Shackleton's Way Leadership training with Peter Bland:

Sir Ernest Shackleton has been called “the greatest leader that ever came on God’s earth, bar none” for saving the lives of the twenty seven men stranded with him on an Antarctic ice floe for almost two years. From 1914 to 1916, Ernest Shackleton and his men survived the wreck of their ship, Endurance, in the crushing Antarctic ice, stranded twelve hundred miles from civilization with no means of communication and no hope for rescue. After a harrowing experience every man survived – not only in good health, but also in good spirits – all due to the leadership of Shackleton.

This footage was taken from a Schackleon's Way Leadership Program that I ran for MAB corporation. MAB are a very successful property developing company in Victoria, Australia. The principals of the company wanted me to develop a program that forced team work accross different segments of a company which they said was getting too "cilo" in its thinking. They wanted longevity of learning so we ran competions over weeks leading into the grand final leadership day. And they wanted it to be a lot of fun.... We certainly achieved that.

Like Shackleton I also was trapped on ice floats floating out to the Southern Ccean in Antarctica. In an expedition in 2000 where we strived to be the first to cross the Antarctic Peninsula unsupported, like Shackleton we did not achieve our goal.

I and my  team mate Jay Watson we swept out to sea when the ice we were camped on broke off from Antarctica and drifted out into the Weddell Sea. This is the exact same area where Shackleton was stuck for almost two years. Our journey became one of epic proportions culminating in my being taken by an avalanche on the last day of the expedition.

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 National Australia Training day.

Another example of a Shackleton's way leadership program that I developed for the NAB which aimed to break down barriers between people, divisions and established "cilos" in the organisation. We turned this into  4 week program with 1 day of activity every week including:

- Model Yacht Sailing Blind Folded!

- Farmyard Challenge

- Mini Olympics

- Theatre sports

- Awards and presentation day.

A great aspect of this of training is the retention your people have from the learning because of the longevity of the program and the freindly competition which begins within the corridors of your organisation.

What they said!

"Peter has delivered a unique and compelling leadership program for a very fortunate group of senior management at the National Australia Bank. His program met and exceeded all of our expectations. Well done."

Simon Spencer
Manager, Group Architecture Strategy
National Australia Bank

 ANZ Farmyard Challenge:

A lot of fun blind folding, hand cuffing and gagging senior banking executives and telling them that Farmer Jo is up against the wall and needs your help NOW. Quick do your stakeholder analysis, work as a team, leverage your skills, overcome your limitations and save the day for Farmer Pete!!

 The Leader Next Door:

How often in life to we look to the person with the title, the name, the profile

the fancy suit to take action if they are prerequisites for leadership?

Aren't we really allowing preconcieved ideas of our own "limited" role to prevent us from stepping up to the plate and taking the action that needs to be taken.

 The presentation and workshop...The Leader Next Door talks about and teaches how we can all be leaders when the appropriate circumstances arrive.

Can you imagine the productivity you would create in your organisation if your employees felt they had the confidence, the tools and the protocol for taking unprompted action when an opportunity "just popped up".

Opportunity are slippery little suckers. The leader next door just happens to be there and can capitalize on this for you and your organisation.

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