About This Programme

Are you feeling under pressure as an IT department leader to deliver more strategically?

Has your department got challenges?

Are you frustrated because you are not invited to and participating in the meetings at which the most significant decisions are taken?

Are you too stuck in the technology, transactional and troubleshooting treadmill to lead as you would like?

Do you find it challenging to formulate clear ways forward given the circumstances you face?

Are you being asked to be strategic but not clear what your boss expects?

Are you ready to take action?

This programme is designed to:

  • be easy and quick to enrol in, digest and complete 
  • help you quickly analyse the environment in which you are operating, clarify your thinking and organise your thoughts to find and effectively communicate ways forward
  • help you quickly further develop your business acumen to give you more confidence engaging with senior colleagues and their priorities and in so doing raise your profile within your organisation
  • help you quickly further develop your big picture thinking and become more conscious and strategic in your leadership
  • share helpful practical operational techniques you can draw from for department and strategic improvement based on extensive real world operational experiences
  • give you an opportunity to raise questions and discuss ideas 



'I Now Have A Clearer Understanding Of The Big Picture'

'Fantastic Practical Learning Experience'


All our programmes are unique, multi faceted and fast moving. All are fully related back to you and your unique situation. 

Our goal is to facilitate your thinking and to share lessons of experience along with helpful methods that are practical, straightforward and easy to recall when needed.

Our programmes weave together guided reflection, thought provocation and pragmatic ideas, models and frameworks creating a 'fantastic practical learning experience'.

Guided Reflection

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Our situation is always unique. Nobody has previously done precisely what we are doing, with our experiences and personality, alongside our mix of colleagues and with our resources at this particular moment in time. We have to find a way that works for us in our context. Our inner work is important to help us in this. The more shape we are able to put to our thinking and the more we can leverage the experiences of others, the more likely we are to find the right solutions for us.


What They Are Saying About Our Work


'I can hand on my heart say that this is the only self-reflection content / engagement I have encountered.'

- Mevin Anenden, Senior Client Manager 


'CEO's rarely create the time and space for reflection, this is a very engaging and thought provoking way to help you along the journey.'

- Lynn Murphy, Chief Executive Officer 


'Rob spends time upfront getting you to understand where you operate today, how does the business and the team operate? Is the business designed to win? Is our culture right for us and is it working? And several other relevant questions. The great thing about this approach is before he has taught me any new capability, he has taught me to really understand where my challenges are in leadership. It has my brain identifying linkages between aspects of business and leadership I hadn't thought of.  This is a far more effective way of learning in my view and I think learning at a leadership level really needs to be done this way, there is no 'out of the box' solution. It's experience gained as we progress and experience shared by successful leaders like Rob.'

- Mark Graham, CIO 


'I have bought a selection of business books over the last few years. All of them sounded like they would help improve the business's bottom line and contained some clever ideas. The difference with this course is that it covers many of the issues I hoped these books would cover. It attacks them from a different angle, focuses our thoughts and highlights practical ways to develop in our roles and for our business. This course has started the process that the books I bought never addressed, and for that reason, I feel this course is very beneficial.'

- Chris Griffiths, Marketing Director 


Thought Provocation

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The way we look at the world shapes our experiences of it. It shapes too the quality of our decision making. As our mindsets shift so too our ways of operating. Thought provoking experiences deliver a helpful platform for stimulating new perspectives.


What They Are Saying About Our Work

 

'very engaging and thought provoking'

- Lynn Murphy, Chief Executive Officer 


'All the critical issues we face in building a business are dealt with cleverly and interestingly'

- Chris Griffiths, Marketing Director 


'This course is holistic, it took me on a journey, which looked at finance / sales / customers / organisational construct etc.' 

- Mevin Anenden, Senior Client Manager 


'Plenty of food for thought, it gets you to think of how you are running the business'

- Ian Edwards, Business Manager 


'I'm part way through the training course on business leadership with Rob Evans and loving it. The old brain synapses are firing off left, right and centre!'

