The PHA Group
People Management
Workshop: Leading Vps-SVPs
Tuesday 17 November 2026
09.30 - 12.45
Venue
The PHA Group
Floor 5, 11 Slingsby Place, London, WC2E 9AB
About the Training
This will prepare the SVPs to lead more strategically as they move towards senior roles. Participants will come away able to influence, develop others, and handle harder conversations with confidence.
Strategic Management
· Prioritise your time to focus on what really matters strategically, balancing priorities across different parts of the business
· Spend more time on the ‘balcony’ versus the ‘dancefloor’
· Challenge more, to unlock potential and increase motivation
· Get to grips with the high challenge-high support principles and identify your underlying beliefs as a manager
Emotional Intelligence
· Develop self-awareness around your natural management inclinations (Goleman)
· Acknowledge the range of approaches and learn how to apply them in different settings
· Encourage insight, accountability, and action via coaching
· Practice advanced questioning skills and active listening
Delegating & Briefing
· Deliver excellent briefings, delegating effectively to all levels
· Strike the perfect balance between ‘remote’ and ‘approachable’ – managerial, not matey
· Appreciate how to brief colleagues according to their competence and maturity
· Check for understanding, provide space for enquiry and recognise incongruous nonverbal signals
““Izzy is a friendly, warm presenter and made me feel at ease. I’ve learned so much and I have more take aways from this than a lot of other courses I’ve done. I’d recommend to anyone – thank you!””
““I was really blown away by Izzy’s training. She provided practical and really useful insights. As well as that, she delivered the training in a positive and warm manner.”
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““Izzy provided lots of very helpful tools that can help deliver more effective leadership and get more from my teams to help me focus on my own career progression whilst benefitting others””
About Isobel
Isobel is an expert trainer, executive coach and senior communications professional. She has been delivering bespoke workshops to marketing agencies, in-house teams and individuals for a number of years. Her talent is in tailoring training sessions to clients' specific objectives, and her style is known for being energetic and engaging.
She is rated extremely highly by her clients, which include Unlimited, FleishmanHillard, Four Communications, Lansons, Eulogy, Babel PR and Nelson Bostock.
She is licensed in Insights Discovery and has the privilege of being an accredited trainer for the Chartered Institute of Public Relations, where she runs training on a range of topics.
Before becoming a trainer, Isobel worked in the marketing industry for over 15 years, working both agency-side and as Head of Communications for Williams F1. As such, she brings deep understanding of communication, audience engagement, and influence and persuasion to all of her workshops.