• 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