- Mark Graham, CIO 


'You always make me think'

- Gahn Lane, Vice President Global Channel Partners

Pragmatic Ideas, Methods, Frameworks And Models

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We can’t implement development messages if we don’t remember them. That’s why these programmes are structured within overall frameworks and with handy situation specific models crafted based on experience and framed to be easily memorable for operational use. 


What They Are Saying About Our Work


'The course took me three to four hours and I was able to easily learn new ideas / approaches / tools.'

- Mevin Anenden, Senior Client Manager


'Rob has packaged his experience and research into a well thought out framework'

- Lynn Murphy, Chief Executive Officer 


'PPMC (People, Principles, Mechanics and Culture) leadership is a brilliant framework and something I’ll be using.'

- Mark Graham, CIO 


‘Rob, great summary on the ingredients of performance teams’

- Dirk Maiwald, Manager Corporate Technologies 


‘we need to adopt PPMC’

- Chris Griffiths, Marketing Director 



Energy, Insight And Entertainment

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The more we enjoy a process the more engaged in it we become. The more engaged we are the better our outcome.


What They Are Saying About Our Work


‘entertaining and easy to consume’

- Lynn Murphy, Chief Executive Officer 


'I loved the touches of humour and the clear and exciting storytelling to help with some of the explanations for things we should be considering'

- Chris Griffiths, Marketing Director 


'Thoroughly enjoyed Rob's way of presenting....and the few cameo appearances of his dog!'

- Mark Graham, CIO 


'Very much enjoyed learning from the authors many years of experience in business. The 1-2-1 engagement afterwards really put this off the chart. Thanks Rob!’

- Mevin Anenden, Senior Client Manager 


'With you, we can always expect the unexpected. Liking your new venture very much and am sure will give you lots of great satisfaction helping people achieve even more.'

- Subhash Ramatour, Finance Director 


'I worked in the same firm as Rob, I cannot stress how valuable I have found his insight and energy. #leadershipdevelopment  #energy #motivation'

- Gahn Lane, Vice President Global Channel Partners

A Business Outcome Focus

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Our development work has a purpose. The more equipped we are the more confident we feel. The better informed and conscious we are, the greater our capacity to deliver.  Its not enough to reflect and accumulate knowledge, we have to use it productively. The more practical our development work the easier its implementation and the likelier our business outcomes are to improve.


What They Are Saying About Our Work


'I found this course both useful and interesting. I now have a clearer understanding of the big picture and will be looking to focus on the most critical areas that will make the most significant difference to the business.'

- Chris Griffiths, Marketing Director


'Fantastic Practical Learning Experience'

- Mevin Anenden, Senior Client Manager 


'I've learnt a great deal from it. Much of this course made me think about about past roles and more on the mistakes than successes (why do we do that?). I know I always wanted to look after people and lead well when in this type of role, but I was often so focused on the objectives, I know I made mistakes. It's experience I wish I'd have had access to back then.  If you have a passion for the team as well as the business direction, I strongly believe you will benefit from these courses.'

- Mark Graham, CIO 


You Have a Fantastic Opportunity

Let's call you the CTO. 

You may in fact be in any number of roles encompassing systems and data.

Perhaps you are the CIO, The Head Of Service Delivery, The CDO, The Head Of Infrastructure or an alternative to all of the above. 

For these purposes your title doesn't matter, we'll call you the CTO.

You are technically strong and in a fantastic position as we navigate through this Fourth Industrial Revolution.

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The More We Know, The Better We Serve

Your Place At The top Table

Align your technical orientation with creativity, commerciality and honed leadership skills and you have a fabulous canvas on which to play your part in modernising our world.

Our work together is focused on helping you seize your opportunity.

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Proximity Delivers Greater Impact

Your Time Is Now

Your role historically has in many organisations been considered a back office role, a support role.

Now is a time that this cannot be true.

Your technical skills, knowledge and experience is valuable, in high demand and is challenging for non technical leaders to acquire.

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Telling The Story

Heightened Commerciality

Sharpen your skills, knowledge and clarity of thinking in key commercial areas.

