Learning and Development Insights: Planning For 2024

ABSTRACT

Calling all Business Leaders, HR Directors, Heads of Learning & Development!

It's never too late to plan how you'll develop your people this year...


Growth and Workforce are respectively 1st and 3rd on the CEO Strategic Business Priorities list for 2023/2024, according to a recent study by Gartner.


Senior Leaders are navigating today’s economic realities but are also intent on investing for the future.


With 79% of global CEOs concerned about skills availability, business productivity and talent shortages remain a key focus. Attracting, retaining, and developing your people is more important than ever.


If you are a Business Leader, HR Director, Head of People or Learning & Development, then now's a great time to plan your strategy for 2024.


To help you start today, here are our Top 10 reasons why investing in the development of your people is critical, timely AND cost effective:

It Will:


  1. Improve employee retention.
  2. Attract quality new people.
  3. Boost workplace and team morale.
  4. Enhance the capability and impact of your managers and leaders.
  5. Increase productivity and business performance.
  6. Create a more flexible and adaptable workforce.
  7. Strengthen your risk management and help you to make better decisions.
  8. Redefine or revolutionise your company vision, purpose, values and personality.
  9. Provide your people with the tools and ambition to accelerate their careers with you.
  10. Be an enabler for growth.


If any of these resonate with you, here's how we can help...


Our Award-Winning Programmes For 2024


ABSTRACT have created a set of contemporary Learning and Development Programmes and an affordable Coaching proposition that will help you build a modern organisation fit for today's social objectives.


Our Award-Winning Programmes are structured around three core specialisms:



Inclusive Leadership

We can help you to create high performing and fearless teams through our Leadership and Collaboration Programme, creating common purpose, attracting the right people, building the right environment, and fostering the right behaviours.


Inclusive Leadership includes our Cultural Competence Programme, for equality, diversity, and inclusion development, that will create an environment of Conscious Inclusion.


The Critical Thinking Programme will help your people to form sound judgement and make excellent decisions so you can be confident that your decision-making will drive your business forward.

Our Inclusive Leadership Programmes

Business Development

You can ensure you are fit for the future with our Strategic Leadership Programme by fostering strategy development and leading through change.


To develop your business, our Business Transformation Programme focuses on cultural development and sustainability, enabling you to create your organisation’s Vision, Purpose, Values and Personality and then setting management best practices and peer coaching.


You will improve your sales and performance with the Relationships in Business Programme, learning how to build presence and capability, form unbreakable relationships and manage your business like a franchise.

Our Business Development Programmes

Career Management

We also deliver our tried and tested career management programmes.


AMBITION will develop the growth of your emerging talent, helping you to nurture and retain them. AMBITION can also be deployed to support the progression of your under-represented groups.


ACCELERATE is a business career accelerator which has been successfully delivered to thousands of middle to senior leaders, mainly women, creating Self-Awareness, Self-Promotion and Self-Control and giving participants the tools and confidence to navigate their career.


Finally, leadership and coaching development is provided through the ADVANCE programme, where delegates will experience heightened self-awareness and refine their self-management. 

Our Career Management Programmes

Grow a Successful Coaching Culture Within Your Organisation!

Introducing: The Coaching Hub

 

This year we launched The Coaching Hub; our solution designed to provide expert coaching for everyone - not just executives!


This standardised, time bounded coaching solution is affordable and accessible for all mainstream personnel, offering unique flexibility through fully remote delivery.


Our evaluative allocation process ensures that our highly qualified, expert personal coaches are perfectly matched to every Coachee, offering specialist assitance throughout their 16 Week coaching journey.


Learn More About The Coaching Hub

About ABSTRACT

Would you like to empower your people to become more effective and harness their full potential?


We would love to consult with you and your team about how ABSTRACT can support your future.


If not now, then when?

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