Performance enhancing partnerships
Your next-gen learning partner
From high impact training sessions and resource first approaches, to multi-cohort leadership development programmes and train-the-trainer collaborations — some partnership snapshots are shared here. And do drop us a line if you'd like to learn more.
Cubitts is a burgeoning optical business, and we've supported the leadership team in embedding three kinds of performance conversation — tightly aligned to values — and are enabling all Cubitts managers to have these conversations purposefully. We're succeeding together through a blend of live experiences and targeted resources. And alongside the focus on manager capability, our platform gives everyone in the team access to personalised development pathways — and the opportunity to join Peer Coaching cohorts.
In the short film shared below, Cubitts store manager Kas Mundyia shares some insights into the mindset shift and practical tools he took away from a Peer Coaching workshop, experienced among his colleagues. Kas is in conversation with YCN associate facilitator Matt Cook. Keen to refine your own coaching skills?
Perspectives on Peer Coaching
The relevance of YCN's modules, modern style of delivery and commitment to connecting it all into our values really quickly boosted our managers' confidence, with the impact shown in our retention rates and satisfaction surveys.
A multi-year partnership to support the launch and roll out of a new performance management strategy. Kicking off with a two-day summit for managers from around the world and sustained with cohort based management development training, experienced through live workshops, self-led digital tools and conversation guides. YCN facilitators worked alongside internal DM team members, using a train-the-trainer approach to support ongoing efforts in international markets.
You really got the nuance of our culture, and the way we'd need to position development to get our people-managers on board and to see what was in it all for them. People still talk about the programme today, and the tools and language we gave managers lives on powerfully in their conversations.
We've partnered with the fast-food-favourites since 2021 on an extraordinarily high-impact learning and belonging initiative, to connect leaders and team-members for mutually-valuable knowledge sharing. We developed a digital development portal for the programme, sharing a calendar of bitesize training 'power hours' and supporting digital tools — empowering everyone to bring the right mindset to their relationships, quickly building confidence with key skills like listening, questioning and goal-setting.
Combining self-directed digital learning with live, experiential and expert-led workshops — we helped the digital retailer to engage 98% of their workforce in collaborative, value-aligned and individually actionable development over 6 months. Ongoing evaluation is revealing sustained behaviour change; from the way meetings are facilitated to the shared vocabulary captured in regular DE&I pulse surveys. The short film below shares how, through inclusive experiences and everyday experiments, we're enabling people throughout the business to find relevant development in the flow of work.
Everyday learning at Very
You Can Now has really helped our managers to create the environments in which people can thrive. It's about making things accessible, and giving people choice.
We teamed up with the terrific ticketing platform to co-design, values map and launch throughout UK and US teams a series of Mastery Paths mapped to core competencies collaboratively identified among managers and teams. The playlist style paths blended bitesize live workshops offered virtually and in-person, and super-practical digital tools offering experiments and conversation prompts among managers and their team members. Visually loaded physical tools were also designed as ongoing meeting room drops to keep new skills in hearts and minds.
We're taking cohorts of managers and assistant managers from the workplace experts through an energising series of modules designed to map to company values and identified manager competencies — grounded in our Core Four manager modules, and with an emphasis on collaborative, coaching-led approaches to daily team doings. Timely tools and transfer tasks have emphasised a test and learn approach throghout.
We partnered with everyone's favourite Irani cafe group to programme an enlightening series of talks and events, open to team-members and customers alike — pulling in the bright perspectives of creative thinkers like Alison Lloyd, Alan Yau and Tom Broughton; creating bundles of digital resources to further share the love and learning among team-members that didn't make it along. The chai flowed.
Head and shoulders above any other training and development partner in terms of relevance and originality