Challenge Sessions

For specific capability development: Practical training sessions to strengthen a specific capability, using real work situations and making changes to how work gets done. Managers and teams learn by doing, challenging how they currently work and developing better ways of working.
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What do you need help with?

Challenge Sessions focus on a specific capability you want managers or a team to strengthen, or a small number of closely related capabilities.
What capability would help our team work together more effectively?
This could include:
  • Role clarity, ownership and accountability
  • Communication, coordination and collaboration
  • Meetings, decisions and follow-through
What capability would strengthen how we work across functions and stakeholders?
This could include:
  • Communication and stakeholder alignment
  • Dependencies, coordination and handoffs
  • Collaboration, influence and negotiation
How can we develop our managers?
This could include:
  • Prioritisation, focus and commercial edge
  • Accountability and team performance
  • Stakeholder influence and communication
Can you build a session around a specific topic?
Yes! Challenge Sessions can be designed around a specific manager or team capability, drawing on the relevant Team Momentum Needs and Tangible Actions.
  • Manager Effectiveness
  • Team Effectiveness

Common Challenge Session topics

Challenge Sessions address defined development needs that help managers and teams sharpen their focus and take action through one-off training or in development programmes.
Popular topics include:
  • Driving Team Performance for Managers | Commercial Edge for Managers
  • Stakeholder Influence | Communication for Leaders
  • Prioritisation | Negotiation | Resilience for Teams
  • Running Better Meetings | Getting Cross-Functional Alignment
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Challenge Sessions are built around the Momentum Needs

Each Challenge Session draws on the relevant Team Momentum Needs and Tangible Actions to develop practical ways of working.
  • Strategic Clarity | Role Clarity
  • Agreed Actions | Communication
  • Coordination | Collaboration | Meeting Discipline
  • Focus Time | Accountability | Adaptability

What happens during a Challenge Session?

We use real or realistic work situations to examine their current approach, apply practical tools and put better ways of working in place.
The flow of a Challenge Session:
  • Focus the challenge: Ground the session in a real manager or team situation.
  • Challenge the current approach: Examine how the situation is currently handled and what could work better.
  • Apply Tangible Actions: Use relevant tools, templates and guidance to develop better ways of working.
  • Put it into action: Agree the actions, work practices, ownership and follow-through to use after the session.
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Where Challenge Sessions fit

Challenge Sessions can be delivered as standalone training sessions or as part of manager, leadership and university development programmes.

We’ve worked with organisations and programmes including AbbVie, Johnson & Johnson, UCD Smurfit MBA, Imperial College London and BioInnovate at University of Galway.
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