About PEI Plc.
Building on the life's work of Dr Paul Ekman over the last 40 years,
Paul Ekman International plc (PEI) has been established to make
emotional skills and deception programmes more widely
accessible.
With the international head office in Manchester, UK, the
Managing Director, Cliff Lansley is responsible for building a
network of quality assured Licensed Delivery Centres who will
provide the training for individuals and for organisations across
public, private and voluntary sectors.
The wide applications and benefits of this emotion based training are outlined by Dr Ekman as follows:
"In any transaction that matters whether it's between lovers, between parent and child, between salesman and client, between doctor and patient, between suspect and interrogator, between adversaries at an election, emotion is what we're looking for. Emotions tell us what matters." - Paul Ekman (www.bigthink.com/think-tank/lie-to-me)
Cliff is the Managing Director of 'Emotional Intelligence Academy Ltd' (EIA). EIA (www.emotionintell.co.uk) specialises is using reliable science in developing and delivering programmes in emotional awareness and deception. EIA is the parent company of Paul Ekman International plc which is the sole authorised global provider of training approved by Dr Paul Ekman (www.ekmaninternational.com) - established to spread this Ekman Approved, science-based training around the globe.
Cliff graduated in the UK in education/psychology at
Manchester University and has over 25 years experience working at
senior levels in public and private sector organisations
facilitating leadership, communications, emotional intelligence and
coaching programmes. His mission over the last eight years has been
to gather the science and push forward the research that can
'harden' the often termed 'soft-skill' of emotional awareness and
management (self and others) so that it is embraced more
confidently by public/private employers and schools.
Part of this innovative work aims to demonstrate how relevant
research can be used in professionally designed training programmes
to reliably train professionals from all sectors to read the true
emotions of others, real-time, without technology, using the five
communication channels of face, body, voice, verbal style and
verbal content.
These professionals can then use this ability to work out what people are really thinking and feeling - also helping those in the legal and security sectors to distinguish between those who are being truthful and those who are not about their identity, recent episodes and intentions in high-stake contexts. Once the accuracy levels consistently exceed 90% Cliff is confident that the legal/security sectors adoption of the science will help commercial and public organisations to see the value too in understanding customers, clients, stakeholders and competitors. Cliff and his team have built a laboratory in Manchester to support the training design. He has developed a multi-disciplinary MSc in Forensic Emotion Awareness and is engaging PhD students within the laboratory to further the research into how best to develop reliable training courses and tools that can make learning effective and efficient.
PEI has now established 12 Licensed Delivery Centres around the world and this network will rise to 50 Centres over the next 4 years.
The core modules being offered through those Centres include:
Emotional Skills and Competencies (ESaC)
Evaluating Truthfulness and Credibility (ETaC).
Some of our organisational clients are large enough to have
their own trainers trained and accredited to deliver one or both of
the two core programmes. This means they can deliver authorised
Paul Ekman training under license to their employees. Consultancy
and training organisations can do the same so they can deliver the
programmes commercially.
Applicants to the Train the Trainer programme will be
associated with, or become, a Licensed Delivery Centre (see below).
They must be professional, experienced trainers with a strong
background in social sciences and/or extensive experience within
the emotional skills, deception and communication training
area.
Accredited Trainer (AT) - a trainer, associated
with a LDC (or LLDC) who has both completed the intensive Train the
Trainer programme and met the high standards demanded of
trainers associated with PEI and our centres.
Accredited Trainer of Trainers (ATT) - a senior
trainer employed or commissioned by PEI to deliver Trainer
Training.
Licensed Delivery Centres (LDCs) - Accredited
Trainers operate within a quality assured Licensed Delivery
Centre(LDC). These centres are supported with materials and
resources to help them deliver top quality programmes to their
clients/employees (more details below).
At Paul Ekman International PLC, we welcome
applications from new and established training units who believe
they can help take this training into their specialist sectors and
locality.
This is the infrastructure...
Paul Ekman International PLC (PEI) - the
company has been licensed by the Paul Ekman Group as the sole
authorized provider of Paul Ekman training in the UK, Australia,
New Zealand and the Republic of Ireland. Its role is to build
on the science and training experience of Dr. Ekman by developing
and deploying high quality training programmes and materials in
these countries.
Lead Licensed Delivery Centres (LLDC) - are being
established in each major territory. PEI is establishing LLDCs to
spearhead the development and growth of the delivery infrastructure
and to quality assure training practice across those
territories.
An example of an LLDC is our first one - Emotional Intelligence Academy Ltd (EIA)
If you would like more information about this initiative you can start by contacting us here .
Licensed Delivery Centres (LDC) - these hold a License direct with PEI to promote, sell and deliver the Paul Ekman training modules within their territories. An LDC will be a separate legal entity having strong internal training ability and is interested in adding PEI modules to their repertoire for their employees and/or clients. There will be two main types of LDC:
Corporate LDC - a large private/public/social organization that may have its own human resources or organizational development function that wants to train internal employees using PEI Core Modules.
Commercial LDC - a private/public/social organization whose primary business is training and development. This could be a University, a private training company or even a commercial HR department of a corporate who offers services outside of their employees, but within the Territory of their LLDC. We will secure a sector spread of LDCs so that we have geographical and sector expertise led provision across areas including those below.
Commercial LDCs (will usually specialise by sector(s) within Countries/Regions):
Law Enforcement, National Security, Private
Security, Entertainment/Drama
Human Resource Management
(Personnel/Selection/Appraisal/Disciplinary), Human Resource
Development (Training/Assessment/Coaching), Sports
Coaching, Counselling,
Sales, Purchasing/Procurement, Customer
Service, Leaders/Managers, Community Health,
Primary/Secondary
Health, Friends/Social, Relationships/Love, Family
Unit/Children, Social Services, Animation and Art, Claims
adjusters, Compliance
officers, Mediation, Negotiation, Taxation, Benefit
Claims, Judiciary, Lawyers/Barristers, Animal
Care, Advertising, Labour
relations, Accountants/Auditors, Market
Research, Teachers of children, Teachers/Trainers of
adults, Pre-School Child Care, Sports,
Interviewing (General), Interrogation,
Hotel/Hospitality, Self Management (General), Self
Management (High Profile/TV),
Finance/Loans/Banks, Secretary/assistants, Immigration
Control, Vigilance/Awareness.
Corporate LDCs (large private/public/social organization
that wish to train internal employees):
Company A
Company B
Company C - Z
Local Authority A-Z Police Authority A-Z
Hospital Trust A-Z
Voluntary Sector Organisation A-Z
Govt Agency A-Z ….Etc.
If you are interested in becoming a Licensed Delivery Centre please contact us.