  • The business ecosystem in which we operate, including not for profits

  • Key financial metrics

  • How organisations are configured

  • The impacts of industry dynamics

  • The nature of a customer base

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Thinking Beyond Functional Skills

Handy Techniques

Learn simple, memorable, practical frameworks and models that you can draw from to help you strategically and operationally day to day.

  • Learn PPMCLeadership™️, a straightforward framework we can use along with related tests to guide us as we evolve an inspiring environment in our department

  • Discover The Natural Cycle Of Team Success™️, a model for assessing the state of evolution of our team and for selecting our most relevant leadership mode

  • Discover an aide memoire for the criteria by which you are likely to be judged by others

  • Learn a methodology for developing the key elements of a mission, vision and strategy for your department

  • Put structure to how you assess where you allocate your attention

  • Discover The Three Levels Of Endeavour™️, a model for use when assessing the emotional commitment of team members to organisational objectives

  • Learn The CulturalVEST™️, a lens we can apply to help us as we seek a positive state for each member of our team

  • Discover a pragmatic methodology for positively influencing the culture in your department and a simple method for scoring it

  • Learn a simple methodology to help you plan your approach to projects

  • Take your communication to a new level by applying The Four E's Of Communication™️, four simple tests whenever you supply information

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Great Communication Is Our Friend

Shared Experiences, New Ideas, Thought Provocation, Guided Reflection

Stories, illustrations, anecdotes and questions carefully framed to be relatable and designed to share lessons of experience, provoke thought, impart new ideas, encourage reflection and provide impetus for growth.

  • Reflect On The Leadership Service That We Provide To Our Team

  • Reflect On Our Commercial Acumen And Contribution

  • Reflect On Our Ability To Add Value To Those Around Us

  • Reflect On The Needs Of Our Multiple Stakeholders

  • Reflect On How We Can Elicit And Respond To Our Impact As A Technology Professional

  • Consider Our Own Proximity To Key Areas

  • Analyse Our Department In A Structured Way

  • Reflect On Areas Where We Can Directly Impact Financial Results

  • Reflect On Our Ability To Inspire Others' Confidence In Us

  • Reflect On How We Can Help Our Colleagues Evolve As The Fourth Industrial Revolution Plays Out

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Wanting To Do It

Programme Information

This programme is not an academic exercise, it has been carefully crafted to be real world operational in nature. Your commitment to the programme and how you then use it is very important to us and you have 30 days to complete your work on this programme.

  • Programme developed and led by highly experienced business executive

  • Programme delivered online and accessible by mobile

  • Self paced, easy to consume in a series of blocks of time that suit your preference

  • Includes an invitation to an invitation-only online forum to provide an opportunity to raise questions with instructor and programme architect, Rob Evans

  • On top of the consumption of the video content we anticipate you may require an additional 2 to 3 hours of reflection time as you work through the material and your thoughts

Course curriculum

    1. Getting Started

    2. Learning From What's Come Before

    3. Our Work Together

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    4. About This Exercise

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    5. We Are That Author

    6. Lenses Setting The Scene

    7. So How Many Teams Are We In?

    8. It’s Never A Fluke

      FREE PREVIEW

    9. When Things Aren't So Clear

    10. Our Focus Here

    1. Our Imperatives

    2. The Business Eco-System

    3. How Much Did We Make?

    4. Give Me A Financial Snapshot

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    5. What Happened To The Cash?

    6. What Returns Will It Generate?

    1. Our Biggest Assets

    2. What Bosses Can Teach Us

    3. So Who Delivers The Numbers?

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    4. Do We Have A Complete Picture?

    5. What Emotion Is Being Invested?

    6. Our Collective Response

    1. Our Context

    2. Aligning For Value Add

    3. Understanding The Big Picture

    4. How Well Do We Know Us?

    5. Specifically What And For Whom?

    6. Thinking Organisational Flavours

    7. Thinking Functions

    8. Thinking Activity Types

    9. So Where Do They Fit?

    10. Powerful Curiosity

    11. Multiple Activities

    12. Activity Summary

    1. Our Impact

    2. How Our Service Is Perceived

    3. The Welcoming Committee

    4. What Kind Of Driver Are We?

    5. What Does RADAR Tell Us?

    6. How Would They Candidly Respond?

    1. Our Growth

    2. Choosing To Be All In

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    3. Consciously Enhanced Contribution

