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Leadership Counscious Leader

THE CONSCIOUS LEADER

The Conscious Leader programme is a highly interactive and immersive leadership programme unlike any other. It is focused on developing emotional and relationship intelligence of your leaders so they can move beyond strategizing, managing and decision making and to becoming an inspiring force, creating an encouraging and psychologically safe workplace for all. For more information please click here

Leadership Counscious Leader

COMING SOON - 2024

Genos Certified Practititoner

GENOS CERTIFICATION

The demand for emotional intelligence is likely to increase six fold by 2025. If your work involves developing people and helping organisations thrive, you will want to attend the Genos Certified Emotional Intelligence Programme. You will learn how to empower your people, transform your organisational culture and create a more engaging work environment. Click here to contact us for more information.

Genos Certified Practititoner

LIVE ONLINE WORKSHOPS AND COACHINGS

We continue to deliver our workshops, programmes and coaching as live online sessions. With our unique delivery style and learning approach, your people will learn new skills safely, without having to travel or worry about physical distancing. Click here to contact us for more information.

For you, we have created free THRIVE learning videos – for your personal growth and a taste of how we do things (in English).
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Why would you want to work with us? :)

We've helped thousands of people from almost 500 companies
to improve their performance, find more joy at work and build
more productive relationships with their colleagues, managers and clients.

We achieve this by combining more than 20 years of experience in learning
and development and using the best tools in the industry to help you improve
your business.

We focus on your greatest asset – your people.

Our Services

Our services are designed to inspire your people to be their best selves whether that's by equipping them with key skills they need to succeed at work, supporting them with individual guidance and mindset development to handle difficult or changing situations, or taking them on a learning journey specifically designed for thier unique learning and development challenges.

 
 

 

Fast Forward | Our Approach

Our Approach

Using our years of training knowledge to create a Learning Experience which could be in the form of Facilitated workshops, modular programs, single workshops or individual coaching sessions
Fast Forward | Consultancy

Consultancy

Focused, measurable solutions specifically designed to meet your unique Learning and Development needs
Fast Forward | Leadership

Leadership

Leading edge integrative programs creating mind-set, behaviours, skills and an aligned Leadership Culture
 

 

 
Fast Forward | Coaching

Coaching

Basic Guidance and support when 'stepping up' or managing difficult situations
Fast Forward | Soft Skills Workshops

Soft Skills Workshops

Basic Skill-set workshops which everyone needs to thrive in today's workplace
 
 

Customer Testimonials

Our company is built with experience, friendliness and proficiency

Leadership - Organisation Change

Herve Dussart, Country president central europe, Astrazeneca

The Need: Newly formed Central Europe cluster aggregating 6 countries and embarking on an experimental cross-country business model with recently appointed leaders needed to be successful. The initial communication cascade of strategic priorities and stretched targets were poor, alignment suboptimal, resistance to change visible, engagement limited and team spirit embryonic.

The Content: A 3-step-approach + individual coaching

Leadership

Garry Kemp, General Manager, DHL - CIS and Baltics

Three years ago we had reached a crucial point in our business development. We had put in place an infrastructure, systems and procedures that would enable us to achieve our demanding and challenging business goals. We had provided the necessary tools to enable our staff and managers to do the best possible job and achieve their goals. Yet something was still missing.

Our managers were not using these tools effectively. They were not responding to the change in the management

Managing Uncertainty

Matej Horvat, Head Predictive Analytics and Modeling, Novartis

Working with FastForward has allowed me to be more conscious about the impact that we all as individuals have in the working atmosphere within the teams as well as on the success of our projects. This is especially important in times of increased uncertainty which brings further demanding challenges, but also opportunities that we mustlearn how to leverage.

Relationship Intelligence

Djurdjica Preočanin, Training & Development Manager, Coca Cola Beverages Croatia

As much as we were clear about what our needs are when it comes to ‘influencing’ as training, the more difficult part was sourcing training suppliers who could actually recognise what we need and design and deliver a customized programme. Fast Forward did the job perfectly, from Training Needs Analysis to training design and delivery. The impact of the training is now visible every day when you talk to delegates - the profiling tool itself (SDI®)

Leadership

Karl Paulins, General Manager, DHL - Baltics

Pam designed and implemented a long-term Senior Management Development programme for 30 Senior Managers from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

The programme yielded immediate payback, enabling the tremendous growth in the business to be managed in a professional manner. The longer term success of the Programme is evident from the high proportion of participants who have gone on to senior roles within the global DHL network.

Pam interacted well with the participants and

Coaching for New Leaders

Zdenko Casar, Lek d.d.

I have been involved with the coaching process with Pam Welsby over a year and a half. The coaching process has enabled me to become a more patient person, willing to listen to others and to enjoy doing it.

