About our training

Organisational Profile

P ECS was originally established in South Africa in 1949 as Production Engineering Limited, the local subsidiary of a major British Consultancy. The company’s name was changed to P E Consulting Group during the 1960’s, to mark the shift from its initial focus on productivity improvement to more broadly based multi disciplinary consulting.

The company’s current trading identity, P E Corporate Services S A (Pty) Ltd, was assumed in 1985. This reflects more accurately the broad range of consulting and training products and services available to assist clients.

We pride ourselves on the fact that our client base now exceeds 5,000 South African organisations spanning public and private sector organisations in every industry and region of Southern Africa.

P E Corporate Services has been in the field of management training since the 1950’s. We started in the area of technique training in work-study and related subjects. From there the range broadened to cover a full spectrum of techniques including areas such as operations management, project management and finance. Training in the soft skills was added in the 1970,s. The flagship programme here was leadership training in the Situational Leadership® model for which we are the Southern African representative in an international network of affiliates. At the global level theSituational Leadership® model is regarded as an important piece in the mosaic of skills required for leadership at both the individual and team levels. Over the years many other programmes have been added in the fields of general and functional management, human interaction, communications, teamwork and customer care. To-day P ECS offers one of the widest ranges of management skills training of all the major management consultancies.

Our mission is to provide our clients with a portfolio of management consulting, training and related professional services which enhance both organisational and individual performance applying skills in which P ECS enjoys world class expertise.

In support of our mission, we are dedicated to searching for and achieving standards of professional excellence that assist our clients in producing effective results.This places on us a requirement for sustained innovation and responsiveness to client needs. It is a challenge we enjoy.

P ECS recent achievements include being awarded the P.M.R. (Professional Management Review) “Golden Arrow” Award for 2000, as the top rated human resource consultancy in South Africa. The award, discontinued in 2001, was the result of a comprehensive survey of the human resource consulting industry carried out by the Professional Management Review magazine.

Offices and Locations
P ECS’ headquarters and principal place of business is in Johannesburg where the majority of professional staff are located.
Gauteng - P E Corporate Services, 77 Bristol Road, Cnr Oxford Road, Parkwood

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P ECS has chosen to appont exclsuive agents in major economic centres outside Gauteng. The following firms represent P ECS in these areas:

Work Dynamics Established in Cape Town in 1993 by leading Cape based consultants in response to growing needs for professional management and human resource consulting services in the Western Cape. It offers a similar range of services to those offered by P ECS and, in addition, has a strong capability in psychometric testing and competency-based assessment. A new subsidiary of this company has been established in the Eastern Cape. www.workdynamics.co.za

Owen Adendorff Associates Today the largest and most prominent firm specialising in the areas of industrial relations and organisation development, and remuneration and reward strategy, in KwaZulu Natal. The firm has some 500 clients and is regarded as a national player in its chosen areas of specialisation. The firm also provides services in the areas of organisational change, participative management, social responsibility and performance management. The company’s offices are based in Durban. www.owenaden.co.za

Dr Christina Swart-Opperman Recognised as one of Namibia’s leading practitioners in the human resource field. She spent approximately three years with Pricewaterhouse Coopers as a Partner heading that firm’s Human Resource Consulting Division. She has now chosen to head her own consulting organisation. She was chosen as Namibia’s Business Woman of the Year in 2002. She also plays a prominent role in social responsibility initiatives having initiated and established an Aids Orphans’ Fund in 2002.

We enjoy a wide range of joint venture and alliance relationships with leading academics and consultancies around the world. The primary objective behind these relationships is to ensure that our consultant staff remain technically up to date and “at the cutting edge” in each of the areas in which they consult. Certain consulting projects are, in addition, carried out in conjunction with international partners where specific international data or experience is required to meet certain of the terms of reference.

Our principal consulting staff network with and visit international organisations on a regular basis to ensure that they remain technically abreast of world trends in this area.

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