Course Description

Welcome to High-Performance Management.

This is the first of three courses that takes you all the way from management to leadership through to building high-performance teams. The approach these courses take is to change your behaviours, not your mindset. It is easier to 'act your way into new thinking' than to 'think your way into new actions'.

Today's management practices are comprised of traditional and modern management behaviours and are in use today by over 90% of the world’s organizations.

Learning to be a good manager takes time and is a constant learning process. Becoming a manager is difficult, albeit rewarding; it is a continuous learning and self-development journey. Some people fail, which is not surprising given the difficulty of the transition, others become disorientated and some confused. The training provided here is aimed at avoiding these pitfalls and making you successful.

Most people facing their first management position feel terrified. While moving into a management position is a huge accomplishment, it's also the beginning of a huge challenge. One of the first things you will learn is that the position is more stressful than you anticipated. The skills and methods you used as a worker, and a team member are completely different meaning that you will discover there is a large gap between your current capabilities and the requirements of the new position. 

In your previous jobs, success depended primarily on your job knowledge, skills, and actions. As a manager, you are responsible for managing a whole team of people and for creating a team plan, something for which your career as a worker almost certainly hasn't prepared you.

As you work your way through this training, a new mindset and a new identity will emerge. You will take on board new ways of thinking and working and discover new ways of measuring success and how to derive increased enjoyment from your work. One of your immediate concerns is to ensure that things are running smoothly which is a challenging task, requiring you to keep many different balls in the air. Indeed, the complexity of maintaining the status quo will initially take most of your energy, for this reason, the training starts from your first day as a new manager and continues from there.

I hope you enjoy the course; a lot of experience and practical knowledge has gone into it to help you be successful and enjoy your work.

Testimonials

Roberto Parlavecchio

Senior Designer

This was my first time learning anything about managing people so I was hesitant at first about doing the course. What I learnt though was invaluable in terms of how to lead, and elevate a team. Great stuff.

Vijay Rajah

Finance Team Leader

As a team leader, this course has been very helpful, I am now working far better and more closely with my team than before. Many things have improved.

Ahmed Khaleel

Residential Care - Lifestyle Team Leader

Gold it is! Besides managing the elderly, I manage a multicultural team of different age brackets. The approach used to be challenging; however, after going through the course I have learnt to manage well and working with people has become quite flexible. It doesn't stop there, this is just the beginning and the competition within oneself just keeps compounding.

Warwick Foster

Director at Longboard Capital Advisory Services

How exciting to see Russell publish some books and a course on his many years of corporate and media experience. I have worked with Russell a number of times in different organisations over many years and in all cases he has been an inspirational leader of change, underpinned by exhausting energy, focused on quality delivery and a commitment to building a strong and enduring team. His books and courses are well worth considering as a pragmatic guide for many managers, team leaders and business executives and aspiring leaders.

Peter Fleming

CEO & CIO Leader in Digital Transformational & Delivery

I have had the pleasure of working with Russell over many years. Russell is one of the most inspiring and influential leaders I have had the opportunity to work with. He has an established history of building high performance teams and in turning around problematic IT organisations. His open and frank manner allows him to get to the heart of any problem whilst bringing key stakeholders along the journey.

Terry Laidler

Lead Psychologist

Practical and based on sound psychological theory. Recommended.

John Lee

Logical Ideas Director

I badly needed management training which I had not done before. This course was recommended so I did it and I'm so glad I did. Should have done something like this ages ago. Its made a huge difference.

Course curriculum

What Knowledge will you learn?

  • How to better manage team meetings.

  • How to motivate team members.

  • What to do in your first 3 and 6 months

  • How to plan and prioritize your way of working.

  • Planning and time management

  • How to effectively delegate

  • How to manage discipline

  • and more

What types of problems does the course solve?

  • Developing managerial effectiveness

  • Lack of preparation to successfully lead

  • Tendency or need to micromanage

  • Master team conflict

  • Determining your management approach

  • Tendency or need to micro-manage

  • The pressure to succeed immediately

  • Adjusting to the manager role

  • Managing difficult People

  • Mastering team conflict

Your Instructor

Russell Futcher

Russell is a business specialist with extensive, broad management consulting experience gained over a 45-year career as a private Management Trainer and Consultant. His reputation is based on his work developing managerial talent and building High-Performance teams. Russell’s team development experience spans the Insurance, Banking, Finance, Health, Transport, Retail, Superannuation and Technology sectors. He also held electronic and print media positions for six years talking and writing about management, teams and technology. Russell is the author of the five Management and Teams books and he is the author and developer of the 'High-Performance Management and Teams model'.

Frequently asked questions

  • Who is the course intended for?

    Both experienced and inexperienced managers and Team Leaders who want to dramatically improve their management skills. For anyone who wants to improve their team’s capability, performance and productivity.

  • How long does it take to finish the course?

    The course can be completed in as little as 2 weeks.

  • How is the course delivered?

    The course is delivered in 1 module divided into lessons. Each lesson is based on a specialised, downloadable worksheet. Included are great educational TED Talk videos to give you another professional perspective on what you have just learned.

  • How long will I have access to the course?

    After enrolling, you have unlimited access to the course. It will always be there for you so you can come back anytime.

  • Do you give refunds?

    Refunds are not included. This is because I have never received a negative comment about the content of the course in the many years, I have been delivering it. Also, the peer reviewers and teaching professionals who reviewed the course before its launch all gave it a gold medal.