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Seminars, workshops,
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Seminars and workshops we can run for you

Whilst our more extensive engagements give greater and more persistent benefits for clients, some clients like a quick, valuable, entry point to check where they are and try us out.  These vary from short introductory presentations to whole-day workshops or pairs of workshops. 

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Forthcoming conferences	Talks and workshops
Recent conferences and seminars	Introductory seminars and training courses
Short sharp reviews	Our Balanced Scorecard services

Forthcoming conferences (top)

We have conferences planned and have been doing a lot of in-company work recently: Contact us for details of how we can help you, too.

Conferences, presentations, talks & Seminars

Jul 2011	A radio interview in the Business Hub What is the economy doing? What can we as businesses do in the current environment? (Additional resources)
Nov 2010	Strategic Thinking Informal presentation to networking group of Chief Executives and other managers
Oct 2010	Communicating the message of transformational change in the Public Sector ACCA Conference, Bradford. Transformation in the the Public Sector. (Follow link for videos and summary slides)
28 April 2010	Strategic and Operational Management: Understanding the difference: ACCA, London Follow this link to for more information and to see videos of this talk
15 April 2010	External Predictive Indicators. (Audio seminar) Listen to this seminar on the better management website Better Management Audio Seminar
6 May 2010	The culture of performance (Audio seminar) Listen to this seminar on the better management website Better Management Audio Seminar
20 Oct 2009	Judgement and Evidence: The application of fourth generation balanced scorecards: Strategic Performance Management and Balanced Scorecard Forum Unicom, London. See the video about judgement and evidence in modern balanced scorecards
14 Oct 2009	Using Qualitative, Subjective Measures and Judgment in Modern Balanced Scorecards (audio seminar) In conjunction with Better Management. Listen to this seminar on the better management website
22-23 April 2008	Environmental Balanced Scorecards: Executing strategy with the balanced scorecard: Step by step. Oslo, Norway
June 2007	Developing a culture of performance: Strategic Performance Management – Integrating Planning, Budgeting, Risk Management and Performance Management to Become a Truly Performance Driven Organisation, Unicom, London
Apr 2007	How to screw up your alliance: using a balanced scorecard to destroy or improve a culture of performance in your alliances Association of Strategic Alliances and Partners (Europe) Fourth Annual Summit on Alliances & Partnerships,
Nov 2006	Aligning programmes and your portfolio of projects with corporate strategy. Aligning projects and corporate strategy, conference, London, UNICOM
Nov 2006	Strategic thinking: Strategic talking Informal presentation to networking group of Chief Executives and other managers
Oct 2006	The Balanced Scorecard as a strategic tool Academy of Chief Executives
July 2006	Strategic KPIs A guide to performance measurement, management and strategy Workshop, organised by Rosetta Stone & hosted by Hyperion
July 2006	The Balanced Scorecard: What is not in the books Academy of Chief Executives
Jan 2006	The Balanced Scorecard: What is not in the books Academy of Chief Executives
Jul 2005	Using and exploiting maturity models for Management Information, Business Intelligence, Performance Management Customised workshop for Department of Work & Pensions, Information Directorate
April 2004	Representing, communicating and executing strategy, better Institute of Directors, Cambridgeshire group

Seminars & talks (top)

Phil is a member of the Professional Speakers Association. He can customise talks to suit your needs, for large groups or small. He runs both talks, and highly interactive sessions.

• Strategic thinking - Strategic action: How to maximise returns by getting your strategy from paper to action quickly and effectively

• The Future focused organisation: Some organisations become operationally focused and stuck on today's issues.  Others have only one future they believe will come about. This session helps you focus, as a team, on a collective, compelling future and understand the uncertainties, risks and assumptions you are all making.

• Getting your executive team on board: Absolutely crucial to a strategy-focused organisation. A short introduction to the difference that "Doing it properly" has made to organisations.  An ideal entry point for Executive teams and Chief Executives.

• Corporate Balanced Scorecard review: A chance to validate your strategy map and scorecard, identify any omissions and test your approach against best practice.  Come out with a clear action plan.

• Balanced Scorecard project review: Use our extensive experience to make sure your project is successful. Helps you avoid common pitfalls, ensures you use best practice on your project and makes sure you suit your organisation's needs. 

• What next?: You've built your scorecard - now make it happen?  Building the scorecard is only a quarter of the task.  This is specifically aimed at implementation, communication and roll-out of your strategy map and scorecard.  Make sure you have people on board and it happens.

• The Learning Organisation: How to position and use your scorecard to support organisational learning.   How to move yourself towards a knowledge-based learning organisation and the implications for performance management.

Short sharp reviews (top)

• Do my measures tell the story of my strategy? A short workshop to help you move from measures madness to having a few measures that track the strategy and tell its story.

• IT Strategy review: Using our extensive experience, of strategy mapping many IT organisations, how complete and robust is your IT strategy? Are you delivering today? Are you positioning for the future?

• MI & BI maturity: How well are you positioning yourselves for MI, BI, CPM?  How do you improve the maturity of your services and your customers demands upon you?

• HR strategy review: Specifically for HR departments.  Position your HR services to add more value.  Also helps you demonstrate where and how HR adds value to the organisation.

• Software implementation review:  Maybe you have just bought your software.  Maybe it has been in use for a while.  Maybe it is working, maybe it is holding you back.  This helps you develop an action plan that moves from measurement and reporting to management, influencing behaviour and strategic review.

• Bringing your balanced scorecard up to date:  No matter where you are, come away with an action plan to improve your Balanced Scorecard. (Half or 1 day workshop)

• Making strategy happen: Specifically aimed at engaging, communicating and motivating staff around your strategy (1 day workshop)

Introductory Seminars and Training Courses (top)

• Measure development: Rather than manage what you can measure, learn how to develop measures that allow you to measure what you want to manage. 

• The Value based organisation: Many organisations drive their culture and behaviour through organisational and personal values.  Discover how to represent and communicate values in Strategy maps, Balanced Scorecards and performance management.

• Planner and Facilitator training courses: Specifically aimed at facilitators or Balanced Scorecard and performance management.  (Customised to your organisation's needs)

• Strategy mapping: How to develop strategy maps.  Covers, perspectives, themes, cascades, tensions in the strategy, and how to present them in a compelling way.

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to our clients' needs. 
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