Learning & Development
Supplement your offering and develop more staff for excellence.
Choose the Right L&D Solutions
Creating a learning culture is central to developing high performing teams that aspire towards excellence, and it sits at the very heart of what FE Colleges are all about.
Yet meeting cross-college; departmental or functional; as well as team and individual development needs can seem impossible. So, it makes sense to partner with people who understand the Further Education landscape, and who can inject fresh ideas into your programme and:
- Deliver results through tailored programmes that meet your priorities, timescales, and budgets.
- Demonstrate sustainable change with accountability checks to ensure the learning is embedded.
- Are open-minded and continually develop new knowledge and skills to provide innovative and creative L&D content.
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Impact and Accountability
There’s a real focus in FE colleges on delivering sustainable change, in behaviour, performance and culture.
Using an L&D partner who understands FE can broaden your programme offering, and ensure long-term improvements by:
- Delivering small, tailored programmes to address specific individual issues and provide lightbulb moments to those who need them. Tackle skills gaps and challenges your staff or teams face, where you don’t have direct capacity to support.
- Providing large-scale training events, from Inset activities to college-wide management training. You are looking to drive excellence and deliver results and the right partner understands your priorities and delivers the right solution for your college.
All our programmes come with a 90-day accountability follow-up. It’s just one way you can assess their impact, and be confident the learning outcomes you need, remain in sharp focus long after delivery.
Our Values
Partnership and collaboration
Aligning with your needs to achieve your priorities
Listening and Understanding
Ensuring clarity about the issues that matter to you
Coaching and Support
Achieving sustainable change by embedding learning
Stretch and Challenge
Helping individuals and teams to challenge and grow
innovation
Learn, develop and apply new thinking and research
making things happen
Deliver high quality, engaging support with urgency
Building resilience
Achieve excellence through wellbeing and personal value
accountability
Make sure behaviours change, and expectations are met
Choosing the Right L&D Solution for Your College
Large-scale Programme and Inset Sessions
Set modules or programmes designed to supplement your current offering and help you meet your learning and development goals.
Includes team development and specific management skills sessions.
Executive Leadership Training
Address specific challenges facing your executive team through a combination of group workshops and individual coaching sessions.
Choose from an extensive suite of modules, ensuring the programme meets your key requirements.
Coaching and Mentoring
Address development needs through targeted coaching or mentoring support for groups or individuals.
Includes leadership coaching, 1:1 support, coaching for managers and mentoring for People professionals new to the sector.
Bespoke Training and Development
Work on specific individual or team skills with tailor-made programmes, bespoke psychometrics and 1:1 development plans.
Simply share your desired outcomes, timescales and budget and we’ll develop a solution for you.
All our programmes can be flexed to ensure they meet your specific requirements, because the stage of the journey your college is on and the factors and challenges your teams are facing may require a differentiated approach.
Simply get in touch, talk through your challenges, and we’ll guide you towards the right solution for you.
Popular Programmes
Senior Leadership Discovery Programme (SLDP)
Executive management development.
An action-oriented programme tailored to your specific leadership and team challenges. Designed to boost momentum, alignment and agility.
Knowing Me, Knowing You
Ideal Inset session for multiple teams.
Helping teams work more effectively using behavioural styles and recognising the unique value every individual offers.
Holding Difficult Conversations
Focused management training.
Supporting managers to recognise how to tailor feedback to individuals and tackle difficult conversations with confidence.
Power Up for Teams
Team development activity.
Acting as a powerful catalyst for teams who are under pressure to improve their effectiveness and commit to sustainable change.
Coaching and Mentoring Support
Coaching
Over the years we have all attended training programmes and workshops filled with the intentions of putting our learning into practice, but then ‘real life’ happens and often the learning gets forgotten.
Our approach to learning is rooted in the practical application of the models, tools, and techniques that we share.
Can be delivered face to face or virtually.
Individual Coaching
Engaging an external coach to work through challenges can really make a difference. We bring the right balance of support and challenge, enabling individuals to get back on track, and to break free from what’s been holding them back enabling them to stretch into the next level of performance or next role.
Leadership Coaching
Having a deep appreciation of how we show up as a leader matters. We work with Executives, Senior Leaders and Managers on understanding their unique style and how this enables them to lead others. We press buttons and create time for leaders and leadership teams to reflect and explore how to be more effective. We hold you to account for the things that you say are important and the actions you are going to take.
Management Coaching
We support managers to gain a deeper appreciation of their style and how this impacts on their ability to get the most from those that they manage. We create a safe space to explore what might be going on and enable individuals to find pragmatic ways to create change. Our approach is action orientated.
Group Coaching
Our group coaching enables individuals to gain from the power of peer feedback and support as well as group accountability.
We bring current leadership thinking to the table; create space for discussion and challenge; and support individuals to identify pragmatic ways to create change in their own team and organisations.
Mentoring
Tailored mentoring for senior HR professionals, who are new to the FE sector.
Delivered by FE HR practitioner mentors to give you dedicated advice and guidance.
Learn to navigate expectations, reporting requirements and governance arrangements.
Get support to understand new frameworks that just don’t exist elsewhere.
People Professionals new to FE
We tailor mentoring support for senior HR professionals who are new to the sector.
Delivered by experienced FE HR practitioners to give you dedicated advice and guidance.
Learn to navigate expectations, new cultural norms, reporting requirements, governance, and consultation arrangements.
Access a critical friend to support you in your transition period, to help you to adapt to the idiosyncrasies of Further Education that makes it a sector like no other, challenging and rewarding in equal measure.
New or Developing Executives
You may be transitioning into your new post, or facing challenges you won’t have encountered in the past, and often the higher you are in the organisation, the more lonely it can feel. But it doesn’t need to be. There is clear evidence that business performance is stronger where CEOs have worked with a mentor. Through connecting with a carefully selected mentor, you can accelerate your learning by accessing seasoned counsel and feedback from someone who has “ been there and done that”. They can offer context-specific advice drawn from experience, wisdom and networks that are well-placed to help you to avoid costly mistakes and become proficient in your role faster. We can help you to find the right mentor for you.
Become a Pilot Partner
Whenever we develop a new sector-wide programme, we work with pilot partners to test, evaluate and provide feedback. This helps ensure programmes are fit for purpose, with relevant content and activities that move you towards your goals.
If you’d like to help build and test impactful sessions for FE, get in touch to find out how you can become a pilot partner.
Testimonials
Find out what clients have to say about our recent L&D programmes:
Contact us to find the right L&D solution for your FE College.