Work is changing. Are you?

Let’s raise the bar

The learning your people experience on a daily basis outside of work has set high expectations. They’re looking for experiences that are creative, relevant, up to date, personalised, and that make them feel like they’re developing skills for their whole career.

In today’s dynamic job market, clear career progression and learning and development options are critical factors for retention and engagement.

28 Thursdays can be an extension to your learning team, your whole learning team, an injection of ideas when you need it, or a trusted partner that rides alongside you.

Learning refreshed: learning that’s up to date for ‘now’

With more flexible work practices, and more evolved learning options outside of work, people’s expectations of learning experiences are high, and it’s a key differentiator in a dynamic jobs market.

As work gets more personalised, so should learning. A ‘one sized fits all’ curriculum might feel efficient, but is it really working for your people?

Now is the perfect time to review your learning approach and bridge the gap between what’s happening inside and outside of work.

A learning refresh can include reviewing current content and delivery approaches, improving the comms, or tightening up the connection between the work that your people do everyday and the learning they experience. This refresh can happen whether it’s an individual program or a whole curriculum that needs an injection of creativity.

Project examples: developed an internal learning podcast, redesigned a technical learning approach, developed and delivered a new people leaders academy.

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New: Rethinking Thinking for People & Culture teams.
A collaboration by 28 Thursdays x Work Futures x Rowboat.

Learning re-imagined: learning ready for what’s next

Decentralisation, hyper-personalisation, mass reskilling and upskilling, AI, climate change, late-stage capitalism, economic uncertainty, complexity… the list goes on.

Our future leaders are facing radically different challenges that need radically different thinking and approaches.

This won’t come from the individual skill build courses that have been the standard in professional development for decades.

This change requires multi-disciplined approaches that are based in principles, not frameworks, are embedded deep into organisational cultures, and truly challenge and stretch participants.

Project ideas: rethought executive education, uncomfortable emerging leaders experiences, offline offsites, cross-organisational exchange programs.

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Something else?

I love working with teams who want to do something different in the people and culture / employee experience space. Sometimes that work doesn’t fit neatly into a box, but who wants to fit in a box?

Here’s some examples of bespoke consulting projects I’ve helped clients with.

  • Review of learning approaches/idea injections.

  • Workshop delivery as professional development for a team of educators.

  • Designing an internal learning podcast.

  • Design and facilitation of people leader development programs.

  • Curating learning and/or helping find great providers for a specific learning need.

  • Speaking at an event.

This type of work is naturally bespoke from client to client, so please drop me a note with your hopes and dreams and let’s discuss the best options.

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How it works

  • 1. Define

    Before we launch into design, it’s important to understand what’s happening, define the current and desired future states, and be clear on what the potential of this work is.

  • 2. Discover

    Let’s understand what your people think and feel about what’s happening through activities such as focus groups, interviews, and workshops.

  • 3. Design

    Using the themes from the discovery work, we’ll work together to shape and refine the work that needs to come next (including any course corrections).

  • 4. Deliver

    It’s creation time. Whether it’s a learning strategy, a series of workshops, or something in between, we’ll work closely to create and iterate the final product.

“Steph was fantastic and took the time to get to know the teams, their concerns and ambitions, to inform the design of the planning session, and how to get us to the desired outcome. As a result we built cohesion across the program and helped generate momentum as we settle into our new ‘BAU’ in program implementation.”

Director, Victorian Government

Ready to chat about about the possibilities?

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