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How innovative and up-to-date companies use Upskill to develop leaders who drive high-performance teams in a fast-paced and complex world

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As a cybersecurity company, Protega was facing rapid growth with the need to develop new leaders, retain talent and foster a sense of belonging. We initially applied group mentoring and maintained the programme, combining 1:1 mentoring for leadership and potential leaders.

"Our partnership with Upskill has been progressive, which has brought us an expansion of awareness and priority for building a more present state, clarity of objectives and fluidity in relationships. This has had a direct impact on the well-being of the team, especially the leaders who already use the techniques and tools to sustain focus.
Constantly striving for self-knowledge in leadership has given us a more harmonious, fluid and evolving team, impacting on problem-solving and collaborating with creativity."

"I think I'm making really good progress in terms of what I want to do, even more progress than I expected, the whole process has been really surprising, especially perhaps because I entered the project as a company leader, without much knowledge, and the mentoring is helping me a lot."

There are many points of conflict that I face on a day-to-day basis and I've already managed to find creative solutions together with my mentor and also in group mentoring sessions. It's interesting to think of it as a framework for human relationships, since human activities bring objective results.

"We've made visible progress even in our own area. In terms of GPTW indices, we've improved a lot with some of the lessons learnt from mentoring. My mentor is sensational, an excellent professional. We're developing new skills. I even gave him a list of skills that have been improved over the last few months, in almost a year of work."

Devio, a company that develops intelligent and proactive software and has been in the market for five years, was facing high turnover and the challenge of developing leadership to engage and retain talent in order to drive business growth. The solution applied was dedicated 1:1 mentoring for the leaders who needed the most support at the time.

"The work of the Upskill Platform brought our leaders greater capacity to manage people in the first month, by developing the ability to deal with their own emotions and, consequently, to deal better with people, even in challenging situations. The selection of the mentor for each leader was key to extracting the most current needs from each one's journey and acting to bring solutions to the most relevant problems at the moment. In the medium and long term, the expectation is that we will be able to follow the development of the leadership, greater clarity in their communication, team engagement and alignment with the group's objectives."

I really enjoyed [the mentoring sessions]. It makes you feel good about yourself so that you can manage people, deal with people or complicated situations. I especially liked the mentor, who fitted in very well with my thoughts and with what I needed, taking me to the root cause of my main problem and showing me various ways of solving it.

"Some of the benefits that Upskill's work gives you are knowing how to deal with yourself, with your emotions, knowing how to control your emotions in order to deal with other people, whether they are employees or clients. Having more confidence and security in your work to be able to stand up for yourself or deal calmly in distressing/uncomfortable situations."

Oppencad, which has been in the software development market for 30 years, needed to increase the cohesion and stress tolerance of its teams. To do this, we applied various active learning group mentoring sessions on stress management and emotional intelligence, as well as offering our partner programme of well-being practices.

"I've found that, over the course of the mentoring, I've become less anxious about the results themselves and more concerned about the journey to the end. The way the content is shared helps a lot with the coherence of what we're doing and what for."

"With the vision presented during the mentoring sessions on resilience, I became much more confident in dealing with moments of high stress, whether personally or professionally."

"Mentoring combined with meditation and breathing practices gradually changed my perception of everyday issues. I could say that I began to perceive the real dimension of events more clearly, I became more centred and even more civilised in my daily dealings with friends and family. After practising some breathing techniques, I noticed a significant reduction in anxiety and an improvement in concentration."

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