50th Practical Leadership Seminar Starts Saturday

On Saturday, Claus will be running the 6 day long unique management education Practical Leadership for the 50th time in Cotignac, France. Over the last 8 years this has been offered as an open seminar 6 times a year and it's also been run several times internally for management teams of clients.

We are about to decide on pricing for next year, but if you'd like to book a place early on the English edition in Spring 2011 (PL52 from the 26th to the 31st of March) we promise to freeze the 2010 (and 2009) prices if you book before the 15th of November.

Shortly, we'll also be launching a number of Early Bird specials as well as great offers if you attend with one or more of your colleagues.

Find out more about Practical Leadership here.

Back from Easter with a Bang!

We hope you've all had a fantastic Easter with friends and family. Our team have been spreading their wings as well as staying at home. Claus spent his Easter with friends and family at home and others have been all over the world seeing museums in Washington, D.C. and many other places.

We've all come back revitalised and can't wait to get cracking with all of the exciting projects ahead, including the sold out Practical Leadership 46 seminar (has it really been that many? WOW!) from the 17th to the 22nd of this month. We're also organising an internal Practical Leadership seminar for one of our clients at the beginning of May and are doing another in June for an association where the members will attend so it will be an incredibly busy few months - not to mention Claus's many speaking engagements and our on-going consultancy projects for some very exciting clients!

Finally, it also looks like our long-awaited (and promised) new web site will go live before too long. We've even been looking at new logos to bring everything about our brand identity bang up to date. We hope you like it as much as we do and we're even considering getting your feedback before we decide which one to settle on. Stay tuned for more info on this!

Practical Leadership Dates for Autumn 2010

We've now finalised the dates for the three Practical Leadership seminars taking place in the Autumn. The dates are as follows:

PL 48: September 4th - 9th (in Danish)
PL 49: September 18th - 23rd (in English)
PL 50: October 30th - November 4th (in Danish)

Learn more about the Practical Leadership seminar, a unique 6 day training programme distilled from world class research and more than 35 years of experience in helping world class organisations achieve business excellence. Click here to read more.

If you would like to receive Early Bird offers, make sure you sign up for the Practical Leadership profile over at Twitter, where we will shortly be releasing some very exciting offers!

In the meantime, you can always drop us a line at info@clausmoller.com if you'd like to learn more or to secure your place before your chosen seminar sells out.

Special Offers on Practical Leadership Seminars

We've decided to launch a second Twitter profile for the Practical Leadership seminars where we will shortly be bringing you special Early Bird offers for the Autumn 2010 seminars. To ensure you don't miss out follow @PracticalLeader and, if you aren't already already doing so, you can follow Claus directly at @ClausMoller.

Crazy Times...

I'm sure you've all been wondering why there have been no updates recently, but we've been insanely busy. Claus has done several keynote speeches, done almost full-time consultancy for a couple of clients and on top of that run 3 Practical Leadership seminars last Autumn as well as PL45, which has just finished recently.

During these crazy few months Claus has found himself everywhere from France to Hong Kong, via the UK, Denmark and Thailand.

Later on this year he will be doing a series of keynote speeches in India for the first time in almost a decade. They are sure to be a resounding success and as soon as we can confirm the final dates we will let you know. Make sure you book early in order to avoid disappointment.

We will be adding more information shortly about the new Practical Leadership seminars planned for Autumn 2010.

Practical Leadership Dates for Spring 2010 Confirmed

We're pleased to announce the addition of the following dates for the popular Practical Leadership management education in the Spring of 2010:

• PL45 (in Danish): March 20th - 25th
• PL46 (in English): April 17th - 22nd
• PL47 (in Danish): May 29th - June 3rd

As part of our continued efforts to market this unique 6 day programme, we have also launched a Twitter profile for the Practical Leadership seminar, which we invite you to follow, and we will soon be announcing some early bird offers. Prices for 2010 will be finalised before November 15th, 2009.

If you would like to attend any of the remaining Practical Leadership seminars in 2009 there is limited availability on the following seminars:

• PL42 (in Danish): September 5th - 10th
• PL43 (in English): September 26th - October 1st
• PL44 (in Danish): October 24th - 29th (2 places left)
  

The prices are as follows:
Seminar fee: 4,370 EUR (including detailed course materials; personal Emotional Intelligence test with feedback; and coaching)
Accommodation with full board: 1,265 EUR (includes all meals, beverages and light refreshments throughout the day)

Prices are exclusive of VAT and transportation to and from the venue. Ground transportation between Nice International Airport and Cotignac can be arranged for 175 EUR return.

SPECIAL OFFER: If you attend with a colleague, we are happy to offer a 10% discount on the seminar fee for both participants.

To find out more about the Practical Leadership management education have a look at our web site.

Practical Leadership #40 Sold Out

Just a quick update to let you know that the next Danish language Practical Leadership seminar in Cotignac, Provence, France on April 25th to 30th is now sold out and we are no longer accepting people for the waiting list.