Moreover, the coaching helped me to gain the capability to listen to other peoples perspectives and to try to search for and understand others opinions. In addition, I have gained valuable suggestions related to dealing with difficulties either personal or project orientated in the business environment

Consultancy - Aligning Vision and Values

Henrik Braband, Vice President, LEO Pharma, Denmark

Aligning Vision and Values

As a highly professional and convincing facilitator, Fast Forward managed to guide us through the difficult process of making the corporate strategy universe of our company both tangible and relevant to our employees. It is by no means an easy task to run 2 multi cultural sessions with up to 130 people from 12 different cultures - Fast Forward did this and did so with tremendous success. Looking at the feedback from the participants,

Leadership

Igor Jakovljević, Cluster Manager for DPD Croatia and Slovenia

We contacted Fast Forward to support us in developing our leadership group in Slovenia, putting in place core skills and attitudes to build a strong, professional DPD that could manage the future challenges.

The programme was a 5 module programme that took our leaders on a journey from basics of the leadership role, through the core leadership skills including the role of a leader, organisation and planning, relationship building and handling conflict, motivation

Coaching - Competency Based 360 Feedback

Olga Kravchenko, HR Manager, McDonalds Ukraine

After the coaching with Pam all the participants passed the stage of "shock" after getting their 360 report and came to a phase of "realization & improvement". High professionalism and safe environment impressed even those of our employees who before refuse to be coached.

Relationship Intelligence

Andrej Grčman, General Manager, Klicni Center Odmev, GROM informacijske rešitve

Our business aim is to have the highest quality of customer service for our clients and to grow our business for the future. We knew that to achieve this, we must raise the attitude and skills of our team and for this reason we chose Fast Forward as our partner.

With Fast Forward we used the SDI profiling tool for all our team to increase internal teamwork and communication as well as better understand the different ways of giving great service

Emotional Intelligence

Ajda Likar, department manager, Javni štipendijski, razvojni, invalidski in preživninski sklad RS

After having experienced personal interpretation of my Genos report, I can say that interpretation by an experienced person in this area is necessary for the report to truly have value. I could not have reflected my report through the responses of others by myself, because I would give in to my own perceptions and filters. With skilful help of Fast Forward I not only saw how others see me but already also found concrete ideas to

Consultancy - TeamBuilding

Ulrich Nagl, Technical Project Manager, LEK d.d.

As far as my project team is concerned the impact of the Teambuilding workshop was a big success! Including:

increased face-to-face meetings,
initiated a Kick Off Meeting where we invested in establishing a communication concept together,
elaborated our project plan and milestones together. All have the same information on our specific objectives,

Leadership - Senior Board Member Coaching

Veit Stutz, CEO, Alianz Poland

Our business was experiencing growth with challenging goals. To maintain this continued growth it was necessary to accelerate the personal and professional development of the Managing Board so they could drive and lead the business, as one team.

Individual coaching was used for each board member with one team workshop at the end of the process This generated huge progress and improvements in building trust, better understanding for each other and ultimately more effective collaboration.

Coaching - Executive Coaching

Pavel Drnovšek, Lek d.d.

Coaching was a great experience for me. I really learned a lot how managers should lead their associates and how to handle challenging situations.

Nowadays it is essential for the manager to focus on people. Emotional Intelligence is becoming more and more important in a constantly changing professional environment. Constant changes are a part of our every day work and we need to be prepared and equipped with the knowledge to handle the situation in the best possible way.

I recommend individual

Relationship Intelligence - Building Sales Relationships

Tomana Burger Pajic, Personal Development Supervior, Siemens

The main purpose of introducing SDI training to target employee group in our company was usage of SDI for enhancing internal selling skills and influencing across the company.
Although majority of participants already went through various communication skills programs before, the main feedback was that this training was something completely different in a sense not only that it is an interesting model helpful for better understanding of differences between people but

Emotional Intelligence

Elizabeta Zupančič, Rehabilitation specialist, CenterKontura

I found the Emotionally intelligent workplace behaviour feedback report very helpful as an insight to a better communication, establishing more genuine and effective contact firstly with myself, secondly with the people around me. It is a great guideline for a better self-awareness and more fulfilling relationships. It is also a very detailed tool that helps you asses and understand your competences in various areas, while it gives you step by step guidance and support

Consultancy - Customer Service

Nada Grozl, Customer Service Manager, Save Tires, Slovenia

Fast Forward helped our Customer Service team to realize that an individual cannot win as an individual, but as a team. We focused on team work and working as a team we developed many ideas about how to improve our relationships and how to raise our profile with other departments.

We spent quite some time together and this helped us to know and understand each other better. With some additional knowledge about different types of people we also recognised our own styles

Self Leadership

Participant, Lek d.d.

Interesting workshop that opens your eyes on the importance of good leadership, our development and on the importance of continuous learning and setting personal goals.

Leadership - TeamBuilding

Jani Resnik, Managing Director , Amway Slovenia and Croatia

In our organisation, we put a lot of emphasis on training and having a good working environment. We believe that only competent, well trained and happy employees are prepared for changes that occur regularly today. We wish to offer focused trainings to our employees, therefore we expect training providers to adapt their work to our demands.

Fast Forward International has provided an intensive 2 day Internal Communication course for our employees. The Teambuilding

Coaching - Executive Coaching

Krzysztof Kornas, Market Access Director, AstraZeneca Pharma Poland Sp. z.o.o.

