Fastlead is Australia’s leading front-line leadership program with a small group coaching design.

Participants build confidence, essential skills, and core coaching techniques to enable them to lead their front-line teams effectively.

Fastlead graduates consistently display elevated leadership behaviours including embracing difficult conversations, managing performance expectations, dealing with conflict, and developing team members through effective coaching and delegation.

What is small group coaching?

Small group coaching is conducted between a small group of participants, and one coach. Fastlead varies from standard small group coaching because it contains a curriculum element. The coach acts as facilitator of the content, and the coach of participants as they discuss how the content relatives to their workplace, role, and team. For more information see Six Layers of Learning. To learn about the topics covered in Fastlead, and how they were designed, contact us here.

The very particular benefit of small group coaching is that it does not require the participants to be away from their teams for days at a time. It’s short, sharp, focused sessions creating learning as the modern workforce want it. It is perfectly suited to virtual delivery.

Who is Fastlead for?

There are three Fastlead products. Fastlead – described on this page – is designed for front-line leaders – people who run a team of individual contributors. Typically front-line leaders directly manager 80 per cent of the a typical organisations’s workforce. Fastlead Plus is designed for middle managers – those front-line leaders report to. Fastlead Sales is a variance of Fastlead – for front line leaders for lead sales teams.

Typical participants include front-line managers who are:

• About to lead a team of individual contributors (become a team leader) for the first time;

• Have recently transitioned into leading a team;

• Have been a team leader for some time but have had no formal management training.

Design structure

Fastlead programs are designed to be delivered in pods. These consist of between 2 and 4 participants (front-line leaders), and are allocated a Fastlead accredited coach. Clients can launch single pods to test Fastlead, or launch extensive programs involved many pods (38 pods in one go is our current record).

Each pod follows a highly structured pathway, that includes start-up sessions, check-ins with managers, and then a minimum of six Pod Sessions. Each of these run for about two hours, usually once a month, and cover one topic at a time. Topics can be chosen by the organisation, or the participants, or a combination of both. Participants have access to a learning portal which supports each of the topics areas, allowing 24x7 access to learning.

Fastlead360

An optional extra, strongly recommended, is a 360-degree multi-rator survey which is linked to the Fastlead topics. This enables participants to get a clear view of how they are currently being experienced as a leader. The data informs participants’ Personal Growth Plans, which aim to build on existing strengths and build capability in development areas. learning principles

The key principles that underpin the operation of the program is that discussions in the Pod Sessions are confidential, they occur at a regular time and place, and that participants are all expected to contribute evenly to the conversation. Within the two-hour period, typically one quarter is devoted to covering a basic curriculum, and half to discussing the topic in direct relation to the participants’ workplace and team (making the program very applied), and one quarter covering review of actions committed to in the previous session, and proposed actions committed to from the current session.

All participants shape a Personal Growth Plan after Pod session #1, and then continue to add and evolve this plan during the length of the program.

All of our coached are fully accredited in small group coaching principles. If you would like a copy of these principles, download them here.

Flexible options

Your organisation’s deployment of Fastlead can be customised for you in the following ways:

• Pod Sizes: pods can contain 2, 3 or 4 participants. We recommend 3.

• Pod Sessions: Cycles of 6 sessions or 8 sessions are available.

• Pod make-up: organisations can vary the make up of each pod, with some being silo-busters (managers from different parts of the business), to Birds of a Feather (managers doing the same role in the same location), to Birds of a Feather Virtual (involving managers doing the same jobs in different states or regions).

• Pod Delivery: We can deliver face to face, or virtually. FTF delivery in most capital cities in Australia and New Zealand, and many regional cities in Australia.

• Topics: Fastlead’s curriculum has 14 separate topics, and organisations can customise topics for each individual pod.

There are various ways in which, at an additional cost, Fastlead can be customised for clients. Please ask us.

Benefits of Fastlead

• Fast to deploy. Fastlead can be deployed within a fortnight. Because it deals with small groups, we can start one “pod” or many, and get their training underway immediately.

• Inexpensive. FASTLEAD can be deployed for approximately A$100 per participant a week. This is half the cost of customised frontline management programs, and about the same price as Cert IV programs (but with twice the contact time). We have designed Fastlead to be the best value in the market, and the most effective.

• High quality learning environment. Fastlead coaches are fully accredited, vastly experienced and very highly rated by frontline managers.

• Very Personal. Fastlead feels personal because participants can, share current challenges in every session, and feel part of a small but supportive group, and even choose the topics covered.

• Flexible. Organisations can deploy Fastlead in many ways, and customise the program for each small group of participants.

• It works, and it’s guaranteed. Having now served more than 1,000 front-line leaders, we can guarantee results. We offer a money back guarantee for the first pod you test with us.

Want to know more?

Please contact us here to request a virtual briefing meeting, receive a copy of our detailed Fastlead Promotional Deck with much more detail than is described here, or a quote.