TEXEM
Executive
Development
“These Executive Minds” (TEXEM) is one of the UK’s pre-eminent consulting firms
We offer organisations actionable frameworks in the areas of consulting, executive development, and recruitment.
Through our services, we have collaborated with hundreds of organisations globally and helped them achieve their goals efficiently and effectively – in terms of both overcoming adversity and achieving prosperity.
We design and offer dynamic development programmes for directors and senior managers operating in the private and public sector globally. Our programmes are driven by factual data on the nuances of doing business in these regions. They also incorporate global contextual challenges and opportunities.
Our extensive network will enable you to deliver the best and most culturally aligned candidates to your organisation and thus allow you to attain a sustained competitive advantage.
Based on our impressive record of always championing excellence, we have collaborated with renowned universities in co-designing and delivering programmes such as:
- The University of Cambridge
- The University of Oxford
- The London School of Economics and Political Science
- Manchester Business School
- The University of Leicester
- Aston Business School
TEXEM partners with organisations to offer leaders and create innovative solutions that suit the current business landscape.
With your commitment and our expertise, we will produce ideas that change the world. Whether your aim is to earn a certification or acquire new knowledge and skills, you will learn from a team of highly experienced and respected practitioners.
CORE COMPETENCIES/EXPERTISE AREAS IN FOUNDATIONAL /FUNCTIONAL SKILLS/CBTS
TEXEM has an excellent reputation for offering tailored, relevant and context-rich executive education programmes which are relevant and have a significant impact on the bottom line.
Our programmes are of great value for money, in terms of quality and customisation.
A broad and solid network of key stakeholders in Europe and North America that we deploy towards the delivery of executive development programmes.
TEXEM, UK demonstrates an impressive track record on customer satisfaction, with over 70% of our delegates being repeat customers.
Our programmes offer great networking opportunities. We have very senior executives as participants and over six hundred years’ experience of participants and faculties in every programme; thus, steepening participants’ learning curve via peer-to-peer learning moderated by world-renowned faculties.
TEXEM has an unparalleled understanding of the challenges that organisations face and has a committed, distinguished advisory board, which has a passion for the growth of Africa.
One of TEXEM, UK’s Competitive Edge is Our Partners;
We have partnered with renowned organisations and universities such as:
Microsoft, Accenture, McKinsey & Co., Jaguar Land Rover, Bentley Motors, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, Oxford University Press, University of Cambridge, Aston Business School, Manchester Business School, University of Oxford, London School of Economics and Political Science, University of Leicester, Cambridge University Press.
THE TEXEM, UK COACHING EDGE
All our programmes are designed to include actionable coaching that equips executives with requisite insights on how to efficiently innovate and adapt their leadership style to address organisational contextual realities. Some of the Strategic Organisational challenges that our programmes will help address through coaching include changes such as those due to the implementation of new technology and adapting to fiscal revenue generation reforms that would transform the organisation. Others include; change in organisational culture, and new fiscal, financial, legal and regulatory developments such as Tax Policy Reforms like the recent introduction of Value Added Tax (VAT) and the risks and opportunities this offers. In addition, all our programmes help executives develop critical leadership skills such as communication, influence, negotiation, confidence, empathy and self-awareness. The TEXEM coaching edge methodology entails support and tailored guidance, challenging the executives’ assumptions, facilitating behavioural change, optimising performance and ultimately achieving sustainable success.
Our pedagogy entails helping executives to develop specific new awareness and skills – such as those required because of increased visibility (contexts such as engaging stakeholders-regulators, partners, colleagues).
OUR VIRTUAL ADVANTAGE
At TEXEM, we encourage our senior executives to make challenges their vitamins. We also practice what we preach. Virtual capacity development programmes became an essential aspect of our mode of delivery due to the global socio-economic and health pandemic that resulted from the COVID-19 virus. We have had various successful virtual programmes, and we utilise TEXEM‘s tested and proven methodology that makes pedagogy fun, learning engaging, stimulates collaboration and optimises assimilation. Through our insightful, exciting and behavioural changing virtual programmes, our distinguished stakeholders who participate in our programmes articulate that they get bumper returns on investment from participating in our virtual programmes.
For example, TEXEM just concluded a six-week virtual programme titled ‘effective leadership for sustainable success’ comprising one hour of daily self-study and two hours of live study via a technology platform. As always, this TEXEM programme was delivered by our illustrious faculties from Ivy League and Russell group institutions and world-renowned decision-makers. We encouraged participants to study at their convenience through our learning management system while still working for their different organisations. The content for the six-week programme comprised of videos, short articles, case studies, group discussion and self-reflection were updated weekly. To stimulate participant engagement, various thought-provoking questions were poised on the platform. This gave room for stakeholder engagement, and participants earned more points through the reward scheme made available. Our top 5 participants were rewarded weekly, and this created a healthy competition among all our participants.
We had live sessions every Saturday evening. This was facilitated by scholars and experienced individuals from global organisations and institutions such as Cambridge University Enterprise, London Business School, Ashridge, Ambassadors to various countries, etc. These sessions were conducted via zoom, and we explored the breakout room function to stimulate brainstorming and group discussion. Participants were able to network and proffer solutions to their assigned task in minutes. This simulates the fast-paced nature of their operating environment and subtly instills in them the importance of effective time management, collaboration, and the need to develop the capability to make optimal decisions in challenging times. Also, the topics covered, including the leadership carousels, optimising motivation, managing organisational politics, winning strategies etc., reflected the contextual realities of operating in developing countries. Participants attested to the uniqueness, relevance, and ease of applicability of the modules.
Game sessions were included in the live session itinerary; this stimulated goal-setting enhanced their capability to multi-task, and introduced an element of healthy competition. These sessions kept our participants engaged, as they were aware that questions addressing the facilitator’s lecture would be posed during the live Q&A session. A good number of them got the answers right, but only the fastest received the prize. Towards the end of our six-week programme, we clustered our participants into six groups and presented them with an assessment. This assessment enabled them to examine real-life scenarios and apply all that was learnt during the programme. Participants explained that the programme assessment helped them to develop more self-awareness of their leadership blind spots, equipped them with requisite tool kits on how to address leadership weakness and enhanced their capability to capitalise on their strengths.
Our dynamic methodology helped participants to build an emotional connection to learning and the subject matter, provided an opportunity for feedback and practice, and the programme was customised to individualised teaching. Participants attested to the fact that they even forgot it was a virtual programme. This is because the interactions were real, and there was never a dull moment. The quality of our faculties also aided the creation of the right learning atmosphere as they regularly engaged our participants during the session. The module was designed to reflect how to address organisational challenges in both certain and uncertain times for effective and efficient achievement of goals. Stimulating higher morale, optimising performance, and attaining sustainable success were key benefits that the participants confirmed they learned from the programme.
