Capability Academies

Empower your people for the future of work with Melbourne Business School.

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Who It Is For
Why Melbourne Business School
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Transform the Way You Develop Talent

Partner with Melbourne Business School to co-create an academy experience that builds critical skills for your future workforce needs, aligns with your organisational strategy, and transforms your talent development strategies through unique learning experiences aligned to your people and culture.

A bespoke, scalable, purposeful academy

Made to Fit

Co-create learning experiences tailored to your organisation and aligned to strategic business needs, unique to your teams and workforce culture.

Primed for Scale

Develop talent and create alignment across the organisation, and reach a disbursed workforce to empower hundreds or thousands of learners, with rapid and scalable deployment.

Personalised and Purposeful

Experience personalised training for your workforce using our signature pedagogy and adaptive learning design. We curate learning experiences that are immersive, flexible, and dynamic.

The Academy Experience

Establish sustainable, behavioural change for learners and your organisation. We create developmentally rich, immersive learning experiences using our signature learning pedagogy, along with a broad range of approaches to co-design. Our experiences include digital learning, live-online workshops, on-demand workshop viewing and engagement, learning communities, peer-to-peer learning, individual or group coaching, alumni networks, lifelong learning initiatives, and digital credentials.

Activate

Selection and welcome to the academy
Future skills builder assessment
Frequent organisational communication and engagement
Key leaders contribute content and industry stories

Immerse

Live in-person / online labs and workshops
Snackable digital learning
Collaborative learning community
Diverse networks, discourse and colliding perspectives

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Peer accountability and coaching groups
Group projects for business performance
Business mentors
Nudges and habit formation support
Toolkits

Embed

Digital credentials and graduation
Career progression plans
Academy alumni and lifelong learning
Develop academy advocacy through the organisation

How We Work With You

Discover and define

Together, we explore the priority capabilities and mindsets through focus groups, interviews with key leaders, defining learner personas, a high level design and minimum viable product for testing delivery.

Design and prototype

Through collaborative design workshops, we define learning strategies, blueprints and prototypes for each learning method, identify subject matter expertise as well as create evaluation and engagement plans.

Develop and prepare

Configure learning technologies, prepare facilitation and coaching plans, develop rich media assets, assess delivery readiness and conduct quality checks of learning experience.

Deliver and measure impact

We roll out modules and lab sessions, manage and coordinate learners and program schematics, gather insights, implement evaluation plans and measure impact.

Who Are Capability Academies For?

Big business

Enhance internal career mobility and increase talent retention, embed innovation into your workforce and boost organisational resilience to disruption and change, and achieve business objectives.

Learning Organisations

Enable the transformation of your organisation into a learning organisation by establishing an agile capabilities academy to create alignment in your business, enable centricity around customer needs, and enhance performance through life-long learning.

Transforming Organisations

Optimise your organisation to thrive through corporate turbulence and stay ahead of the curve. Equip your workforce with the skills, knowledge, and workplace-applied practice for the future of work, to propel your business to its future operating model.

Discover What Melbourne Business School Brings to the Table

Digital and Learning Specialists
Experts and Network
Platforms and EdTech

We offer a large, expert team of learning designers, learning consultants, learning technologists, multimedia producers, experience managers and facilitators to help your organisation achieve strategic objectives and be set up for success.

The Melbourne Business School network offers esteemed academics, thought leaders, industry experts and global business leaders coupled with learning and development professionals. Leveraging expertise and experience from within this ecosystem will enable an enriched, contemporary and relevant learner experience.

Empower your people for the future of work with high-fidelity digital platforms and learning technologies that include mobile learning, social learning, learner dashboards, personalised nudges, learner concierge and more.

Why Melbourne Business School

We teach CEOs, directors, managers, team leaders, specialists, analysts and even rear admirals how to succeed, through courses designed to motivate professional learning.

Founded by business, for business

Part of Australia's top-ranked university

Starting point for many industry leaders

Filled with world-class academic talent

Home to the country's #1 MBA degree

Case Study

Digital News Academy

The Digital News Academy is a world-first initiative of two of the most recognised names in media and technology, News Corp Australia and Google. Melbourne Business School Online was engaged to develop the Academy program to train journalists in digital technologies to meet the needs of current and future newsrooms.

The Academy was launched in January 2022 with the plan to train 750 working journalists over three years.

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Ellen Sullivan

DIRECTOR, LEARNING INNOVATION HUB

Ellen Sullivan is our Director, Learning Innovation Hub. She leads a team of digital learning advisors, strategists, designers, technologists and multimedia producers to create high-touch, immersive and personalised digital experiences for learners and clients.

Ralph El Helou

PRODUCT DIRECTOR, CUSTOM SOLUTIONS

With extensive industry experience leading transformative projects with organisations across corporate, government, and NFP, Ralph El Helou is responsible for enabling organisations looking to develop their people, by establishing learning experiences and creating unique future capabilities academies.