An Alchemist learning journey comprises eight steps. We take your participants through a personalised experience that works in harmony with your development strategy, seamlessly woven into the fabric of your organisation. Our approach aims to minimise your administrative work and supports long-term results.
Learners are taken through a highly immersive journey – raising awareness, developing skills and stress-testing, encouraging them to take ownership of how they apply these new skills before eventual mastery. We know time is one of your most precious resources, which is why our Alchemist designers, producers and actors take charge of design and delivery.
Design
Each journey is customised to your L&D strategy, creating a programme that is as unique as your people. We understand that learning is multifaceted. A blended design means we can enable sustainable and impactful results. We work to meaningfully target three main outcomes – cognitive, skills-based, and affective; by employing a variety of interactive, experiential and immersive modules to rigorously embed training with your talent.
By applying social learning theory and involving a blend of face-to-face and virtual sessions with meaningful goals set, participants’ affective outcomes are improved. The structure of each programme utilises spaced repetition and offers opportunities for self-directed application. This works to improve the cognitive outcomes of your learners. Their skills-based outcomes are greatly impacted by our experiential scenarios and immersive simulations, which activate curiosity and improve motivation.
Each element can be tailored to be a true reflection of the real-world issues you face.
Take A Look At An Example Learning Journey
Leading Into The Future
- LIVE Q&A WITH PROJECT SPONSORS
- ONBOARDING WEBINAR
- FUTURE LEADERSHIP READINESS 360 DEGREE SURVEY
- EQ-I 2.0 ASSESSMENT
The first module explores the vital importance of readiness, open-mindedness, learning and curiosity to leaders as they prepare for the future.
CONTENT INCLUDES:
- The two wolves story
- Adopting a growth mindset
- Using mistakes as catalysts for progress
- Embracing, driving and leading change
- Avoiding ‘path dependency’
- Encouraging challenges to the status quo
- The curious leader
- Being agile
- Leading innovation
- Shaping the future
- ACTION PLANS IMPLEMENTATION
- LINE MANAGER COACHING CONVERSATION
- OBJECTIVE SETTING AND PRE-WORK FOR NEXT MODULE
- LEARNING JOURNEY APP
As the shape and dynamic of teams changes, leaders must respond and develop new approaches that embrace these new working practices. This module explores the key skills needed to succeed in this environment.
CONTENT INCLUDES:
- Hybrid teams – differences, opportunities and challenges
- Creating common goals
- Agreeing ways of working
- Maintaining team effectiveness
- Fostering collaboration
- Avoiding an ‘us and them’ culture
- Ensuring people stay visible
- Avoiding proximity bias
- Manging equality of contribution
- Creating remote working best practice
- Maintaining virtual relationships
- ACTION PLANS IMPLEMENTATION
- LINE MANAGER COACHING CONVERSATION
- REVIEW EQ-I 2.0 REPORT
- OBJECTIVE SETTING AND PRE-WORK FOR NEXT MODULE
- LEARNING JOURNEY APP
Focusing on how to get the most from relationships with team members and peers, and developing the more ‘human’ aspects of leadership, this module challenges preconceptions about what great leadership looks like.
CONTENT INCLUDES:
- Why emotional intelligence matters in leadership
- Managing your state and emotions as a leader
- Sensing and managing the feelings of your team members
- Building self-awareness
- Positive self-talk for leaders
- The role of empathy, compassion and care
- Building stronger interpersonal relationships
- Recognising and adapting your style
- Building trust
- ACTION PLANS IMPLEMENTATION
- LINE MANAGER COACHING CONVERSATION
- REVIEW RESOURCES AND FOLLOW UP MATERIALS
- OBJECTIVE SETTING AND PRE-WORK FOR NEXT MODULE
- LEARNING JOURNEY APP
Authentic leaders create eager, willing followers in their team members, and leading authentically is within every leader’s grasp. By addressing some misconceptions about the traits people follow, this module provides a valuable introduction to becoming an authentic, modern leader.
