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Everything L&D consulting firms charge thousands for — built by us, given to you. No sign-up walls on videos. Templates require an email so we can send you updates.
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Our most popular free tools
Compliance Deadline Tracker
Answer 3 questions and get a personalised dashboard of every EU and UK regulation that applies to your organisation — NIS2, DORA, EU AI Act, Pay Transparency, Martyn's Law, KCSiE — with exact deadlines, days remaining, and links to readiness assessments. Free, no login required. Download your compliance timeline by email.
Stage 1: Diagnose Explore tool →Training Audit
A 5-minute diagnostic that scores your training function across 6 dimensions — strategy alignment, content quality, delivery effectiveness, measurement maturity, technology use, and learner experience. You get a personalised improvement plan with prioritised recommendations you can act on immediately. Most organisations uncover at least two blind spots they weren't tracking.
Stage 1: Diagnose Explore tool →AI Performance Coach Demo
See how your existing training materials become a 24/7 AI assistant your team actually uses — not a chatbot that spits out generic answers, but one trained on your content, your processes, your terminology. Try it live with sample materials and see how it handles real employee questions. This is the tool we deploy for clients after every training programme.
Stage 3: Deliver Explore tool →Skills Gap Assessment Template
A complete Google Sheets template with scoring rubrics, role-based assessment questions, a gap calculator, and the exact AI prompt chains we use in the companion video. Map your team's current capabilities against required competencies, identify the highest-impact gaps, and generate a prioritised development plan. This is the same framework we use in client engagements — the only difference is we customise the competency models for your specific industry and roles.
Stage 1: Diagnose Explore tool →The Shortlist — AI Act Compliance Scenario
An interactive scenario that puts you in the shoes of an HR director who discovers their AI hiring tool may be discriminating against candidates. Navigate three critical decisions under the EU AI Act — each with real legal references, stakeholder pressure, and consequences. Takes about 15 minutes and covers Articles 6, 9, 14, and 26 of the AI Act. Play it once for awareness, play it again to explore different paths.
Stage 3: Deliver Explore tool →Stage 1
Diagnose
Skills gap analysis, training needs assessment, competency frameworks — the foundation of any serious L&D function.
Training Needs Analysis with AI
A step-by-step walkthrough of how to conduct a complete training needs analysis in under an hour using AI — a process that traditionally takes 3-6 weeks. Includes stakeholder interview templates, data collection frameworks, and prompt chains that extract patterns from performance data. You walk away with a finished TNA document you can present to leadership the same week.
AI-Powered Competency Framework Builder
Build a complete competency framework for any role or department using AI — from job analysis to behavioural indicators to proficiency levels. Includes a structured Google Sheets template and the prompt sequences that generate role-specific competencies grounded in your actual business context. Most organisations either skip this step entirely or pay consultants to spend months on it. This approach delivers a working framework in a single session.
Stage 2
Design
Programme design, learning objectives, curriculum development, and business case frameworks.
Get Your CEO to Fund AI Training
The complete business case toolkit — presentation deck, financial model, objection handlers, and executive briefing scripts. Built around the questions budget holders actually ask: "What's the cost of doing nothing?", "How quickly will we see results?", and "What are our competitors doing?" Stop hoping leadership sees the value. Give them a business case they can't ignore.
Leadership Development Programme Designer
A framework for designing leadership programmes that drive measurable behaviour change — not just engagement scores. Covers needs analysis, session design, practice integration, coaching structure, and the measurement approach that proves ROI to the board. Includes templates for 3-month, 6-month, and 12-month programme architectures. Whether you're building for first-time managers or senior executives, this gives you the structure to design something that sticks.
AI-Powered Onboarding Programme Builder
Design a structured onboarding programme that reduces ramp-up time and early turnover. This template covers the full 30/60/90-day arc — from culture immersion to role-specific training to performance milestones. Includes AI prompt chains for generating role-specific content, assessment checkpoints, and manager coaching guides. New hires become productive contributors faster because the programme is built around actual workflows, not generic orientation content.
Stage 3
Deliver
Practice simulations, scenario builders, AI-powered exercises, and reinforcement systems.
AI Practice Scenario Builder
Build realistic practice scenarios for any training topic using AI — roleplay simulations, decision-making exercises, and feedback engines that adapt to learner responses. This prompt system generates branching scenarios grounded in your actual business context, not generic textbook examples. Your teams practise handling real situations before they encounter them on the job. Includes templates for sales conversations, difficult management situations, customer escalations, and compliance scenarios.
Post-Training Reinforcement System
An automation framework for the 30/60/90 days after training — the period where 70-90% of learning is typically forgotten. Includes spaced repetition schedules, nudge message templates, micro-assessment designs, and manager check-in guides. Set this up once and it runs automatically, reinforcing key behaviours at the moments that matter. The difference between training that gets a good feedback score and training that actually changes how people work.
Compliance Training That Changes Behaviour
A framework for designing compliance training that goes beyond checkbox completion — built from a real engagement with La Ley Violeta (workplace harassment prevention) in Latin America. Covers scenario-based learning design, behavioural indicators, reporting mechanism integration, and measurement approaches that track actual workplace behaviour, not just course completion rates. Compliance training doesn't have to be something people endure. This approach makes it something they learn from.
Stage 4
Measure
ROI measurement, behaviour tracking, executive dashboards, and automated reporting.
Training ROI Measurement Framework
A complete system for measuring training impact at Kirkpatrick Levels 3 and 4 — behaviour change and business results. Includes a Google Sheets dashboard, data collection templates, manager observation guides, and the calculation models that translate training outcomes into language the C-suite understands. Most L&D teams stop at Level 1 (satisfaction surveys). This framework gives you the tools to prove what actually changed after training, and by how much.
Automated L&D Reporting Dashboard
Stop manually pulling data into spreadsheets every month. This automation template connects your training data sources and generates executive-ready reports automatically — completion rates, assessment scores, behaviour change indicators, and business impact metrics in a single view. Includes setup guides for common LMS platforms and the prompt chains for generating narrative insights from raw data. Your leadership team gets a clear picture without you spending days assembling it.
Stage 5
Adapt
Programme audits, data-driven improvement, iteration frameworks, and content recycling systems.
Training Programme Audit Kit
A structured audit process for evaluating your existing training programmes — what's working, what's not, and what should be retired. Includes evaluation rubrics across 8 dimensions, stakeholder interview templates, data analysis frameworks, and a prioritisation matrix for improvement actions. Most organisations keep running programmes long after they've stopped delivering value. This kit gives you the evidence to make hard decisions about where to invest and where to cut.
Learning Technology Evaluation Framework
A structured approach to evaluating and selecting learning technology — LMS platforms, authoring tools, AI solutions, and integration requirements. Covers requirements gathering, vendor scoring, total cost of ownership analysis, and implementation planning. Companies waste enormous money on platforms that don't fit their needs. This framework helps you evaluate options against your actual requirements, not vendor demos.
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