Why 50 Lessons?

The idea behind Fifty Lessons is a simple one. We set out to film the world’s most successful business people and obtain the most important lessons they have learnt in the course of their careers.

What we have captured is a wealth of compelling video stories that range across the spectrum of business life: from the fine art of commercial negotiation to the perilous waters of organizational change, to the fundamentals of customer service. Our growing library of over 500 lessons from over 100 high profile leaders will enhance the growth and development of your people across your organization.

One additional unforeseen benefit of our approach is that the stories have also proved to be powerful tools in supporting corporate wide communication and initiatives.

Learning Challenges

Fifty Lessons has set out to tackle the following Learning Challenges you face:

• You require training materials that enhance individual and team development, improve behaviors and positively impact business performance.
• You need rich distributed content that can be easily integrated into your people development programs at all level within your organization.
• Your people live in a rich media World. They demand that their development materials are just as engaging.
• Training is powerful when you provide content that your people can relate to. Your people desire lessons that are relevant to the business and management issues they face on a daily basis.
• Time is limited and your people require learning objects that are focused and high impact.
• You want to deliver lessons that people retain and implement.

The Fifty Lessons Solution

• The World Class Leaders we have filmed provide a wide range of lessons that add tested wisdom, insight and real world examples. These lessons will benefit all aspects of your people development programs, especially management and leadership.
• Fifty Lessons is designed so that it can be easily integrated into all aspects of your classroom and distributed learning programs. The Lessons can be delivered through our award winning platform, or integrated into your Learning management systems and courseware.
• Fifty Lessons provides engaging content based on the Power of Storytelling, delivered as premium quality video. Filmed to broadcast standards, the lessons provide you with high value professional content.
• These stories encapsulate practical lessons from real business leaders. The lessons offer a uniquely valuable and stimulating learning resource that your people can relate to. The lessons are delivered in the context of challenges and opportunities your people face every day.
• The lessons are perfect for a time-constrained world. Most lessons are no longer than five minutes, focused on delivering key points in a manner that your people will process, retain and action.

The Fifty Lessons Dividend

• Your people will have greater confidence and make better decisions. They will realize that the situations they face are often not unique and that they have solutions.
• Minds will be opened to alternative approaches.
• Individuals will have an increased understanding and enhanced insight into key business objectives.
• The lessons will help generate thoughtful debate and more solid conclusions.
• Engaged individuals will develop action pledges based around the lessons learnt that will improve both behavior and performance.
• When learning is engaging your people will share the benefits, because they will have stories to tell.

BRIDGE2THINK Portal

To see how Fifty Lessons has been in- corporated into organisations' learning programmes, go to:

50Lessons BRIDGE2THINK Portal and view the video testimonials from the BBC and London Business School.