SYNERGY5
NEWS 2025: ** We delivered face-to-face seminars in Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Bahrain, Riyadh, Wroclaw & Cairo
** We completed virtual training initiatives with American and French investment banks throughout the year!
** Our first trip to Wroclaw in Poland in 30 years of training around the world!
** A very happy return to Egypt delivering for a new client!
** Great feedback for virtual topics: "Personal Branding", "Trust, Influence & Persuasion" & "High Impact Presentations"
TRAINING LOCATIONS 2018-25: London Hong Kong Singapore Dubai Mumbai Amman Riyadh Jeddah Johannesburg New York New Delhi Beijing Shanghai San Francisco Monterey Colombo Karachi Tokyo Lagos Accra Jakarta Las Vegas Bangladesh Malawi Nairobi Seoul Kuwait Chicago Mexico City Lima Cairo Bahrain Mauritius Kuala Lumpur Bangkok Geneva Amsterdam Wroclaw New York.....
Services
Biography
Mike has been a training consultant and speaker for over 25 years now.
He began with MHA International before setting up his own training and speaking consultancy focusing on communication skills in Sales, Leadership, Teamwork and Customer Service arenas. Additionally, as an associate partner, he helped ENB Consulting build a unique business proposition to become a successful worldwide bank training franchise now owned by Moody’s. His background originally was in Banking & Finance at Standard Chartered Bank and Thomas Cook Foreign Money - Midland Bank/HSBC where he managed teams to develop new markets and clients with Financial Institutions in Spain and Portugal, the Nordic countries, mid-Europe and finally the Middle East. In 30 years he has worked with over 100 clients across 20 industries and professions in more than 35 countries.
Mike’s core talent and passion is based on helping others to understand their own ‘aura’, preferences and style so that they find ways to connect with people effectively through inspirational methods of communicating and leading. His facilitation experience is based on supporting behavioural and communication development areas, often using the Insights Discovery psychometric. Whether focusing on presentation/speaking skills or interpersonal issues, Mike enables executives to build awareness and flexibility around their own authenticity, finding specific outcomes to suit their personal and professional goals.
Seminars, Workshops
At the heart of all our training programmes at SYNERGY5 are the five key essential ingredients for influencing and communicating effectively:
COMPETENCE
CONFIDENCE
CREDIBILITY
CONCERN
CONNECTION
We use these factors to drive the critical 'measureables' in any programme and to design the skillsets that are relevant to the target audience, to the context they face and to the challenges they need to confront.
Our training is essentially about excellence with interpersonal skills.
Our philosophy is best expressed thus: "not all communication can be perfect, but you can get it more right, more often, with more people"!
How can we achieve this?
Our aim is to grow people's capability out of their own authenticity and personal make-up. A key facet in communication and influencing is to be able to adapt your behaviour and messages to pace other people's goals and needs without losing your own integrity and ensuring your goals are achieved. Delegates are treated as individuals and our programmes enable them to understand their own preferences and strengths while also working on aspects of their approach and mindset that are creating limitations.
Whether pitching, negotiating, selling, speaking or influencing, it all starts with who we are and how we are perceived; by understanding how we and others use behaviour to achieve different goals, we can better assess our strategy and tactics to create win/win outcomes.
As a rather cynical, yet realistic, union negotiator once proclaimed, "at the very least, we can focus on making things less worse, so long as we are moving in a positive direction!" Well our aim is for our participants to do better than that, but sometimes this can be the realistic starting point, especially when dealing with internal politics and difficult stakeholders!
TO CONTACT US TO DISCUSS YOUR TRAINING NEEDS
Keynote Speaker / Offsites
Imagine your people being inspired by what is possible, by what others have achieved and relating it to their own personal stretch and ambitions!
When we experience together the positivity, humour and passionate energy of a well-targeted presentation, this can produce the requisite adrenalin rush the business is seeking in the push for the next challenges facing the organisation, division or department.
The success of many of the projects we are involved with often depends, to a large degree, on motivating others to take action. Unless we feel inspired to do something different, to contribute to business goals in a refreshing and re-energised way, then the stamina and resoluteness required to see through a challenging initiative is compromised.
It is an accepted paradigm that we need to SEE EACH OTHER AS A TEAM, FEEL LIKE A TEAM AND HEAR EACH OTHER AS A TEAM.
That is why we also offer inspirational insights into leadership, teamwork, customer service, sales and personal effectiveness in a conference setting.
We offer a range of topics related to personal motivation, inspiring leadership, teamwork excellence, continuous improvement, exceptional customer service and being a sales superstar; but more importantly, we can respond to your context and preferred topic, designing a highly professional and motivating product that will create the excitement and infusion of enthusiasm that you are seeking.
TO DISCUSS YOUR OFFSITE OR CONFERENCE NEEDS
Tailored Requirements
At SYNERGY5 we don't profess to have all the answers, but we are dedicated to finding the right answer for your context. When we cannot help we will tell you.
Meantime, after more than 30 years in the training industry, we are proud of the associations and links we have maintained with many consultants and operatives around the globe. We believe that somewhere within our own experience or network exists the answer you may be looking for.
A Danish financial institution wanted to launch a key initiative across their corporate banking sector, we found a conference manager and a keynote speaker to provide the 'lift-off' they were seeking!