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Overview
Every year, billions of dollars are invested globally in leadership training yet the 80% of personnel who execute daily operations typically receive no training. In the dynamic landscape of modern business, leaders need employees who can take direction, complete tasks, and think critically.
Follow First Training teaches employees how to excel under leadership as the essential first step toward elevating their own careers. You cannot expect someone to lead effectively if they have not first learned how to follow. By mastering followership, employees can optimize their team’s performance, support their leadership, and significantly increase their own odds for future promotion.
Components Taught During Course
Communicating with Leaders
- Clear: Learn to successfully communicate with leadership to ensure absolute clarity on directives.
- Confirm: Utilize confirmation strategies to eliminate avoidable mistakes before they happen.
- Cover: Master the art of upward communication to champion your leaders and protect them and the company from operational failure.
Competency
- The Professional Currency: If communication grants you access, competency is your legal tender.
- Driving Value: Understand the true definition of operational competency and discover the fastest ways to elevate specific skills required to perform at a high level.
Tenacity
- Resilience & Drive: Talent alone is not enough; sustainable effort over time is what guarantees results.
- Actionable Strategies: Acquire simple, practical tools to build mental fortitude and maintain a high level of execution over a lengthy career.
Execution
- Navigating Orders: Understand corporate reporting structures, knowing when to execute directives seamlessly and when it is professionally, legally, or ethically necessary to pause.
- Respectful Advocacy: Learn the precise framework for questioning a directive respectfully, alignment strategies for pushing back against poor business decisions, or how to properly utilize professional feedback channels.
Modern Teamwork
- Reimagining the Team: Challenge the old “There is no ‘I’ in team” mantra with a more realistic, modern approach.
- Shared Success: Discover how individual career goals and personal excellence can actively drive and support the collective mission of the team.