A leader creates a productive work environment, builds high performing teams and develops engaged and motivated individuals who are committed to continuous improvement.
Why would you invest in the development of leaders?
Leaders that bring the best out in people are essential for organisation success and growth and so recognising and developing the needed mindset,
skills and habits is why so many organisations invest most of their Learning and Development budgets on current, new and future leaders.
Being clear about what leadership means in your organisation and aligning all levels of leaders across the organisation
is how you create a leadership culture that will enable you to achieve your organisation strategy and results
Why choose Fast Forward to develop your leaders?
If people truly are the most important asset of any organisation then leaders are the key to their success
Here’s 3 good reasons you can trust us with the development of your leaders:
1. Our unique Achieving results approach to Leadership has been refined through 20 years experience developing leadership cultures, teams and individuals for all sizes and types of organisations. See how we create, manage, deliver and evaluate the perfect leadership programme for you (Achieving results proccess).
From our first contact to the end of the Learning Process we keep you informed of everything which is happening in the Process.
Our steps have been developed over many years and we have taken the best principals from all our past Learnings to get to this point.
Please look at the following pages for the process of how we will move your people forward.....
Our Achieving Results Process
In then first stage of our process we meet up and talk with you to make sure we know what you expect from the Learning Process.
This will include your Goals, KPI's, Problems, Behaviour Changes needed and the Business Benefits expected.
After learning what is expected from the Learning Process in stage 1 we then decide who the Participants are, what skills they have at the moment and what your expectations for them are.
We then agree Participant's, Manager's and Stakeholder's Expectations with you and then decide how we will design the Learning Process to cover this.
In then third stage of our process we design the Learning Journey, which will be created for your organisation, to meet the Business and Learning Goals set out in Steps 1 & 2.
The Learnings will be perfectly aligned to the Participants attending and related to real, practical situations in the business.
The Learning Journey could be workshops, coaching, questionnaires or a combination of all these Learning techniques in order to meet the goals.
In then fourth stage of our process we deliver the Learning Journey.
The Pre-Learning is to help the participant prepare for the Learning Programmes.
The Workshops will be highly interactive, practical and will utilise various learning techniques.
The Coachings will be personal and help individuals address some of the areas which are stopping them moving forward.
The Post-Learning helps the participant to put into practice the learnings of the workshop.
Throughout the process we evaluate the Learning Journey and amend as we feel appropriate.
We measure the Pre-course level of behaviour and skills, get feedback on the Workshop experiences and assess the Post-course situation.
We get together at the Stakeholder's Review Meeting and discuss the results of the Programme, compare Pre-course and Post-course information, goals achieved and benefits gained.
We then recommend further steps which could be taken for the next stage of development.
2. Our leadership programmes include Emotional Intelligence (EI) Leadership assessments, because research proves that leaders with higher EI are 36% more effective. This includes 2 free surveys to measure your current Emotional Climate and level of Employee Engagement.
3. Development of internal mentors to support the ongoing improvment of your leaders and leadership culture
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Testimonials
Leadership - Organisation Change
Herve Dussart, Country president central europe, Astrazeneca
The Need: Newly formed Central Europe cluster aggregating 6 countries and embarking on an experimental cross-country business model with recently appointed leaders needed to be successful. The initial communication cascade of strategic priorities and stretched targets were poor, alignment suboptimal, resistance to change visible, engagement limited and team spirit embryonic.
The Content: A 3-step-approach + individual coaching
Garry Kemp, General Manager, DHL - CIS and Baltics
Three years ago we had reached a crucial point in our business development. We had put in place an infrastructure, systems and procedures that would enable us to achieve our demanding and challenging business goals. We had provided the necessary tools to enable our staff and managers to do the best possible job and achieve their goals. Yet something was still missing.
Our managers were not using these tools effectively. They were not responding to the change in the management
Karl Paulins, General Manager, DHL - Baltics
Pam designed and implemented a long-term Senior Management Development programme for 30 Senior Managers from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
The programme yielded immediate payback, enabling the tremendous growth in the business to be managed in a professional manner. The longer term success of the Programme is evident from the high proportion of participants who have gone on to senior roles within the global DHL network.
Pam interacted well with the participants and
Igor Jakovljević, Cluster Manager for DPD Croatia and Slovenia
We contacted Fast Forward to support us in developing our leadership group in Slovenia, putting in place core skills and attitudes to build a strong, professional DPD that could manage the future challenges.
The programme was a 5 module programme that took our leaders on a journey from basics of the leadership role, through the core leadership skills including the role of a leader, organisation and planning, relationship building and handling conflict, motivation
Leadership - Senior Board Member Coaching
Veit Stutz, CEO, Alianz Poland
Our business was experiencing growth with challenging goals. To maintain this continued growth it was necessary to accelerate the personal and professional development of the Managing Board so they could drive and lead the business, as one team.
Individual coaching was used for each board member with one team workshop at the end of the process This generated huge progress and improvements in building trust, better understanding for each other and ultimately more effective collaboration.
Leadership - TeamBuilding
Jani Resnik, Managing Director , Amway Slovenia and Croatia
In our organisation, we put a lot of emphasis on training and having a good working environment. We believe that only competent, well trained and happy employees are prepared for changes that occur regularly today. We wish to offer focused trainings to our employees, therefore we expect training providers to adapt their work to our demands.
Fast Forward International has provided an intensive 2 day Internal Communication course for our employees. The Teambuilding
Iza Login, Deputy CEO, Outfit7 limited
The basis for a successful company is a strong and aligned management that works well together. When we take a day with a skilled facilitator, the majorority of issues, problems and questions arise and are communicated, solved or at least planned to be managed in the most appropriate, non-aggressive and non-offerensive way.
Through open communication of perception of strengths managers understood others’ behaviours better and found a solution for smoother cooperation.
Leadership - TeamBuilding
Tanja Simenc, Head of Freight , DHL - Slovenia
The Freight management team decided, together with the HR department, to organise a Team Building session for all Freight employees. The aim of the Team Building session was 'Change Management - Organisational as well as personal'.
Since this is a very important topic for business and people, we decided to ask for professional help. Due to the really good experience of other departments within our organization we have decided to use Fast Forward.
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