Learning & Development

Every day, we speak to committed and talented organisational leaders who are facing big challenges – managing uncertainty, inspiring vision while bringing a down-to-earth roadmap, maintaining adaptability, acknowledging change fatigue, fostering commitment in disparate workforces, complex supply issues, and competing stakeholder demands. We get it. While we can’t wave a magic wand and solve all these problems, we can foster leaders at all levels who can tackle these issues.

AAB’s unique Pivot Leadership approach comprises:

• Level One: Firstly, we connect with the Leader’s passion, values and emotional intelligence as a leader and work with them to discover how these align with the organisational purpose. This provides a ‘core’ or strong centre for leaders to pivot.
• Level Two: We then work on improving key relations by building greater psychological safety and adapting to diverse personalities, fostering collaboration and innovation.
• Level Three: We equip leaders to transition from daily operations to strategic thinking, making pivotal decisions with empathy and aligning team efforts with strategic goals.
• Level Four: Our goal is to help leaders transform into visionary influencers who can handle challenges confidently, enhancing organisations and shaping industries.

We are an ILM-certified centre and can offer a full suite of ILM Leadership and Management Accreditations.

The career trajectory of today’s employees can be characterised as increasingly non-linear in nature. Indeed, the emergence of “squiggly careers” is a great characterisation of contemporary career paths. The key question our clients ask is how can we support individuals to take charge and move forward with confidence in their own career journeys?

AAB’s Career Navigator series can support your employees to identify what energises them, recognise their personal values, their “why”, and the strengths they bring to their roles every day. Participants are also introduced to key concepts from behavioural psychology to explore and challenge their own limiting beliefs and engage with a range of tools and frameworks to envision and map out a plan for the journey ahead, for both the short-term and longer-term.

Whether it’s individual modules or a comprehensive calendar of learning sessions, our learning and development consultant services will cater to your unique needs, fostering growth, efficiency, and engagement across all levels of your organisation.

Learning Calendars
Learning Calendars make a difference to employees’ skills, productivity, engagement, and retention. Working in collaborative partnership with you, we curate learning calendars with a diverse range of topics that empower your people to continuously develop their skills, ensuring they remain agile and effective in a fast-paced business environment, keeping your organisation ahead of the competition.

Stand-Alone Workshops
AAB’s clients recognise the pressing need for reskilling and upskilling initiatives to bridge the skills gap and equip employees for the future of work. We partner with our clients to provide targeted learning experiences to address specific challenges and enhance performance.

Our stand-alone modules cover crucial areas such as:

• Coaching for managers
• Mentoring (development of mentees and mentors)
• Policy into practice
• Building inclusive teams (EDI)
• Having meaningful performance management conversations
• Conflict handling
• Giving and receiving feedback well
• Having crucial conversation
• Confidence building (power in me)
• Enhancing personal and team resilience
• Self-awareness with psychometric debriefs

Each module equips your people with practical skills and insights, driving continuous improvement and personal growth. AAB’s customised virtual and blended learning solutions are designed for the modern world. We can work with you onsite, remotely, or in combination.

ENGAGE

At AAB, we put people at the heart of everything we do. Our Learning & Development consultant services create interactive, engaging, and thought-provoking learning experiences that are firmly rooted in the most up-to-date, relevant theory and science to deliver lasting behavioural change. Together, we will deliver flexible solutions incorporating online and in-person elements and communities or practices. Fostering a highly inclusive and supportive growth environment for all participants through highly interactive, engaging, and thought-provoking learning experiences.

We all have strengths that we have yet to leverage, and executive coaching is expanding across more levels within organisations of all sizes. Working with an AAB coach, we help to spark your curiosity about your capabilities, what your best self looks like and how to turn that into a reality.

AAB provides innovative coaching solutions in the following areas of focus:

• Driving alignment on shifting strategies.
• Senior team development.
• Building an adaptable and agile culture.
• Building bench and leader succession.
• Coaching the whole person, including self-care and self-awareness.

At AAB, we partner with each client to design a bespoke coaching offering in a format that offers the best fit for your needs, this can include:

• 121 Executive Coaching – Working with individuals, people managers and senior leaders. Focus on personal presence, impact and influence, mindset and behaviours.
• Strategic Coach Mentoring – Working with senior leaders who are seeking a bespoke approach with a commercial orientation and solution focus.
• Blended Approach of Executive Coaching and Strategic Coach Mentoring.
• Triad Executive Coaching – Working with the coachee and their line manager.
• Team Coaching – Working with people leaders and their intact and/or interoperable teams.
• Mentoring & Mediation.

PSYCHOMETRICS

Depending on our client’s needs we can utilise a range of highly reputable psychometrics including DiSC, Insights Discovery, Hogan, MHS EQi tool, and Lencioni’s Team Assessment to provide rich insights into communication, personal, leadership styles and team dynamics. These tools help heighten self-awareness and foster more effective communication and collaboration.