The High Value Analyst

Joining a financial services organisation as an analyst can feel overwhelming and daunting. Whilst trying to navigate the massive learning curve that comes with being a new analyst, analysts can experience a sense of pressure to quickly add value and prove themselves an asset to their team.

The High Value Analyst course will explore the fundamental behaviours that will enable an analyst to quickly make a positive impact to their team, supporting their manager and building relationships as they make the transition from student to analyst.

Course Content

The Proactive Analyst

Recognising the value of a proactive mindset
The circles of control: how can you act upon the key challenges which you face as a new analyst?
Asking smart questions to understand goals

Healthy Habits of Success

You are what you repeatedly do: which habits currently serve you well as an analyst and which should you replace?
The identity of habit: what kind of professional do you want to be? What kind of habits do you need to adopt to make this happen?

Managing Up

Making your manager’s job easier
Putting yourself in your managers shoes
Understanding your managers preferences

Course Approach

CHALLENGE

The expectation Analysts have choice in how they respond to challenges
Appreciate that in order to succeed analysts must first look after their own well-being

CREATE

New habits which will enable you to continually work towards optimising your potential
Empathy, to understand how to add value to your team

CHANGE

Habits which do not serve you in your new role
Your automatic reaction to challenging circumstances which analysts routinely face

Embedding Success

Post programme activities to support the transfer of learning and building of habits.

CHALLENGE

Record your activity at work for 3-5 days. How much of your time are you spending in a reactive mode versus proactive mode? What can you do to ensure you are adopting a more proactive mindset?

CREATE

Create for yourself a list of high value questions which you can refer to each time you are given a new task to attend to. If you can’t answer these questions after being given a new task go back to the person who gave you the task and ask them.

CHANGE

Start communicating with your manager according to their communication preferences. If you’re not sure what their preferences are find out and take it from there.

100%

of our clients would recommend Alpha to a colleague or peer

90%

of a cohort was promoted within 2 years after participating in an Alpha course.

96%

of participants felt more confident in their role, following an Alpha commercial leadership course.

Why study with Alpha?

Innovation and creativity born from experience

We are thought leaders in instructional and learning journey design and holistic solution architects. We have extensive finance and investments experience combined with skills application to deliver performance improving results. We develop immersive learning environments that maximize time to productivity, support talent retention and added value to improving quality of hires.

Knowledge Exchange Evangelists

We are focused on mining the embedded organisational intellectual capital for the benefit of the next generation. We create and curate best in class practice gathered from our experience with the leading financial institutions. We design our programmes with the end in mind – what results are you trying to achieve with this intervention? What metrics will we set ourselves to achieve that?

Generation Proof

Quality and innovation, using current market and industry best practices, have made us a trusted partner in delivering dynamic and motivating training for the financial and capital markets. Our programmes are generation proof and responsive to evolving learner needs and styles. Our solutions use a multi-stakeholder engagement strategy that expands beyond relationships between the learner and learning provider. We create connections with managers, peers and the wider business to drive impactful return on investment..

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The team are so friendly and pleasant to work with, everyone is very professional and keen to help us. Building a relationship over the past couple of years helps us to feel like the Alpha team are even more able to understand our needs and provide more proactive solutions.