Course and Program Design

A free, one-page tool that takes you from market to impact, people, and learning experience, and only then to content. Here’s how to use each section of the canvas.

Not all executive education programs are created equal. This post outlines seven characteristics shared by the ones that consistently deliver; covering program design, delivery format, faculty, reflection, and measurement.

Cohort-based and self-paced learning are the two dominant models for delivering professional education online, and they produce dramatically different results in completion, engagement, and outcomes. This guide compares the two approaches across schedule, engagement, commercial model, and suitability for different use cases, and offers three questions to clarify the right choice for a given program. Useful for business schools, professional associations, and training providers designing or refining their program portfolio.

Training providers with a growing program catalogue often find that every new program requires the same design effort as the last, regardless of how similar it is to something they've already built. This guide explains how standardising your learning journey frameworks, while keeping content and context flexible, reduces that overhead, improves consistency across your catalogue, and creates the conditions to grow without burning out your team.

Research suggests only 12% of learners apply new skills on the job. Action learning fixes this by making real business problem-solving the core of the program. Here's how it works and why it commands premium pricing.

Most training programs struggle to deliver lasting behaviour change – but structured reflection can fix that. This guide explains what reflective activities are, why they work, and how to build them into your programs in a way that corporate clients can see and measure.

Constantly building courses from scratch is unsustainable. A strategic approach to reusable content lets you meet growing demand, control costs, and maintain quality without burning out your team.

AI tools are already reducing course production time significantly – but the results depend on how you use them. Here are 12 practical applications of AI in course creation, and what to watch out for along the way.

Time is the biggest barrier to professional development for most adult learners. This guide covers eight practical design strategies for building short courses that work with professionals' real schedules – not the schedules we wish they had.

Adapting your open-enrolment courses for corporate clients takes more than creating a closed cohort. This guide covers the key differences between individual and corporate buyers, and what to change in your programs, materials, and sales approach to make the transition successfully.

Most training providers develop content once and deliver it in one format – but the same content, delivered differently, can serve a much wider audience. This guide covers four practical repurposing transformations, how to match format to learner needs, and how to get started without overcomplicating the process.