Our Principles
To help our clients succeed, we start by listening to the real challenges they face and, using a set of principles, we design solutions that help leaders address real challenges, improve their ability and drive business performance.
We apply the six principles below in our work with clients and, while no two projects are ever the same, we follow a disciplined process of design and delivery in close collaboration with our clients at each step. Tell us your leadership need and we’ll show you how our principles deliver it!
Engage executives
We believe the engagement of senior leaders as sponsors, subject matter experts and advisers is critical to the effectiveness of our solutions.
Executive engagement ensures credibility, impetus and alignment to company strategy and objectives. It reinforces senior leaders’ role as a developer of future leaders and raises their awareness of leadership talent for succession.
Address genuine issues
We align our solutions to resolve critical business and/or systemic organisational challenges. In doing so, individual leadership capability is developed at the same time.
Addressing real business challenges makes the learning experience more relevant, meaningful and engaging for participants. Successful projects deliver a genuine business benefit while simultaneously enabling the development of leadership skills.
Tailor bespoke solutions
We develop solutions collaboratively with our clients, selecting and adapting to address their unique context, culture and needs.
Bespoke solutions have greater relevance and impact than off- the-shelf interventions. Employing novel methodologies can hasten and deepen both individual and collective learning and behaviour.
Learn to learn
As the ability to learn is the strongest indicator of the potential to succeed, we introduce and emphasise learning power as the language for learning in all our solutions.
Leaders need their learning ability every day. That’s why we raise their awareness of it and equip them to improve the learning ability in the teams they lead. It builds a culture of learning and increases the potential to adapt and succeed.
Employ innovative pedagogy
Instead of traditional teaching methods, we use learning activities that raise self-awareness, challenge assumptions, stimulate imagination, develop reflection and engage leaders in rehearsing the skills they need in a safe learning environment.
Experiential learning, behavioural simulations and discovery visits create a richer environment for smart people to learn and improve, successfully.
Perform on-the-job
We support learning through on-the-job performance because it is so much more effective than learning in the classroom. We use blended solutions to harness the advantages of technology at every step of the learning and improvement journey.
Intelligent and self-motivated learners do not want to wait for a course. Our support for on-the-job performance puts the power of self-directed learning in everyone’s hands.