Dylan Forbes

B.Sc. Psych (Hon.), Pr. AINLP

Dylan Forbes is widely travelled and combines a high level of interpersonal and presentation skills with strong analytical ability and a range of technical skills. Assisting on Leaderskill courses after finishing high school, he went on to graduate in psychology, becoming consultant and director with the company. His professional skills cover these areas:

• Start-up Mega Planning: instigator and co-developer of Leaderskill Group’s program aimed at fast-tracking business into sustainable practice that will ensure the wellbeing of future generations.
  
  He co-presented a paper on Planning the Future with Shared Values at the 2003 Conference of the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI Sydney), he is co-author of Start-up Mega Planning, published in ISPI's Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2005 and co-author of Creating a Compelling Ideal Vision, published in ISPI's Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2010
• Facilitating Cross-functional Teams : Dylan extended Leaderskill's methods of facilitation based on the practices of Positive Psychology and Appreciative Inquiry (AI)
• Training: His teaching methods include experiential and self-directed learning, role-play, one-to-one coaching, small study-groups, lecture and slide presentations, educational tours and creative learning techniques
• Counselling: training over many years in listening, mediation and problem solving skills, with practical experience in both professional and informal contexts – active listening, assertiveness, communication and conflict resolution. Accredited Practitioner in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)
• Communication: published editor, skilled in customer service, sales, and development of marketing material. Special skill in sifting through loosely defined and ambiguous situations to reach an accurate assessment of needs
• Surveys: developing and advising on surveys for Leaderskill's clients including: Change Skills, Interpersonal Skills, Teamwork, Competency Assessment, Climate, and Trust. Also mapping Capability, Competency and Values Frameworks onto the Leader/Manager Model™
• Research: co-creator of surveys on Change and EI, and preparation of clear and powerful reports, with statistical analysis
• Computing: website design and the Internet
• Other languages: Spanish and German.

Professional Training

The highlights of Dylan's training have been:

• Strategic Planning and Needs Assessment trainings with Professor Roger Kaufman, 1992 & 1999, 2000
• Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) - Practitioner, completed 1999
• 360 Facilitated®: Accredited Facilitator for this 360 degree feedback process of management development since its inception. 1995
• Facilitative Leadership and Teamskills: Accredited Trainer – program for managers and leaders to develop communication and Win-Win conflict resolution skills. With Leaderskill from 1988
• RSA/Cambridge Certificate of TEFLA, an intensive structured program to teach English as a foreign language, UK, 1993.

Testimonials

"The Leader/Manager model is very, very good and has benefits well beyond the obvious and advertised purpose. Coachees really value its ‘face validity', its power and ease of use..."

Eddie Paterson FAIM, internal executive coach, telecommunications company, Australia.

“All team members who participated found it easy and commented how well it worked. The process of customising was seamless and perfect. Feedback from all team members has been positive and extremely useful for their future development plans. I have recommended the department continues running the 360 survey..."

Victoria Elgott, HR Project Manager of a major Australian bank

“Great site - with a lot of articles that helped me understand what a 360 can really be."

Kate Simpson, Program Manager, Fortinberry & Murray. Australia.

"Leaderskill Group has assisted our strategic planning with their Mega Planning methodology for over seven years. In the article we co-wrote, I estimated that Defence Consulting had saved between 5 and 8 million dollars – without counting the savings of our stakeholders, including government – just on the redevelopment of the historical Randwick Barracks site in Sydney."

Peter Hoskins, Principal, Woods Bagot 

(See published article: ‘Profit and Benefits from Planning for Sustainability’).

“I now use 360faciliated profiles as an integral part of my executive coaching work at the Australian Institute of Management [AIM, Qld]”

Gary Cox, New Directions Career Consultants, Qld, Australia.

“We were extremely impressed with the tools that you have available and very much appreciated the flexibility you showed in adapting to our needs”

Dr Julie Stockton, HR Manager, University of British Columbia, BC, Canada.

“The most significant intervention we have undertaken. Influenced the growth and learning of our managers as leaders ...”

Snr Manager, SADAF Petrochemical Co., Saudi Arabia.

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