Attracting, developing and retaining talented graduates is integral to the strategy of a sustainable business.

Today's graduates and new talent are more socially, environmentally and commercially informed than ever before. They are also astute consumers who rate career progression, personal development and company reputation equally to pay and benefits. High expectations of working life make them notoriously hard to retain but their fresh ideas and thinking enable organisations to be more innovative and competitive, whilst developing a pipeline of future leaders.

Impact work in partnership with our clients to develop sophisticated one-off or journey programmes that help graduates and new talent develop the commitment, business skills and behaviours necessary to add measureable value both at an organisational and individual level. Our programmes incorporate carefully designed projects and simulations to elicit the skills and behaviours needed to manage the challenges that will confront graduates and new talent in their work environment. The engaging mix of practical, reflective, emotional and conceptual elements ensures that learning is embedded in a consequential, measureable and lasting way.

Our experiential methodologies typically incorporate team skills, leadership, managing change, communicating and influencing, self-awareness and business skills. Our innovative, memorable and challenging programmea are designed to accelerate the potential of your new talent in a way that enables your graduates to live and breathe their organisation's values.

Return on investment is key to any talent initiative:

Jaguar Land Rover

Impact have delivered Jaguar Land Rover's experiential graduate development programme for five years. Impact's intervention focuses on increasing the graduates' capacity to influence, communicate, build relationships, innovate and achieve results in a challenging marketplace. During their time with Impact on the 2009 programme, graduates demonstrated (on average across the 140 strong population) a 14% improvement in their awareness and competency levels when measured against JLR's behavioural framework.

Impact will help you to:

•  commit your graduates at an emotional level with their career in the business
•  raise awareness levels, bring the company's values to life and instill the importance of personal brand
•  engage the graduates on their life-long development journey
•  develop the business skills and desireable behaviours for high performance
•  set clear, measureable objectives that evidence the business case for talent development
•  globalise your talent strategy