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Has your department got challenges?

Are you feeling under some pressure as a leader to deliver?

Are you too struck in the treadmill to lead?

Is a clear way forward hard to formulate?

Are you ready to take action?

Check out our Department Leader programme (click below) designed to:

  • be easy and quick to enrol in, digest and complete 
  • help you quickly clarify and organise your thoughts to find and communicate ways forward
  • help you quickly further develop your big picture thinking and become more conscious and strategic in your leadership
  • share helpful practical ideas and techniques for operational improvement you can draw from based on extensive real world experiences
  • give you an opportunity to raise questions and discuss ideas


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Four Ideas For Helping You As A Department Or Team Leader

Your team's and organisation's success is contingent upon the success of your people. The more confident and capable your people the more likely they are to deliver for you. 

My talks and programmes exist to augment the development work you do for yourself and with your people. They're not meant to replace what you already do but to complement it. The programmes are self paced and mobile enabled and the talks may be delivered as breakfast/lunch events or at management meetings. 

The Four Ideas follow. 


Idea Two: A Talk Inspiring And Guiding Your Team To Proactively Contribute To The Success Of Your 'Business Within A Business'

The talk title is 'How effectively are you developing your business within a business?'

The talk description is: 'Today more than ever before, because of a convergence of global shifts, technological developments and cultural trends, there is a unique opportunity to have a hugely positive demonstrable impact on the organisations and people we serve. Our organisation must find ways to deliver results and reinvention in parallel, yet our workloads have never been higher. How do you effectively set about delivering what you need to deliver whilst at the same time delivering value beyond what's expected? This talk provides some perspectives.'

During this talk audience members will:

> reflect on the various customers the department exists to serve, how they operate individually and collectively and how colleagues will judge them

>be encouraged to adopt a mindset of curiosity in relation to the business and strive to build strong relationships throughout the wider organisation

> reflect on commercial and operational contributions that are in their control to deliver to their colleagues & wider organisation






Idea Three: A Programme Inspiring And Guiding Your Customer Facing Professionals To Have More Of A Sales Focus

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Idea Four: A Talk That Inspires And Guides An Audience Of Your Customer Facing Professionals Towards Being More Commercially Oriented

This talk, and the programme above, is relevant if any members of your team are customer facing and would benefit from being more alert to possible opportunities.

The talk title is 'Steering your career along the road ahead, how to stand out in the future of work.'

The talk description is 'We don’t know what the future holds. We do have some clues. It’s a time of great challenge. And great opportunity. We need to navigate our career whatever the circumstances. And in our role naturally we engage day to day directly with customers.  This puts us in a strong position to deliver tremendous value to our organisation. What do we focus on? What mindsets do we adopt? How do we operate? This talk provides you with a framework to stand the test of the most testing of times.'


During this talk audience members will:

> be inspired to consciously & proactively develop relationships and explore opportunities to find and help win business

> learn tools to help them become more commercial in outlook

> reflect on their contribution to the organisation beyond their direct role responsibilities





Curriculum For Your Short Free Programme

    1. Welcome To Outperformance Highway

    2. A Quick Question

    3. Learning From What's Come Before

    4. Our Work Together

    5. About This Exercise

    1. We Are That Author

    2. Thinking Energy Allocation

    3. Are We On The Right Path For Us?

    4. What About The Numbers?

    1. So What Will Our Recipe Be?

    2. Who Will Build All Those Bridges?

    3. The First Principle, This Is What We Do

    4. The Orchestration Of Execution

    5. Strategies For Influencing Culture

    1. Rounding Out Our Team

    2. Your Way Forward

About this course

  • Free
  • 16 lessons
  • 0.5 hours of video content


'Outperformance is never a fluke. When you work operationally with and within a large number of businesses, and evaluate many others commercially, as I have done, you begin to see recurrent patterns. I've also studied sports teams that punch above their weight and its clear to me that successful teams and individuals share recurrent ingredients, unsuccessful scenarios corroborate this too. The recipe for outperformance is unique to each situation yet, in my experience, when we dig deeper we find much commonality.'

- Rob Evans


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Content Author

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'

- Extract From Corporate Stock Exchange Announcement


'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


Back To 'Idea One' Covered Higher Up This Page

Five role specific versions of the Department and Team Leader programme exist. They contain common material with the addition of role specific modules. Versions exist as set out below for finance leaders, operations leaders, human resources leaders, learning leaders and technology leaders.



'Our technical ability is generally taken as a given. The way we differentiate ourselves as a professional is in our ability to deliver business value.'  

- Rob Evans



'The more we invest in our people, the more invested our people become in our success.' 

- Rob Evans



'Organisations invest much in up front recruitment and much in ongoing remuneration, yet often organisations don't invest adequately in the development of their people. This is a significant missed opportunity. Development is not only an investment in capability but also in motivation and loyalty.'

- Rob Evans



'Having knowledge we've acquired, methods we can draw from and encouragement we've received gives us the confidence and impetus to move beyond our comfort zone. When we move beyond our comfort zone we expand not only our possibilities but also those of the organisations we serve, being both our employer and our customers.'

- Rob Evans



'Much of what we do in business is about inspiring others confidence in us. Its much harder to inspire others confidence in us when we ourselves don't feel confident.  The more we learn, the more we experience, the more confident we feel.' 

- Rob Evans