“The only constant in life is change” …..

It’s five since we paid off our debt and became financially free and fully employee owned…. a journey, ethos, and success story. Has it been easy? No. Has it been rewarding? Very much so! We couldn’t be more proud of story so far.... onwards and upwards.

We are delighted to be joining forces with Salad Creative to present a session at the Employee Ownership Conference in Telford. We’ll be wearing two hats – our EO hat and our training consultancy hat!

What do Aardman Animations (of Wallace & Grommit fame), Alistair Sawday’s (world of travel), LUSH, (bath bombs & more), Riverford organic veggies and Tiptree jams & spreads have in common?? Read on…

According to the 2024 ISE Student Development survey, half of employers said that their graduates are not career ready at the point of hire, with similarly high numbers for school and college leavers. The data suggests that early careers are starting out without all the skills that they need to navigate today’s hybrid workplace successfully.

What a start to the year it’s been. Not just some fantastic projects, new clients and brilliant evaluations. Receiving a silver award for the Learning Giveback category at the recent Learning Performance Institute ceremony for our acclaimed Talent Forum has made us extremely happy…

As a supporting sponsor of the Institute of Student Employer’s Student Development Conference we’re exhibiting and presenting with one of our clients on 23 April at Prospero House in London. We hope to see you there …. #ISEdev24

I had the pleasure of working with Cadent’s Early Talent population last week to help equip them with the skills, knowledge and behaviours to hit the ground running in their first week at work.

In recent years the pathway to success has been influenced by Covid times and most early talent has had no choice but to adapt to a virtual (or hybrid) working world. Not a ‘technical’ problem for these digital natives, but it has definitely created a knock on social, relationship and knowledge acquisition problem…

There’s so much positive noise around about authenticity, honesty, and vulnerability in the workplace that sometimes as a leader it’s hard to find a path through and feel like you are living up to expectations …