Course overview
Learning agility is the capacity to learn quickly from unfamiliar, high-stakes experience and apply that learning to the next challenge. HR and L&D professionals need to identify it accurately, develop it through work design, and demonstrate its contribution to performance. Without a clear model, organisations often confuse learning agility with confidence, technical expertise or willingness to change, resulting in weak talent decisions and generic development plans.
This course examines the behavioural foundations of learning agility: self-awareness, mental agility, people agility, change agility and results agility. Participants use DeRue's observe-perform-reflect-experiment cycle, Kolb's experiential learning cycle, After Action Reviews, stakeholder mapping, developmental assignments and feedback methods. They learn to diagnose learning-agility demands in roles, create meaningful stretch experiences, coach reflective practice, and measure behaviour change without relying on subjective impressions alone.
Teaching combines short instructor briefings with cases, group analysis, simulations, peer feedback and structured application planning. Participants work with situations familiar to HR and L&D teams, including leadership transitions, cross-functional projects, digital change programmes and succession pipelines. Each participant leaves with a learning-agility development plan, a developmental assignment canvas, behavioural indicators and a 90-day implementation schedule. The course is delivered over five instructor-led days, either in a classroom in 50+ cities or live online, and includes a certificate of completion.
The course is particularly suited to professionals responsible for talent, leadership development, performance, succession, organisational development and manager capability. It also benefits HR business partners who need to turn broad requests for adaptable talent into observable behaviours, credible development actions and measurable results.




