Stage 3 Consulting

Capability 06

Corporate Training & Capability Building

Build the decision-making muscle in-house.

Programmes that leave your team able to frame a business question, commission the right work and read the answer critically.

The problem it solves

The value is lost before the analysis and after the report.

Organisations rarely lose value at the point of analysis. They lose it earlier, when the question is framed badly, and later, when a finished report is read without anyone asking what it does not say.

Inexperienced resource on problems that turn on judgement is a failure of the research market, but it is an internal one too. These programmes are built to leave a team able to frame a business question, commission the right work, and read the answer critically.

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Junior hands on senior problems

Inexperienced resources are put in to lead projects that turn on judgement, not process.

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The same report, every time

Typical research reports with no newness and no advancement — one framework applied regardless of the actual question.

Why Stage 3 was built

What's included

The subjects we teach.

Listed plainly. Curriculum, formats and durations are set with the client rather than pulled off a shelf, so nothing further is claimed here.

  • Strategic decision making

  • Business problem solving

  • Research & insights training

  • Data-led decision making

  • Customised corporate programmes

  • Leadership training

  • People management training

  • Negotiation skills training

  • Difficult conversations

  • Handling different types of generations

  • Building high-performance teams

  • Managing workplace conflict

  • Cross-functional collaboration

  • Goal setting & KPI management

  • Influencing without authority

  • Stakeholder management

The people this material comes from

How it runs

Four steps, on your own problems.

The same three phases we run engagements under, turned into a programme a team can practise on.

  1. 01

    Outsmart

    Diagnose the gap

    We establish which decisions the team already makes, and where those decisions come apart.

  2. 02

    Outsmart

    Build the sessions around real questions

    Material is written around the organisation's own categories and problems rather than generic case studies.

  3. 03

    Outpace

    Run the programme

    Sessions work through framing a question, commissioning the right work and reading the answer critically.

  4. 04

    Outperform

    Check that it held

    Capability is judged on the next brief the team writes, not on the feedback form at the end of the day.

See the full approach

Related

One case study, one recent article.

The case study is published work in Corporate Training & Capability Building. The article is simply the most recent one, whatever its subject.

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Which decisions should your team be making without us?

Tell us who is in the room and what they are being asked to decide. We will propose a programme against that, and nothing more than that.