Management, Leadership and Personal Development Courses

Corporate Training Programs
Although best practice in executive development means programs that are spread over several months (or longer), and have extensive pre-work, peer-support for learning and coaching to work on embedding learning, many organizations cannot make the financial or time commitment to educate in this way. Therefore, PGPC offers a variety of one and two day programs which include:

Basic Business Strategy
- Understanding the external environment
- Using strategy frameworks
- Implementing strategic decisions

Strategic Acumen: Leading in Complex Times
- Understanding mega-trends and global financial information
- Complexity and decision making
- Emergent/ learning strategy formulation

Conflict and Negotiation
- Sources of conflict and minimizing them
- Understanding personal conflict style
- Negotiation from principles, not positions

Executive Coaching for Executives
- Why should leaders coach?
- Coaching essentials
- Coaching poor performance

Stress and Emotion Management at Work
- Neuroscience and the Emotions at Work
- Stress management strategies

Deciding and Aligning: Making Decisions that Produce Alignment
- Human irrationality and poor decisions
- Neuroscience and Decision making tools
- Decision processes that bring others with you

Leading with Vision and Values
- Leadership styles, from dictating to co-creating
- Leading from source: your purpose, vision and values

Implementing Change: Building Commitment, Dealing with Resistance
- Types of change and change management
- Types of resistance and working with it
- Engaging stakeholders

Influencing without Authority
- Influencing styles and strategies
- Context and choice of influencing
- Stretching and expanding your influencing style

Speaking with Impact, Gravitas and Presence
- Grabbing and keeping an audience
- Using voice, body and connection to engage others
- Impromptu versus prepared speeches

Coaching Yourself: Setting Goals that Become Reality
- Breaking with the past
- Aligning with your bigger goals
- Creating structures that make goals reality

These programs are offered in-house, or externally for as few as six people and as many as one hundred.

There is an entire billion dollar industry devoted to taking the business’ temperature through surveys of all kinds. Most of those are a waste of money because there are few good doctors who know what to do next to reduce the fever!

In order to be an inspirational leader, you need to first be inspired.

Culture Change is the most talked about and most infrequently achieved change in the business arena. Everybody says they want it, few are prepared to do what it takes.

Great talent development and a high-performance culture are key differentiators between world-class businesses and the mediocre. Sadly, few organizations know how to sustainably produce those.

What Gandhi taught us about leadership is that it is an inside job. He was shy, bookish and incapable of giving a public address. He knew he could only change India as quickly as he could change himself.

We don’t think a moral person is someone who merely obeys the law. We set the bar higher. Contrary to Milton Friedman, the same applies to businesses: an ethical business must have higher standards than simply avoiding the courts.

Nelson Mandela used to jog in place daily in his toilet-sized cell. Why? Despite being twenty years into a life sentence with no hope of reprieve, he said “one day I will lead my people to freedom, and to do that, I will have to be fit.” That sort of resolve is sadly missing from most of today's business leaders.

360 degree feedback is a recipe for mediocrity. If Winston Churchill scores 7 out of 7 for inspiration, how come so many business leaders score between 5.5 and 6 on 360 degree instruments. If raters standards dervie from those they see around them, we have a recipe for mediocrity.

Most of my life, I’ve had an IQ above 160. However, I’d trade 20 of those points, for 20 character-quotient points any day. The latter are much more valuable and much harder to come by.

Spirituality is essential for human flourishing. By that I mean living a life of meaning, connectedness, values and purpose. However, the connection with religion makes the word taboo. Leadership development requires working very hard on a leader’s spirituality, but never call it that.

Paul Gibbons

Management, Leadership and Personal Development Courses