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Our approach

Our aim is to help leaders and their organisations learn, grow and change so that they can achieve improved, sustainable results, cost effectively. In addition, we want to leave organisations with the capability and skills to manage their own future development to sustain continuous improvement.

Our research and development team are skilled at translating the latest thinking and research in the areas of leadership and management into useable, practical frameworks, models and techniques.

We have worked both nationally and internationally, helping organisations to identify gaps in their leadership effectiveness and designing and delivering interventions that make a measurable difference.

Therefore our offer is based around organisation development, leadership development and leading change. Within and across these areas we will consult with you to develop tailored and bespoke leadership and organisational change programmes, to enable you to improve your organisation's performance.

The organisations we have worked with have found our approach valuable in reinventing their business, engaging their staff and developing the capacity and capability of their leadership to deliver sustained increases in productivity and therefore sustained results.

Gerard Egan

Our approach draws on the work of Gerard Egan, Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Organization Development at Loyola University, Chicago, and author of The Skilled Helper and Adding Value. Professor Egan has developed four leadership and organisational change models, known simply as Models A, B, C and D. They offer a coherent framework for leadership and organisation development, which we have translated into a series of practical models, tools and techniques that underpin CEL's work.

Accreditation

There is an opportunity to further develop your learning, following successful completion of a CEL programme, by undertaking our professional research inquiry unit. On completing this unit participants gain credits from The University of Manchester towards a masters degree.