    4. Thinking Energy Allocation

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    5. Wide Exposure Deep Perspective

    6. Positive Shifts

    7. What Do We Do?

    8. Tuning In

    9. What Does It All Come Down To?

    10. Double Taking

About this course

  • £675.00
  • 156 lessons
  • 3.5 hours of video content

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Your Facilitator

Rob Evans

Highly Experienced International Business Executive

Real World Operational Focus

Rob's content, insights and methodologies encapsulate the lessons of over three decades of international business experience and related research, observation and reflection. 

In a rich and varied international business career Rob has been:

  • Operationally engaged with over 150 businesses around the world
  • Closely involved in over 50 actual or potential acquisition transactions
  • A part of a senior management team that grew a South African domestic business into a dual listed technology group employing over 8,500 people and operating in over 80 countries
  • Nominated for the South Africa CFO Of The Year Award when serving as Chief Financial Officer of a $6.5 Bn turnover group  


'When I needed career advice at a major career junction, I turned to Rob for help and he quickly jumped on a call with me despite the time zone difference. 

I left that call with clarity and focus. 

I left that call feeling empowered, supported and super-sensible! 

I left that call knowing that I just needed to make my plan and execute it. 

This is how Rob helped me get to this point: 

-- Firstly, Rob effortlessly sets you at ease. Simply put, he's genuinely a nice guy, and you're going to feel that humility, energy, and warmth permeating every part of the consulting call with this corporate heavyweight as he makes an authentic and kind human connection with you. 

-- Secondly, he's going to ask you relevant straightforward questions about the situation that will help him draw a picture of what's happening in your career or organization, and help you be clear on what's happening in your head. 

-- Thirdly, expect valuable insights as your mind opens up to opportunities where you had only seen obstacles before, and finally expect him to point you to practical, actionable next steps to move you forward. 

It's all substance and no fluff drawn from his extensive and multifaceted career in the corporate world. 

What amazes me about Rob is: 

-- the ease with which he analyses the situation 

-- the accessibility and creativity of the ideas he shares 

-- the practical nature of the solutions he puts on the table 

This consultancy call was time well spent. As we say in Jamaica "Big up yuhself- Rob!!!" (*** To "big up" someone is to praise or recommend somebody strongly.***)

- Yvonne Chin Irving, Executive Director & Communication Consultant at CET


'I had the pleasure of working with Rob Evans whilst at Logicalis and I can't speak more highly about him. Not only is Rob incredibly insightful and knowledgeable, he is a genuine person and great fun to be around. Love his stuff.'

- Gary Lomas, Sales Director at Onnec Group


'I am a huge fan of Rob and encourage you to check this out, he has great insights  #improvedoutcomes'

- Gahn Lane, Vice President Global Channel Partners And Alliances at Pindrop


'Rob has very strong strategic and operational credentials having worked extensively around the world and held a wide range of financial, operational and M&A roles'

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'I would thoroughly recommend Rob's courses. He is a very successful and astute business leader with a wealth of experience to share.'

- Mark Graham, CIO at The Counselling Foundation


'Fantastic Practical Learning Experience'

- Mevin Anenden, Senior Client Manager at Logicalis


'All the critical issues we face in building a business are dealt with cleverly and interestingly'

- Chris Griffiths, Marketing Director at Travel A La Carte Ltd


'Rob has packaged his experience and research into a well thought out framework, delivered in an entertaining and easy to consume way'

- Lynn Murphy, Chief Executive Officer at Plugable Technologies


'Plenty of food for thought. It gets you to think of how you are running the business and gives you ways of improving'

- Ian Edwards, Business Manager at The Westgrove Group


'Loving the inspirational videos Rob!'

- Iqbal Singh Bedi, Founder Of Award Winning Intelligens Consulting


'Great Rob! Thanks to share so many content, rich content!'

- Ernesto Schlesinger, Founder Partner at Jequitiba Investimentos


'Rob Evans #Kudos. Thank you for always bringing your best self to work #InspirationalLeader.'

