Leadership and ManagementCultivating Learning Agility in the Workplace
Learning agility is the capacity to perform in a situation you have not encountered before, and it predicts success in new roles better than experience in old ones. This course develops it deliberately. Delegates work on extracting usable lessons from experience rather than simply accumulating it, seeking and using feedback that is uncomfortable, experimenting in low cost ways, and recognising the point at which existing expertise has become an obstacle. The course also covers building the conditions for learning in a team, since agility is suppressed quickly in an environment where mistakes are punished.
Course objectives
- Extract usable lessons from experience rather than accumulating it
- Seek and act on feedback that is uncomfortable to hear
- Design low cost experiments to test an approach
- Recognise when existing expertise has become an obstacle
- Perform in situations without an established playbook
- Build team conditions in which learning is possible
- Assess learning agility in others when selecting for a new role
Who should attend
- Managers and leaders taking on unfamiliar responsibility
- Talent and learning professionals
- High potential employees being developed for wider roles
- Human resources business partners
- Technical specialists moving into general management
Course outline
- 01What learning agility is, and why it predicts performance in new roles
- 02Extracting lessons from experience
- 03Seeking feedback that is uncomfortable
- 04Low cost experimentation
- 05When expertise becomes an obstacle
- 06Performing without a playbook
- 07Team conditions that permit learning
- 08Assessing learning agility when selecting for a role
Scheduled sessions
| Dates | Venue | Format | Price | Register |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 to 4 September 2026 | Johannesburg, South Africa | Classroom | R11,995 per delegate | Register Now |
| 30 September to 2 October 2026 | Kigali, Rwanda | Classroom | R11,995 per delegate | Register Now |
| 8 to 10 November 2026 | Windhoek, Namibia | Classroom | R11,995 per delegate | Register Now |
| 12 to 14 November 2026 | Port Louis, Mauritius | Classroom | R11,995 per delegate | Register Now |
| 4 to 6 December 2026 | Lusaka, Zambia | Classroom | R11,995 per delegate | Register Now |