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As the world gets harder, shape leaders who work smarter

Artificial intelligence, activism, remote working – organisations are facing more challenges than ever before. In a world that is connected, 24/7, changes happen rapidly – and your leaders need to stay ahead of the curve.

Continuous development separates leaders that can change the game, from leaders that just play it.

Through our end-to-end service offering, from emerging leaders to C-suite assessment and development, we don’t just create agile leaders – we build a pipeline of trailblazers.

The ones that can unite an increasingly fractured workforce and inspire them to work for a common goal.

Start shaping your leaders of tomorrow, today.

Our approach to leadership development

As a team of business psychologists who are also accredited coaches, we use proven, evidence-based methods to accurately and objectively assess and develop talent.

C-Suite & executives

  • Executive coaching
  • Executive development programmes
  • Executive assessments

Senior talent

  • Accelerator programs
  • Coaching
  • Leadership training plans

Emerging & future leaders

  • Emerging leader programmes
  • Talent assessment centres
  • Positive action programmes

Our leadership development services are trusted by

“For every individual we know where the development needs are and what they’re good at so we can expose them to strategic change initiatives where they can make a real difference.”
Aveen BattHead of Leadership & TalentBank of Ireland

What is leadership
development and why
does it matter?

An organisation is only as good as its people.

Without the right people, in the right places, at the right time, organisations would simply grind to a halt.

Leadership development is about supporting talented individuals with the tools they need to thrive – in the role they have, or the role they are working towards.

Whether emerging leaders or C-suite, leadership development is vital to protect your talent pipeline, ensuring your leaders are empowered, capable, resilient and high-performing.

Leaders will drive your organisation forward, shape and embed its culture and in turn inspire the next generation. They are the most important investment you can make.

Ultimately, leadership development enables you to protect your talent pipeline and understand exactly who to invest in to secure your organisation’s future.

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Our leadership development process

Design
Planning
Delivery
Review

Design

  • We’ll work with you to understand your leadership development needs, organisational values, industry, and clients.
  • From here, our leadership-focused business psychologists will design a leadership program that best aligns with your business goals and strategic roadmap.

Planning

  • Once the programme is defined, our dedicated resourcing and project managers will take care of planning in the works.
  • During this stage, participants will be provided with any necessary ‘pre-work’ materials and access to diagnostic tools (if applicable).

Delivery

  • Our business psychologists will deliver your leadership development programme in line with agreed timescales.

Review

  • As well as providing participant feedback and coaching throughout the process, we will provide you with detailed participant reports to enable you to have a clear picture of your current talent pipeline.
  • We’ll measure what matters most to you, so you make confident decisions for training and promotion.

What sets Pearn Kandola’s leadership development apart?

Accredited psychologists
Inclusive and culturally aware
Holistic approach and unique leadership insight
Proven partners

Accredited psychologists

Our business psychologists are qualified psychologists and accredited coaches, providing insights that delve beyond the surface and address the core of leadership potential.

Leadership development is about understanding and assessing your people. What drives them, where their strengths lie and their weaknesses.

Without understanding your leaders as people first, how can you best support and develop them? Psychology is the scientific study of the mind and human behaviour.

In short, we understand your people, and how best to develop them in line with your needs.

It’s this aspect in particular, the depth of feedback and personal, immediate coaching, throughout our programmes, that clients say sets us apart.

Inclusive and culturally aware

As trailblazers in the field of inclusion, our services are rooted in our in-house research and over forty years’ expertise, eliminating assumptions and minimising bias.

Our leadership development services are designed to be inclusive and support a diverse workforce of talented, inclusive and innovative leaders.

So much so, that our leadership development centres were independently verified to show 0% gender or racial bias.

Working across more than 90 countries globally, we understand that the ‘ideal leader’ can look different across different locations.

We factor cultural intelligence into our leadership development, to ensure your leaders can succeed and drive progress on a global scale.

Holistic approach and unique leadership insight

We’ve been consulting in the areas of talent assessment and development, as well as inclusion training, since 1984.

As a firm of business psychologists, we see your organisation as a whole, across departments and seniority levels. We consider where you were, where you are now – and where you want to be.

Whether you’re succession planning or identifying future leaders, assessing graduates or training your C-Suite to be more inclusive, we’re with you every step of the way.

Building on our psychology-backed foundations, we use our proprietary leadership model, Pearn Kandola model of Leadership Capability to benchmark talent across organisations and help you stay ahead of the curve.

Proven partners

There’s a reason multi-national organisations run their development programmes with us year after year.

We’re in it for the long-run, invested in your talent pipeline as much as you are.

Together, we create a culture of continuous growth that propels individuals, teams and organisations to success.

Our leadership development insights

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Frequently asked questions

How much does leadership development cost?

Leadership development encompasses a whole range of tools and services, so the cost depends on a number of factors.

For example, a leadership assessment and development programme might include an intensive leadership accelerator, 1-1 coaching and individual talent assessments.

Each of these services in turn will have its own cost, impacted by the number of participants (e.g. how many leaders will go through the programme), timescales (e.g. how long the coaching will go on for) and locations, e.g. online, in-person in one location or globally delivered.

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Why should organisations invest in leadership development?

Poor leadership will be costly.

At a time when budgets are under increased scrutiny, there is nowhere more important to invest than in your people. While senior leaders may make up a small proportion of your workforce – they impact your entire organisation – so you need to get the right people, in the right place, with the right support to thrive.

How should organisations develop leaders?

Organisations should have a clear understanding of their business goals, and what roles are required to achieve them.

From here, critical success factors should be outlined for each role, so that you understand exactly what you should be demanding from your leaders.

Assessing your leaders is crucial to understanding their strengths, weaknesses and core development areas. Once you know the current state of affairs, you can create a targeted action plan to accelerate growth. This is where development programs come in.

By assessing leaders internally, organisations run the risk of letting personal biases, whether known or unknown, interfere with effective decision making.

To ensure a truly meritocratic process, assessment and development methods should be science-backed and bias conscious, to ensure decisions are evidence-based and focus on an individual’s talent, not their background.

At Pearn Kandola, we’ve been experts in assessment and development for over 40 years. Contact us today to transform your talent.

What should the leadership development process look like?

There is no silver bullet, off-the-shelf, leadership development process.

Each organisation is unique, with its own culture, people and goals. It’s vital that yours are understood, and a programme is designed that will accelerate talent identification and development to ensure your top talent are supported to smash their potential.