Resources
Case studies
Leadership and management
Management Development
Houses of Parliament
Following focus groups with key stakeholders, PEAR designed a management development programme for all 67 PSD managers. Three key themese were: understanding and managing myself, understanding others, and developing the skills to effectively mange people…
Reflective Leadership
Margaret Wix School
We worked with the head to create a reflective leadership programme that supported the management challenges of the school. We worked with the senior leadership team to define the set of leadership qualities they needed to develop further…
Management Development
Curtis Banks
PEAR designed a management development course that was highly-tailored to this group’s specific needs. We ensured that the learning situations and examples were taken from and applied to their day jobs. Courses were delivered face-to-face at sites in Dundee, Bristol and Ipswich…
Leadership Development
Severfield
We coached the team to develop the impact they could have as leaders. Each set their own goals and priorities as to where they could improve their performance. The business wanted PEAR to encourage an appreciation of the importance of employee engagement…
Interpersonal skills
Performance and Development
Civil Aviation Authority
The solution was to equip line managers with the confidence and skills to have empathetic and motivating conversations with their reports. The PEAR directors met with the project team on several occasions to ensure that we understood the complicated history of the annual review process, and included HR in the design process…
Interpersonal Skills
London Metropolitan University
We provided individual coaching to academics, who were in positions of responsibility, to develop their interpersonal skills. These individuals come from different schools within the university, and each person’s needs and goals varied. Sessions were client-led, and PEAR provided a coaching structure and process….
Communications skills
Collaboration and Communication
Rail Safety and Standards Board
PEAR’s solution consisted of creating a suite of collaboration and communication products. Significantly, they were available for RSSB staff andsome were also open for their member organisations e.g. Transport for London, Network Rail, the rail operation companies, their rail partners and rail supplier organisations…
Wellbeing, Stress and Resilience
Wellbeing
The Housing Ombudsman Service
We explored how anxiety and low mood impacted staff and used exercises from a positive psychology perspective that helped build optimism and gratitude. We reflected on the day-to-day activities that staff already did to maintain their wellbeing, affirming the strengths they already possessed…
Building Self-Esteem
Nacro
We designed a psychological education programme for ex-offenders to help them understand their own behaviours, patterns of thinking and emotional responses, particularly when in stressful situations. The programme consisted of cognitive and behavioural models made accessible and contextualised…
Building Resilience
London Metropolitan University
LMU wanted us to support course leaders in balancing their demanding, varied and dynamic workloads. Our solution was to equip course leaders with the self-awareness and tools to reduce stress and build resilience. We created a long-term (12 months plus) intervention that gave academics a regular space…
Wellbeing
London Metropolitan University
We created a programme, Reflective Professionals, for staff to support their wellbeing at work. We wanted to help the professional services teams understand and influence the behaviours, thoughts and feelings of students and colleagues. We wanted to help staff recognise the ways customers might respond to psychological threat….
Professional skills
Promoting Diversity
East London Business Alliance
We designed an aspiring leadership programme for young graduates to help them with a set of communications skills using storytelling techniques, presentation skills and core communication principles. We collaborated to create presentations which would be delivered to students and staff about banking and their roles….
Behavioural Change
Department for Work and Pensions
Psychological education formed a key part of these programmes. We looked at family systems and early lifeexperiences. We provided models that allowed people to make sense of their own behaviour and ways ofthinking. We made extensive use of applied theatre to bring to life the experience of participants…