Transitioning from academia to the corporate world is a challenging process that leaves many young professionals feeling overwhelmed. This rite of passage often exposes a gap between what is taught in schools and the practicalities of navigating and succeeding in the business environment.
The impact of this disconnection is far-reaching, leading to frustration and underperformance among young professionals. From an organisational perspective, it means lost productivity, higher turnover rates, and the significant costs associated with onboarding and training new talent. Does this sound like a familiar challenge?
From Classroom to Boardroom: The struggle employers are experiencing
- Many young professionals struggle to navigate the dynamics of the workplace; to align their skills and talents with your organisation's needs - simply because they're likely not aware of what those needs are.
- When it comes to graduates or junior hires, they haven't grasped the mindset or critical skills necessary for success: self-motivation, innovation, problem-solving, effective communication, and teamwork (to name a few). The world of academia hasn't fully prepared them for the realities of the business world, leaving a gap that's both frustrating and costly.
The situation can be frustrating for both parties:
- For young professionals, their enthusiasm and eagerness to start their careers can be overshadowed with feelings of being overwhelmed, anxious, and unprepared as they try to navigate the giant maze of the world of work without a map.
- For you, the employers, the task of integrating, training and moulding them into efficient team players and motivated problem-solvers to develop them into high-performing professionals becomes longer and more daunting than it should be.
The I Am Talent: Graduate Training advantage
Bridge the Gap from Classroom to Boardroom: Our program is purpose-built to fast-track the development young professionals effortlessly from the classroom to the boardroom into the high-performing professionals you need to grow your business.
Not like your traditional PPE, here's how we take your new talent on journey of self-discovery and success with our PPE promise:
- Practicality & Proven Strategies: We go beyond just relaying theory; we've taken the best practices from the acclaimed 'I Am Talent' book and infused our frameworks with practical coaching strategies. Our program offers rich resources including activities, tools, assessments, and practical advice that your talent can apply straight away in their daily work lives.
- Personalisation: We understand that everyone's talents and aspirations are unique. That's why our program is tailored to help each individual discover and optimise their personal potential by applying the advice and toolkits to achieve their own goals and aspirations, whilst aligning these to those of your organisation.
- Empowerment: We don't just want to teach. Our program aims to empower your professionals on a journey of self-discovery and mastery, equipping them with the skills and mindset they need to become the engaged, innovative, and effective professionals you're looking for and hiring.
Program Outcomes
Participants in our I am Talent program walk away with understanding how they can create and add value to their work, how they can maximise their performance and fast-track their development to empower them to achieve their goals and aspirations for themselves and your organisation at large. In a brief overview of our program pillars, we uncover:
- Understanding the world of WORK
- Understanding the world of ME: values and aspirations
- Qualities for success: Think critical skills over soft skills
- Customised approach to your needs: to unleash the potential of all involved, including your organisation as a whole.
Client testimonials
"We engaged Peopleconnexion to support the onboarding of our graduates and apprentices. The desire was to support their transition from education space to work place and give them an understanding of how they can actively manage their careers, and reach their personal and professional goals. At Coronado, we value our people and this program helped us do that for this group of new starters. The feedback we have had from the participants has been overwhelmingly positive. They appreciated the opportunity and the time to understand their “why” (their motivation), their goals, and gain understanding of what they need to do to fulfill them.
We thank Peopleconnexion for their professional and enthusiastic support in training our graduates and apprentices."
- Peter Murphy Manager Organisational Capability
Talk Graduate Development with us today!
If you invest in graduate development programs each year to build the skills within your organisation - we'd love to help you uncover the pain points you and your graduates face and how a graduate training program such as I Am Talent provides solutions, fast-tracking their development into capable, high-performing professionals. No lock in's - just a discussion to learn more about you!