Our Behavioural Assessments & Management Development Services

Our services cover three main areas; development management, behavioural assessment and training consultancy projects.

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Feature

Management Development

Consultancy 

Behavioural Assessments

Purpose

Enhance leadership skills and build high-performing teams. 

To identify and solve specific organisational training and development needs.

To provide deep insights into individual and team behaviors, preferences, and strengths.

Target Audience

New and experienced managers and identified talent.

Business owners, L&D managers, HR directors, senior leadership.

Individuals at all levels, teams, hiring managers, leaders.

Methodology

Engaging classroom workshops - no powerpoint. 

Blended learning (workshops & coaching)

Practical application to current, real challenges.

Actor forum theatres 

Training Needs analysis, stakeholder interviews, gap analysis, curriculum design, evaluation strategy.

Psychometric tools (e.g., DISC, EQ), one-on-one feedback sessions, group workshops, debriefs.

Key Benefits

Tailored programme

Apprenticeship Levy - To offset training costs. 

Improve communication, collaboration, better decision making, employee engagement

Efficient use of training budget, tailored solutions, improved ROI on training initiatives, clear L&D strategy.

Enhanced self-awareness, improved communication, reduced conflict, stronger team cohesion, better talent management.

Key Deliverables

Customised training programme

Comprehensive training needs report, bespoke training plan, course outlines, vendor recommendations.

Individual and team profile reports, detailed feedback sessions, application guides, team debrief workshops.

Time Commitment

Varies from single day workshops to 18-month development programmes. 

Project-based; can range from a few days to several months depending on the scope.

Relatively short, often involving a pre-assessment followed by a 1-2 hour debrief session.

Typical Use Cases

Onboarding new managers

Upskilling existing managers 

Preparing for succession plan 

Improving team collaboration and outputs

Revamping an outdated training program, launching a new company-wide initiative, solving a specific performance problem.

Improving team communication, pre-hiring assessment, coaching for leaders, personal development plans.

Relationship to other services

Often uses behavioural assessments as a foundation tool to create individual development plans. 

May lead to training consultancy to design a broader management curriculum

May identify a need for a bespoke Management Development programme or utilising the Apprenticeship Levy or the use of Behavioural Assessments to address specific team dynamics.

Can be a standalone service or integrated into both Management Development programs and Training Consultancy projects to enhance their effectiveness.

Management Development

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Our goal is to help people work to the best of their ability. We never assume we understand what teams are facing. Instead, we want to learn what your team do by watching them at work or even spending time doing the job ourselves. We look at the audience, culture and individual business challenges you face.

Our development management programmes include topics such as situational leadership, entrepreneurial thinking and leading people through change. Our coaches have delivered senior leadership coaching for private companies such as Taylor Wimpey, Virgin Management, Ralph Lauren as well as public sector bodies, like the NHS.

  • During 2020-2021, we delivered approximately 600 hours of executive coaching to help support leaders in challenging climates due to Covid-19.

  • 250% Return On Investment (ROI) – the average reported ROI from our clients following the delivery of one of our programmes

  • 97% of learners rate our associates as either ‘very good’ or ‘excellent’

  • 93% of learners acquire new skills and techniques they have not used before

Behavioural Assessment

Understanding people helps us know how your goals can be achieved.

We use psychometric tests to fully understand the human behaviours of a team - designing training that helps challenge particular mindsets and conduct. Our behavioural assessment looks at behaviours, motivators, judgements and emotional intelligence. They can also be used as a blueprint for recruitment purposes to employ like-minded, high-performing individuals.

We use these behavioural assessments to help bring order to dysfunctional teams by pinpointing behavioural styles and better communication methods. We deliver 1-2-1 coaching with Directors and Senior Leaders to improve leadership skills. We identify development areas for teams in customer-facing roles and deliver programmes that improve sales figures and customer experience.

Penguin Learning is one of a select number of training partners in the UK who have access to TTI Success Insights - a global provider of behavioural assessment tools - with clients including VW Group, Mercedes and Coca-Cola.

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Consultancy Projects

As training consultants, our approach is always to design a custom programme for each partner, ensuring it works for their specific context.

Our experience of working with a broad range of businesses means we can see change management from many different perspectives. This allows us to help people adapt to new roles and responsibilities within a business.

We offer project support, talent and team development, sales and service transformation, performance predictability, behavioural change and business partnering.

Our training consultants team have managed and delivered global change programmes. They're experts in people development, Executive Committee (ExCo) engagement and stakeholder management. Their experience as Retail Directors, Global Project Managers, Head Of Department (HOD) roles and frontline customer-facing roles gives them the understanding to build and develop unique solutions for each business context.

Sectors we have helped through our training consultancy

We work with corporate businesses in a variety of sectors, but all are connected in their value for innovation and focus on growth. Find out about how we have helped companies like yours succeed and achieve their goals below.

Automotive

VW Group - Sales and Service Competency Assessments 

Working in partnership with ABG Group UK we assisted a 4-month assessment of Sales and Service Colleagues against a behavioural framework provided by the Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI). We assessed over 400 colleagues against the IMI frameworks (in Audi, VW, Skoda and Seat) with an 89% pass rate across sales and service.

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Utilities

E.On, United Utilities - Domestic Data Share Implementation with Equifax

Working as a learning and development (L&D) partner in a joint venture programme designing and developing training solutions for a utility company to support a project where payment data is shared between the company and credit reference agencies. This project required customer service agents to be able to answer questions where payment information could affect the credit rating of individuals.

