“Who wants to be the Leader of a team of superstar serial overachievers who always deliver extraordinary results way beyond budget in spite of this recession? And the Leader who gets the inevitable promotions, raises and rewards that will come with such unbelievable performance?”

If You’re Ready To Start Getting Serious About Creating a Winning Team RIGHT NOW, and Become One of the Few Real WINNERS of the Impending Economic Storm, this Might Just Be The Most Important Letter You’ll Ever Read...

From: Antony Shave
Where: London, England
Date: Friday, November 21, 2008

Dear Friend,

I have some questions for you:

• Do you ever get anxious and worried when you think about how you’re performing as a leader and manager?
• Have you ever felt concerned that you’re not the “inspirational leader” that you’ve read about in all the leadership books?
• Have you ever been told to “work on your leadership or interpersonal skills” but been given no support or training to help you do this?
• Did you get to where you are now by being great at the technical stuff – but now find yourself requiring an ‘upgrade’ on your personal leadership skills?
• Do you ever feel unsure and stuck when you’re asked to improve your team’s performance?
• Do you ever feel like giving up on being a manager when the resistance to change is just so strong from your team and the organisation?
• Do you ever over-react emotionally with your team and feel regret or guilt afterwards?
• Have you ever felt that all the administration you have to do gets in the way of you getting real work done?
• Do you ever think that you could do a much better job than your boss does – if only someone would see this too?
• Do you ever feel like your team could do so much better if only you knew how to unleash their full potential?
• Have you ever thought that making it to the top of the management ladder was just about being good at playing politics?
• Would you like to know how to build a Winning Team that creates extraordinary results in extremely tough times?
• Would you like to know the few basic simple techniques that will immediately double the amount of respect and confidence your team has for you?
• Would you like to know how to shine so your boss and other senior managers notice you immediately?
• Would you like to know how to treble the speed with which your team implements change?
• Would you like to know how to get promoted to the next level in half the time?

If you answered "YES!" to any of these questions, then I have some important news for you...

You're NOT alone.

In fact, that list of questions and concerns comes from years of my own personal experience as a leader and manager – as a Royal Marines Officer, a Strategy Consultant with the top management consulting firm McKinsey & Company and as a Company Director.

Here's The Bottom Line...

As an aspiring Leader and Manager - NOT knowing the fundamental basics of your job – (How to create a Winning Team) feels bad.

It can feel like you have no power in your life.

It creates an underlying “distraction” that overpowers everything else…

And can lead to you feeling like a FAILURE AS A MANAGER.

On the other hand...

KNOWING the basics of how to create a WINNING TEAM feels GREAT.

It feels great to not have to try and please every member of your team so they will do what you ask…and it feels great not saying things you don’t mean in the hope that they’ll like you…

It feels great to know how to unlock your team’s full potential in ONE aligned direction and watch amazing results show up.

It just feels great knowing how to lead and manage – in any situation.

It feels great knowing that you can do this in all your future management positions as well.

It not only feels great to YOU, it also feels great to your Team too… and it’s WORTH LEARNING.

Most Managers Never Learn, So They Keep Making The Same Mistakes Over And Over Again...

Most managers take one of two approaches with their Teams:

1) They try to influence their team by being NICE so everyone "likes them" ...

OR...

2) They just TELL their team what to do and use FEAR as their main weapon

The problem with these basic approaches?

1) They don't work
2) They're inauthentic, inefficient and ineffective
3) Team members don't like them
4) THEY DON'T WORK!

I know from my own experiences with both these approaches.

Back in my twenties, when I was a Troop Commander in the Marines, I would find myself switching from one approach to the other. One moment trying to be nice and friendly to my team of 30 people and the next moment simply telling them what to do.

Result – my team didn’t respect me very much and we only got average results.

I felt at times like a failure - that I should have known better. I knew that things weren’t working, but I didn’t know what to do to fix them.

Fortunately, after a few year of frustration, I met a couple of great mentors who showed me alternative ways of leading and things improved dramatically. They taught me a few simple lessons that changed the way I thought about leadership forever and as a team we really started performing.

As a direct result of using what I had learned, I found myself being promoted to a new and exciting position – this time leading even bigger operations in different countries.

What I had learned was confirmed and built upon by my experiences as a client team leader when I was a management consultant. I remember how tough things got for me trying to motivate diverse teams of people in different locations each with different agendas and priorities. I felt like I was back at leadership square one all over again.

