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Saïd Business School, Oxford

Michael Gates, our Group MD, has been delivering a number of programmes for the Saïd Business School at Oxford University. A recent and fascinating one was a cross-cultural session for the Small Countries Financial Management Programme, aimed at helping tiny economies like the Cook Islands, Samoa, St. Kitts and Nevis, etc., run their financial affairs more effectively and securely, and negotiate more successfully with larger countries. More information here: http://www.gov.im/treasury/scfmc/programme.xml

The main initiative he has been working on, though, is the Oxford Programme on Negotiation (OPN) http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/execed/leadership/opn/Pages/teaches.aspx

This is a high-level open executive programme given by some of the world's top negotiation, persuasion and ethics trainers, mainly from Harvard and Oxford. Some years ago a little-known gentleman called Barack Obama attended the sessions on persuasion which one of the OPN trainers, Professor Gary Orren, has now brought from Harvard to Oxford!

If you are interested in seeing how a customised in-house version of OPN could work for your organisation, write to michael.gates@rlcglobal.com

28/09/2009

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Riversdown House brochure in various languages

Our new brochure has now been translated into the following languages: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish. All the translations are available to download at

05/12/2011

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Facebook

Riversdown House, our residential centre for intensive English training, has recently started its own Facebook page. The URL is

07/11/2011

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OECD executive

"We are drowning in...

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Kolik jazyků umíš, tolikrát jsi člověkem

A philosophically interesting Czech proverb meaning, roughly: "One...

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Our award winning e-learning site is relaunched with over 150 new features and enhancements

Based on the Lewis Model of Culture, the new 'integrated' site features dramatic improvements in navigation, as well as a huge number of new features, both for end-users and trainers. As a bonus, the assessments are now available in German and Japanese, with more languages to follow!