"This is clearly a unique course. It is extremely powerful."
Richard Petrie, Technical Director, BAA plc
High Performance Leadership
Be you, only better!
Our Praxis programmes are designed for individuals like you, who are looking to build on their personal communication, leadership and people management styles, we help individuals and their organisations to achieve a more successful future.
Firmly grounded in management issues, we provide a radical and innovative edge to conventional thinking.
Highlights
Customer Testimonials
"Great course, the best I have ever had. A lot of useful experience and lessons and great people to work with and an excellent atmosphere!"
Jurgen Hirschfeld, Head of Global Regulatory Affairs DG/RP, Schering AG
Managing People Effectively
"Very much enjoyed the whole course. It was excellent."
Cris Maiden, Information Technology Infrastructure Manager, SX3 Service & Systems Solutions Ltd
Influencing Skills for the New Workplace
"Really fantastic course with a great bunch of people - tutors and participants.
Joanne Boyle, Head of Customer Service Development, Permanent TSB
Increasing Personal Power
"A simply fantastic course! Such a different approach that has me completely convinced and inspired! Thank you so much."
Maria Chandler, Web Manager, Lloyd's
Managing People Effectively
"It exceeded my expectations completely. I found it extremely relevant and like all the best ideas, beautifully simple."
Dorothy Leng, Company Director, Faraday Partnership
Courageous Conversations
"Quite a fulfilling experience. The interaction between the tutors and course participants is very conducive /encouraging for the self expression and achievement of programme objectives.
Bernard Poyi, Head - Agriculture Business & SME, First Bank of Nigeria
High Performance Leadership
"The whole course has been of great help in my personal development of management of others, and how to interact with them to achieve the best results."
Max Giddins, Shift Co-ordinator, Corus Tubes
Managing People Effectively
"Hugely rewarding and thought-provoking on a personal and professional level."
Maureen Dyson, Corporate Banking Manager, Ministry of Defence.
*This is a personal comment, and does not reflect any formal/official endorsement by the MoD
Increasing Personal Power
"Thanks for an outstanding experience."
Gary Miller, Associate Director, Briggs & Forrester
Managing People Effectively
Forthcoming Events
- The Shadow Side of Leadership - 03 February 2009
- Increasing Personal Power - 23 February 2009
- Confident and Creative Presentation - 26 February 2009
- Organisational and Interpersonal Skills in Management - 09 March 2009
- Walking Your Talk: High Impact Performance - 11 March 2009
- Managing People Effectively - 16 March 2009
- Courageous Conversations - 28 April 2009
- High Performance Leadership - 11 May 2009
- Organisational and Interpersonal Skills in Management - 18 May 2009
- Increasing Personal Power - 08 June 2009
- Power and Influence - 15 June 2009
- Winning Hearts and Minds - 17 June 2009
- Managing People Effectively - 29 June 2009
- Organisational and Interpersonal Skills in Management - 06 July 2009
- Organisational and Interpersonal Skills in Management - 14 September 2009
- Confident and Creative Presentation - 24 September 2009
- Increasing Personal Power - 28 September 2009
- High Performance Leadership - 05 October 2009
- Walking Your Talk: High Impact Performance - 07 October 2009
- Managing People Effectively - 12 October 2009
- Organisational and Interpersonal Skills in Management - 09 November 2009
- Winning Hearts and Minds - 11 November 2009
- Power and Influence - 16 November 2009
- Courageous Conversations - 17 November 2009
Faculty Spot
John Faulkner
Programme
High Performance Leadership
Managing People Effectively
What are you an expert in?
Coaching individuals and high performance teams.
Body/Mind therapy and its practical applications.
Leadership.
Physical and emotional exercise.
The connection between sport and business.
Work/life balance: including assertion, stress and personal awareness.
What is it you are currently thinking about/care about in the world of work?
Leadership in organisations.
How to empower people.
How to help people be responsible for the self, within the pressures created by work and
home life.
What would you like to see change in organisations?
The understanding of high performance leadership.
The provision of space for creative and dynamic people.
Less stress and more enjoyment without effecting output and production.
Making the phrase `people are our most important asset` real and tangible within
companies.
What is special about Praxis?
Praxis concerns itself with people in an experiential and holistic manner. It connects with people at a deep and practical level.
It has an ability to make people aware of their positive and negative habits and behaviours, and yet is still able to affect people in a totally positive way.
Why does the programme you teach at Praxis matter in business?
High Performance Leadership locates the leadership quality in a person and gives them the confidence to use it back in the workplace. It recognises in others what is required for leadership.
As it has been running since 1986, Managing People Effectively is well-honed, powerful and practical. At the end of the programme, each delegate has a comprehensive understanding of themselves and an insight regarding others.
Both courses, by their nature, ‘free up’ people to be more of who they really are, and then to have the confidence to take it back into home and work life. They evoke a conscious realisation of the potential in oneself and the ability to see it in others.
The programmes insist on a holistic approach towards delegates. Equal importance is given to the mental, physical, emotional, social, spiritual and symbolic nature of the individual.
How would you describe your teaching style?
Interactive and experiential. I use experience of stories, maps and models.
Education and Qualifications
Ordinary National Diploma in Building, 1966
Institute of Quantity Surveyors, 1966-1970
FA, Full Coaching Badge, (Football), 1976
Diploma in Sports Studies, National Coaching Foundation, 1989
NCF Advanced Coaching Workshops: Training for Peak Performance, A Question of
Style, Evaluation in Sport Performance, 1983-1989
Certification to Pesso-Boyden System Psychomotor Therapy, 2004
Work Experience
Qualified Quantity Surveyor at Wates Ltd.
Sport
Professional Footballer: Leeds United, Luton Town, and in the USA, Memphis Rogues and
California Surf.
Professional Football Coach: Luton Town and Norwich City, (first and youth teams).
Assistant Manager: Luton Town and Norwich City.
Business
Independent Business Consultant
I have designed, tutored and facilitated on a wide range of skill programmes in leadership,
teams, coaching, assertion, and stress workshops.
I have developed individuals through executive coaching and mentoring and run workshops
for High Performance Teams.
I have run numerous programmes with organisations including, Prudential, Lufthansa,
Storehouse, Marconi, Digital and Business Post Plus.
Praxis
I began working with Praxis in the mid-1990s, after having attended the MPE programme as a delegate.
At the time, I was First Team Coach at Luton Town Football Club, which was in the Premier League.
The course, its tutors and its messages were powerful, practical and enlightening. We connected. Subsequently, I helped to design and tutor on one-day programmes, whilst still in working full-time in professional football.
In 1998, I started my own business and became a permanent member on the MPE team, and subsequently co-designer and tutor on the HPL team.
Interests
Sport in general. Travel and hiking.
Biographies. The Body/Mind therapies.
Cooking.