But again, I was lucky enough to get some great coaching from some highly experienced and capable managers. This helped me push beyond my own comfort zone to try some new things out with my teams. And great results happened.

I remember the time I was leading a change process on one of the world’s largest agricultural estates in Indonesia where our team ended up increasing production by over 30 % as a result of the team’s hard work and combined efforts.

Was it easy? No. Did it happen overnight? No. Did I still doubt myself from time to time? Yes. Did it take me reinventing who I was and how I lead others? Yes. Was it worth it? Absolutely.

So here’s what I took away from those and many other experiences too.

I’m going to give you a simple, 3-step formula for learning how to create a Winning Team. If you do these three things, you WILL create extraordinary results, period.

1) Start with YOU FIRST

Success as a Leader starts with what’s inside of you. What it is that drives and motivates you. The way you are as a person. The way you interact with your people. The way you react when times get tough. The way you handle your own fear. How much passion and enthusiasm you bring to your work and your team.

Wherever you go – there you are.

All the most sophisticated leadership and management theories are a total waste of time if you are not very self-aware.

All of the greatest performers in the world will not work as a team with you if you do not know intimately what makes you and all of them tick.

All of the best management tools and techniques will simply not work unless you are conscious of your own programming.

When you know what drives you to behave in the ways that you do – you will then know what will motivate your team members.

When you know how to manage your own fear and anxiety – then you’ll be able to know what to do to help your team members manage their own fears and anxiety.

When you have developed your own internal strength, confidence and direction you will then be able to support your team members to develop their own strength, confidence and direction too.

When you know these things – then truly amazing Results will show up for you and for your team.

Then people will follow you. NOT BEFORE.

2) Learn lots of TESTED techniques that WORK and APPLY THEM YOURSELF IMMEDIATELY with your TEAM

So here's the thing...

I am sure you have read at least a few management books. You have also probably attended at least one or two management or leadership trainings.

My question to you is…How much of what you read or heard did you actually apply? And over the long-term – how much of what you heard actually changed the way you lead or managed your people.

Probably not much.

Most of us learn about how to lead from our first few leaders and managers we had. And then we just use those same methods over and over again.

Of course there are many more ways of leading and managing than your first few managers knew – and much bigger results than they used to get.

You must find THE MOST effective techniques and then actually use them with your team. Not just read about them – or think about how they might work.

You MUST actually practice them with your Team in the real world.

This requires you to start being a NEW YOU.

Because only a NEW YOU will take NEW ACTIONS.

And only NEW ACTIONS will give you NEW RESULTS.

Obvious when you think about it – but rarely acted on by most managers.

3) Reflect on Your RESULTS, Get FEEDBACK, Refine and take more ACTION.

Results are the Feedback you need.

Then you can adjust and refine what you did and then do it again.

Get some more results and feedback.

And then adjust and refine what you did and then do it again.

Etc, etc, you get my point.

Most managers don’t try doing things differently and therefore don’t get new results.

They even avoid getting any feedback at all about how they are doing - because they are scared.

And therefore don’t learn and grow.

Please don’t be one of those managers…please don’t be scared about doing new things.

Your team, your organisation and your clients need you to do new things – to always be learning and growing.

You Must Know Where You’re Going

If you don’t have the kind of success you want with your Team, then you’re not doing these three steps. I know that.

Now I know…that you know…that you need to do these three steps.

The question is…WHEN and HOW are you going to do them?

Are you going to do them NOW? Or are you going to wait until circumstances force you into being a more effective leader and manager?

Will you wait until there is a very real and personal crisis (like being fired!) before you learn how to be a better manager?

And are you going to try and learn by yourself? Or are you going to be open to some coaching and support with your development?

The best leaders are humble and always willing to admit that they don’t know everything. This means they remain open to learning new ways of achieving results.

Are you going to take advantage of the incredible wealth of knowledge that’s available to you… knowledge that can save you literally YEARS of time and THOUSANDS of dollars in cash?

Don’t Let Your Management Career Pass You By…

Don’t get to the end of your career regretting that you didn’t step up and be a better leader and manager.

Don’t get disillusioned, bitter, resentful and cynical about the way things are.

Because if you do…then that’s probably how you will feel for the rest of your career and even the rest of your life.

Don’t just lie low and hope no one notices you. It may feel safe and secure, but actually that strategy is the most dangerous and insecure one you can take.

