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A complete 12-week first-time manager programme

Every module states the capability it builds, the research it rests on, what happens in the room, what the manager does between sessions, and how you'd know whether it worked — plus a measurement plan and an honest section on what the design does not fix.

12 modules · 4 phases · 8 sources
Design craft

Stakeholder Conversations: Before, During, and After the Design

The diagnostic call gets most of the attention. The conversations before and after it decide whether the program actually lands.

Essay · 4 min read
Design craft

Designing Into a Client’s Competency Framework

Most proposals treat a client's competency framework as a formality to map against. Four moves that treat it as the design brief it already is — including the two adjacent level descriptors that hand you a pre-approved objective.

Essay · 5 min read
Design craft

The L&D Proxy Problem: When Your First Contact Isn't Your Real Client

L&D is almost always your entry point. It's rarely your actual audience. The gap between the two causes more design misses than any framework failure.

Essay · 4 min read
Diagnostic craft

What a Leadership Training Request Actually Sounds Like, and Where It Goes Wrong

Six annotated excerpts from a discovery call: what the client said, the wrong turn, and the exact words that redirect it — plus what the evidence says about whether any of it works.

Essay · 14 min read
Diagnostic craft

Is Training the Answer? Most of Us Run One Test. There Are Two.

The can't-versus-won't test tells you whether it's a training problem. It doesn't tell you whether it's a solvable one. The second test, the four situations they produce, and what to sell in each.

Essay · 15 min read
Measurement

How to Design a Kirkpatrick Level 3 Measurement Plan

Which behaviour, rated by whom, at what point, against what threshold — with a worked observation rubric and the evidence on who should do the rating.

Essay · 13 min read
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