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FUSION

Executive Summary FUSION is a life changing programme that has provided
me with a validation of my capabilities, removed perceived
FUSION is an award-winning
programme originally commissioned barriers and provided me with a set of dynamic tools that
by Paul Ventisei and is now sponsored will be used to progress my performance and career at HSBC.
by Stephen Bayly. The programme
breaks down silo mentalities, empowers -FUSION 15 delegate
individuals to drive change and
improves leadership and followership Simply the best development programme I have ever been privileged to be part of. It
skills in the context of managing global challenges, it’s thought provoking, it tests, it forces a fresh and new look on you and
teams. your colleagues’ behaviours and it gives you the tools to plot a path of improvement
and change that is sustainable and achievable. I was a true alienated follower. I’m not
This year-long, highly intensive anymore. And I started to believe in myself again.
performance improvement programme -Senior Relationship Manager, Trudi Harper
enables the organisation to build a
critical mass of talented, connected and FUSION helped me tap into a network of individuals who clearly felt passionately
empowered change agents through a responsible for the Group’s values and for the development and personal growth of
mix of delegates who reflect cultural, the wider team. As a programme, FUSION challenged me to analyse my skills and
geographical and gender diversity. working style introspectively, but also to step up and lead with my sights set on a
clearly selected and maintained aim.
Noting that FUSION is real action -Lead Architect, GBM Architecture, Nick Jewell
learning - not just theory, judges
at the Financial World Innovation
Awards also reported: “HSBC’s
FUSION programme has provided a
comprehensive and sustainable solution Methodology
to a serious skills issue within the IT
Department – worldwide. The judges FUSION works on a module based structure. It is an integrated suite of five intensive 3-day
were particularly impressed at the residential workshops. The programme blends pragmatic theory and input with networking,
way that the solution does not just feedback and back-at-work practice. The delegates (a global mix of GCBs 3-5) are carefully
train people; it actually induces change selected from the green talent box and have a record of high performance. FUSION challenges
throughout the operation. The sheer 36 delegates to build four high-performing Action Learning Teams as vehicles for applying
scale of this programme, and the senior their learning via individual and collective development and the delivery of a business
management support that it has, were improvement project.
both remarkable; and the team projects
have demonstrated many benefits – e.g. TEAMS
retention, reduction in costs, customer
satisfaction, collaboration, peer support, NOMINATION 6-8 WEEKS
and the alumni community which has
been created by networking the
‘FUSIONeers’.” RMA SANDHURST, UK