Capability Development

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10 Days

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Cohort-based Course

Make strategy actionable through a set of capabilities that shape your organization transformations

Course overview

Extend your professional agency

Organizations that don’t express strategy in the form of capabilities often end up asking, “Why isn’t the strategy working?”


To solve that dilemma, Capabilities emerge as a “Rosetta Stone” to translate strategy into projects and processes that are needed to produce desired results. We contend that Capability Models replace organizational charts in discussions about delivery. It answers the question, “What must we be able to do to execute our strategy and deliver results?” This is the work of leaders at all levels. Capabilities connect the work of IT, Business Architecture, Organization Design, Lean Teams, the Project Management Office, and other functions trying to get the right things done.

 

Apply methods and tools to define capabilities, practice modelling capabilities and assessing them. You will have more than 8 hours of direct access to the faculty, including time after each live session plus the opportunity to engage members of the cohort and learn from them.

 

Following the course, you and your team will be prepared to look at your organization through the lens of capabilities and lead strategy pursuit.

Who this course is for

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Organization Design Professionals who want to adapt their organizational structures in the age of AI-enabled organizations.

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Organization Effectiveness and Business Architecture Professionals who want to learn how capabilities address the missing link in strategy.

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Leaders at all levels who want to get on the same page regarding capabilities gaps to align and accelerate team productivity.

What you’ll get out of this course

Expand your agency as a leader

  • Forget hierarchy and apply new Capability techniques and tools to manage up and across the organization
  • Bust functional silos! Learn how to develop more collaborative relationships with other leaders to address shared challenges and goals

Relate Projects and Processes to the Capabilities required by Vision

  • Strategy execution is not the work of a few leaders. Earn a seat at the table and contribute to the Mission by developing capabilities
  • Close a missing link in strategy execution by defining and evaluating capabilities

Rapidly focus, align and activate transformation

  • Develop a common operations language to discuss strategy implications on the organization's potential
  • Use capabilities to frame “big questions” to manage up and move forward
  • Start building capabilities needed for the future

This course includes

5 interactive live sessions

Lifetime access to course materials

39 in-depth lessons

Direct access to instructor

6 projects to apply learnings

Guided feedback & reflection

Private community of peers

Course certificate upon completion

Maven Satisfaction Guarantee

This course is backed by Maven’s guarantee. You can receive a full refund within 14 days after the course ends, provided you meet the completion criteria in our refund policy.

Course syllabus

Week 1

Feb 4—Feb 9

    Feb

    4

    Capability development in your context

    Tue 2/43:00 PM—5:00 PM (UTC)

    Module 1: Capability development in your context

    12 items

    Feb

    6

    Shared understanding, the keystone of aligned action

    Thu 2/63:00 PM—5:00 PM (UTC)

    Module 2: Shared understanding, the keystone of aligned action

    10 items

    Module 3: Intersession work: case study

    3 items

Week 2

Feb 10—Feb 13

    Feb

    11

    Learn to model your organization as a set of Capabilities

    Tue 2/113:00 PM—5:00 PM (UTC)

    Module 4: Model your organization as a set of capabilities

    11 items

    Feb

    12

    Optional: GenAI Assists to Capability Development

    Wed 2/123:00 PM—4:30 PM (UTC)

    Feb

    13

    Capability Assessment: Focus and align your organization

    Thu 2/133:00 PM—5:00 PM (UTC)

    Module 5: Focus, align and activate your organization

    6 items

Post-course

    Course Materials

    2 items

Bonus

    30-minute private coaching call

    1 item

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Capability Development

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$500

Dates

Feb 4—13, 2025

Payment Deadline

Feb 3, 2025
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BONUS: extras to save you time!

On the job application

  • Bonus #1: "How to" Videos

    Get your team to start developing capability models by sharing our library of recorded videos to teach others in your company to implement our framework. Examples: Capabilities as a source of innovation and The language of business.

  • Bonus #2 Private Coaching Call

    30-minutes

    One 30-minute coaching call with your faculty. Let's talk about challenges, strategy execution or a unique circumstance in your company.

  • Bonus #3: Tools and Templates

    Get access to our library of capability tools and templates to further empower your team to define, build and assess capability models. Examples: Bottoms up Capability Modeling: How to do and when to use and Assessing Capability Performance: Take the emotion out of scoring

Meet your instructors

Jim Dowling

Jim Dowling

Co-founder, Capable Company

A business maker, learner, and coach with a keen interest in helping individuals, teams and organizations realize their performance aspirations. After leaving Engineering and Information Technology, Jim found his work/playground in a place where people, process, technology, and business can align to produce amazing results. Jim has led Teaming, Leadership Alignment, Leader Development, Organization Design, Business Transformation, Strategy Clarification programs for organizations in Europe, The Americas, and Asia.

Amber Román

Amber Román

Principal & Founder, Sensata-llc

Outcome-orientated pragmatic leader with a steady track record helping teams, leadership, and organizations grow, scale, and transform. Her 20+ years of expertise in Business Architecture, Information Technology, and Data Architecture, Business Analysis, Agile Project Management and Change Management gives Amber a well-rounded view of transformation. She brings a culturally diverse perspective and insights to address individual leader needs and takes delight in making others shine.

Richard Lynch

Richard Lynch

Co-founder, Capable Company

Curiosity has led Rich into some exciting business innovations such as the balanced scorecard, capability modeling, and new growth platforms. Along the way, he has collaborated with some great people from academia, consulting and client companies. These experiences shape his views on organization design. He has authored three books: Measure Up!, Corporate Renaissance, and The Capable Company. In the field, he has led numerous business transformation projects and has been running Strategy to Execution workshops for leaders at all levels.

Course schedule

4 hours in class per week, + self study

  • Course Portal opens 1 week prior Cohort start

    Familiarize yourself with the portal, Send and receive a few messages, view a video, download a workbook, and complete a 5-minute project.

  • Tuesday: Capability development in your context

    10:00am - 11:30pm EST

    Live Session

    

  • Thursday: Shared mindset, the keystone of aligned action

    10:00am - 12:00pm EST

    Live Session

  • Intersession Work: Case Study 

  • Tuesday: Learn to model your organization

    10:00am - 12:00pm EST

    Live Session

  • Thursday: Focus and align your organization

    10:00am - 12:00pm EST

    Live Session

Free resource

A new skill for leaders

Making capabilities explicit is the work of leadership. But it is not theirs alone. It involves:

  • Operating level executives establishing guidelines and a clear set of mission objectives and goals to close capability gaps.
  • Cross-functional teams aligning the organization on capabilities needed to deliver strategy
  • Chief Financial Officers providing a method for aligning investments to capabities required 
  • IT and other functional leaders focusing resources on the enabling systems and support infrastructure to deliver capabilities.

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Learning is better with cohorts

Learning is better with cohorts

Active hands-on learning

This course builds on interactive courseware, live workshops, and hands-on projects. Join in the dialogue and take back solutions

Adopt a common methods for developming capabilities

You’ll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms and project teams and applying models, methds and tools to a partial capability model

Learn with a cohort of peers

Join a community of like-minded people who want to learn and grow alongside you

Frequently Asked Questions

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Join an upcoming cohort

Capability Development

Cohort 4

$500

Dates

Feb 4—13, 2025

Payment Deadline

Feb 3, 2025
Get reimbursed

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