GRADUATE DEVELOPMENT

Do you want to attract top talent, develop them have them and stay with you long enough for them to be part of your long-term plans?

Graduates bring fresh skills, energised attitudes and great aptitude in their accredited fields. Graduate Development programs are structured career development plans which will shape your graduates’ transferable skills into practical skills which align with the companies’ values, direction and growth. These programs are a valuable investment for any company, from large corporations, SMEs or start-ups.

Why do you need a Graduate Development Program?

Graduates bring a wealth of benefits to organisations. Full of enthusiasm and a readiness to learn and engage with your organisation, it’s important that you have a structure in place to reap the benefits of graduate recruitment and the process to support, mentor, grow your graduates and inevitably retain them!

  • Innovative and fresh ideas
  • High productivity
  • Strong transferable and soft skills
  • Succession planning
  • Affordable hiring
  • Diversified workforce
  • Opportunity to mould with your own values

The 5X approach

Our Graduate Development program activates 5 key attributes in graduates and organisations alike:

  1. eXcite

  2. eXpress

  3. eXplore

  4. eXibit

  5. eXecute

This program has been designed with this 5X approach to create and shape graduates’ growth mindsets and to understand and manage their careers within your organisation to fast-track their development.

After going on the journey through eXcite, eXpress and eXplore, the graduates will learn to eXhibit who they are in accordance with their own values and skillsets within their working environment in your organisation and have the tools to eXecute their learnings into competencies.

Team members

Kristine Berry Managing director

Kristine Berry

Director, Peopleconnexion

Kristine has an Honours degree in Psychology and has been in the professional development industry for over 25 years, and has been a mentor and career coach, and has been part of a variety of charitable programs as well. Kristine's recruitment and leadership experience includes working on large graduate programs, major multi-billion-dollar projects, and with a passion for changing lives, Kristine's passion underpins her client relationships and customer service.

  • BA Psychology Honours
  • Cert IV Train the Trainer
Kristine Berry Managing director

Gary Blair

Principal Consultant - Training and Learning & Development, Peopleconnexion

Gary has over 15 years’ experience in leadership consulting, team leadership and facilitating transformational learning experiences, and holds a Masters in Organisational Leadership. He has worked to develop leadership capability in large and small corporate clients and has had speaking engagements on four continents. His specialities include learning design and facilitation (virtual and face-to-face), culture change projects, mediation and cross-cultural team leadership/group facilitation. Gary is passionate about motivating people to lead and live better than they did yesterday.

  • Masters of Arts (Organisational Leadership)
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Anne Poole

Executive Coaching Consultant - Training and Learning & Development

Anne's effective leadership approach combines practical psychology with “hands-on” business experience gained over 20 years. Her career in Human Resources management provides the natural coaching platform to assist and facilitate others to become high achieving leaders of their teams and organisations. Anne brings over seven years’ experience of working in project driven environments where fluidity and a changing environment was paramount.

  • Master of Human Resource Management
  • Diploma of Business Management
  • Performance Coach and Time Line Practitioner
  • Certified Career Transition Consultant
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Dr. Barbara van Heerden

Executive Coaching Consultant - Training and Learning & Development

Dr. Barbara van Heerden has 25 years managing large programmes, working with multicultural teams to build intercultural competence, resulting in better team cohesion and performance. Completing a Doctorate in Leadership Coaching for Intercultural Competence in 2016, Dr. Barbara is an internationally accredited coach who has worked in 8 different countries.

  • Philosophiae Doctor in Leadership,
    Performance and Change
  • Bachelor of Arts Honours (Psychology)
  • Advanced Certificate in Leadership
  • Master of Arts (Professional Coaching)
  • Enneagram Coach
  • Coaching for Positive Intelligence
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Philip Bradbury

Executive Coaching Consultant - Training and Learning & Development

Philip started his professional coaching and teaching career with a range of business qualifications including a Bachelor of Business studies and an Associate of the Institute of Managers. For the last 30 years, Philip has acquired a range of teaching and personal/spiritual development qualifications which has led him to write 18 books and train in 4 different countries. His great passion is seeing others rise to their mastery.

  • Bachelor of Business Studies
  • Associate of the Institute of Managers
  • Cert in Adult Teaching & Adult Education
  • Cert IV in Teaching and Assessment
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Craig Stuart

Executive Coaching Consultant - Training and Learning & Development, Peopleconnexion

With 16 years of corporate experience and people development, Craig has first-hand experience in leading complex business change and the leadership demands of corporate leadership. His experience ranges from coaching all levels of leadership from those entering a leadership journey for the first time, to middle and senior management in either one-on-one sessions or facilitated team sessions.

Qualifications:
• Bachelor of Business Admin. Honours (IMM)
• Foundations of Executive Coaching (UCT)
• Neuro Leadership Institute (NLI) Brain Based Coach
• Comensa Accredited Coach and Member

As Learning & Development consultants, we are passionate about building competence and developing confidence in people and organisations.

Our team is full of diverse backgrounds, ranging from HR, recruitment, management, coaching, finance and marketing, but we all share one passion: building legacies.

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