Gary Peacock
Head of Innovation and Research
Gary Peacock is a specialist in improving and sustaining business performance. Gary improves performance through Business Coaching on implementing effective strategies and Change Management tactics to influence daily team behaviour.
One of Gary’s specialities is presenting and communicating complex information in simple and interesting ways to diverse audiences from the boardroom to the factory. He is able to solve complex problems with creative and practical solutions.
A good analyst with exceptional negotiation skills, he has regularly been involved in resolving complex commercial disputes with multiple parties including overseas companies.
Gary has over 20 years experience in various capacities, including sales, engineering, production and service. His hands-on experience enables him to understand the challenges of changing daily behaviours of operations staff and sustaining high-growth business.
Having studied Change Management at postgraduate level at the Australian Graduate School of Management, Gary is now a leader in the field. He has implemented successful changes in fast-growing and mature organisations by linking high-level objectives to daily actions, providing practical tools for diagnosis and action and showing methods for communicating complex information.
Gary has a Masters degree from Cranfield, a leading technology school in the UK and an MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management. He is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Gary is also the co-author of: the business book ‘Persuading for Results’ and the amazing business tool ‘The Idea Pack’.
Persuading for Results
by Stephen Kozicki and Gary Peacock
When persuading for results, you will need to persuade individuals and to persuade groups. For most high-stakes persuasion, you must persuade a group – a group with diverse people, with diverse interests and with diverse opinions – this book will make you more effective at persuading groups. We want to help you persuade for results: to become capable of influencing, inspiring and directing behaviour.
Revealed in this book …
- Breakthrough thinking for faster preparation
- Using language persuasively
- Effective methods of persuasion
- Persuading with stories
- Buying styles
- Persuading with images
- Influencing executives
- Most common mistakes
Introducing a new way of thinking about persuasion – emphasizing the importance of the audience, focusing on action outcomes and balancing content and style – we give you a fresh way to persuade for results. If you want to be more effective at persuading for results, you must become a persuasive presenter.
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The Idea Pack
By Gary Peacock & Peter Browne
Why do we need to solve impossible problems?
For most of us the world is getting faster, more complex and more competitive. We have less time to solve seemingly impossible problems and we need to move faster to take advantage of new opportunities.
Sometimes it feels like we are either battling to find our way out of our current problem or wondering how we are going to find time to pursue a new opportunity. To compete in a tough environment, individuals and organizations need to be creative, innovative and act faster.
This pack provides a way to harness creativity and innovation and create ideas for action quickly. These cards will provoke you to think differently. They will trigger your creativity and help you generate ideas quickly. This means you can reduce the time it takes you to reach a solution.
This pack will help you:
- Quickly build a competitive advantage through creativity and innovation
- Have fun while you solve your impossible problems
- Solve your impossible problems faster