Design your career
We help L&D and people managers to get employees who learn pro-actively by implementing ownership, accountability, and experiments.
We help L&D and people managers to get employees who learn pro-actively by implementing ownership, accountability, and experiments.
Design thinking for career development
You can build all the learning materials you want, build an amazing LMS, and introduce the best apps to motivate and support employees to learn. If they do not know how to learn, if they do not know how to find time and focus. All your great work will not be used in the way it deserves.
There’s always another priority….
Which is a shame.
You can see our work as an overlay of what you create.
Your employees
We make sure employees:
Take ownership of their development
Find the right focus and goals for this moment
Have real qualitative development conversations
Really get into action by holding them accountable
Understand where they want to go with their career
Through a series of monthly workshops, we give the employees the ownership and responsibility of their career development by letting them design their future careers.
Our timeframe of focus is a maximum of 2 years and preferably less, because..well.. life happens, right?
We let them find focus and the right support to get where they want to go and take real action through small steps and experiments.
In order to make sure they follow up with their self-committed action plans they will get an accountability buddy. Which gives them a probability of 95% to follow through with the plan. (study by ASTD)
If you are into that, we do personal development through design thinking, lean and agile practices
We noticed how difficult it actually is to learn at the workplace. Coworkers, friends, many people are in search of ‘self-help by reading books and listening to inspiring people.
But fail to get into action.
To start learning.
We haven’t learned in school how to learn. We learned how to study for grades. Learning goes by doing, by ‘failing’, getting feedback, and reflecting. Wouter has a habit of quoting Nelson Mandela who describes our philosophy: ‘I never lose, I either win or I learn’.
Another factor that plays a significant role in employees not working proactively on their development is the lack of time priority. Work that has to be done now, or better yesterday is always more important than working on your own development for the long run. At least, that’s a culture we see a lot. We want to help L&D and people managers who are building great programs, learning weeks, and LMS systems to make better use of it by their employees.
We make it simple, not easy, highly practical, and provide a way towards a culture of ownership and taking responsibility for own development.
co-Founder
10 years of experience in education and over 5 years in the L&D field have brought me here. I do not only get energy from supporting the development of other people, but I also get energized if I can help you do the same, but better!
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