Learning and Development Insights: Planning For 2025

ABSTRACT

The Budget Season is upon us!


That time of year when many organisations set their revenue and cost plans for the year to come and identify opportunities to grow.


This includes Learning and Development budgets...


What are your business and people priorities for 2025 and can ABSTRACT help you address them?


If you are a Business Leader, People Director or Head of Learning & Development then now's a great time to plan your strategy for 2025.


Sixty-two percent of CEO’s selected GROWTH as their top business priority for 2024 / 2025 according to a survey by Gartner.


This is the highest level in ten years, since 2014, with the survey finding that CEOs are entertaining a growth mindset in their current environment. Workforce is the number three priority; pressures having eased slightly although pressing challenges persist.


Senior leaders were urged to explore options to boost GROWTH and to push their organisation to address talent challenges.
Attracting, retaining, and developing your people remains more important than ever.

Developing future leaders for succession is a perennial top priority for Human Resources.


Other top HR Priorities include:

  1. Attracting top talent externally.
  2. Supporting career growth internally.
  3. Creating a more flexible and adaptable workforce.
  4. Building new skills across the workforce.
  5. Strengthening your risk management and decision making.
  6. Enhancing the capability and impact of managers and leaders.
  7. Increasing productivity and business performance.
  8. Be an enabler for GROWTH. 


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


Our Award-Winning Programmes For 2025


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 programmes and coaching will:


  • Improve your business through your people, harnessing their full potential.
  • Help your people to become the best version of themselves.
  • Embed behavioural change for permanent and effective improvement.
  • Create high performing teams.


Our award-winning learning programmes are structured around three core specialisms:




Business Growth

With an ABSTRACT Performance Management Programme your people will discover how to create strategic objectives for their teams by implementing effective tactics, milestones and performance reviews, deploying respectful high challenge with high care.


Our Sales Improvement Programme will fuel business growth and drive a commercially focused culture amongst your teams.


Gaining new clients and better serving your existing ones is the aim of our Relationships In Business Programme.

Our Business Growth Programmes

Leadership Essentials

We can develop your leaders to perpetually grow their respective businesses and create an environment where everyone thrives and applies the Leadership Essentials.


We can improve equality, diversity & inclusion through ABSTRACT’s Cultural Competence Programme or drive sustainable results, using Modern Day Leadership, with our Inclusive Responsibility Programme.

Our Leadership Essentials Programmes

Career Management

Our Career Management Programmes will help to grow and retain your personnel to become the best they can be whilst futureproofing your organisation.


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


ACCELERATE is a well-established business career accelerator that 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 successfully navigate their career.


Finally, our You as a Manager Programme provides a foundational step on the Leadership Journey, building a framework for growth, providing the tools for excellence and supporting your managers to apply their skills in the modern world.

Our Career Management Programmes

Grow a Successful Coaching Culture Within Your Organisation!

The Coaching Hub by ABSTRACT is designed to provide expert coaching for everyone - not just the most senior.


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


Our experienced expert personal coaches will be perfectly matched to every Coachee, offering specialist assistance throughout their 16 Week coaching journey. The Coaching Hub can be delivered on a stand-alone basis or as part of an integrated programme across your wider team.

Learn More About The Coaching Hub

If not now, then when?

Now is the time to elevate your people - because talent and leadership are the core strength of your business.


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


If so, we would love to consult with you and your team about how ABSTRACT can support your future plans. 

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