2009... and the 'battle ground' on which we each do business today has reshaped itself before our very eyes. Customers, who are already better educated and more discerning, have become brutally discriminating in where and with whom they spend their money. Today there's no room for complacency or 'near enough is good enough'. Every opportunity will have to be fought for and every existing customer actively 'defended'. In this 'business-scape' only those organisations, leaders, teams and employees who are 'battle fit' are likely to survive. Now, more than ever, there is a critical need to maximise operational effectiveness.
In your business today, how well do your managers...
- Know, communicate and deliver a real VALUE PROPOSITION?
- Understand and drive the critical PROCESSES, COMPETENCIES and BEHAVIOURS that underpin that value proposition?
- ENGAGE, ENABLE and EMPOWER every employee?
- Develop blisteringly clear ACTION PLANS to translate strategy into effective execution?
- Seek out and ruthlessly CULL 'noise', 'duplication', 'agendas' and inefficiencies'?
- Truly make people - at all levels - RESPONSIBLE AND ACCOUNTABLE for their actions?
- Catalyse DISCIPLINED EXECUTION?
- Maximise operational effectiveness?
Welcome to the website of Leadership In Action. We're a small team of former Special Forces, Commandos and Army Special Operations 'middle-managers', who's skills and abilities were defined in environments of high-demand, constant uncertainty, exacting deadlines and fierce 'competition'. With qualifications in business, leadership, psychology, training and counselling, today we're a specialist high-impact training, development & implementation team focused on helping managers from Perth to Auckland, Darwin to Hobart, become world-class operational leaders.
We enjoy a 'results-focused', 'no bullshit' reputation - developing highly-effective operational and frontline leaders who catalyse: 'Cultures of Leadership®'; 'Disciplined Execution'; and BELL-CURVE BUSTING® teams - ultimately MAXIMISING OPERATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS™. Our clients engage us when they need to:
- Ensure 'strategy' translates to 'execution';
- Drive continuous improvements toward operational excellence;
- Foster leadership not just leaders;
- Develop the leadership abilities of anybody from Team Leader to General Manager;
- Have sales managers become sales LEADERS;
- Prepare 'high-potential' employees to lead;
- Instil best-practice project leadership methodologies;
- Create and/or sustain high-performing teams.
Click here to see our client's testimonials.
Focused on practicality and results - not just content - we employ a powerful blend of pre-programme assessment, unique immersion-training and workplace action-learning projects which drive real, measurable and sustained results.
Each of our programmes combine our team's experience within the highly-acclaimed Australian Army Special Forces with many of the real-life best-practices of Australia's leading businesses and the findings of our partners at Team Management Systems, Immersion Learning Sytems and the Business School of Queensland's Griffith University. Our flagship programme - Project: T.O.P. Leaders™ - has been endorsed by Griffith Business School (click here).
We hope you find this site inspiring, useful and informative. If there is anything else you need to know, please do contact us.
For those businesses with smaller leadership/management teams or individual owner/directors and franchisees who want to sharpen their leadership effectiveness, we suggest you visit our sister site www.SMELeadershipChallenge.com.au
If you are looking to develop your sales managers to the next level - as sales LEADERS we suggest you visit www.SalesLeadershipChallenge.com.au