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Centre for Political and Diplomatic Studies T: 07519 464449 | E: cpds@cpds.co.uk | W: www.cpds.training
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About Us
CPDS was created to enable professionals in international relations to perform at the highest level.
At the Centre for Political and Diplomatic Studies (CPDS), we provide bespoke training, drawing on a global network of expert leaders with decades of hands-on experience of what it’s like to handle a situation in which every move has mattered.
Navigating a turbulent world has never been easy.
Hyper-connected interdependence, climate change and migration crises have made it even more complex – not to mention the global pandemic.
Articulating your case, advocating your cause and effectively advancing your interests are increasingly challenging. These skills can’t all be learnt. Good judgment can’t be memorised, nor downloaded online. But experience can be shared, and wisdom passed on.
Our Courses
Our bespoke training courses cut across traditional and departmental lines, delivering the best of what’s needed on any specific project.
How well-equipped are you to understand the key dynamics, build trust, protect your people, and close a deal? Can you motivate and communicate, credibly and compellingly? Our highly experienced mentors can help – and love doing so.
CPDS enables you to work with them in small groups, in an exclusive setting. Our mentors engage you in real-life scenarios, where the issues loom large and your decisions may save lives, or cost millions.
They will guide you through those tailored tasks, sharing what they did in similar tight spots, providing you with personal constructive feedback so that you are stronger, wiser and more confident when managing such challenges on your own.
Why CPDS?
Proven track record : We have decades of experience training diplomatic skills to corporate professionals and preparing public sector officials for bilateral and multilateral negotiations.
Bespoke courses : We do not provide standard courses; we will design the setting, pace and complexity of the course is consultation with you.
Exciting simulations : We use realistic, current and interactive exercises that are as close as possible to your real-life situation, enabling you to train for the real thing in groups of maximum 8 people.
Blended learning : We provide courses on-line, face-to-face or in hybrid, blended learning training sessions. (link to sneak preview online session, slides + voice-over)
Specialist trainers : Through our large, global pool of expert practitioners, we will provide you with the professional quality, personal feedback and insider perspective you need.
Socially sustainable : Our participative approach is based on gender balance and creates peer group effects that guarantee an enduring impact of the training experience.
| International Negotiation Skills | Political Analysis and Policy-Making | Reporting and Briefing |
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Taking care of one’s interest often requires negotiation, whether you work for a government, international organisation or a private enterprise. This highly participatory course is delivered by trainers with extensive international negotiation experience, and designed to give participants a practical understanding of the contexts, challenges and techniques of international negotiation. |
Policy – or the lack of it – determines where the world is going and you want to engage and shape, not to be a bystander. To develop your skills to understand and contribute to the policy-making process we will engage you in immersive exercises that will boost your skills to analyse and formulate policy. We will provide you with effective tools and exclusive feedback that will allow you to become a player, rather than just a stakeholder. |
Top level decision-makers like Ministers and CEO’s depend on information that is accurate, timely, complete and concise. We will help you become the excellent communicators supporting them, providing them with the quality reporting and briefing that they need. |
| Chairing Meetings | Influencing and Network-Building | Speechwriting and Speechmaking |
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The performance and quality of Chair is a decisive factor for the success of a meeting. This applies in particular to meetings… |
Being a player in the making and executing of policy is not possible without a relevant, well-functioning and effective network. Our trainers will provide their vast practical know-how and share their experience how to build and maintain your network and how to make it perform in a way that best serves your objectives. |
Getting the message across and making sure it has the intended impact. Speechwriting and speechmaking requires careful preparation and convincing delivery. Together… |
We train diplomats, civil servants, corporate executives and politicians from organisations and companies around the world.
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