In tough economic times like we are facing now, organisations are looking to get rid of anyone who’s not adding significant value and continually growing and learning.

The best way to increase you career security is to become a leader and manager that always builds powerful Teams and gets extraordinary results.

If you’ve decided that you’re ready for SUPER-SUCCESS as a Leader and Manager, then what I’m about to tell you about could help you get it FAST.

I’ve put together what is arguably the most complete educational product on planet Earth for DRAMATICALLY increasing your success as a Leader and Manager.

The word Alchemy is an old English word that means TRANSFORMATION from average and normal to VALUABLE and SPECIAL.

The Alchemy Leadership Program is an online learning program that contains everything you need to become a leader that is valued and special too.

It will enable you to create your own High-Performing Team with members that…

• Are all aligned with one Goal in one direction
• Solve problems together quickly
• Communicate frequently
• Support each other
• Take better decisions in less time (without having to ask you all the time)
• Trust each other
• Work together with more energy and enthusiasm
• Take everything far less personally
• Waste less time on trivia and low-value activities
• Contribute their best ideas
• Celebrate success together

For years I’ve worked closely with 1000s of managers and business owners all over the world helping them to achieve their goals. Supporting them to transform themselves into highly successful leaders.

I’ve done this through one-to-one coaching sessions and group workshops and seminars.

In order to reach and support more managers to become vastly better leaders – I’ve created this online program that includes the exact same sessions that I facilitate in person.

This online learning program contains over 50 hours of video and audio of me teaching all of the ideas, concepts, techniques and secrets that took me YEARS to figure out and develop. This is exactly the same material that I teach to Senior Managers in major corporations all over the world.

This is your chance to “pick my brain” and get ALL of my best thinking.

Now you can get all the benefits of hearing me teach my best ideas, all from the comfort of your own home or office.

The Alchemy Leadership Program goes far BEYOND traditional leadership programs, because it focuses on helping you identify the most important activities for you as a leader, eliminate the blocks that keep you from doing them, then turn them into HABITS that you do EVERY SINGLE DAY NATURALLY.

What You’re Going To Learn…

• How to create an extraordinary team that explodes all budgets and targets.
• How to get the kind of mind-blowing results that have others think you must be cheating in some way.
• What you need to do to get the kind of rich financial reward that you know you deserve – that enables you to live the life you want – and to provide your family with the freedom and options they deserve.
• The secrets to getting on the super-fast-track up the management ladder.
• The 6 things you MUST do with your team immediately, or forever waste your time and energy.
• How to get promoted in far less time than you previously imagined or ever thought possible.
• A simple technique that will give you the kind of confidence and resilience that will enable you to smile in the face of all this economic fear and uncertainty.
• How to get the kind of laser-focus and team alignment usually only found on Special Forces teams.
• How to STOP procrastinating and wasting your time.
• How to be both effective and noticed by your boss – without being arrogant.
• What you can do to create a magnetic effect around you that will attract the top-performers to come work with you.
• The ability to cut through the organisational resistance and inertia with power and grace.
• How to get the kind of amazing job offers that only fast-track managers get.
• The REAL way to create the kind of work/life balance that has your spouse actually push you out of the house to go to work.
• How to be the “go-to” leader and manager that everyone comes to for advice and guidance.
• The best way of getting the kind of reward and satisfaction from your work that you get from your favourite hobbie.
• The secret tricks that successful senior managers use to motivate their people to go well beyond what is asked of them.
• The real reasons why most managers fail to reach their full potential – and how you can avoid them.
• The secrets to achieving a deep internal sense of calm and centred-ness usually only found in Zen Masters.
• How to get the kind of results that will be the envy of all your peers and have you wish that the whole of your pay-check was “performance/bonus” based.
• Develop the kind of charisma that will have people want to be around you.
• The 3 things you must never do with your team – you will be amazed by this.
• How to get phone-calls from executive head-hunters – out of the blue.
• How to get the kind of Trust within your team that is usually only found in teams who depend on each other for their life.
• What to do to create the kind of exciting culture that has others in your organisation want to switch teams to work on your team.
• The habits that will create the kind of magic that is remembered in corporate folklore for years and years.
• How to get a good night’s sleep – every night.
• The trick of starting and sustaining momentum with a new team from the word go.
• What it takes to be able to smile and stand strong whilst all around you others are losing their heads and making bad decisions.
• How to give tough feedback so people love and appreciate you for it.
• Top tips that they teach to senior managers at executive business school programs.
• How to focus on the 20% of what you do that gives you 80% of your results – we all know the principle, but rarely do managers actually live this.
• How to ensure you get the best financial rewards for the value you add – so you can really do what you want to in life.
• The secrets to reduce the wasted time and energy doing activities that make no difference.
• How to Love what you do – every day.
• To laugh in the midst of chaos and confusion.
• What it takes to have your team fully understand what is required to be done and giving their all.
• An ancient technique that enables you to focus all your attention on exactly what you choose.
• How to snap out of fear and anxiety the moment you recognise it.
• How to get results, get noticed, and get promoted…Fast
• The one simple trick to managing your time well…forever
• The best way to handle others bad or disruptive behaviour
• How to build your reputation as someone who can turn any business ‘black hole’ into a glorious success
• How to manage the complexity of the current business world and cut through the information overload that come your way everyday
• The 3 things you can do to run productive meetings that people actually want to attend
• How to give powerful presentations that people remember and take action on
• Ways to get known as an expert in your own field
• How to be a master at influencing others in a completely ethical way
• The ability to persuade others to support your vision and goals
• How to build alliances and create a strong support base
• The basics of negotiation that every manager should know inside out
• The basics of how to be a powerful coach for your team members
• The 6 things you would be very wise to do when you join a new organisation
• How to reduce ‘email overload’ on your team in one easy step.
• The trick to managing projects by being focussed both ‘strategically’ and on the key ‘details’
• What to do in your first 100 days in your new management position
• The characteristics that MUST be present in your team members, or forever waste your time putting out fires
• What emotional intelligence means and how you can develop yours
• Why we trust each other, what you can do to build trust and how you can destroy trust in an instant
• The power of your personal and team story and why this is so critical
• The core psychological patterns in all of us and how you can work with them to get what you want

