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Standards-Informed Learning Design

Designed for transfer, grounded in evidence

Our learning design is standards-informed and built around workplace transfer — grounded in recognised competence-development and adult-learning practice.

Framework Architecture

Five connected layers

Read it from the top down: the development tracks define what people learn, the methodology and measurement layers make it stick, and the workspace layer configures the framework for a specific client.

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Leadership & Professional Development Track

A four career-band pathway from early career to strategic leadership, built on six behaviour domains. Develops self-leadership, judgement, communication, working through others and execution across 16 learning rings and 96 subjects.

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Technical & Operational Capability Track

Energy-sector technical and operational modules, built by practitioners with deep operating-company experience and configurable to client standards, procedures and competency frameworks.

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Standards & Methodology Layer

Standards-informed learning design grounded in recognised competence-development and adult-learning practice, aligned with the logic of competence-based development and suitable for customisation to client standards and frameworks.

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Workplace Transfer & Measurement Layer

Manager reinforcement, 30-day application challenges and a four-level evaluation logic that measures behaviour change and results, not only satisfaction.

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Client-Specific Proposal Workspace Layer

Each client request becomes a private workspace: a tailored configuration of the tracks above for one organisation, with its own proposal, outlines, delivery model and next steps.

Leadership behaviour and technical competence are connected parts of professional performance, not separate silos.

The Method

One disciplined development cycle

Every programme — a single workshop or a full academy — follows the same six-stage cycle, designed from the outset so learning reaches the workplace.

1

Diagnose

Clarify the role, the capability gap and the business outcome before design begins.

2

Design

Build the pathway and materials around real workplace situations and the client's own standards.

3

Deliver

Experiential, practice-led sessions — people practise the behaviour, not just hear about it.

4

Apply

30-day challenges and manager prompts move learning into the job where it counts.

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Measure

Track confidence, knowledge and behaviour change over time — not only attendance.

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Improve

Feed the evidence back into the next cohort and the pathway design.

Workplace Transfer Model

Learning that survives contact with the job

Most training value is lost after the session unless transfer is designed in. We build three reinforcement mechanisms into every programme.

Experience-led practice

Around 70% of session time is spent practising the behaviour in realistic, energy-relevant scenarios — reflecting how adults actually learn at work.

A tool to keep

Every session ends with a one-page tool and a 30-day workplace challenge that participants use the same week.

Manager reinforcement

A short manager prompt makes the line manager part of the learning, where most providers stop at the workshop.

Measurement

Beyond satisfaction scores

We measure with a light four-level evaluation logic, so clients see evidence of behaviour change and results, not just attendance.

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Reaction

A confidence pulse before and after each session.

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Learning

A short scenario knowledge check against the framework taught.

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Behaviour

A 30-day action measure with a manager prompt and follow-up.

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Results

A one-page impact note linking capability back to the business.

Evidence Base

Informed by recognised standards and literature

The Academy is standards-informed. The references below shape how we design, deliver and measure learning. They describe the basis of our design choices — they are not claims of certification or accreditation.

Competence & Learning-Services Guidance

Designed in line with the logic of recognised guidance on competence management and people development (for example the themes of ISO 10015), learning services outside formal education (ISO 29993) and educational-organisation management (ISO 21001). Used as design guidance and configured to client frameworks; alignment with any specific standard is confirmed with the client.

Evaluation & Development Logic

Kirkpatrick four-level evaluation logic · 70-20-10 development logic · adult learning principles · experiential learning · competency-based development · action learning · workplace transfer and manager reinforcement.

Leadership Frameworks & Literature

CCL Fundamental 4 · Leadership Pipeline (Charan, Drotter, Noel) · ATD / Korn Ferry · ICF coaching · Goleman · Kotter and Bridges · Kahneman · Covey · Whitmore (GROW) · Lencioni · Edmondson · Dweck · Rumelt · Schein.

Cautious by design: we describe our work as standards-informed and grounded in recognised practice. We do not claim to be certified, accredited or formally approved unless a specific approval is held and evidenced.

Why It Is Built This Way

Research-informed design choices

Market and best-practice research shapes how the Academy is structured. A few principles drive the design.

Pathways over isolated workshops

Structured, levelled pathways build capability that compounds; one-off sessions rarely change behaviour alone.

Practice, reflection and follow-up

Leadership development needs practice and reflection, then manager reinforcement to transfer into the workplace.

Measure behaviour, not just satisfaction

Evaluation should include behaviour transfer and results, not only happy-sheet scores.

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