and you will realise that there’s another key factor that makes all the difference when it comes to success.

Influence.

What exactly do I mean by the word, influence?

The ability to convince people of your point of view -and act on it.

It combines several key elements. Starting with the ability to be able to actively listen and hear more than just the words people are saying. To fully understand the other person’s point of view by asking questions in a respectful and curious way. The skill of being able to speak unarguably. To be willing to change your mind based on new evidence and not let your ego get in the way. The use of six persuasion models and persuasive language patterns. To be able to build successful, long term lasting relationships.

The ability to be able influence people internally and externally in our business and personal relationships.

Imagine what your world would look like if you could do this on a consistent basis. It would dramatically improve your productivity, lower your stress levels, improve your health and it would give you greater job satisfaction and ultimately more wealth.

I have worked with several hedge funds helping individuals improve their ability to make high impact presentations, develop powerful leadership skills and create high performance teams. Developing a framework in which people can resolve conflict, improve trust, and get greater commitment from all involved. This has resulted in a direct improvement to the revenue of these firms.

Is influence easy to acquire?

Nothing of any real value is comes easy, and that includes relationships, health and finances. All require effort and expertise. Only a small percentage of the population seem to acquire the ability to influence quickly and easily and even those few continue to work at improving their influence.

I create bespoke customised programs for all my clients based on their individual needs and through a powerful combination of training and coaching work to assist them to achieve a sustainable behaviour change.

All successful people invest in themselves and if you are ready to make the best investment of your entire life all you need to do is contact me for a 90-minute no fee, no obligation, coaching session.

We can work on an important goal of yours or a challenge you are facing and get to know each other to see if we both could have the right chemistry to work together.