Mitchell Phoenix

Mitchell Phoenix is an international training organisation providing leadership and management training programmes for business executives from the boardroom to the first line.  Mitchell Phoenix have been doing this successfully for 20 years, on four continents, with major corporations in Europe, USA, Asia and Australia.

Our clients use us to create business results through uniquely structured management training programmes.  All programmes are practical, useful and immediately applicable. Managers learn through their own effort, building management strength by applying theories and concepts in the business environment.

Mitchell Phoenix have initiated, designed and delivered a comprehensive range of development programmes for organisations as large as HSBC, Microsoft, Logica Schlumberger and Airbus to specialist businesses such as Aspect Capital Management & JP Knight (a small, family owned specialist ship operator). Projects have been delivered in Europe, the USA, Asia and Australia.

"Mitchell Phoenix fills the gap between what you can’t learn at a business school and what you don’t learn in the workplace"

The core Mitchell Phoenix Programmes are

Governing Change - Mobilising People
Governing Change is designed to fully develop the abilities of your leaders to inspire, equip and mobilise their people and organisations. It is a combination of essential management practice with sophisticated and subtle leadership principles that build lasting management and leadership strength within the organization.

Governing Change comprises 6 full day seminars, one each month over 6 months.

Securing the Future - Creating a Responsive Organisation
This programme focuses on the essential management activities of Strategy Implementation, Decision-Making and Time-Usage. It is a development programme about personal effectiveness. The strategic goals of the organisation are linked to day-to-day activity in a way that makes planning and decision-making a predictable and enhancing process. Each manager’s inseparable relationship with decision-making, responsibility, creativity and time usage is explored in the context of organizational responsiveness.

Securing the Future comprises 4 full day seminars one each month over 4 months.

Foundations of Management Excellence - Building a Strong Foundation for future leaders
This programme is designed to equip practising managers with the understanding necessary to fulfil greater responsibility and take on a future leadership role within your business.  It lays a strong foundation for effective management practice and develops skills in the application of time-proven principles of Leadership.

Foundations of Management Excellence comprises 5 full day seminars over 5 months.

Leadership and Influence for HR Professionals
A programme designed to assist the HR professional develop leadership and high quality influence within their organisations.

Leadership and Influence for HR Professionals comprises 6 half-day seminars over 4 months.

The Mitchell Phoenix development approach is:

• Systematic
• Top down
• For all management levels
• Time efficient
• Building a Common management Language
• Focused on output, not input
• In-house or Public programmes

Systematic Training and Development
We have developed a systematic results-oriented approach to management and leadership development. This approach creates security and brings predictability to the management development process.

Top Down
We work 'top-down' to ensure that senior managers are well schooled in the principles of leadership and can recognise the positive aspects of the development project. In joining the development process, the senior management team support and reinforce the changes necessary for the business and encourage others to adopt more effective behaviours and techniques.

All Management Levels
With your senior team engaged, the job of bringing new insights, techniques and approaches into the wider management population is considerably easier. Mitchell Phoenix use proven methods to engage senior personnel and their staff in a way that is demanding, supportive and results-focused.

As the all levels of the organisation begin to practice the ideas and approaches brought from the training environment, these new methods are rapidly assimilated into the culture of the business and become the new normal way of working. In this way the organisation grows it's strength, and strength-in-depth.

Time Efficient
Recognising that a senior manager's most valuable asset, time, is at a premium, Mitchell Phoenix programmes are designed to cover all the essential topics in the shortest period of time. The programmes are run with one seminar each month in small groups. The learning from the seminars is then taken and immediately applied in the workplace. At each seminar participants present their experiences from using their new techniques and ideas, reinforcing their own learning and at the same time benefiting from the experience of others.

Building a Common Management Language
Through the shared experience of seminars, the application of ideas and the search for results, line managers and staff develop a common language based on universal principles of leadership and management.

This common language, (not jargon or slogans), researched and proven over many years of client work, is critical to strengthening and improving internal and external business communication.

Focus On Output, Not Input
With a training ethos centred on creating results, Mitchell Phoenix seminars focus delegates on the business rather than the training. High quality, proven content is delivered in such a way that your staff concentrate on creating business results from day one.
Our unique approach ensures that results created are proven in the business environment and are shared among all those involved in the development project.

Logging and Reporting Results
Report back sessions spread learning into the whole seminar group reinforcing ethics and the transfer of learning into all parts of the organisation.
Line management engagement ensures the effort is focused on business priorities and creates a bond between the delegates and the senior levels of management.

In-House or Public Programmes
Mitchell Phoenix programmes are offered in either an in-house or public format.

In house programmes - benefit from a programme customised to your particular priorities. This experience provides:

• A superior way to team-build using real working scenarios and results
• Opportunities for live problem sharing and solving
• Focus on company-wide challenges and issues
• Group commitment to new thinking and practice
• Results created across the business

Public programmes - develop your professional network while learning with peers from other companies and industries. This experience provides:

• The opportunity to gain experience of diverse management challenges
• Opportunities for problem sharing and solving with people from outside the business
• Access to solutions for the universal challenges and issues at senior level
• Personal commitment to new thinking and practice
• Peer feedback and advice