Description
Serving as the educational prerequisite for the Certified Kingdom Advisor® designation, the Certified Kingdom Advisor® Educational Program is an advanced course that trains financial professionals to offer financial planning that is consistent with the values and priorities for those with a Christian worldview. Financial professionals will come away with the education and skills to engage clients in understanding the “why” of financial decision-making before the “how.” The course explores each of the planning differentiators that exist when a Christian worldview intersects with the topics covered during comprehensive financial planning. The end result is clients who experience greater purpose and fulfillment in financial decisions due to the values alignment in the advice and counsel they are receiving.
Learning Objectives
1. Articulate the components of a holistic approach to financial planning.
2. Develop transferrable processes for decision making and personal convictions around values associated with financial planning
3. Articulate a framework for facilitating financial decision making around key questions, skills, diagrams, transferable concepts, and uses of money
4. Ask questions that facilitate good financial decision making
5. Define relational wisdom and discuss how emotions and reasoning work together, physiologically.
6. Identify awareness of and engagement with the six ranges of proficiency of relational wisdom.
7. Understand and apply the components of a values-based approach to financial planning, including viewpoint, skillset, toolset, competencies, distinctive, orientation, contentment, and calling
8. Orient key points of financial stewardship inside of a historical perspective and a financial planning model such that both are frameworks for effective planning conversations.
9. Learn a process for charitable planning with clients
10. Identify factors that lead clients to greater generosity and, in doing so, apply key client counsel objectives for giving
11. Answer common charitable planning questions
12. Articulate the function and benefits of a donor advised fund
13. Describe models of effective cash flow management
14. List the steps to controlling financial lifestyle and setting accumulation finish lines
15. Describe effective techniques for advising clients regarding lifestyle related cash flow
16. Understand six key advisory perspectives about borrowing and debt
17. Contrast the difference in the culture’s perspective on debt with a values-oriented perspective on debt and the implications of this difference on debt decision making
18. Articulate the four rules of debt decision-making along with key questions for client advice around debt
19. Communicate the difference between tax avoidance and tax reduction, recognizing the place of short and long term tax planning in the financial planning process
20. Counsel in regard to planning for sufficient cash flow margin and effectively deciding how to allocate it toward various long term goals such as insurance, investing, and retirement
21. Delineate between values-based client advice in the accumulation, preservation, risk management, and speculation phases of investing
22. Understand how viewing work as normative impacts retirement planning and life balance decisions
23. Articulate why financial planning is life planning
24. Walk a client through an effective goal-setting process as a part of the financial planning conversation
25. Explain and implement a reliable goal setting process
26. Counsel a client in effective decision making via a ten-step process
27. Execute estate planning counsel via a six-step wealth transfer process
28. Articulate the principles and the skills surrounding an effective methodology for training children to manage money
29. List six components of a thriving family plan offered as a part of financial planning
30. Comfortably engage a values-based client counsel approach to unique scenarios including a family meeting, counseling widows, and husband wife differences