What you will learn on this programme is usually only shared with Senior Executives on very expensive closed-door programs. I’m sharing all of it with you at a fraction of the price of such seminars.

I guarantee that you will add value to your organisation/business of at least 10 times what you pay for the first month of the program in the first 30 days.

• How much is it worth to you to know where you are going in your life?
• How much is it worth to you to have a team that is 100% aligned with ONE VISION – all of them taking actions towards this goal – every day – even when you are not there?
• How much is it worth to you to know HOW to adjust the systems and procedures in your organisation that will enable your team to perform at the next level?

If it is worth more than the price of a coffee and sandwich each day then you just need to take one step.

How it Works...

You will learn through 6 modules spread out over a 6-month period (One Module per Month).

Each month you will learn new ways of leading and managing and will take action on what you learn – by yourself and with your team.

3 Themes run through the program:

• Theme One – YOU – Giving you the tools to transform yourself into someone that inspires and motivates
• Theme Two – YOUR TEAM – Giving you the tools to create a High Performing Team that creates extraordinary results
• Theme Three – YOUR SYSTEM – Giving you the tools to make changes in your system/organisation/business to accelerate performance and reduce friction

This is what your learning platform looks like...

How much Time will it take?

1-2 hours of watching videos and doing exercises per Week ONLY.

Most of the activities will simply replace the activities that you do now.

What makes the Alchemy Leadership Program different?

Throughout my time working with different organisations, one of the things I have noticed is how most leadership development programs are usually packed full of theory, jargon and sophisticated frameworks. They are packed full of reading and usually empty of any action in the real world.

You may find some interesting information ABOUT leading and managing – but you usually don’t learn and integrate new leading and managing behaviours.

That’s why most of these programs are nothing more than wasted time away from work.

What you will get with the Alchemy Leadership Program is not this.

Rather – What you will get is an immediately useable, practical and relevant program of learning – that has been designed based on research into the main needs, frustrations and challenges facing leaders and managers in businesses and organisations today.

You will be able to start applying what you learn straight away – like today.

What you won’t get is an expensive, long-winded, academic and theoretical binder full of unusable and impractical waffle and mumbo-jumbo.

Most programs are about lots of reading and studying of the latest fads of management – totally unworkable and irrelevant for leaders and managers like you at the sharp-end of the modern organisation.

The program is just so convenient. The sessions are always there for you to go through again and again. So no searching for notes you once made in some workshop that you can’t quite remember – but you know it was important for you.

Your sessions will always be there for you. Wherever you are and whatever time of the night or day you feel like learning.

