24 May 2021

Our First Event – Engage For Success Yorkshire And The Humber

Having been involved in Engage for Success for many years, I was as proud as punch to be invited to become the Area Network Ambassador towards the end of 2020 and keen to run our first event.

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17 May 2021

Ingredients for great Leadership

We love cooking and one thing that’s really essential is the quality of the ingredients we use to cook up a gastro extravaganza and it’s no different for the ingredients for really great leadership. Here’s our take on those important ingredients needed to become an authentic and inspiring leader. A tablespoon of talent Some people […]

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27 April 2021

The Power of Experiential learning and coaching

We often get asked about why we are so keen on experiential learning and particularly in the outdoors. There are so many reasons, where to start. Having been involved in training and coaching through a combined 60 years, when setting up Pro-Development, we looked back at our best learning experiences, and they were all through […]

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23 April 2021

Learning at Work week

Every year Pro-Development supports and promotes Learning at Work Week, and this year is no different. If you have not been involved in Learning at work week before, this is an annual event to build learning cultures at work. It aims to put a spotlight on the importance and benefits of continual learning and development. […]

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13 April 2021

5 Tips to help you maintain a work-life balance

Six in 10 (63%) employers have increased the level of support they offer staff across one or more areas of mental, financial, physical and social wellbeing during the Covid-19 pandemic. This is according to a survey of 505 HR decision makers by GRiD. The mental health of staff was ranked as their number one priority. […]

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7 April 2021

The future of work and wellbeing

Over the last few months, we have been having lots of conversations with people about working from home and wellbeing, we’ve been running webinars on how to look after ourselves whilst working from home and running workshops with clients on how to look after our teams as they moved to work remotely. As a team […]

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Our story

3 April 2021

We’re Hiring! Leadership and Development Facilitator & Coach

We’ve certainly had a rollercoaster of a year, along with many of our treasured clients. The last 6 months however have been exciting for us. Working with our amazing funding partners, we’ve been able to access 40% for our clients towards investing in most of our programmes and we’ve now secured even more funding to […]

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31 March 2021

Keeping Your Teams Engaged

Keeping your team engaged has never been more challenging. We have been faced with change on a scale that we’ve never experienced before, at a pace out of our control which has had the impact of fundamentally changing what we do and how we do it. Keeping teams engaged can be easily done if we […]

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8 March 2021

She believed she could so she did

I was recently asked to speak at York Women’s business club about Mindset. Well, my first thought was why are they asking me? What do I know about mindset? There are probably lots of other people who could talk more eloquently about this. Then, as I usually do, I stopped myself in my tracks and […]

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