GRRR is for Graduates

Why graduate programmes deserve love and care

In my career, I have been subject to a lot of basic management programmes - as a participant, as a line manager of participants, as a commissioner and as a deliverer. Some are great, some are mediocre and some are just an afterthought. The senior leaders in organisations tend to get the sexy, more expensive stuff and then we hope for a trickle-down effect. I was once told by a senior leader “I don’t want sexy, I want robust!” which I totally get, but my reply was: “What if we can have robust AND sexy?”

These mostly-new leaders are the future leaders of your organisation, and arguably, as a group, affect more people one-to-one on a daily basis than any senior leader. So why not spend a little more effort on their learning experience?

I am a performance coach and a presenter. I also design graduate programs, which is my passion. Because trying to inspire people, who have yet to be institutionalised, to be great leaders, to rise above the mediocre, is a challenge not much taken up by consultants - it’s just not seen as the cutting edge. Which it really should be. Why wait until someone is 5-10 years into their career to give them the keys to the Ferrari?

Really, every program should be inspiring and beautifully crafted. Every program should have the potential to change lives. Every program should be serious about improving the general culture of the organisation.

So, if you need to ‘pimp your graduate programme’, get in touch.

What they said:

“Gave me a lot of self-confidence”, “valuable insights in myself and others”, “enabled me to adopt new perspectives and to understand what conditions I need to create to perform”, “full enthusiasm and British humour” are phrases just a couple of my participants have used about our program.

“Inspiring deliverer”, “they love his informal engaging style mixed with his outstanding knowledge and experiences which they can relate to” and “quite an achievement across so many different cultures” is what Catherine Sinclair, Chief HR Officer of Asahi Europe & International says about the same program.

Cheers!

Oliver Lewis-Roberts, MCIPD, MAC

Co-founder & Director

oliver@corepeoplestrength.com

www.corepeoplestrength.com

With thanks to Marta Niedbala, participant 2021 and Kick Ditzel, participant 2020 and Catherine Sinclair.

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