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Services

Co-op Funeralcare - Service Vs Care Transformational Programme

As part of a larger proposition rollout, we supported 3000 funeral care team members with the skills and techniques to support a new proposition launch designed to challenge funeral poverty and allow full customisation of funerals to allow a personal goodbye to families’ loved ones.

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Pharmaceutical

Immucor - Account Manager Development Programme using DISC

We delivered a 3-month behavioural development programme involving 1-2-1 sessions with our experienced coaches and Immucor's Account Management team. The main focus of this programme was for learners to be able to identify behaviours and adapt their communication to different buyer types and customer personas for better, more productive conversations leading to increase in conversions.

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Retail

Ralph Lauren - European Retail Management

Working in partnership with Ralph Lauren's existing L&D department, we designed and delivered a performance management programme that was attended by Ralph Lauren managers across Europe. The desired output of the programme was for managers to be able to drive performance through their sales teams to achieve key performance indicators across multiple European stores.

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House Building

Taylor Wimpey - Senior Leadership Development programme

A 9-month development programme designed for both face-to-face and remote delivery with new directors and identified talent. This programme covers a variety of topics such as differentiating between managing and leading, leading through change, presentation skills and entrepreneurial thinking to upskill managers moving into new leadership positions.

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Automotive

VW Group - Sales and Service Competency Assessments 

Working in partnership with ABG Group UK we assisted a 4-month assessment of Sales and Service Colleagues against a behavioural framework provided by the Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI). We assessed over 400 colleagues against the IMI frameworks (in Audi, VW, Skoda and Seat) with an 89% pass rate across sales and service.

VW

Utilities

E.On, United Utilities - Domestic Data Share Implementation with Equifax

Working as a learning and development (L&D) partner in a joint venture programme designing and developing training solutions for a utility company to support a project where payment data is shared between the company and credit reference agencies. This project required customer service agents to be able to answer questions where payment information could affect the credit rating of individuals.

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Services

Co-op Funeralcare - Service Vs Care Transformational Programme

As part of a larger proposition rollout, we supported 3000 funeral care team members with the skills and techniques to support a new proposition launch designed to challenge funeral poverty and allow full customisation of funerals to allow a personal goodbye to families’ loved ones.

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Pharmaceutical

Immucor - Account Manager Development Programme using DISC

We delivered a 3-month behavioural development programme involving 1-2-1 sessions with our experienced coaches and Immucor's Account Management team. The main focus of this programme was for learners to be able to identify behaviours and adapt their communication to different buyer types and customer personas for better, more productive conversations leading to increase in conversions.

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Retail

Ralph Lauren - European Retail Management

Working in partnership with Ralph Lauren's existing L&D department, we designed and delivered a performance management programme that was attended by Ralph Lauren managers across Europe. The desired output of the programme was for managers to be able to drive performance through their sales teams to achieve key performance indicators across multiple European stores.

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House Building

Taylor Wimpey - Senior Leadership Development programme

A 9-month development programme designed for both face-to-face and remote delivery with new directors and identified talent. This programme covers a variety of topics such as differentiating between managing and leading, leading through change, presentation skills and entrepreneurial thinking to upskill managers moving into new leadership positions.

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Finance

Hoist Finance - Performance Management Programme

Working in partnership with Hoist Finance’s existing L&D department, we completed a learning needs analysis to identify best practice from their high-performing agents across their U.K sites.

We then designed two programmes (one for agents, one for managers) to drive the performance of their agents to achieve key performance indicators

The success of this programme resulted in the programmes being delivered across their European sites in France, Spain, Poland, Germany and Italy.

For more information, you can read our case study on this programme here.

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How we work

As training consultants, it's key that we understand things from your perspective.

We make our sessions collaborative and engaging, allowing participants to explore how they can overcome challenges in real working life. Before training, we give learners tools to help them begin engaging with the process. After the training, we also use tools that support them to embed the content and continue their learning.

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Our team

Our team have managed and delivered global change programmes.

They're experts in people development, Executive Committee engagement and stakeholder management. Their experience as Retail Directors, Global Project Managers, Head of Department roles and frontline customer-facing roles gives them the understanding to build and develop unique solutions for each business context.

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Hoist Finance

“Working with Penguin Learning last year was seamless, they are extremely easy to work with. Professional and fun and with a level of attention to detail, flexibility in approach and focus on lasting results that enables success. Great results from a great team!”
 
Claire Jackson CMgr FCMI

Service Source

“Penguin Learning recently delivered a presentation skills class for a group of Emerging Leaders from our sales teams at ServiceSource Liverpool. The session content was interactive and well structured ensuring individuals objectives were met, the consultation prior to the training for the needs analysis was robust and professional."

Paul's delivery style was very engaging and the different visuals and activities used during the training met all learning styles for a very mixed audience. The whole group of 14 delegates feel they have greatly benefited from the training and really enjoyed the session. “

 
Laila Leatherbarrow

Taylor Wimpey

“Penguin Learning is highly effective, knowledgeable and energetic. The trainers use a variety of techniques that are hugely innovative and engaging. Penguin Learning has a natural gift of putting delegates at ease quickly. They have provided excellent service throughout the time I have worked with them on a tailored solution.
They have a very thorough understanding of people and they take time to work with them rather than talk to them. They are genuinely interested in improving the success of any business through training and are “ego-free” – a rare quality in facilitators and trainers. I have no hesitation recommending Penguin Learning.”
 
Sue Burns

SDL Group

“Penguin Learning ran a talent insights session with the marketing team at SDL which proved immensely useful in bringing a new team together. Penguin Learning’s interpretation of the data they had collected about us was particularly impressive.
Overall, the session has helped the team understand themselves and those around them much better and will lead to much-improved working relationships.”
 
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