Free Online Course
Learn the Foundations of Effective Organizational Capability Building
How to define, assess and build organizational capability to ensure you link learning to performance.
Course Instructors:
Blake Proberts
Co-Founder & CEO at Acorn
Ben Satchwell
Head of Capabilities at Acorn
What you’ll learn:
Capability building
Duration:
2.5 hours
Commitment:
1 hour per week
Format:
Online, self-paced
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Course overview
Capability Building Fundamentals is an online course tailored to help you unlock the secrets of effective organizational capability building. This course focuses on teaching the foundational concepts of capability building, providing you with the tools and techniques necessary to deliver award-winning capability building programs and transformations.
Through a combination of expert-led lectures, engaging exercises, and real-world case studies, you’ll gain a deep understanding of the methods behind successful capability building.
Understand how to discover, define and assess core capabilities
Learn the challenges, impacts and activities of capability building
Master the methods to track progress, re-assess and report effectively
What you’ll learn
Course content
Introduction to the course and facilitator
3:00
Preview
How mature is my capability-building function?
9:30
How to engage leadership
5:30
What are our defined capabilities?
14:00
Understanding the capability gap
10:30
The biggest challenges in building institutional capabilities
33:30
Prioritize and create an action plan
27:00
What actions can I take to build organizational capability?
36:00
Track progress and follow up
7:30
Course wrap up and what next?
4:00
Instructor
Meet Blake Proberts,
course creator, facilitator, and Co-Founder, CEO of Acorn
“I believe it’s never too late to master a new skill or that an organization is too busy to invest in their people, which is why L&D linked to performance is exactly what we do both in practice and as a service at Acorn.
“Some of our achievements include leading my team through Acorn’s implementation in 70 Federal Government agencies, the creation of shared services platform Learnhub, and two new SaaS products.
“So, why this course? At the time of writing, we have a capability-building feature that is the only digitized, AI-enabled, capability-building product on the market. This has given me first-hand experience in seeing how to enable capability building across many organizations.”
Instructor
Meet Ben Satchwell,
course co-creator, facilitator, and Acorn’s Head of Capabilities
“I feel fortunate to have worked for companies like CEB (who you may know as the originators of the HIPO research and the HR Leadership Council), Gartner, and now Acorn. All companies that have been actively enabling capability building in organizations.
“Working at these organizations, I feel like I got the cheat code or a mini-MBA in capability building for our customers, and I am grateful to have the opportunity to share my learning supplemented by research on leading thinking.
“I am a big believer in giving back to an industry that has given me so much. All in, the creation of this course with my wider team took 7 months from start to finish. The fact we are in a position to make this available for free makes me super proud.”
General FAQ
You made it this so far, so why enrol?
Take the stress out of capability building, with a full step-by-step roadmap.
Course Instructors
Blake Proberts
Co-Founder & CEO at Acorn
Ben Satchwell
Head of Capabilities at Acorn
What you’ll learn:
Capability building
Duration:
2.5 hours
Commitment:
1 hour per week
Format:
Online, self-paced