- In-house training or typical Diploma of Leadership and Management course
- Soft skills focused
- Designed with inside-out thinking – compliance focused
- Expensive to build, usually less expensive to attend
- Developed by learning professionals not management practictioners
- In academic language
- Compartmentalised into discrete units of the qualification
- Theoretical case study activities with no immediate ROI
- Rudimentary feedback – competent or not competent
- Focused on the what, not the why or how
- Minimal inhouse operational excellence expertise
- Amazing proven ROIs
- Teaches how and why not just what.
- Attain a full nationally recognised Diploma qualification at the end
- Access to two MBA unit credits
- Credly digital badge
- Quality Business Services COE program
- Soft skills wrapped around hard skills
- Designed with outside-in thinking – standing in the shoes of the manager
- No build cost, slightly more expensive to attend
- Developed and facilitated by management practitioners
- Uses practical business language
- Covers leadership practices that are missing from most programs – manage demand, reduce waste, interpret data
- Integrated design
- Solves current business issues in real-time
- Challenging activities 100% applied in role (no case studies)
- Rich feedback that helps you get the most out of the program
- Amazing proven ROIs
- Teaches how and why not just what.
- Attain a full nationally recognised Diploma qualification at the end
- Access to two MBA unit credits
- Credly digital badge
- External Consultants
- Jargon kings – reinventing old concepts
- Incentivised to sell next engagement
- Very expensive
- Lots of potential for scope creep
- Don’t uplift your people’s skills – they give you the fish
- Lots of theory and highly qualified smart people – typically not management practitioners
- Produce large reports with lots of PowerPoint slides and recommendations telling you what to do
- Recommendations are hard to implement
- No accountability for when/if things go wrong or revert to how they were
- Poor buy-in from leaders
- Poor ROI
- Teaches how and why not just what.
- Attain a full nationally recognised Diploma qualification at the end
- Access to two MBA unit credits
- Credly digital badge