SkillsGym
FOR LEADERS AND THEIR TEAMS

Your company’s ambitions are only as strong as your leaders’ habits.

SkillsGym turns business ambition into leadership behaviour. We find the one skill that matters most for each leader right now, then turn it into small daily habits, practised with the team and measured by the people who see it every day.

The right skills. At the right time. Turned into habits that stick.

PersonalisedAlways availablePractised at workLeader + teamMeasured

Leadership development needs to
keep up with your leaders.

For decades, organisations have developed leaders through leadership programs: identify the capabilities, build a curriculum and bring leaders together to learn.

But leadership doesn't happen in programs. It happens every day.

Different leaders face different challenges. And those challenges keep changing.

Leadership development needs to do the same.

“We've run the programmes. Not much changed.”
Nothing was wrong with your people. A programme builds awareness. Behaviour is built by repetition, inside real work, and nobody was there for the repetition.
“Our leaders don't have time for development.”
Then it can't be something extra. A habit lives inside work they already do: the team meeting, the one-to-one, the decision they were going to make anyway.
“You can't really measure leadership.”
You can ask the people who experience it. A few short questions to the team who sees the behaviour every week, or doesn't.

Some companies buy leadership programmes. Others build leaders.

Companies that buy programmes
Companies that build leaders
Develop leaders in a programme
Develop leaders all year
One curriculum for everyone
One priority per leader, aligned with the business
Train when it's scheduled
Support when the need is real
Develop the leader
Develop the leader and the team
Measure who attended
Measure what changed
Sarah Cherif, founder & CEO of SkillsGym
The Backstory

Twenty years of watching what actually changes people.

After twenty years of developing leaders, here's what I've learned: big leadership skills are built through small habits.

  • Feedback becomes: “Can I give you one suggestion for next time?”
  • Coaching becomes the two extra questions you ask before giving the answer.
  • Accountability becomes the commitment you actually follow up on.

Small enough to repeat. Repeated often enough to become the way you lead.

That's the thinking behind SkillsGym: turn big skills into small habits, practised every day with your team.

Sarah Cherif · Founder & CEO, SkillsGym

Why we built the Hub

20+ years of leadership programmes. The same five questions.

Across those programmes, our clients kept asking:

  1. How do we keep this alive?

  2. How do we measure behaviour change?

  3. How do we involve the team?

  4. How do we scale this to everyone?

  5. How do we personalise leadership development?

That's why we created the SkillsGym Leadership Hub.

A habit gym for leadership and self-leadership: personalised skill plans, weekly live training, team involvement, behavioural feedback and coaching when it's needed.

Use it on its own, alongside the programmes and e-learning you already have, or as the foundation of a custom programme we design with you.

It does for every leader what an expert used to do for a few. An in-depth intake, an expert recommendation for each development plan, and a suggestion for extra support when progress or team feedback calls for it. All built in, with nothing for HR to run by hand.

The leader journey

One skill at a time.

SkillsGym gives every leader a clear development rhythm: focus on the skill that matters most now, practise it until it starts becoming behaviour, then move on to the next priority.

Typically, that's one development focus per quarter.

Involve the team. — SkillsGym platform
Measure the change. — SkillsGym platform

Four personalised development cycles. Every year.

An example year

One skill a quarter. A different leader in a year.

Here's what twelve months could look like for one of your leaders. Nothing extra to carry: one skill at a time, practised in the meetings and conversations they're already having.

  1. Quarter 1Months 1–3

    The Vision Habit

    Their team knows where it's going, and why.

    • One live session on Vision
    • One coaching session
    • One team pulseDo we see where we're heading?
  2. Quarter 2Months 4–6

    The Goal Habit

    Direction becomes a few clear priorities everyone acts on.

    • One live session on Goal
    • One coaching session
    • One team pulseAre our priorities clear?
  3. Quarter 3Months 7–9

    The Check-In Habit

    Short, regular conversations keep everyone on track.

    • One live session on Check-In conversations
    • One coaching session
    • One team pulseDo we feel heard?
  4. Quarter 4Months 10–12

    The Feedback Habit

    Saying what needs saying becomes normal, in both directions.

