Enabling leaders,
enabling teams
Since 2001, we've partnered with growing organisations in all sectors to continuously develop their leaders and teams. Our success comes from combining personal insights, live experiences and timely tools.
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MAGAZINEThe Dogs of Montana
Exploring the enduring motivational power of purpose, recognition and connection – whether you walk on two legs or four – with elite protection dog trainer, and founder of Svalinn, Kim Greene.
Kim describes the commonalities she's noticed when it comes to developing and motivating both dogs, and people.
Spoiler: praise works.
PARTNERSChai Chats
YCN X Dishoom
Dishoom means Pow! in Bollywood movie language. We've partnered with the growing, detail-driven restaurant group to shape a high impact Babu Masterclass programme, enabling managers throughout their Bombay inspired cafés and new Permit Rooms.
A key focus was establishing and enriching the 'Chai Chat' – a punchy, performance-enhancing check-in, in the flow of a shift.
PARTNERSRaising the Bar for Management
YCN X The Campari Group
Our multi-year partnership with Campari's global learning team has brought together cohorts of managers from across Europe, North and South America – building core capabilities around a global behavioural framework.
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PARTNERSLearning by Design
YCN X Koto
We've partnered with global creative studio Koto to support leaders and teams across London, New York, Los Angeles, Berlin and Sydney, combining a tailored digital learning platform, accessible to all, with a rich programme of live development experiences.
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PARTNERSSmart behaviours
YCN X KFC
We're partnering to humanly and helpfully benchmark restaurant leaders and managers globally, around a brand new behavioural framework. An intuitive, creative Navigator tool will help quickly surface personal strengths and stretches – connecting into immediate development wins and coaching conversations.
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PARTNERSFoundational Leadership
YCN X Heatherwick Studio
Working with cross functional cohorts of rising leaders at the multi-award-winning British design and architecture studio – we're defining the core capabilities needed to enable their teams; and building them together through a blend of collaborative live sessions, self-led challenges and a delightful digital layer.
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OPEN LEARNINGManager Foundations: Autumn + Winter – Virtual Cohorts
Our longstanding, cross-organisational programme anchors in the Core Four foundational, behavioural modules. Its experienced through personal insights, collaborative workshops, timely tools and the magical accountability that comes from peer learning.
We're currently curating cohorts to kick off in September, October, January and February.
PARTNERSThe fabric of leaders
YCN X Tekla
We partnered with the Copenhagen-based luxury home textiles brand; enabling a cohort of rising leaders to collectively define and build behaviours, most helpful to embody daily throughout their teams. Behavioural profiling, live sessions and tactile toolkits were colourfully combined.
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MAGAZINEFrom Inside to Impact
What happens when lived experience meets real support? Voices from Spark Inside reveal how coaching and community drive real change within the prison system.
READ ONEnabling sustainable growth
YCN X osapiens
We're supporting osapiens, one of Europe's fastest growing tech companies, to build and sustain all-important manager behaviours that shift performance in the flow of work. Cohort based action learning sets focussed on relatable and thorny scenarios, combined with mission based tools, are evaluating very well so far. More to follow.
PARTNERSGrowing People
YCN X Wildfarmed
We're enabling managers and leaders throughout the sustainable farming pioneers business — with timely tools and training that connect people growth to commercial growth.
More on our partnersCertification Days: London, New York and Copenhagen dates shared.
We've in-person Certification opportunities for those keen to build modern DISC profiling into their work and teams. And a chance to collaboratively return to some of our favourite cities as the season's shift and the water cools.
Lead all about it
Actionable insights await inside our summer issue. From the remarkable coaching work of prison charity Spark Inside, to mountaineer Bouchra Baibanou on making decisions under pressure.
MORE FROM THE MAGAZINEHeightened Communication
YCN X Releaf
We're working with stakeholder-facing teams at the UK's leading medical cannabis clinic to define what good looks like when it comes to delivering presentations, and equipping people with the tools and confidence to wow when they deliver them.
MORE ON OUR PARTNERSBreakthrough Tools
YCN X PizzaExpress
We're enabling leaders and teams across the restaurant group with tools for everyday breakthroughs.
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PARTNERSA vision for continuous learning:
YCN X Cubitts
Cubitts is a burgeoning optical business and we're empowering everyone from the founder to the shop floor, with access to relevant development in the busy flow of work.
MORE ON OUR PARTNERSThe Great Training Robbery
We're sharing perspectives on so many change and development initiatives fail to create lasting impact — and what organisations can do instead to measure what really matters.
READ ONNuts about Development
YCN X Pip & Nut
We've worked for many years with leaders and team-members (AKA Squirrels) across the burgeoning nut butter maestros to embed in-demand skills, and measure their impact against the challenges of the day.
The relevance of the modules, style of delivery and commitment to connecting it all into our culture really motivated our leaders to do things differently.
— Katie Dolby Managing Director, Cubitts
“Head and shoulders above any other training and development partner in terms of relevance, originality and impact.”
Andy O'Callaghan · People Director, Dishoom