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What are leadership skills - Our Story

“What are leadership skills” - That’s the biggest question we are asked on our management skills course. It’s also the reason we have written the Action Focused Leadership and Management Program which we sell under license to training companies and companies with training departments – all over the world.

The Action Focused Leadership and management program.

This is a 12 month training program which holds managers and leaders accountable for achieving their part of the vision. 

"After attending a training program, delivered by Adrian, one manager at Slater Gordon saved themselves 2 hours PER DAY resulting in her being promoted" 

The action focused leadership and management program comes with the action focused leadership and management logbook which is a powerful tool empowering managers and leaders to manage their time, their people and their workload more effectively

This program is sold under license

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If you are a training company the Action Centered Leadership and Management Program could generate £144,000 per year with just 10 clients

If you are a company with a training department the Action Centered Leadership and Management Program could slash your training costs


Our Story

Our program director, Adrian Close, is a multi-award-winning business development manager. He had developed teams and multi-million-pound businesses throughout the UK, mainland Europe and the U.S. and literature he has produced can also be found in Australia and South Africa.

We started out delivering customer service skills, complaint handling and telephone skills courses because they were in demand. We’ve had the pleasure of working with some fantastic clients and still do. 

The clients we originally delivered training sessions for included:

  • Lidl UK
  • Ladbrokes
  • Leeds Trinity University
  • Chatsworth House

... to name a few

This web site and the action cantered packages are a culmination and result of researching 100's of management, leadership, coaching and HR books; delivering first class training sessions to 100's (possibly 1000's) of businesses and actually running successful businesses ourselves and the next step was to develop management, leadership, coaching and HR training sessions. We've been working on the training sessions and delivering them over the last 5 years and we're really proud of the result.

We wouldn't include anything we wouldn't want our own empowered teams to know.

Our aim is to help businesses develop a plan to:

  • Build their own team
  • Drive profit
  • Retain staff
  • Hit targets
  • and remove interdepartmental barriers

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What Are Leadership Skills

The following are some of the key skills we discuss in our Leadership skills course to answer the question "what are leadership skills'. We have an e-book you may be interested in, you can download it below:

1.     Developing a self-directed team of motivated people

2.    Problem solving and Critical thinking

3.    Creative and innovative out of box thinking

4.    Not being afraid to lead the team somewhere new

5.    Coordinating with others

6.    Developing own emotional intelligence

7.    Judgment and decision making

8.    Service orientation

9.    Developing the leaders of the future

10.  Flexibility

 “Effective leaders set high standards for performance and values, validate efforts and contributions, and ensure cooperative interaction and performance in a trusting, respectful work environment.”

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Emotional Intelligence is such an important topic and well worth further research

Leadership Training UK - 12 Month Packages

Action Focused Leadership Programs

Our 3,6 and 12 month action focused development programs are designed by successful multi-award winning leadership and management specialists who have also excelled as business leaders. 

If you need a development program for your team which holds each of them accountable for achieving their part of the company vision and ultimately generates profit, then one of these programs could be for you.

We either deliver the program for you (face to face or virtually) or sell them under license for your trainers to deliver to your team - and we support them throughout the year

For any further information about any of the Action Centred Leadership and Management Programs we offer, please do not hesitate to contact one of the team. 



...Companies who have received training from our management, leadership, Coaching and HR specialist include:


Please contact us to discuss any training requirements you have, we either deliver for you or sell you the course for your trainers to deliver to your team


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