visavant training offers a vast range of exciting, interactive professional development courses, customised to meet specific customer requirements.Topics covered by our highly skilled team of business practitioners include:Cross cultural communicationsInternational business developmentMarketingSalesCustomer serviceFinanceBusiness correspondenceEffective presentationsTradeshow planning and exhibitingGoal settingLeadershipAll… Show more visavant training offers a vast range of exciting, interactive professional development courses, customised to meet specific customer requirements.Topics covered by our highly skilled team of business practitioners include:Cross cultural communicationsInternational business developmentMarketingSalesCustomer serviceFinanceBusiness correspondenceEffective presentationsTradeshow planning and exhibitingGoal settingLeadershipAll visavant trainer/facilitators are trained business professionals who teach and mix practical and theoretical knowledge in an easy-to-understand, entertaining manner. Participants learn skills that they can apply today! Show less

Iconoclastic, irreverent, entrepreneurial adventurer/philosopher, Peter S. Cooper, has spent more than half his life living outside his native California, travelling to distant lands and experiencing, first-hand, what it’s like to live and work both within and across a variety of cultures. His many adventures have helped shape his concept of being a guerrilla globalist™ and he has written a manifesto to inspire others to positively engage with different societies and learn from… Show more Iconoclastic, irreverent, entrepreneurial adventurer/philosopher, Peter S. Cooper, has spent more than half his life living outside his native California, travelling to distant lands and experiencing, first-hand, what it’s like to live and work both within and across a variety of cultures. His many adventures have helped shape his concept of being a guerrilla globalist™ and he has written a manifesto to inspire others to positively engage with different societies and learn from them.Peter sees his form of globalisation being quite different from that promoted by multinational companies and other organisations in that he promotes the use of ancient Asian concepts to forge links between groups by understanding their differences and then focusing on areas that they have in common to create mutual trust and respect between parties, bringing them closer together – what the Chinese call guanxi, or personal connections/relationships.A successful entrepreneur in a wide variety of businesses, Peter shares his skills through his entertaining and often humorous public presentations and well as facilitating a range of professional skills workshops, internationally. Those attending these events have reported that they have gone away both motivated and inspired to apply what they’ve learned in their own lives. Show less

a business consultancy specifically focused on bilateral trade with China: 2006/07: Development of a range of inbound tours with companies in Dalian and Shenyang, China;Responsible for the concrete pumping project mentioned above, as well as representing a number of NZ-based secondary and tertiary educational institutions in Northeast China

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an international marketing and business consultancy:Specialises in companies who are either on a high rate of growth or are having difficulty in doing business in the current, ever-changing economic climate. Services include analysis of current company situation and advising future courses of action, product development, writing of business plans and general marketing and sales activities. Customers have included both New Zealand based and overseas organisations. 2008: Mobile Manager… Show more an international marketing and business consultancy:Specialises in companies who are either on a high rate of growth or are having difficulty in doing business in the current, ever-changing economic climate. Services include analysis of current company situation and advising future courses of action, product development, writing of business plans and general marketing and sales activities. Customers have included both New Zealand based and overseas organisations. 2008: Mobile Manager for the NZ Ministry of Justice Electoral Office. Role included overall monitoring and management of six polling places, assisting the Polling Place Managers when problems arose and ensured the polling places had sufficient supplies on hand. Oversaw the preliminary count of votes of the recent Federal Election at one of the key polling places;2006: Appointed as an approved contractor for the New Zealand International Aid and Development Agency (part of the NZ Ministry of Foreign Affairs);2005/6: Feasibility study for establishing an advanced IT business in NZ for a Chinese SOE; Show less

