The Aspiring Leaders Programme
Career-defining experiences to unlock your talent’s potential.
Provide high-potential talent with the skills, knowledge and behaviours to reach their full potential.
embed accountability
Ensure your team understand the importance of delivering for the business & customers, and the role they play in their own development.
DEVELOP soft skills
No matter the role, having soft skills is fundamental to efficiency, communication & leadership. Embed these skills to get the best from your talent.
BUILD SUCCESSFUL CAREERS
Provide the foundations for your employees to reach their personal development goals and gain the skills for now and their future roles in your business.
FLEXIBLE DELIVERY
Run a private, closed programme for your business, or enrol delegates on an OPEN programme with high-potential professionals from other businesses.
Aspiring Leaders Programme
We take delegates on a journey to help them build the foundations for a highly successful career. Starting with exploring what motivates them, to their perceived strengths and weaknesses, right through to analysing and understanding behaviours, management techniques, problem solving and more. We build the skills, knowledge and behaviours that support delegates in their day-to-day roles as well as preparing them for future roles they aspire to hold within your business. Areas we cover include commercial acumen, building relationships, decision making, communication and delivering results.
A key outcome of the programme is helping delegates to understand their responsibilities to themselves, others and their business. We provide situations that enable delegates to develop their skills and capability so they are an active participant in driving their own success, as well as supporting others to succeed.
Outcomes of the programme include:
embedding critical business knowledge
identifying and addressing development areas
increasing self-awareness and professionalism
Developing interpersonal capability
Understanding business concepts and increasing commercial awareness
Managing live projects
Why Discovery?
The Discovery team are experts in designing and delivering career-defining development programmes for organisations across the UK. We are an approved training organisation for the Association of Professional Sales, an Institute of Leadership and Management approved training centre, active members with the Institute of Student Employers and approved to deliver apprenticeships by the Institute for Apprenticeships.
Aside from all of that, we’re not just a chalk and talk training company. Our goal is to help your people develop so your business has a truly sustainable, competitive advantage. We treat every delegate as an individual so we can give them the eureka moments that will lead to life-defining change.
Nobody said professional development should be easy, but it definitely doesn’t have to be boring! All of our programmes use blended learning and experiential activities to stretch delegates, but in a fun and memorable way. The two most common words delegates use to describe our programmes are ‘challenging’ and ‘fun’. When you’re looking to engage learners, develop their skills and make a long-term behavioural change, we think that’s a great combination.
Are you ready to improve your workforce?
The Aspiring Leaders Programme is perfect for aspirational talent who are looking to move into managing departmental or project teams as part of their career progression. The programme focuses on developing and stretching individuals. It is perfect for both seasoned professionals developing into leadership, and also early career talent looking to kickstart their career.
To qualify for the programme, a delegate’s current or planned future job role must give them the opportunity to manage at least one of the following: resources, processes, teams or projects. Roles may include: Junior Manager, Supervisor, Team Leader, Project Officer, Shift Supervisor, Shift Manager, etc.
The programme can be privately funded by any organisation. Additionally, as the programme is aligned to the ILM Team Leader/Supervisor Level 3 standard, the programme can be funded using the apprenticeship levy – both for organisations who are levy payers and SMEs using a government top-up.
A closed programme is a way of running the Aspiring Leaders programme specifically for your organisation, which allows us to tailor learning and interventions to your business. We recommend cohorts of 10-12 delegates. If you have fewer, it may be more beneficial to enrol your delegates on one of our OPEN Programmes.
An OPEN programme is a way of running the Aspiring Leaders programme for organisations who have fewer than 10 delegates or want to enrol their delegates alongside others from different businesses.
Enrolling your delegates on an OPEN programme means they will be enrolled on a cohort with delegates from other businesses. This means they will still receive all the benefits of peer learning, and your business will benefit from boosted employee performance for smaller numbers.
The delegate journey…
Upcoming cohort dates
We start and deliver multiple programme cohorts throughout the year. To find out about available start dates for your employees, please complete the contact form below.
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The Discovery ‘Way’
Use a joined up approach through Diagnostics, Recruitment & Training to build a better workforce.
Diagnostics
Before taking action, take the time to understand how you need to build your workforce to reach your business’ goals and reduce wasted spends.
recruitment
Get the right people in your business with the behaviours, stretch and capability that will ensure your business succeeds.
training
Business doesn’t stand still: develop your employees to increase their capability, prepare them for future roles & future-proof your workforce.
