The Customised Learning Edge

At the same time, other resources like time and money are more limited than ever. You face new challenges in the workplace every day, oftentimes having to do more with less…less time, smaller budgets, fewer employees. 

The bottom line: it’s business-critical to retain the best employees and fully develop their skills. That's where we come in!

Make the most of your training budget and staff time with the Customised Learning Edge from Best Practice Consulting.

This isn’t one-size-fits-all training. Customised Learning is tailored to your team.

• Are there specific skills your team needs to brush up on?
• Scenarios they need to work through?
• New competencies to master?

Whatever the need, the Best Practice team crafts customised learning sessions, integrating content that is on point for your organisation.

The result: highly relevant, engaging, and effective learning programs, so your team returns to work with skills and insights they can put to use immediately.

Your team gets what they need, when they need it.

No fluff.
No filler.
No waste.

Just the Customised Learning Edge your staff needs to succeed.

The AGES Advantage

Our Customised Learning programs are built on a time-tested, scientifically-backed learning model called AGES.

Research suggests that the AGES model maximises learning and facilitates faster breakthroughs through four key elements: Attention, Generation, Emotion and Spacing.

The Customised Learning Edge draws on the AGES elements to create an optimal learning experience for your team.

Attention: When we use real-life examples, we capture and keep the learner’s attention.
Generation: Learners connect new information to existing knowledge more effectively when learning through scenarios derived from their real-life work.
Emotion: Activating positive emotions through personalied content and delivery enhances memory recall.
Spacing: Time between sessions allows staff to implement new information in the workplace and encode it in long-term memory.

Is the Customised Learning Edge the right fit for your team?

• Leadership development
• Performance improvement
• Change management

Examples of recent Customised Learning Edge projects

• For Comcare we designed and delivered a multi-session cultural Leadership Development Program. These half-day workshops were delivered over a 12-month period to all SES, EL2, EL1 and APS6 staff (about 200 people in year 1 and another 200 staff in year 2). We have also build and run other customised learning sessions for Comcare on Coaching and Developing Others, Leading Teams and Mentoring. 
• For Defence Housing Australia (DHA) we developed and facilitated an Australia-wide roll-out of two change management programs. The “Leading Change and Uncertainty” course was delivered to all supervisors and managers, and was supported by a Managers Toolkit including resources such as checklists, fact sheets, models, tools and templates for leading change. The “Thriving in Times of Change” course was delivered to all other staff within DHA. In total approximately 550 people attended the courses over an 18-month period. We have also build and delivered other customised learning workshops for DHA on Coaching Skills for Supervisors, Mastering Feedback, Emotional Intelligence at Work, Managerial Influencing Skills, Negotiation Skills and Performance Management.  
• For the Department of Finance we designed and delivered an EL2 Leadership Program called "Guiding and Developing your People". This program focussed on raising awareness and skills of managers so that they were better equipped to take responsibility for staff development. The benefits of this include: greater staff engagement, motivation, teamwork and career opportunities. We have also created and facilitated other customised programs for the Department of Finance including: Enabling High Performance, Coaching Conversations, Managing Staff across Functions Roles and Tasks and Time Management.
• For the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet we developed and facilitated a range of customised short courses on Agility and Flexibility, Coaching, Giving and Receiving Feedback, Mentoring, Leadership and Performance. We customised and delivered many sessions of the APS Core Skills Programme on Performance Management.