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Customised training built for your team

At The Learning Zone, we create customised training designed around your goals, your people, and your context. Whether you’re leading change, strengthening leadership, or building team capability, we work with you to co-design a learning experience that delivers real results.

Our customised training approach combines your priorities with brain-friendly design expertise to deliver practical, engaging workshops that make learning stick.

When to choose customised courses

Organisations choose customised training when they want to:

  • We design targeted customised training that builds the specific skills aligned to your strategic goals

  • We create customised training experiences that embed new values, behaviours, and mindsets to help your people thrive through change

  • We’ll tailor content around your organisational leadership model or framework

  • We build customised training to address specific skill gaps, ensuring the learning is practical and relevant

  • We turn mandatory content into fun, powerful, and meaningful customised learning experiences

We collaborate closely with you during the design phase to ensure that the content, tone, and delivery style suit your people, pace, and purpose.

Examples of customised training we have delivered

  • Leadership and influence

    • Adaptive Leadership with simulations and case-in-point facilitation (6-day program)

    • Leading and Developing People (1-day, for leaders in the public sector)

    • Managerial Influencing Skills (2-day, for managers in the public sector)

  • Management and performance

    • Performance Management Essentials (2-day, for leaders in the public sector)

    • Feedback for New Managers (half-day, for new managers in the private sector)

    • Coaching Conversations (2-day, for leaders in the private sector)

  • Change and resilience

    • Thriving in Times of Change (1-day, for all staffing levels during change)

    • Leading Change (1-day with a manager’s toolkit, to support a change initiative)

    • Communicating Change (1-day with a manager’s toolkit, to support a change initiative)

  • Team Effectiveness

    • Building a Cohesive Team (2-day, includes team assessment)

    • High Performing Teams (1-day, using DiSC and team challenges)

    • Custom Team Development Days (typically 1-day, co-designed with leaders)

Why our customised training works

We create brain-friendly customised training that makes learning stick. Using proven neuroscience strategies, we keep people in the Learning Zone - focused, energised, and ready to apply what they’ve learned.

Our customised training uses tools like the AGES Model, Sticky8, and NeuroEMBED to boost retention and real-world application. Add in team-specific scenarios, job-relevant practices, and expert facilitation, and you get learning that delivers lasting results.

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Built around your challenges, people and goals

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Designed with learning science in mind

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Interactive and energising (not lectures!)

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Delivered in person or online, in a format that fits your workflow

Let’s design something together

If you're looking for a learning partner who listens, collaborates, and creates real customised training experiences - not just another presentation - we’re here to help.

Frequently asked questions

  • Our standard short courses are ready-to-go workshops based on proven neuroscience strategies. Customised training is tailored around your goals, language, and organisational context to create deeper relevance and impact.

  • As much as you like. We welcome your insights on content, scenarios, and activities and we’ll guide the process to make sure the final design hits the mark.

  • Absolutely. We often combine topics like leadership and communication into one streamlined course. We’ll work with you to create a cohesive experience that meets your learning goals.

  • Both. We tailor the content and the delivery to suit your needs - adapting scenarios, timing, interactivity, and format to create the best learning experience for your team.

  • Yes. We can embed your leadership frameworks, values, or policies into the training design - making the learning even more relevant and practical for your team.

  • Most customised courses can be ready within 1–2 weeks. Larger programs may take longer depending on the complexity, and we work closely with you to keep the process fast, flexible, and on track.