GPB is delighted to have won the Best Specialist Communications Advisor of the Year award again! GPB last won this award in 2018 from Global 100. With a poll of over 293,000 readers, it is required that all programs receive no less than 21% of votes from the global readership, in order to win. GPB is […]
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GPB wins the ‘Best Specialist Communications Advisor of the Year – UK’ award from the Global 100, 2020 Awards.
June 26, 2020 – 9:00 am
GPB wins the ‘Best Specialist Communications Advisor of the Year – UK’ award from Corporate America Today – Annual Awards, 2020.
June 26, 2020 – 9:00 am
GPB is happy to have won the Best Specialist Communications Advisor Award for the second year running! Renowned for its unrivalled reach and targeted readership, now with a subscriber base totalling 287,768, the publication is at the forefront of all matters corporate, reaching professionals and board level decision makers, dealmakers, game changers, and all those […]
GPB wins two awards from ACQ5 Global Awards 2020
June 26, 2020 – 9:00 am
GPB wins the ‘UK – Strategic Business Consultancy of the Year’ award Ewan Pearson (Managing Director at GPB) wins the ‘UK – Strategic Business Consultant of the Year’ award. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GPB is pleased to announce that they have won the above two awards. ACQ5 is well renowned within the corporate marketplace. Voting for the awards […]
Half-time oranges in a slow start to the year
June 24, 2020 – 9:00 am
The year is half completed and a deadline for an extension to the Transition Period looms. It may have been a madly hectic and massively changing six months for most of us – and the world economy – due to the Coronavirus Pandemic, but it’s been a slow half year for one set of the […]
Resolving Conflict – at home and at work
June 24, 2020 – 9:00 am
Models for dealing with conflict in one-to-one communication settings Over the past few months, we may have been managing conflict in many guises, given the current extraordinary circumstances of Covid-19 lockdown in the UK and around the world, and the challenges that proximity…or the opposite… has brought. We all have our individual coping mechanisms; I’ve […]
Tell me “why”?
June 24, 2020 – 9:00 am
The importance of explaining “why” when communicating. The ability to explain “Why” could well prove to be your most valuable super-power. A recent Harvard Business Review article1 claimed that good leadership is about doing precisely this, particularly in a crisis. How very topical! Although it seemed to lean quite heavily on the essence of Simon […]
Speak up: 73rd Edition
June 24, 2020 – 9:00 am
Here is our 73rd GPB journal. It is designed as an ongoing coaching tool for our clients and is packed with a wealth of information and good hands-on tips and tricks from the world of communications, presentations, negotiations and business development. Please write back if you wish to comment or add another reader, and – […]
And now for something completely different…
March 27, 2020 – 4:14 pm
Negotiators need to prepare well (phase 1) in advance of opening the dialogue (phase 2). Not everyone does… Round 2 of the Brexit talks got under way officially on 2nd March1, with the discussions no longer about the ‘divorce’ but about the deal/s that will exist between the UK and the EU after 31st December […]
Breaking down the breakdown of communication
March 27, 2020 – 4:13 pm
Richard discusses the illusion of transparency and the need for clear and impactful communication techniques. There is a quote in our business often attributed to George Bernard Shaw: ‘the single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.’ Whilst running a presentation skills workshop earlier this week I found myself saying […]
Striking the Balance
March 27, 2020 – 4:12 pm
Lynda considers some aspects of effective communication which need care and preparation. If you can, in these turbulent times, cast your mind back to a time when you were going about your normal, daily routine. It’s likely that, at some point over the last month or two, you were on public transport; a train, a […]
