AutoTrader and Pilotlight have worked in partnership since February 2023, providing experiential learning opportunities tailored for their senior leaders. Employees at the firm have taken part in both our Pilotlight 360 and Pilotlight Direction programme.
We have been collaborating with their people development team, focusing in on the learning and development of their colleagues participating in Pilotlight’s programmes and reporting back on their learning journeys. On Pilotlight 360, the focus was to provide senior leaders with a development opportunity that could allow them to expand their knowledge, test their skillset in a new environment, and meet and collaborate with people outside of their own organisation.
Niki Kilby, a GMT Director who completed a Pilotlight 360 project with DigiKick, commented:
I gained a lot of confidence that my experience is relevant in many areas outside of the day job, and I’ve been able to contribute more to my organisation in areas that I may have kept away from through a lack of deep understanding. I’ve learned loads about working with a very different bunch of people from a variety of backgrounds who operate in a very different way to me and my colleagues. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed it and can’t thank Pilotlight enough for the experience.
To tailor our programmes to their emerging leaders as well as existing senior leadership group, we deliver a Pilotlight Direction programme, partnering with the charity A Child of Mine. At the end of the programme, the charity leader commented:
“The Pilotlighters helped us find relevant ethical businesses and developed a strategy for approaching them regarding our workplace support offering to achieve a long-term sustainable income… We were trying to do everything ourselves and we found it invaluable that we had a new set of perspectives to tell us to take a step back and look at things differently.”
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