Transition security training for experienced professionals aged 55+

Learning goals: Understand the market capabilities that drive responsiveness, innovation and impact.

What you’ll be able to do: By the end of the module, you can evaluate key market-centric capabilities, apply market sensitivity as a mindset, and connect cultural, societal and commercial insight to organisational choices—using relevant concepts and tools to support renewal.

Learning goals: Demystify innovation and explore how it connects to strategy and long-term business value.

What you’ll be able to do: By the end of the module, you will be able to select innovation tools that fit your organisation, have a more informed and constructive dialogue about innovation, and challenge common misconceptions. You will also be able to use practical tools for systematic creativity and for connecting customer insight (outside-in) with internal business priorities (inside-out), helping you make innovation more focused, concrete and repeatable.

Learning goals: Gain practical insight into building business models that align sustainability with strategy.

What you’ll be able to do: By the end of the module, you will be able to identify business models that align sustainability and business goals, evaluate the risks and trade-offs they involve, and assess strategically suitable cross-sector partnerships. You will also be able to propose an actionable business model that incorporates sustainability, and argue for and defend your chosen sustainability strategy.

Learning goals: Understand and apply the principles of value-based sales in a B2B setting.

What you’ll be able to do: By the end of the module, you will be able to distinguish between product-oriented and value-based sales, and explain the core principles of value-based sales, including how they link to customers’ purchasing strategies. You will be able to choose suitable approaches, strategies and tools to plan, structure and deliver value-based sales, and understand how to shift from product- and transaction-focused selling to a customer-value approach—putting customer value at the centre of your sales practices.

Learning goals: Develop financial fluency to analyse performance and drive value in your organisation.

What you’ll be able to do: By the end of the module, you will be able to interpret financial statements to quickly assess your organisation’s financial health and capabilities, use financial ratios to analyse competitive positioning and identify performance levers, and link performance metrics and value drivers to financial results for smarter business decision-making.

Learning goals: Develop a deep understanding of strategic leadership and generate ideas on how to put this understanding to use.

What you’ll be able to do: By the end of the module, you will be able to form a well-founded view of strategic leadership, understand why different approaches work in different contexts, and reflect on—and further develop—your own strategic leadership skills.

Learning goals: Identify future-critical capabilities and potential business models based on them, and lead capabilities when putting your strategy into practice to close the strategy-to-execution gap.

What you’ll be able to do: By the end of the module, you will be able to identify the critical capabilities needed to adapt to change or shape your industry, apply capability thinking when building new business models and in day-to-day management, and understand how strategic capabilities support effective strategy implementation.

Learning goals: Understand how the rise of geoeconomics is changing the operating environment and how to assess drivers of geoeconomic risk and reward for their own organisations.

What you’ll be able to do: By the end of the course, you will be able to identify the key geoeconomic trends shaping today’s international business landscape, explain how organisations can navigate geoeconomic change and build resilience, and assess the geoeconomic and geopolitical risks most relevant to your industry.

Learning goals: Gain insights into systems thinking and understand how you can proactively shape markets.

What you’ll be able to do: By the end of the module, you will be able to assess when systems thinking adds value (and where its limits are) in different business contexts, use critical and creative thinking to innovate business models, and deepen your understanding of how firms can make and shape markets. You will also be familiar with contemporary concepts and tools used in market-shaping strategies.

Learning goals: Understand how change must be planned, staged, and driven based on several key elements and how to build and tell a powerful narrative that explains, clarifies and excites.

What you’ll be able to do: By the end of the module, you will be able to plan and communicate change initiatives in a truly impactful way, and understand what makes storytelling effective in driving engagement and action.