
In this lecture you place your own company on four levels of how capability gets built, read the signs of each level and take the one move up from yours.
This course is built from six disciplines: knowledge management, learning and development, the corporate university, mentoring, leadership development and succession planning.
The map of the course
A dictionary for reading lectures from other fields as work on your own organisation
Three questions to ask after every lecture
A short self-diagnostic that shows which sections to watch first
Download the Learning Level Check and fill in one line after each lecture.
Tools in this lecture
Files to download (1)
What knowledge management is and why it matters
Types of knowledge: explicit and tacit
The main challenges companies face in managing knowledge
Business cases of successful knowledge management in global companies
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (4)
Models and methods explained (6)
Knowledge capture methods: interviews, surveys, working groups
Structuring knowledge: knowledge bases, wikis, ontologies
Storage tools: MS Loop, Notion, Confluence, corporate portals
Protecting intellectual property and confidential data
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (18)
Services and apps shown in this lecture (6)
Models and methods explained (4)
Ways of sharing knowledge and the barriers to it
Building a knowledge-sharing culture
Technologies and platforms: Slack, Teams, knowledge bases
Communities of practice and the role of knowledge leaders
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (8)
Services and apps shown in this lecture (1)
Models and methods explained (7)
Principles of applying knowledge in work processes
Integrating knowledge systems with other business processes
Knowledge extraction: case studies and best-practice analysis
Recording and analysing mistakes through retrospectives
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Models and methods explained (4)
KPIs and metrics of knowledge management effectiveness
Assessment methods: employee surveys and knowledge indices
Feedback and improvement of the system
Monitoring and feedback mechanisms
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Services and apps shown in this lecture (2)
Models and methods explained (1)
Developing and implementing a knowledge management strategy
The role of knowledge leaders and employee involvement
Building a culture of continuous learning and sharing
Strategic decisions and data-driven planning
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Models and methods explained (1)
The ATD Training Manager competency model
How adults actually learn
The training plan and the ADDIE model
Organisational learning needs assessment and types of training
The six disciplines for breakthrough learning
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Models and methods explained (8)
Shaping the end goal of training
Learning as part of business strategy
Linking learning objectives to business goals
Basic types of learning outcomes and mapping the learning journey
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Models and methods explained (1)
What training is actually made up of
What affects the outcome
Preparation, the learning process itself and transfer into practice
The design checklist
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Models and methods explained (7)
How learning works and its key steps
The nine steps of learning
Bottlenecks and the importance of repetition
Motivation and the learning value chain
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Models and methods explained (2)
Transfer to the workplace as the real measure of benefit
The main challenges of applying what was learned
The sixteen factors of knowledge application
The role of the manager and the power of reminders
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Ready to use on the slides (6)
Models and methods explained (2)
Why performance support matters and how it works
Performance support options
The purpose of a coach after training
The role of feedback in retention
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Models and methods explained (1)
Why evaluation matters and how to justify business benefit
Types of evidence of learning benefit
Problems associated with evaluation
The six steps of the evaluation process and reporting upward
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Models and methods explained (2)
The difference between training and development
Employee development techniques and career development
Talent management in the organisation
Working with high-potential and high-performing employees
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Services and apps shown in this lecture (3)
Models and methods explained (7)
What human resource development means
The nature of organisational development and change management
The learning organisation model
Executive development and succession planning
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Ready to use on the slides (6)
Models and methods explained (10)
Linking the training strategy to company strategy
Connecting learning with other people systems
Automation of training and online learning
Gamification of learning
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Models and methods explained (4)
What a corporate university is and why a business needs one
The competency model for the corporate university team
How to run the audit
How to develop the strategy and build the budget
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Ready to use on the slides (8)
Models and methods explained (8)
Competencies of a successful trainer
Choosing a trainer internally versus hiring on the market
How and what to train the trainers
Assessing trainers and structuring their remuneration
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Models and methods explained (5)
Business needs analysis at different levels
Justification of training costs
Presenting the value of a corporate university
How the corporate university creates value for the business
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Services and apps shown in this lecture (5)
Models and methods explained (7)
How to run the first meeting with an internal customer
Developing an effective learning programme and blended learning
Delivering learning and ensuring transfer into practice
Support after training and learning assessment
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Ready to use on the slides (9)
Models and methods explained (2)
How to analyse jobs
Identifying competencies for development
Designing development programmes
Implementing them across the organisation
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Models and methods explained (4)
How to implement coaching and facilitation company-wide
Options for facilitation formats
How to conduct a coaching conversation
How to run a facilitation session
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Models and methods explained (10)
What talent management is and who benefits
Career development options
Building the talent pool and using 9 boxes
Succession planning as part of career management
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Models and methods explained (3)
What a competency model is and which types exist
How to describe and implement competences
How to assess employee competences
Setting up an internal assessment centre
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Models and methods explained (12)
How to choose an external provider
How to evaluate what they deliver
How to build an effective working relationship
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How to launch online learning
How to choose a platform
How to run webinars that hold attention
How to develop a course and get results from it
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Services and apps shown in this lecture (8)
Models and methods explained (3)
This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.
When your best engineer resigns, how much of what she knew walks out with her? In most companies the honest answer is nearly all of it. Here are 453 tools to build capability on purpose: 276 ready-to-use question lists, procedures, templates, checklists and matrices, 146 models and methods, 30 services and apps shown on screen and a working file.
Open a lecture, take the tool, apply it to your team this week.
What is going wrong right now
Your organisation learns by accident. Someone solves a hard problem and the solution lives in their head until they leave. Training happens because a budget line exists, people sit through it, and six weeks later nothing about their work has changed. Managers are promoted for being good specialists and left to work out management alone. And when a key role opens, there is no successor. Every one of these is the same failure: capability is not being built deliberately.
What changes after this course
You build a system and stop running events. Knowledge is captured before people leave, stored where others can find it and pulled into the processes that need it. Training is designed from a business outcome and evaluated against it. Managers are developed on purpose. And the bench is deep enough that a resignation is an inconvenience and not a crisis.
What is inside: 453 tools, counted lecture by lecture
You do not have to take this number on trust. Open any lecture and read its description: every tool inside is listed there by name.
Where the tools are
Who is teaching
I am Mike, the #1 HR instructor on Udemy, with 1,800,000+ course enrollments from 170,000 students, and the author of about 200 books on Amazon. I built the people system at Preply as it became a unicorn and worked at Wargaming, iDeals and Alfa-Bank across 20 years in HR. I hold PHRi, SHRM-CP and HCI sHRBP certifications and represent HRCI in Eastern Europe. I am also a founder and lead the strategy of my own academy.
I saw this system work at Wargaming. The corporate university there insisted that people put what they knew into Confluence: we trained all employees to use it and promoted the idea at management level, so that managers required it from their people. As a result, documentation in the company was really well kept. The same corporate university trained managers at each step of the performance cycle: goal setting when planning for the next year began, summing up and feedback before the performance review, and one-on-one meetings separately, so that managers knew how to do it.
How to use the course
Start with the first lecture and find the level of learning your company is on. Then go to the layer that is weakest now: knowledge, training, the corporate university, mentoring, managers or succession. Section and lecture titles show how many tools are inside, and each lecture description lists them by name.
What is included
Where to start
Name the one person whose resignation would hurt most. Open the lecture on creating and storing knowledge, take the capture tools and plan one interview with that person this month. What you write down will stay in the company. Enrol now and start your first lesson today.