Develop Early Career Talent to set your business up for success.
If you don’t invest in the potential of your early talent, you’re doing them, and your organisation, a disservice. Because undeveloped talent is wasted talent.
Our Engage, Empower & Retain workshops pro-actively develop and support your entry talent through the early stages of their career within your organisation.
Investing in entry-level retention and advancement helps companies in several ways:
We work with organisations that are passionate about empowering and enabling entry-level and rising talent to achieve their career potential, both generally, and within the organisation. In line with one of our core values, Diversity, our services are designed to increase diverse representation across all levels of your organisation.

Challenges and rewards
Research reveals significantly higher attrition rates amongst entry-level talent and highest for those from ethnically diverse communities.
However, for organisations that take BOLD action to address this, the rewards are clear. Businesses with higher levels of gender, ethnic and cultural diversity are more likely to outperform others (McKinsey, Delivering Through Diversity, 2017).
Our holistic entry-level development workshops are designed to engage, empower and retain your entry and rising talent.
Attraction 2 Application workshop
We know that applications from ethnically diverse communities, and low socio-economic backgrounds, have the lowest application completion rate. So, our workshops are designed to increase the completion and success rates of these demographics.
In this 2-hour workshop, we create a safe space for participants to:
“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right!”
Our participants start our workshops thinking that possibly they can’t. They leave knowing they can and will.

Benefits
Prospective applicants are supported with:
This results in a significantly increased chance of them successfully completing applications to join your intern or graduate programmes.
Delivery format
Group workshop.
Face-to-face / Live virtual delivery (webinar).
Duration
2-hour interactive workshop.

Stretch & Engage workshop
Following a successful application, we further support the growth and development of your entry talent with our Stretch workshops.
In this 2-hour workshop, participants will learn how to:
Core soft skills covered:
Have a specific area to address?
If you have identified a particular area that requires more support and development, just let us know and we can tailor the workshop’s focus to.
Benefits
Your entry talent will be equipped with:
This results in them growing in confidence, adding more value, and independently moving from a comfort zone to a growth zone.
Delivery format
Group workshop.
Face-to-face / Live virtual delivery (webinar).
Duration
2-hour interactive workshop.
Empower & Retain coaching
Gaining a diverse entry talent is one thing. Retaining them by ensuring they feel a sense of belonging and equitable opportunities to progress is another.
Our signature coaching programme empowers entry-talent with self-development and career-planning strategies that put them in the driver’s seat of their career. It transforms their outlook from perceiving career barriers to seeing the full array of career possibilities available within your organisation.
Our structured early-careers advancement programme provides a safe space for entry talent to grow, challenge themselves, and plan their careers, by receiving 1:1 career coaching (using the CLEAR/First 90 Days/GROW coaching framework).

Benefits
Delivery format
Entry talent is empowered to:
Organisations are supported to:
- Create a space for equitable progress for all your entry talent
- Proactively invest in the organic growth of a diverse talent pipeline.
Group coaching.
Face-to-face.
Duration
4 full days over a 4-month period (1 full day per month).