Corporate Partnership Programmes

We believe that the central leadership challenge for our corporate clients is the ability to provide fully performing leaders and managers that are required over time to achieve the organisation's objectives. This can only be done by aligning business challenges and individual development with business results.

USB-ED's approach to collaborative partnership programmes is to design leadership interventions according to the specific needs of both the company involved and the needs of the target group of participants. This means that we need to create specific plans and processes to execute transfer of capabilities - from the workshop to the workplace. Follow-through enhances learning transfer, improves the return on investment, and increases the value of the learning organisation.

We are not in the business of providing lectures and learning tools. We are in the business of facilitating improved business results. E3 means simply: Execute, Execute, Execute! by moving the finish line from programme design and delivery through transfer and application to improved business results. This is the new finish line, the mantra for successful educational interventions.

A key input of this process is to define the objectives of the programme in business terms. This means that the outcomes of the programme must pay dividends also in terms of lower operating costs, greater productivity, enhanced innovation and improved consumer confidence. New skills and knowledge alone do not add value; they must be applied, and then nurtured until improved performance can be counted on consistently. The learning would typically begin with the end in mind.

Post-programme Application Information

Although the client organisation plays a pivotal role in co-designing the programme, the primary focus is on the learning journey of the participant. The diagram below illustrates this learning journey, which starts with a pre-assessment and ends with a post-programme application and integration which enables us to determine the return on the learning investment for the specific participant.