Evidence-led development for modern managers and leaders
Combining 'human data', timely tools and collaborative peer-learning — we’re defining and building the high-impact behaviours of managers and leaders at all levels.
Below you’ll find some insights in our methods, modules and the elements of development that combine to drive performance and sustain change. And please do drop us a line to learn more.
You really got the nuance of our culture, and the way we'd need to position development to get our people-managers on-board. People still talk about the programme today, and the tools and language we gave managers live on powerfully in their conversations.
The Core Four
Foundational modules for modern managers
From a first focus on self-management, to committing to conversational consistency — these Core Four modules have been road tested and refined alongside leaders and managers from organisations of all shapes and sizes. They offer a set of foundational behaviours and skills to benchmark capability against, prioritise establishing and then build on. Here you'll find an outline for each, and links to some digital resources that sit within each module. And there's more to explore in the PDF shared below too.
Enabling managers and leaders
The elements of development
Smart campaigns and messaging, aligned to recognised strategy and cultural cues, piques curiosity and purposefully primes for participation at the outset of any programme or engagement.
Benchmarking participants against key behaviours, and pulling in peer perspectives to provide motivating personalised insights and support future evaluation.
Shared in advance and as a follow on to live workshops, our libraries of physical and digital tools emphasise experimentation and create immediate evidence of impact.
Delivered in-person, virtually or hybrid — live experiences create a social and collaborative space to test tools tackle timely topics, explore live scenarios and create accountability for action.
Designed to reflect behavioural best practice, self-directed eCourses offer a brain-friendly format for exploring core module content — useful as standalone assets and to revisit workshop experiences.
Short, coach-facilitator led recorded walkthroughs offer wider programme stakeholders a visually loaded mode to see core content covered — helping connected conversations around application.
Integrated within wider programmes, or offered as a standalone development experience, structured series' of 1-1 coaching sessions are grounded in our action-oriented methodology
Connecting back to the results of Reflective Assessments, and drawing on core aspects of Kirkpatrick's model, evaluation frameworks robustly record impact across key measures — from Reaction to Results.
This short, shareable PDF shows how these elements of development combine to engage and connect key groups throughout any management and leadership development effort. Human data, timely topics, blended delivery, relentless experimentation and robust evaluation combine to create sustained impact.
Enabling leaders at every level
From first time leaders to the board, engagement is tailored to reflect capability throughout your organisation.
Often stepping up through their individual performance, but not set up to succeed as a manager. Challenges come thick and fast.
Rising stars across departments, hungry for skills that will fuel their progression — and with real currency placed on coaching capability.
This group will be navigating competing demands with long-established leadership behaviours. It's key they're open to continuous learning.
Central to the design and delivery of our work with managers and leaders is our international community of expert coach-facilitators — each bringing professional accreditation, sector-specific experience and an inclusive and action-oriented approach. Pictured from top-left are YCN associate coaches Raul Aparici, Sarah Naidoo-Banks, Kate Lloyd and Katy Kent. In the short film below Kate makes the case for situational flexibility when leading modern teams.
Kate Lloyd on Goleman's Six Leadership Styles
Alongside programmes delivered directly into partners' teams, our Core Four Manager Foundations modules can be explored cross-organisationally. Participants work in virtual cohorts alongside peers from other growing partners; arming themselves with hyper-practical tools to test, an enriched network and lots of new accountability for action.
Our work is continually informed by experiences shared and evidence recorded by the thousands of managers and leaders we're privileged to support every day, across hundreds of organisations of all shapes and sizes — from scaling tech stars to fast food favourites, creative agencies to amazing charities.