The Greatest Risks in Apprenticeship Delivery Usually Become Visible Too Late.

Many apprenticeship performance issues develop gradually throughout the apprenticeship and only become fully visible when there is less time available to address them.

The challenge for leaders is not usually recognising a problem. It is recognising it early enough to do something about it.

Achievement outcomes, planned end dates, assessment readiness and employer engagement are often influenced by decisions made months earlier.

I help apprenticeship leaders understand the future consequences of today's decisions while there is still time to change the outcome.

Many leadership teams are confident about current performance. The more difficult challenge is understanding what today's decisions are likely to mean in six, twelve or eighteen months' time.

Questions often include:

• Where is future performance most vulnerable?
• What future pressures are we creating today?
• Which current decisions are likely to have the greatest long-term impact?
• What emerging issues are developing beneath the surface?
• What could become a problem later if nothing changes today?