The Alchemy Leadership Program is practical, experiential and results oriented – you will be doing new things every month. Ultimately, that’s what makes the program so distinctive – It delivers real positive change in your life.

And very importantly in these tough economic days, the Alchemy Leadership Program is extremely cost effective and comes with a very attractive payment plan. Oh yes, and unlike most programs if you’re not getting a concrete measurable return on your investment you can immediately stop without any hassle.

So here’s what you Get Every Month…

• Videos of me coaching YOU directly through exercises and processes
• Audios of these same exercises that you can download and listen to in your car or on the way to work.
• Concise instructional guides that you can download and refer to at your own pace.
• Practical Tools, Techniques and Exercises
• A weekly updated BLOG with new Videos, Audios, Interviews and Reports
• 2-Day in-person High-Performance Leadership Seminar (in either US or the UK) – with Gold option.
• One-to-one Leadership Coaching by phone (2 hours per month) with Platinum option.

Watch this Video Clip from one of the Coaching Sessions from Theme One – YOU.

PROMO VIDEO

If you register by the 30th November, 2008 – I will also give you these amazing bonuses absolutely FREE:

• Bonus One: - Get Promoted Fast Blueprint
• Bonus Two: - Mastering Organisational Politics (without being a politician) Report
• Bonus Three: - Staying Focussed and on Target Guide

Who’s the Program for?

The Alchemy Leadership Program is for Leaders and Managers in organisations and for business owners too. People who are seeking to make a step-change in their Team’s performance and who want to enjoy the promotion and rewards that go with such extraordinary results.

The focus here is the personal and interpersonal dimension. It is a lack of enabling mindsets, skills and capabilities in these areas that result in most change programs in organisations failing and most teams underperforming.

The program is also for managers who either do not have access to in-house management training and development, or who feel that the training and support they are getting is not very effective. There is plenty of training out there. Much of it is superficial and impractical.

The program is not for leaders and managers that are content with the status quo, who are satisfied with the coasting along in their present position. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this at all. It’s just not what this program is about.

It’s also not for managers that are looking for a technical business management program. You will find nothing about financial analysis or valuation here.

What’s the investment?

What’s the price for an amazing program like this? Well, even though it will probably save you thousands (or tens of thousands) of dollars in wasted training money and save you YEARS of time and frustration not achieving results or getting promoted, your investment is only 6 easy monthly payments of - $247

That’s it - just $247 per month for 6 months – Total price $1481 only.

To make this one step even easier for you, I am making it totally risk free for you.

If at any stage during the first 30 days, you do not think that you are getting value from the program you can get a full refund immediately. No questions asked.

I am very comfortable making this guarantee because I know how powerful the material in this program is. I have used it with over 3500 leaders and managers all around the world. I know it works.

And if at any stage beyond that first 30 days – you are not entirely satisfied by what you are learning – you can withdraw from the programme and not make any further monthly payments.

So that’s it...

A top-flight Leadership Program that will support you in becoming the Leader and Manager you want to be – that fits in with your working routine – at a very reasonable price – that you can start with immediately.

In 4 minutes you will be learning how to be a better leader and manager.
In 24 hours your team will notice the difference.
In 7 days your manager will notice the difference.
In 14 days your clients will notice the difference.

So how about transforming yourself from someone that is considered “likely to remain where s/he is” to “very likely to be promoted to the next level soon”.

There’s no better time than RIGHT NOW to start improving your success as a Leader.

This is the most powerful program available to help you do it.

Just click a button to order.

Your Friend,

Antony Shave

PS: If you don’t take this one step towards your future as a more effective leader – where will you be in 6 months time? What will have changed? Probably nothing. You doing the same stuff and getting the same results from your team.

If you DO take this one step towards your future as a star performer – where will you be in 6 months time? Thinking in new ways, doing new things, with a team that is aligned with and inspired about one vision and one goal – all producing way more than you and they ever thought was possible.

You getting the recognition, respect and rewards that automatically comes with getting better results.

PPS: Like I said, I am taking away every single bit of the risk to you. If at any time in the first 30 days you do not feel you’re getting value, just tell me and I will refund your initial payment. After this first 30 days you can still withdraw from the program at any time and not pay any further month’s payments.

PPPS: You have nothing to lose and EVERYTHING to gain. What you will learn has been successfully applied by 1000s of leaders and managers around the world.

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