- Faizal Bahemia, Chief Commercial Officer at Innobox and Co-Founder of BGlam


'Liking your new venture very much and am sure will give you lots of great satisfaction helping people achieve even more'

- Subhash Ramatour, Finance Director at Macks Ltd


'Rob Evans Friday moments - genuinely some absolute gems of knowledge and tough questions to ask yourself all backgrounded by some of the most beautiful scenery on the planet'

- Chris Gabriel, Chief Strategy Officer at Sapphire Systems


'I look forward to your Question on a Friday Rob Evans'

- Gary Swale, Chief Engagement Officer at Inspirze Context Technology


'The second day of the 12 International MHRA Conference was opened with the amazing presentations by Rob Evans and Carlamaria Tiburtini.'

- Macedonian Human Resources Association (MHRA)


'Great session Rob. The ability to simplify and make sense of our complex and uncertain world is vital for leaders. Thank you.'

- Bob Morton, Past President at World Federation Of People Management Associations (WFPMA)


'Thanks to Rob Evans for being a fantastic co-panelist.'

- Carlamaria Tiburtini, Senior HRBP at Avio Aero - a GE Aviation Business


'Pleasure working with you!'

- Illya Baranyuk, Intern at MHRA


'Surrounding yourself with the people that will help push challenge and support you is so important - especially when you work on your own. Thanks for a great meeting Rob, I'm truly energised now!'

- Theresa Carnall, Marketing Coach at TBC Marketing


FAQ

  • What can I expect from the programme?

    You'll find our work guiding you to comprehensively examine your organisation, your specific operational context and your leadership through considered and candid reflection. We achieve this by sharing lessons of our experiences and reflections illustrated with personal stories, examples and other relevant commentaries. We help you relate this material to your situation through our use of carefully crafted questions. Our goals are to provoke thought, to help you analyse your situation, to help you find ways to enhance your commercial and operational contributions and to equip you with tools and methodologies you can apply day to day throughout your career.

  • How long will it take me to complete the programme?

    You proceed at the pace that suits you best. Within the material many questions are posed for reflection relating to your organisation and your leadership. You take whatever time you wish to devote to reflection on each question. Your value comes from utilising the programme as best suits you.

  • Is all of the programme immediately available following purchase or is it made available to participants in stages?

    We want you to succeed and success comes from action. All of the material is immediately available on purchase and remains accessible to you for 30 days. We encourage you to commit to moving ahead with your programme as soon as practicable after you've made the decision to participate. Your value from the programme will come from the steps that you take arising from the thoughts that emerge and decisions you make as you engage with the programme. The sooner you engage the sooner you will realise the benefits for you.

  • Will I have the opportunity to raise questions?

    Yes. Every month we hold a live, invite only, one hour, online Q&A forum to provide you with the opportunity to raise any questions you have on the material. You will be invited to three monthly sessions scheduled following purchase. We will send you the invitations via the email address that you supply on purchasing your programme. We vary the times and days of the week on which forums are held to allow you the maximum opportunity to attend at least one of the three sessions to which you will be invited.

  • I work for a 'non-commercial' organisation, is the programme relevant to me?

    Yes. Our programme is business focused and every organisation is in business. Business principles apply whether you work for a 'for profit' organisation, a public sector body or a 'not for profit'. Each has investors, customers, employees, suppliers and other partners and stakeholders. Each organisation has to deliver some blend of experiences and solutions to its customers and in so doing it is seeking to deliver a return to its funding providers, a return that could be in a financial form or in the fulfilment of obligations.

  • You've mentioned tools and methodologies, can you tell me more?

    We have developed the tools and methodologies we share based on the lessons of our own operational experiences. We have intentionally developed them to be straightforward and memorable for your day to day use. They are frameworks for leadership, organising thought and operational execution. The tools and frameworks we share include PPMCLeadership™️, The Three Levels Of Endeavour™️, The Four E's Of Communication™️, The Five Cornerstone Principles Of Planning™️, The CulturalVEST™️ and The Natural Cycle of Team Success™️.