I wish to express my gratitude for leading me through the coaching process in the last 9 months. This has been a great pleasure and a significant learning for me.

Some of the key successes from the programme include:

It was thanks to the discussions that we have had that encouraged me to apply for the new position and eventually I got a new assignment for managing Pharmacy Chains KAMs.

Relationship Intelligence

Igor Boševski, Supplier Relationship Manager ESO Chemicals, Lek d.d.

We gained quite a new perspective on how we are different, with some people that are thinking deeply, while others are just goign straight ahead and some taking care more fort he people or putting the emphasis on strong relationships. Indeed, fort he phrase that we value diversity, we got a flavor of what that really means in our day-to-day work.

Influence and Impact

Zsolt Bulath, Competency Development & Strategic HR Expert, MPL Group

MPL Group rapidly transforms itself. Its HR unit also changes to help the organisation achieve its strategic objectives for performance and growth. HR managers shaped a transformational roadmap with pressure on building stronger HR partnering capability to be able to drive alignment with the business, improve organizational and HR performance and establish a culture focused on adding business value. MPL Group HR co-operated with FFWD to design a foundational

Consultancy - Mentoring Skills

Mirjana Mladič, Marketing, Communication and HRD, Mikro+Polo

The mentoring skills programme proved to be very useful and ‘hands on the job’. In four 4-hours modules the participants learnt all the basics of what mentoring is, how to become a mentor, how to develop a training programme, how to communicate with different types of mentees and to follow-up and evaluate the delivery of the mentoring programme.

The satisfaction of the participants with the training was very high (9,3 on the 10-level scale), 73% would recommend

Leadership

Iza Login, Deputy CEO, Outfit7 limited

The basis for a successful company is a strong and aligned management that works well together. When we take a day with a skilled facilitator, the majorority of issues, problems and questions arise and are communicated, solved or at least planned to be managed in the most appropriate, non-aggressive and non-offerensive way.

Through open communication of perception of strengths managers understood others’ behaviours better and found a solution for smoother cooperation.

Leadership - TeamBuilding

Tanja Simenc, Head of Freight , DHL - Slovenia

The Freight management team decided, together with the HR department, to organise a Team Building session for all Freight employees. The aim of the Team Building session was 'Change Management - Organisational as well as personal'.

Since this is a very important topic for business and people, we decided to ask for professional help. Due to the really good experience  of other departments within our organization we have decided to use Fast Forward.

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Coaching - Self Discovery Programme

Darja Mirt, Novartis Animal Health, Slovenia 

High Impact Coaching through Role Expectations was a very intense exercise; well, discussion actually, which helped me to see/understand my co-workers from a different aspect and to understand their motivation and learn about the communication I should use with them. It also gave me the possibility to be honest to myself, see my ability to accept others as they are, as well as to discover my own frustrations on which I should still work.

It was a great learning experience,

Relationship Intelligence

Nada Grozl, Customer Service Manager, The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company.

Fast Forward helped our Customer Service team to realise that an individual cannot win as an individual, but as an individual, but as a team. By using SDI we learned how to react to different types of people and this really helps to make our dialy work with customers and colleagues easier. This has helped us to solve problems together and to adapt easier with less stress to all the changes we are facing daily.

Communicate Assertively

Think Novartis, Lek Slovenija Innovation Team

Greater awareness of the meaning of communication, concrete definition of what is assertive, passive and aggressive communication, easier now to recognise own mistakes and respond appropriately to communication style of others.

Relationship Intelligence

Dominik Gaser PhD, Department Head, Cell and Molecular Biology, Lek d.d.

The communication was better after our teambuilding and also performance of the whole team increased. People were speaking more openly about tehir values, style of communication and different personality types were better undestood after the workshop. This workshop helped also me as a leader since I can slightly modify the communication with each individual.

Coaching - Executive Coaching

Anja Ledinek, FDF Category Manager Northern Europe, Lek d.d. Novartis Business Service

 
 

Professional individual coaching with Pam Welsby is definitely something I would recommend to everyone. During our coaching my self-awareness has increased, I ‘ve become more confident and made some decisions and changes at work, and also my personal life, that I am proud of. Pam helped me see how capable I am and what changes I can make when I put my mind on it.

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Meet Our Team

Fast Forward | Pam Welsby
Pam Welsby Founder, CEO Pam is the creator Fast Forward philosophy learning system. Passionate about people for over 25 years, she develops senior management and top HR professionals and is a high-impact coach.
Fast Forward | Jude Hudson
Jude Hudson Office and Learning Processes Manager Jude manages client communication for our learning delivery and ensures learning processes run smoothly. She is also our Office Manager, overseeing our internal processes and learning material.
Fast Forward | Dave Welsby
Dave Welsby Project and Learning Center Manager Dave is our project manager, responsible for our Learning center, internal reporting, website and special projects.
Years We Are In L&D Business  24
Companies We Worked With 477
Training Days We Delivered 1990
 

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