View the video below of Corporate Battlefields in action during a Senior Management Team course held on the Battlefield of Waterloo.
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We take leaders and would–be leaders to the hallowed fields of history, to lay before them the personalities, the furious battlegrounds, the dilemmas, the glorious triumphs, and the infamous defeats snatched from the jaws of victory. More importantly we translate the outcomes to today's business environment and provide a foundation of leadership beliefs that will last a lifetime. We do this to provide a unique perspective on the business of leadership and decision–making — a hands–on, mind grabbing, heart wrenching, intensely memorable lesson in what leadership really means, and how it feels to take up the reins, capture hearts and minds and lead a team to victory, wherever and whatever the objective…
…and it works!
Such rich experiences etch themselves into the memory, ready to be called upon in moments of intense pressure, to transform uncertainty and incoherence into clarity and clear leadership.
Successful leaders of organisations need crucial attributes and skill sets, such as:
- A vision of where they are going
- the ability to inspire, motivate and effectively lead those around them
- a cool head in a crisis
Successful leaders know themselves, can quickly read situations, chose from an array of leadership styles and act decisively for optimum impact.
The learning of management theory or process will not alone condition people to think logically and rationally, or offer a range of responses available for foreseeable outcomes. A person emotionally unprepared for a crisis may panic and freeze, like a deer caught in the headlights. Worse, he or she may grab onto a random course of action for fear of looking indecisive. Even a good strategy is often undermined by poor communication or the inability to delegate effectively — all failings in emotional intelligence.
We believe that leadership theory can be experienced, powerfully and memorably, by walking in the footsteps of those who have been forced to make crucial decisions on the battlefield and in campaigns that have not determined our political landscape and nation states.
For leaders such as Napoleon and Wellington, Eisenhower and Churchill, the history is written — for them there's no going back — but for us there's huge power and opportunity in examining not only their decisions and actions, but the intense emotional circumstances in which those decisions were taken.
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