Young Talent
Talented young employees are your organization’s future. These co-workers bring energy, ambition and innovative ideas to the job, but they can also be unsure regarding the best way to flesh out their role and position within the organization. How can you boost these co-workers’ performance? And how can you help them make the most of their talents?
The youngest generation of employees – generation Z – was born into a digital world and has other expectations with regard to work than preceding generations. They attach much value to flexibility, meaning in life, and personal development. For them, life is not just about pursuing a career. They also seek a healthy balance between work and private life, they want to have an impact, and wish to help create a better world.
Learning needs often found among young talents are:
- To better understand one’s own talents and qualities, but also the pitfalls and patterns
- To discover how they can best flesh out their role and how they can make a difference
- To communicate and collaborate more effectively within diverse teams
- To take ownership of their projects and responsibilities and thereby to increase their effectiveness within the organization
- To learn to exert influence within complex organizational structures
- To learn how they can get others on board with new ideas and to achieve sustainable change
Utilizing the potential of young talents
Investing in the development of young talents is a sure way to build a foundation of strong and future professionals in your organization. By working on their personal development, these employees gain stronger self-confidence and learn to better apply their talents. It is vitally important to continue challenging and inspiring young talents, to increase their commitment and to prepare them for key positions in the organization.
In our programs, we connect the individual employees' learning goals with the goals of the organization. This way, the young talents not only develop their personal and professional skills but also learn to think strategically and to approach complex issues from fresh and innovative angles. This enables them to fulfil their role with more impact and effectiveness, to inspire others, and to stimulate change and innovation within the organization.
Would you like to know what our young talent programs can do for your organizational goals?
How we work
We believe that people make the difference when improving organizations. With our development programs, we connect employees’ true potential with their organization’s ambitions.
Working in partnership
Every organization has its own ambitions and challenges. That is why we team up with your organization to develop a program that dovetails with your goals and organizational culture. This also makes it possible to incorporate pressing matters such as transitions, cultural changes or cross-departmental collaborations in the program.
Enduring behavioral change
Our programs reach beyond mere knowledge transfer. Our approach ensures that participants not only understand what they learn, but also feel it and apply it, so that it will have a long-term practical impact. This way we not only achieve tangible results in the long term but also build on a solid foundation for enduring growth.
Tailored where required
Together we choose the approach that best suits your organization’s development need. This includes the extent of customization. Our offer ranges from a standard program to a fully tailored program, and everything in between. It all depends on your request and need.
Learning with de Baak
Learning means more than just acquiring knowledge. It is a transformative experience that connects the head, heart and hands. This approach ensures that the participants not only understand what they learn, but also feel it and apply it in their daily work. We focus on development at three levels: the individual, the team, and the organization. This way we not only strengthen personal growth but also contribute to the organization’s strategic goals.
Learning by acting, reflecting and connecting
We believe in experience-based learning. This means learning by doing, reflecting on this, obtaining new insights, and experimenting once again. The combination of knowledge (the head), emotions (the heart), and skills (the hands) form the core of this approach. This approach ensures not just the development of skills but also an actual change in behavior.
For our approach, the participants themselves are the principal instrument. A person’s effectiveness depends on three elements:
- Personality: understanding your own strengths, pitfalls, norms, values and beliefs
- Skills: developing and applying skills, methods and techniques.
- Context: understanding your role and position within your environment, including your impact on teams, collaborations, and the force field in which you operate.
Our programs provide participants with a safe and stimulating learning environment where they can show their vulnerability, practice new skills, and reflect on their actions. In this way they not only obtain new insights but can also adopt and demonstrate new behavior.
The connection with the work setting
The organization’s need determines the type of development program that is offered. Most of our in-company programs have a modular structure, giving participants the opportunity in between modules to put their learnings into practice. In this way the learning process is immediately meaningful within their own work environment. The programs consist of different learning strands: individual learning, collective learning, and learning-by-doing .
The connection between theory and practice is pivotal. We offer knowledge and models that are directly applicable to concrete issues within the organization. By working with case studies derived from the participants’ own work setting, we create an immediate connection between learning and doing. This not only reinforces the impact but also ensures that the lessons learned will remain effective for the long term.
Sustainable results
From the start of the whole process, we actively involve both the participants and important stakeholders within the organization. This way, we ensure that the program not only meets the participants’ needs but is also supported throughout the organization. This significantly contributes to the sustainable implementation of the learnings and enhances the program’s impact on the organization as a whole.
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