    • One live session on Feedback
    • One coaching session
    • One team pulseIs feedback helping us improve?

In one year

  • 1 keynote
  • 4 skills
  • 4 live sessions
  • 4 coaching sessions
  • 4 team pulses

Four quarters. Four skills. A leader whose team can feel the difference.

The elephant that's usually not in the room, but should be?

The team.

We put leaders together in a room to learn feedback, coaching, delegation, accountability and vision.

But the people they actually need to practise those skills with aren't there.

Because leadership doesn't happen between leaders in a training room. It happens every day between a leader and their team.

That's why SkillsGym brings the team into the development process.

The team gives input into what their leader needs to develop. They work on complementary skills. They experience the leader's new habits in everyday work. And they give feedback on whether they're actually seeing a change.

The leader developsThe team develops
Giving feedback
Receiving and using feedback
Coaching
Owning personal development
Creating accountability
Taking ownership
Setting direction
Turning direction into goals
Delegating
Taking responsibility
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Membership

What a leader gets with their membership.

Everything they need to turn leadership ambition into behaviour — and everything you need to see the change happen.

Everything a leader needs to keep developing.

Personalized leadership plan

1–3 focus skills, chosen from three inputs: the leader, their team and your business priorities.

50+ Skill Practice Plans

Every skill broken into 3 habits and 3 conversations — small enough to practise inside real work.

Team pulse dashboard showing weekly feedback scores rated by the team

Team feedback

The people who experience the behaviour rate what's changing — every week, not in a survey.

Live support for the leaders and their teams:

Team engagement panel inside the SkillsGym platform✓ Included

Team engagement

They share their plan and bring their team along to live sessions.

✓ Included

Weekly Live Sessions

Weekly live sessions with our trainers, included in the membership.

✦ Via credits

Access to coaching and team workshops

One-to-one coaching and team workshops, added with credits when they need more.

The proven programmes

From leadership skills
to everyday behaviour.

Each Skill Mastery Programme turns one essential skill into three habits and three conversations leaders can practise on the job.

Choose a dimension above to see its programmes.

01
Self-scan
See where you start
02
Habits
Practise the small moves
03
Conversations
Use them in real work
Measurement

Finally, HR can answer: did leadership actually change?

Not what people completed. What they're doing differently — and whether it lasts.

SkillsGym combines leaders' own progress with feedback from the people who experience their leadership every day: their teams.

So HR can see:
✓ Which behaviours are changing
✓ Whether new habits are sticking
✓ What teams are actually experiencing
✓ Where leaders need more support
✓ Which leadership priorities need attention next

From learning analytics to behaviour change.

HR dashboard showing behaviour change, team by teamSkillsGym behaviour change dashboard for HR

How we customise programmes

Customised for every client. Powered by one Hub.

We design the live activities around your people and your goals. The SkillsGym Leadership Hub keeps everyone practising between sessions. Here is how four clients put the two together.

The track record

Small habits. Visible business change.

100+
Companies
1,000+
Leadership programmes
100,000+
Leaders & teams trained
Some examples of habits we've installed - what changes in the business
Vision-first meetings
Strategy stays at the centre of everyday decisions.
Delegate outcomes, not tasks
The result is clear, and the work stays delegated.
Coach before you solve
Ownership and capability grow instead of dependence.
End with feedforward
Feedback becomes forward-looking and low-friction.
Recognition that is specific
People know exactly what to repeat.
Protect strategic time
The few priorities that move the business get the hours.
“What am I missing?”
Dissent and blind spots surface before decisions close.
Recovery before depletion
Energy is managed before people hit exhaustion.
20+ years of transforming leadership
Client logos including Samsung, Deloitte, IKEA, NATO, Roche, Citibank and more

Jump on a call with Sarah.

Explore the SkillsGym Leadership Hub in more depth, talk to us about your leadership challenges, or build a more intensive journey around your needs.

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We also design leadership academies, retreats, full-day training and coaching — with the SkillsGym Leadership Hub keeping development alive before, between and after every experience.

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