There is still availability on the upcoming Practical Leadership course in English to be held from June 13th to 18th and on both the Danish and English language ones in the Autumn of 2009. Please have a look at the detailed information and schedule to find out more and to book your place.

"Practical Leadership" Seminar Dates for 2009

The Practical Leadership seminars are proving to be very popular with 35 of the in-depth 6 day seminars held in Cotignac, Provence, France already having been held. The seminars are an introduction to the 4 key areas of management today as developed in Claus's theories: Leadership, Productivity, Relations & Quality. We will also soon be launching 2 day follow-up seminars in each of the aforementioned areas for customers who have already attended the Practical Leadership seminar.

The seminar is for anyone who is or who wants to become a leader. The seminar is held by Claus Møller and contains a framework for understanding leadership and gives you the tools to act as a leader in your daily life as well as your career. Along with the 6 days of instruction and one-on-one coaching you will also take extensive tests and will receive a full set of books, tests and tools to help you improve your leadership abilities.

We can now announce the dates for the 6 seminars to be held in 2009 and they are as follows:
PL 39: March 21st - 26th (in Danish)
PL 40: April 25th - 30th (in Danish)
PL 41: June 13th - 18th (in English)
PL 42: September 5th - 10th (in Danish)
PL 43: September 26th - October 1st (in English)
PL 44: October 24th - 29th (in English)

There are also still very limited places left on the remaining Practical Leadership seminars for 2008:
PL 36: September 6th - 11th (in Danish)
PL 37: September 20th - 25th (in English)
PL 38: October 25th - 30th (in Danish)

For more information on pricing, the contents of the seminar and to download a brochure please go to ClausMoller.com. There you will also find information on how to book your place at one of the upcoming seminars.

Emotionally Intelligent Leadership

Today I want to share an article I wrote a couple of years ago about Emotionally Intelligent Leadership. Read the brief introduction below and then download the full PDF article.

All leadership works through emotions. All undisputed leaders have earned their reputation because their leadership was emotionally compelling to a large or small group of followers.

Leadership in corporations goes beyond reaching a goal and ensuring that a job is well done. Nothing is more important for the leaders and managers of organisations than to have leadership skills, the social and emotional competencies required to manage their own and other people’s emotions, to drive the organisation’s collective emotions in a positive direction, and to avoid or control dangerous emotions.

Studies have shown that a leader’s ability to manage own moods and to influence the moods of others usually has a dramatic impact on business results. Since leaders have such an important role in bringing out the best in people, and since this has direct implications on the bottom-line results of the organisation, it pays for corporations to invest in emotionally intelligent leadership at all levels of the organisation.

Read the full article about Emotionally Intelligent Leadership.

Jack and Suzy Welch (finally!) Have Their Own Web Site

Last week, the long awaited Jack and Suzy Welch web site was unveiled, following on from the great successes of their podcasts, columns and videos created in conjunction with BusinessWeek.

As the former CEO of GE and a former editor of Harvard Business Review respectively, their credentials are definitely impressive and the site allows you to look for insights into various topics facing managers and leaders in both small and large businesses.

Before delving too far into the treasure trove I would recommend that you spend a couple of minutes reading about their underlying principles.

Head on over to the Welch Way and prepare to be inspired.

Be more proactive and be less reactive

Many people have asked me in my seminars, over the years, 'What one thing would you wish to teach your children?'

My answer is 'Be more proactive and be less reactive'.

You can learn to apply simple, but very profound and powerful, methods, techniques and tools to enable you to spend a little more of each day working on important, goal focused, tasks and activities.

• Why give in, and become a servant, to the incessant demands of work and daily life? Why not give out to the world, instead?
• Make some meaningful life goals.
• Start by dreaming the impossible dream!

I will write so much more about how to do this in coming blogs, and you can learn this from my Practical Leadership Seminar.

For more information visit:

www.clausmoller.com

34th Practical Leadership seminar has just finished in Provence

It is hard to believe that it has already been that many seminars, but it just seems to get better and better and the feedback Claus got from the participants was brilliant. The Practical Leadership seminar has been running for almost 6 years now and I'm doing 4 more this year, 3 of which will be in Danish and 1 in English.

It is a 6 day management programme for everybody who wants to become a better employee, manager or just improve yourself as a person. The idea behind it is that you have to excel in two areas of business: one has to do with industry specific skills and knowledge and the other is the general traits of good management and business excellence. The Practical Leadership programme cannot help you to become better at the professional aspects of your particular industry, but it can help you improve the general areas.

It draws on all of the aspects of the evergreens of management: Productivity, Relations, and Quality and devises a model for better leadership across the general areas of business excellence.

To enhance the learning experience, this 6 day programme is held at the exclusive retreat Les 4 Moulins in the south of France, where you can relax fully between the sessions; play tennis; go for a swim; or get relaxing massages. All of this is complemented with 3 meals a day using only the finest local produce and served with the wines from Provence.

If you would like to find out more about the seminar, you can download a PDF brochure here or find out more about registering to attend the next Practical Leadership seminar.