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Circle Training for Lasting Change
in Day-to-Day Work
Structured microlearning instead of one-off sessions: our tailored Online Circles build leadership capability through compact modules designed to make a direct difference in day-to-day work.
Most Training Has Little Impact on Day-to-Day Work


A Learning Approach That Creates Lasting Change in Day-to-Day Leadership
We offer a modular learning programme made up of short, focused sessions spread across several stages. Together, we can configure the programme around your specific needs. The Circle approach can be embedded into in-house or facilitated supporting sessions to build shared understanding and strengthen the transfer into practice. It can also be combined with in-person modules or integrated into existing transformation initiatives.

If It Doesn’t Fit, We’ll Make It Fit!
We co-create the programme with you around your specific needs, creating a solution that is easy for organisers to manage, a sound investment for decision-makers and makes a tangible difference to participants’ day-to-day leadership.
01 · CO-CREATION
Joint Workshop
02 · SETUP & PROPOSAL
Final Programme Design & Pricing
03 · DELIVERY
Off We Go
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A First Look at What Your Programme Could Include...
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A Look Inside Landessportbund NRW’s Tailored Online Circle
We’ve put together this client case to show both the programme itself and how we typically co-create and design a tailored Circle with our clients.
At the end of 2025, Landessportbund NRW was looking for a lightweight leadership development programme that would bring both new and experienced leaders up to date on current leadership topics and help them put the learning into practice straight away.
- Leaders with different levels of experience
- Experienced leaders with previous leadership training
- A public-sector-style organisation with a complex stakeholder landscape
- Fresh, modern input for leaders
- Enable better decision-making in complex situations
- Strengthen productive collaboration that supports performance
- A format that realistically fits into busy schedules
- 5 modules, 2 hours each, delivered online
- 3 sessions per module, 8 participants per group, 24 participants in total
- Flexibility: leaders could choose the topics most relevant to them
- Programme duration: approx. five months
- Shared Leadership
- Decision-Making
- Psychological Safety
- Straight Talk, Not Soft-Pedalling
- Team Performance
- Proposal developed and aligned based on the co-creation workshop
- Programme commissioned
- Kick-off planned and scheduled
- Increased confidence and self-efficacy
- Topics connected across sessions
- Triggered reflection on structures and ways of working
- Topics carried over into other internal workshops
- “Short and focused” – high value with a low time commitment
- Plenty of exchange across the organisation
- Topics felt practical and tangible, even where the concepts were already familiar
- Emerging topics such as AI could be integrated organically
How Participants Build Their Programme
Our Online Circles fit flexibly into day-to-day leadership, without long periods away from work or rigid blocks in the diary.
Each module is offered at several different times, allowing participants to choose the slot that works best for them. We run three sessions per day. As participant numbers grow, we add more dates, keeping groups small and the quality consistently high.
Frequently Asked Questions
Our Online Circles are not anonymous, large-scale online events. They are highly interactive working sessions with direct business relevance. Participants work on their own leadership challenges rather than generic case studies, making each session immediately useful for current decisions, tensions and day-to-day situations.
The sessions are also short, focused and easy to fit into busy schedules. Depending on the scale of the programme, participants can choose the time slots that work best for them. Combined with the participant fee, this creates a stronger sense of commitment: the Circle is not perceived as just another online offering, but as a valuable investment in development.
Our Online Circles are not designed simply to transfer knowledge. They focus on concrete behaviour change in day-to-day leadership. The sessions combine short learning inputs with self-reflection, work on real leadership situations and direct application.
Through staged repetition, key ideas are revisited, applied and reflected on across several sessions. This makes new leadership routines more likely to stick because they are activated repeatedly and practised in real-world contexts.
Online Circles combine two things that matter to business decision-makers: tangible impact and efficient use of resources. The format addresses real leadership challenges directly. It is not about simply having “completed a training”, but about better leadership, clearer decisions and more effective collaboration.
At the same time, the format is easy to integrate into day-to-day work: short online sessions, flexible scheduling and strong scalability across locations.
Each Circle group is deliberately kept small, with up to eight participants. Scale comes from running multiple sessions: we typically offer three sessions per day across a longer period, allowing participants to choose the modules and time slots that best fit their schedules and needs.
The content can scale too. If your business challenges require it, additional modules can be added or existing modules adapted.
Yes. In-person elements can easily be integrated into a tailored Online Circle. Together, we can add complementary formats such as large-group sessions, peer case consultations, Lunch & Learns, in-person training or other formats that fit your organisation and objectives.
These elements can either be designed and facilitated by us or organised and facilitated in-house by your team.
For our ready-to-go Online Circles, the price per participant is roughly comparable to a high-quality two-day in-person training programme. Tailored adaptations come at a slightly higher per-participant cost. For fully customised programmes, we provide an individual quote.
No. We believe that in-person and online formats each have their own strengths and complement each other well. We also offer In-Person Formats that we strongly believe in.
What makes our Circle approach distinctive is the combination: a carefully curated, focused programme that closely reflects participants’ needs while remaining highly adaptable.
Curious?
...then have a coffee with Paul. Whether online or in person, we’d love to talk through your project with you.


