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Paul Bridle      

Paul Bridle has successfully set up and run a number of businesses and has a wide range of experience in management of small and large organisations. He now spends the majority of his time researching effective organisations and the people that lead them.

Paul Bridle is the world’s foremost leadership methodologist. For over 20 years, he has studied successful businesses and organizations, focusing on the people who lead them. His research has helped him determine the mindset—and methodology—required to become a successful leader.

“There is plenty of information out there. The challenge is putting it into context.”

Trying to make sense of the latest business trends can be a daunting task. Paul has identified the way successful businesses operate to ensure future success and contexualized the information so it’s much easier to understand. His global perspective, combined with personal research, leads to practical ideas people can actually use to improve their leadership and management skills.

Paul’s presentations are enlightening, exciting, inspirational and informative. He presents the results of his years of research in a way that allows audiences to discover the true qualities of a leader and measure themselves against those standards. Audience members leave with practical tools to improve their leadership ability in their organization.

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The Four Expectations of a Leader

If you hold a leadership role in your organization, there are four demands from you that are each unique and have different needs. These demands are: What the Market Place needs from you, What the business needs from you, What your people need from you, and finally, What are your personal needs? Each of these demand your attention as well as different skills. This session will explain what each of these pressures demand from the leader and how to best respond to those needs.

This session covers:

  • What the Market Place expects from the leader of the organization,
  • What the Business needs from the leader to operate effectively and legally,
  • What People want from their manager in order to give of their best,
  • What a leader needs from themselves to be a sustainable leader.

Participants will be able to:

  • Measure themselves and identify which areas they are most effective in,
  • Identify areas for improvement and take action to improve in these areas,
  • Ensure that their organization can develop leaders that meet these needs.

A Leaders job is to get the best out of people....but don't take ownership for their motivation, that is their job

The strength of any organization relies on the human capital and their ability to take responsibility for their actions. Many managers see their job as motivating their people, which is neither correct nor the best use of their time. A leaders job is to engage people and create an environment where those people do some excellent work.

This session will look at the structure that successful organizations use to ensure that empowerment works in their business. It will challenge some of the traditional thinking and explain what businesses need to focus on to get the best out of people.

This session covers:

  • The role of the modern leader to engage their people,
  • What empowered people need to be able to take ownership,
  • The seven elements that need to be in place to empower people.

Participants will be able to:

  • Ensure they have the right approach to engaging their people,
  • Use the seven elements to create an empowering structure,
  • Define and adjust the culture of their organization.

Stop Motivating your People....It's not your job!

Moving from Management to Leadership - the key to your success

Differentiate between management and leadership and use a framework to evaluate and improve performance. Understanding the importance of both management and leadership to an organization has never been as important as it is today.

This session will look at the difference between managing and leading. What are the characteristics of a manager, and then beyond managing, what characteristics does a leader need? Defining the characteristics and competencies of a manager and a leader will enable organizations to develop their people to succeed as managers and leaders rather than set them up for failure. Paul Bridle will explain how leadership has evolved and provide a framework that people can use to identify where they should be spending their time.

This session covers:

  • How and why Leadership has and will continue to evolve and adapt,
  • The importance of both management and leadership and getting the balance right,
  • A framework to enable managers to evaluate what the business needs from them, both as a manager and a leader.

Participants will be able to:

  • Differentiate management and leadership in their job,
  • Use the framework provided to evaluate and improve their performance.

Measure teams against four qualities needed for a “Team That Works” and define the appropriate style of leadership for a specific team

The workplace has evolved and will continue to do so. Traditional ‘teamwork’ was originally based on pulling a group of people together with the aim of getting them to work together for an indefinite period of time. These days people often work in more than one team, may have more than one manager and in some cases, may never even meet their team members face-to-face due to virtual teams. Today the emphasis has moved from ‘teamwork” to creating “Teams that Work”. The difference is subtle but significant. There are benefits to both the organization and the individuals in these situations, but it does mean we need to take a fresh look at how teams are formed and how they are led.

This session covers:

  • How an organization develops a Team that Works,
  • What needs to be in place for the team to be effective,
  • The style of leadership needed in these cases.

Participants will be able to:

  • Measure their teams against the four qualities needed for a Team that Works,
  • Define what their organization needs to put into place to create more effective teams,
  • Define the appropriate style of leadership of a specific team.

Teamwork is Dead - Long live Teams that Work

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Learn customers’ expectations for business these days and how to engage the customer more effectively.

Through the 70’s and early 80’s, companies were product driven. Early 90’s saw the arrival of the ‘Quality’ initiative and very quickly it became evident that quality was not the responsibility of a department but everyone’s responsibility. That in turn transformed companies into Sales driven organizations as the difference between products in the market place became very narrow.

Today we are entering the age where companies are Marketing driven. In the same way that we had a realization that ‘quality’ was not a department, we are realizing that marketing is not a department either. Marketing is everyone’s responsibility.

Customer Service has been about what companies ‘do’ to a customer but now companies need to be able to engage customers in a whole new way. Engagement is very different and requires the involvement of everyone in the business. In this session we explore how and why this can be achieved.

This session covers:

  • The two types of businesses that exist these days,
  • Customer's expectations from a business these days,
  • What organizations need to understand about what they provide,
  • How to engage the customer more effectively.

Participants will be able to:

  • Identify what type of business they are and the approach they need to take,
  • Structure their organization to better engage with the customer.

It's Not About Customer Service - It's About Engaging!

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