Talent Development

The world needs big outcomes, so we don’t think small and since businesses want new outcomes, we recruit and develop talent differently.

We don’t just recruit people with the right knowledge and experience, we assess their potential fit for a role and a business. We then develop them to translate their passion and knowledge into a language that their business understands, equipping them with the skills needed to disrupt traditional thinking and deliver measurable impact at every level of an organisation.

Why is Acre best placed to coach and train sustainability, ESG and health & safety professionals?

• Our development services are underpinned by a market-leading competency framework that we co-created in collaboration with 100+ industry leaders to determine 'what good looks like' in purpose-led professions. This includes, but is not limited to:

• Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability

• Corporate Affairs & Communications

• Health & Safety

• Energy & Cleantech

• Climate Change & Environment

• ESG & Impact Investing

• We access Acre’s extensive network, built over 18 years of niche recruitment experience with sustainability and safety professionals from all over the globe.

• We leverage data from 2,000+ purpose-led leaders - the largest of its kind for professionals in sustainability-related functions - to support our clients to make more informed decisions.

How does Acre approach non-technical development?

​Our experience coaching safety and sustainability professionals has taught us that individuals and teams need a structured platform for professional development that allows for flexibility within that framework to freely self-develop. With that, we consider the following three 'stages' of development to be fundamental to achieving sustainable behaviour change:

Discover - Leadership Assessments

Before you can help someone acquire skills, you have to get them into a position where they’re ready and willing to learn – particularly, if they’re naturally resistant to change. We like to think of the ‘discover’ phase of development as unlocking your ‘why’ and we do this with the help of our Acre leadership & behavioural assessments.

Our leadership assessments provide objective insight into an individual’s underlying behavioural preferences and how these preferences are likely to impact their performance in a work setting – be that in a positive or limiting way.

By understanding strengths and limiting behaviours, those who are effective in the discovery phase of development reflect on their motivations, their accountability in their role, what’s in it for them to change, what resources they’ll need to do so and more. Once the intention and motivation behind development plans are clear and individuals are consciously practicing self-awareness, they can move onto evaluating how they will set and achieve their goals.

Explore - Leadership Coaching

Once an individual or team understands their motivations and what’s in it for them to change, we help them to explore their thinking, to frame challenges as opportunities and ultimately, to develop a growth mindset to become a more effective leader. We like to think of the 'explore’ phase of development as unlocking your ‘how’ and we do this through a range of individual and group coaching solutions.

Our coaching journeys begin by reviewing and redefining objectives that were highlighted during the discovery process. Coaching provides our clients with much-needed time and space to actively reflect on their personal development and to put strategies in place to achieve meaningful outcomes.

Experiment - Leadership Training

​After discovering an individual’s need for development and exploring how they might affect sustainable behaviour change, it is time for participants to turn coaching insights into actions. With that, we like to think of the ‘experiment’ phase of development as unlocking your ‘what if’s’ and we do this by creating fail-safe training environments for individuals and teams to experiment with practical strategies to address their development objectives.  

A fundamental element of our training programmes involves replacing traditional, full-day workshops with ‘bite-sized’ learning sessions that allow for time and space in between sessions for participants to practice and to reflect on their progress.

Interested in learning more about how Acre's talent development offering can benefit your team?

We'd love to discuss how leadership assessments can benefit your recruitment process. Please fill out the short form below and a member of our team will be in touch with more information.​

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