Praxis: Personal Impact and Development
The future of every organisation relies on the quality of its people. The Praxis Centre at Cranfield School of Management is dedicated to the development of individuals, helping them to reach their potential for the benefit of themselves and their organisations.
Our programmes bring a radical and innovative edge to conventional management thinking, while being firmly grounded in business issues. Through our diverse faculty, we are able to use a wide range of expertise to provide participants with first-hand experience of enlightening new perspectives.
Praxis programmes are highly regarded for their in-depth personal focus, helping participants to discover their true potential and to access new sources of understanding, motivation and wisdom. You will be inspired and energised after attending a Praxis programme ready to use your new skills to influence, motivate and make a more positive impact in your organisation.
5 + 3 + 2 days
For senior professionals who want to review their leadership approach and discover new capabilities.
This programme uses a range of powerful approaches to help develop your leadership potential to find your pathway to sustained high performance.
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4 + 2 days
For managers who want to have an understanding of their leadership style in order to motivate and lead their teams with increased influence and impact.
This programme will help you to learn how to read the behaviour of yourself and your team in order to influence more effectively and maximise your personal and team contribution to the business.
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5 + 2 days
For senior professionals who want to develop more effective work relationships.
This programme will help you to identify your natural strengths and any limiting patterns of behaviour to increase your effectiveness at work by expanding your emotional comfort zone.
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3 days
For professionals who want to build emotional intelligence and confidence to enable them to work more effectively with others.
This programme will explain how the unique Centaur Model of Management and Leadership Development can help you become more influential and enable you to build truly effective relationships with customers, clients and suppliers.
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2 + 1 days
For leaders, managers and professionals wishing to discover the treasures that inspire creativity, innovation and the opportunity of crisis.
This programme brings together the issues of chaos and order in business and how you can still act constructively and positively by opening your mind up to something new.
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4 days
A stage 2 programme for professionals who have attended a previous Praxis programme. This programme explores the roots of personal power and how to use it effectively to achieve political sensitivity and integrity.
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3 days
For anyone needing to develop a structured approach to difficult conversations.
This programme will provide you with a robust framework to help you navigate successfully through the tougher conversations that might otherwise be avoided.
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3 days
For professionals wanting to rejuvenate their presentations to magnify their delivery of important messages to colleagues, clients and team members.
This programme will help you to transform your performance and increase your presence, confidence and influence by helping you to generate new ideas and think on your feet to refresh your delivery.
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2 days
For individuals wanting new techniques to increase the impact of their presentations.
This programme will help you to become a powerful communicator whose message hits home and makes the right, credible impact.
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1 day
For managers who engage in public speaking and are involved in influencing others within the workplace.
This programme will help you as a professional communicator, by learning the key techniques that storytellers have used for centuries to engage, enthuse and motivate their listeners.
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1 day
For leaders of business units or teams potentially facing crisis as a result of adverse market conditions, or turmoil caused by internal restructuring, redundancies or change in ownership.
This programme will help you to increase awareness of and explore how to manage, the powerful yet often unrecognised emotional reactions to a potential crisis.
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3 days
For individuals who would like to experience the type of interpersonal dynamics that can inhibit a group from working at its best in order to practice differing ways of dealing with these situations.
This programme uses experimental exercises to explore the interactions of individuals in any group.
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