Developing your talents

In order to live up to this, we ensure that we have a training and development process in place that:

• allows advancement through PA at a rate appropriate to each individual’s capabilities as they develop

• provides strong and accurate feedback to individuals on how they are doing and what they need to do to develop themselves

• ensures a balance between placing the primary responsibility on the individual to develop and the personal and infrastructure support required to help it happen.

Training programmes

We recognise that an outstanding training programme, which continues throughout a career, is essential to providing growth.

Our overall aim is to develop broad generic consulting skills supported with deep content skills. 

This breaks down into five skill areas:

• consulting

• assignment and commercial management

• communication

• people development

• analytical and thinking skills.

A total of 45 training courses are available in these areas; all consultants complete at least five days of training each year from this suite. The courses are continually updated and refreshed by PA’s training and development team.  All consultants also have a personalised online training path which displays their completed training and recommends options for further development.

Development actions

Development is not just about formal internal courses.  There are many other options available:

• conscious application of new skills and knowledge gained from experience and training

• rotation on assignments

• gaining management responsibility, either for pieces of an assignment, or for the assignment overall

• gaining internal responsibilities - for example, mentoring individuals, developing or giving training programmes, or being given actual practice management responsibilities 

• switching practices or working in other countries.

We continually encourage every one of our people to take part in training and development. With our team and your ambitions you will quickly move forward, learn more and take on bigger challenges.