Enabling leaders,
enabling teams
Since 2001, we've partnered with growing organisations in all sectors to continuously develop their leaders and teams. Our success comes from combining personal insights, live experiences and timely tools.
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OPEN LEARNINGManager Foundations: Autumn + Winter – Virtual Cohorts
Our longstanding, cross-organisational programme anchors in the Core Four foundational, behavioural modules. Its experienced through personal insights, collaborative workshops, timely tools and the magical accountability that comes from peer learning.
We're currently curating cohorts to kick off in September, October, January and February.
PARTNERSThe fabric of leaders
YCN X Tekla
We partnered with the Copenhagen-based luxury home textiles brand; enabling a cohort of rising leaders to collectively define and build behaviours, most helpful to embody daily throughout their teams. Behavioural profiling, live sessions and tactile toolkits were colourfully combined.
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MAGAZINEFrom Inside to Impact
What happens when lived experience meets real support? Voices within Spark Inside reveal how coaching and community drive real change.
READ ONEnabling sustainable growth
YCN X osapiens
We're supporting osapiens, one of Europe's fastest growing tech companies, to build and sustain all-important manager behaviours that shift performance in the flow of work. Cohort based action learning sets focussed on relatable and thorny scenarios, combined with mission based tools, are evaluating very well so far. More to follow.
PARTNERSGrowing People.
YCN X Wildfarmed
We're enabling managers and leaders throughout the sustainable farming pioneers business — with timely tools and training that connect people growth to commercial growth.
More on how we partnerCertification: London, Berlin, Copenhagen and virtual dates for Autumn
We've shared dates for in-person and virtual certification opportunities for those keen to build modern DISC profiling into their work and teams. A chance to collaboratively return to some of our favourite cities.
Bright ideas for Summer
Actionable insights await inside our summer issue. From the remarkable coaching work of prison charity Spark Inside, to mountaineer Bouchra Baibanou on making decisions under pressure.
MORE FROM THE MAGAZINEHeightened Communication
YCN X Releaf
We're working with stakeholder-facing teams at the UK's leading medical cannabis clinic to define what good looks like when it comes to delivering presentations, and equipping people with the tools and confidence to wow when they deliver them.
MORE ON HOW WE PARTNERBreakthrough Tools
YCN X PizzaExpress
We're enabling leaders and teams across the restaurant group with tools for everyday breakthroughs.
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PARTNERSA vision for continuous learning:
YCN X Cubitts
Cubitts is a burgeoning optical business and we're empowering everyone from the founder to the shop floor, with access to relevant development in the busy flow of work.
MORE ON HOW WE PARTNERThe Great Training Robbery
We're sharing perspectives on so many change and development initiatives fail to create lasting impact — and what organisations can do instead to measure what really matters.
READ ONNuts about Development
YCN X Pip & Nut
We've worked for many years with leaders and team-members (AKA Squirrels) across the burgeoning nut butter maestros to embed in-demand skills, and measure their impact against the challenges of the day.
The relevance of the modules, style of delivery and commitment to connecting it all into our culture really motivated our leaders to do things differently.
— Katie Dolby Managing Director, Cubitts
Lead all about it
In our work developing modern leaders, the conversation often starts with behaviours. Which will matter most in helping people and organisations to succeed?
And that's what we explore in our bi-annual print magazine; sharing stories from the workplace frontline, welcoming expertise and looking laterally for insights you can test with your own team today.
“Head and shoulders above any other training and development partner in terms of relevance, originality and impact.”
Andy O'Callaghan · People Director, Dishoom