Coordination of NZ company's activities with its Australian J-V (now subsidiary company, as advised by the writer), sales into the local OEM market, setting up of communication and administration systems between the various Criterion companies (primarily the J-V in Australia) and the writing of business plans.Successfully achieved majority of market share in Australia's OEM Consumer Electronics market by taking a market-back approach to product development, which maximised both the… Show more Coordination of NZ company's activities with its Australian J-V (now subsidiary company, as advised by the writer), sales into the local OEM market, setting up of communication and administration systems between the various Criterion companies (primarily the J-V in Australia) and the writing of business plans.Successfully achieved majority of market share in Australia's OEM Consumer Electronics market by taking a market-back approach to product development, which maximised both the company's success rate and profitability.Developed the industry's first rack unit/speaker stands system for midi-sized audio systems, to replace lost business for full-sized rack units.Successfully identified the possibility of NZ Consumer Electronics companies to combine requirements for electronics furniture with their Australian counterparts to reduce unit costs and maximise profitability for all parties.Developed sales literature in-house for the company's own retail range, including concept, design and copy.Assisted in the development and launch of the company's first office furniture range. Show less

Product ranges included Armourware Polycarbonate Drinkware, CPI plastic industrial bins and drums, Douglas Bean hospital plasticware, Duraware Melamine Tableware, CPI industrial phenolic products. Responsibilities included marketing and sales of said products along with custom moulding services.Handled a number of export activities including the successful launch of Armourware into the Australian hospitality market, as well as sales of other products into Asia and the South… Show more Product ranges included Armourware Polycarbonate Drinkware, CPI plastic industrial bins and drums, Douglas Bean hospital plasticware, Duraware Melamine Tableware, CPI industrial phenolic products. Responsibilities included marketing and sales of said products along with custom moulding services.Handled a number of export activities including the successful launch of Armourware into the Australian hospitality market, as well as sales of other products into Asia and the South Pacific.Successfully relaunched CPI's range of industrial bins and containers, including the design and implementation of a trade show exhibit, sales literature, etc. Was also called on to do some M&A activities for the company via Show less

Responsible for servicing key accounts in the Auckland Region including F&P, Masport, NZ Steel, etc. Performed sales training of staff; acted as 2 IC of Auckland branch. Designed conveyor and other materials handling systems for customers, when required including a turntable system for NZ Rail Roadservices and a double-decker conveyor unit for Autocrat-Sanyo's Carr Road, Mt. Roskill TV assembly operation.Developed a system of referring business to customers on the basis of Paykel… Show more Responsible for servicing key accounts in the Auckland Region including F&P, Masport, NZ Steel, etc. Performed sales training of staff; acted as 2 IC of Auckland branch. Designed conveyor and other materials handling systems for customers, when required including a turntable system for NZ Rail Roadservices and a double-decker conveyor unit for Autocrat-Sanyo's Carr Road, Mt. Roskill TV assembly operation.Developed a system of referring business to customers on the basis of Paykel bidding on the products it supplied for a project, which achieved some success for both parties.Directly involved with the practical aspects of Paykel's merger with Andrews & Bevan in 1993, including training of staff in A&B's range, assisting A&B staff members to settle into the merged company, and discuss the merger with key accounts.Successful in reestablishing business with a number of key accounts which had previously ceased trading with the company.Arranged visits to key customers for staff of overseas suppliers to gain insights into the NZ market. Show less

Responsible for engineering, proprietary product development, marketing and sales and quality assurance. Instituted TQA system in 1976 and an MRP II system in 1980. Developed new workflow systems, including a preventative maintenance programme for tooling, vehicles and machinery, which was able to treble EBIT within twelve months, with an annual growth rate, adjusted for inflation of over 25% per annum. This was at a time of severe recession within the US economy.Trained as a… Show more Responsible for engineering, proprietary product development, marketing and sales and quality assurance. Instituted TQA system in 1976 and an MRP II system in 1980. Developed new workflow systems, including a preventative maintenance programme for tooling, vehicles and machinery, which was able to treble EBIT within twelve months, with an annual growth rate, adjusted for inflation of over 25% per annum. This was at a time of severe recession within the US economy.Trained as a toolmaker Show less

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