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Pioneering companies are using a new approach to enabling their people to work with customers and help them cope with the economic recession

The credit crunch and economic downturn is putting more people under stress. Yet according to Prof. Colin Coulson-Thomas workplace stress can be reduced by adopting a new approach to making it easier for people to do difficult jobs.

Bad debts can be avoided and compliance costs reduced by adopting a new approach to supporting those who make lending decisions

A revolution in boardroom practice and membership is required if boards are to cope with current challenges and exploit unprecedented opportunities

A different focus and change of culture are required in many boardrooms to cope with tough economic conditions and enable companies to secure competitive advantage.

Tough economic times can be good news for ambitious companies. A new white paper ‘Coping with an Economic Down Turn’ reveals positive steps for securing an edge, cutting costs and boosting performance where it counts.

Corporate performance and good governance depends upon the conduct of directors rather than the structure of boards according to Prof. Colin Coulson-Thomas author of ‘Developing Directors’ a handbook for creating effective boards.

Innovators must match their technical creativity with innovation in their approach to business building to grow their businesses

Workplace stress can be reduced by adopting a new approach to making it easier for people to do difficult jobs

Assembling complementary qualities in the boardroom can be the key to turning a group of outstanding individuals into an effective boardroom team

A wide range of business risks can be avoided, compliance costs reduced and performance increased by adopting a new generation of support tools.

Organisations need to move on from traditional approaches to training and development. Building learning and critical success factors into support tools can quickly boost workgroup productivity. Returns of over 30 times the cost can be obtained.

New tools can enable companies to prepare for outsourcing by making it easy for average people anywhere to difficult jobs in a winning way

Delegates from over twenty countries learn how new support tools can enable people to understand complex issues and do difficult jobs

Director development can increase the prospects of corporate success according to Colin Coulson-Thomas author of ‘Developing Directors’ a new handbook for building an effective boardroom team.

A new book ‘Winning Companies; Winning People’ shows how some people are so much more effective than others when undertaking similar tasks in equivalent circumstances.

Customers and suppliers can be helped to make choices that benefit the environment. Author of new book shows how companies can enable sustainable development.

People doing key jobs can be helped to adopt the winning ways of high performing superstars. It sounds too good to be true, but a new book Winning Companies; Winning People by Prof. Colin Coulson-Thomas shows how it can be done.

Most companies could benefit from more effective pricing and build more rewarding relationships with customers.

The key to increasing work group performance is to make it very easy for people to do difficult jobs. A new generation of support tools can help average performers to adopt the winning ways of high performers.

Director and board development is the key to good governance argues Prof. Colin Coulson-Thomas. Speaking in Johannesburg he agued that direction is a different activity from management and that to be competent directors require proper preparation.

A new book by Colin Coulson-Thomas explains how director and board development can improve corporate governance and boost performance. ‘Developing Directors’ shows how to build an effective boardroom team.

A new book ‘Developing Directors, A handbook for building an effective boardroom team’ by Colin Coulson-Thomas shows how to boost performance, ensure continuing relevance and achieve corporate success by director and board development

Research reveals that most companies are not equipping people to understand complex issues, do difficult jobs or bring about fundamental change. New approaches and new forms of support are required.

New research reveals that every company so far examined could increase performance in key areas by putting additional critical success factors in place and adopting further winning ways.