Applied Strategic Capabilities

for corporate teams

Build lasting skills that improve clarity, collaboration, and decision quality.

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When teams share a common way of solving problems, making decisions, and communicating ideas, they create momentum.

We build these skills through tailored learning journeys that focus on what matters most for your business; ensuring new behaviours are embedded into day-to-day work, creating a lasting return on investment.

How it works.

We use a learning journey to build skills through practice and feedback

Let’s face it, the strategic capabilities we are talking about only stick when applied regularly, so they become familiar and effective. This is why we talk about a learning journey: we introduce the skills, practice in the facilitated training sessions, experiment in day-to-day work and build in a feedback loop to improve and expand the application.

Modular design to tailor the learning journey to your teams’ needs

We start designing the learning journey by talking through the skills you want to build, the behaviours you want to minimise or enhance, and the outcomes you want to see. Based on this, we can pick and choose the topics that will have the biggest impact.

Hands-on, applied exercises tied to real work challenges

Before we start the learning journey, we identify use cases where the skills can be used. These will be the setting of the practice exercises. Participants bring their own real-life example situations and tasks to the training, so learning is directly relevant for their day-to-day work. They leave the session with strategies they can implement straight away.

Flexible delivery without losing impact

The learning journey can consist of online learning, facilitated sessions or a combination. We can adapt the frequency and duration of sessions to your team’s schedule. We want to design the journey to be smooth and enjoyable as possible for participants, so they can focus on building skills!

Discuss your needs

You can pick and choose from a portfolio of skills

Problem Solving
& Critical Thinking

  • Structured problem solving

  • Hypothesis-driven thinking

  • Hypothesis-led work

  • Critical thinking & questioning assumptions

  • Collaborative problem-solving methods

Prioritisation
& Decision Making

  • Workload management

  • Strategic decision-making

  • Navigating ambiguity and managing setbacks

  • Ownership & accountability

  • Adopting a strategic mindset

Communication
& Influence

  • Structured, audience-centric narratives

  • Presentation & slide design

  • Executive-level communication

  • Presence and non-verbal communication

  • Stakeholder management

Leadership
& Teaming

  • Leading through change

  • Building high-trust teams and client relationships

  • Managing a team for high performance

  • Time & energy management for leaders

  • Feedback & coaching skills

Productivity
Quick Wins

  • Leveraging GenAI for day-to-day work

  • Professional excellence and business etiquette

  • Running effective meetings

Example learning journey:

Communication & Presence Learning Journey

For a specialised investment firm, we ran the journey for two cohorts in parallel: early career staff and managers. Practical use cases included weekly team meetings, investment decision meetings, and external pitches.

The journey had five modules of facilitated online training:

  • Hypothesis-led approach

  • Structuring your elevator pitch

  • Tailoring message, narrative, and format to the audience

  • Effective presenting

  • Delivering your elevator pitch

Participants brought an actual use case to the training, for example the narrative for their next Investment Committee Meeting. They developed and refined their narratives and pitches throughout the training, including with GenAI prompt templates. They received workbooks with reference and reflection exercises to support ongoing use.

A Retrospective check-in two months later reviewed successes, questions, and extended application of the tools.

Who is this for:

  • Teams who need a tailored capability uplift.

  • Teams who have recently restructured or have team members with a range of backgrounds, and want to establish a common way of working.

  • Organisations who want to build effectiveness for specific cohorts, e.g. kick-starting new hires, building effectiveness in early career staff, supporting emerging leaders with their transition to management.

  • Organisations looking for high-value, lasting, tailored professional development.

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Reactions from previous learning journeys

  • "This program was fantastic for sharpening how I approach complex problems. I found the SCQA framework especially practical for structuring my thinking and communications, from emails to presentations. The emphasis on defining the problem clearly before jumping into solutions has already made my team discussions far more productive."

    Structured Problem Solving and Communication

  • "I really appreciated how this course helped me adopt a more strategic mindset. Using tools like distinguishing Tactical-Operational-Strategic perspectives made it much easier to think through challenges systematically and prioritise where to focus. It’s given me confidence in making decisions that align with our long-term goals."

    Strategic Foundations

  • "The insights on building high-trust teams and leading through change were invaluable. I particularly liked the practical techniques for giving feedback and coaching team members, which have already helped me engage my team more effectively and drive performance."

    Leading with Impact

  • "This program helped me understand the power of presence and audience-centric communication. Learning to structure messages with the ‘so what’ approach and practising deliberate non-verbal cues has made my presentations and meetings much more engaging and impactful."

    Communication and Presence

  • "I learned practical strategies for managing workload and making decisions under pressure. The fixed capacity mindset for prioritisation was a game-changer, and the tips for running focused, effective meetings will save my team hours each week."

    Effectiveness and Impact for Managers

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