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Risk Advisor Program

Master persuasive advising to influence stakeholders and drive impactful change in your organisation

About this course

This Risk Adviser Course is a chance to step back, challenge the status quo, and rethink how you approach influence in your role. Whether you’re dealing with a resistant CEO or a skeptical executive team, this course will show you the opportunity and how you can shift the dynamics in your favour.

Course specifics

Audience: Risk professionals; Compliance & Governance professionals; Heads of Strategy and Senior Executives leading strategy, governance, risk or compliance teams

Cost: $770.00 (members), $990.00 (non-members)

Facilitator: Bryan Whitefield

Format: Online On-Demand

Time: 4 hours

CPD Points: 4

Course details

The Risk Adviser Program tackles the challenge advisers, practitioners and managers have to cut through with their advice to stakeholders. It has been delivered successfully to full houses across the public, private and not-for-profit sectors and it will give you all you need to make the difference you know you can make, so you can create the change that is needed in your organisation.

Whether you’re looking for a focused half-day session or an in-depth multi-day experience, RAP meets you where you are and takes you where you need to go. You’ll be guided through the Persuasive Advising book — a comprehensive, nearly 200-page resource packed with proven strategies for building credibility, communicating with authority and making a lasting impact.

Key topics covered:

Unit One: The Role of Risk Advisers
Perceptions of Risk Advisers
– The Role of Risk Advisers
– Introducing the Pathfinder Model

Unit Two: The Art and Science of Persuasion
– The Six Principles of Persuasion

Unit Three: The Pathfinder Model – Credibility
– The Three Core Elements of Credibility
– The Pathfinder Model in Action – Credibility

Unit Four: The Pathfinder Model – Understand
– Dale Carnegie’s story of Abe Lincoln
– The Pathfinder Model in Action – Understand
– Tools for Standing in Their Shoes

Unit Five: The Pathfinder Model – Paint
– Paint – A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
– What Painting Pictures is all About
– The Pathfinder Model in Action – Paint

Unit Six: The Pathfinder Model – Tell
– Tell – Create Connection with Stories
– The Pathfinder Model in Action
– An Analogy is a Type of Story

Unit Seven: Bringing it all together
– What’s Next For You
– What’s Next For Us