CONTENT INCLUDES:
- Myths about leadership and power
- Authentic leadership
- The leadership shadow
- Putting your ego aside
- The leader as servant
- Vulnerability, humility and self-forgetfulness
- Values and purpose
- Finding your ‘why’
- Being present as a leader
- ACTION PLANS IMPLEMENTATION
- LINE MANAGER COACHING CONVERSATION
- REVIEW RESOURCES AND FOLLOW UP MATERIALS
- COMPLETE INSIGHTS DISCOVERY PROFILE
- LEARNING JOURNEY APP
Communication lies at the heart of leadership, and so it is no surprise that when leaders fail it is often because a weakness or failure in communication has undermined their best intentions. In this module participants will explore the various facets of communication needed to lead effectively.
CONTENT INCLUDES:
- Defining effective leadership communication
- Deciding what needs to be communicated, and how to do it
- Adapting your communication style
- Sharing your vision
- Taking ownership of the message
- Leadership listening
- Sharing feedback
- Having difficult conversations
- Communicating to motivate
- ACTION PLANS IMPLEMENTATION
- LINE MANAGER COACHING CONVERSATION
- REVIEW RESOURCES AND FOLLOW UP MATERIALS
- OBJECTIVE SETTING AND PRE-WORK FOR NEXT MODULE
- LEARNING JOURNEY APP
The modern business leader must recognise that an inclusive approach and a diverse team is not just the right thing to do – it is good for business. This module will help the participants broaden their thinking and consider ways to build a more inclusive mindset.
CONTENT INCLUDES:
- The power of diversity
- Building an inclusive culture
- Understanding unconscious bias
- Seeking missing perspectives
- Creating a sense of belonging
- Promoting allyship
- Promoting work/life balance
- Cross-generational leadership
- Protecting mental health
- ACTION PLANS IMPLEMENTATION
- LINE MANAGER COACHING CONVERSATION
- REVIEW RESOURCES AND FOLLOW UP MATERIALS
- OBJECTIVE SETTING AND PRE-WORK FOR NEXT MODULE
- LEARNING JOURNEY APP
Building a strong, capable team that is future-ready is a possibly the most important responsibility of the leader’s role. This final module looks at the leader as coach; developing their team and the individuals within it to achieve their potential.
CONTENT INCLUDES:
- The role of the coach
- Creating opportunities to coach
- Understand how your team learns
- Nurturing talent
- Impactful coaching conversations
- Team development
- Creating a learning culture
- Empowerment through delegation
- ‘MAKING IT HAPPEN’ PRESENTATION
- REVISIT FUTURE LEADERSHIP READINESS 360 DEGREE SURVEY
- ACTION PLAN IMPLEMENTATION
Production
Through our far-reaching team of learning professionals, we are able to facilitate and produce an entirely immersive experience for your learners. From the implementation of our proprietary app to the actor-led scenarios that ingrain real-world skills in your team, partnering with Alchemist gives you access to skilled facilitators who will deploy a variety of methods to engage and inspire participants.
These captivating elements are used at multiple stages of the process. Every aspect of these programmes is produced in-house by Alchemist experts, informed by research and data to ensure the best possible results for your team. This approach not only keeps your learners engaged and delivers incredible value to both participants and stakeholders, but it conserves your time and resources.
Sustainement
The last two stages of a Learning Journey are Ownership and Mastery. At this point your talent will be equipped with new skills, had comprehensive feedback from a coach and be ready to take accountability for the application of their leaning in real-world situations. Through Alchemist’s own App, participants will receive push notifications that present them with mini challenges to continually test their proficiency. These notifications also serve as reminders of the skills from the programme, keeping their training at the forefront and encouraging its continued application. Our app provides a low-cost and scalable solution to reinforce the training your people have undertaken.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a learning journey?
A learning journey is the path that participants follow as they navigate learning and development; it follows them from their first It’s important to structure a learning journey to include critical phases that will help to sustain the skills they have developed in the process.
What are the phases of a learning journey?
The phases of an Alchemist learning journey are:
- Onboarding
- Awareness
- Development
- Stress Test
- Ownership
- Mastery
These stages represent different sessions that are all built to develop the skills of your team. From initial introductions, theory around why learning and development is beneficial to developing relevant skills and stress-testing them in real-life circumstances, each step is vital to their sustained learning.
How do you create a learning journey?
A learning journey is created by using the information gathered at scoping and discovery stages to map out a journey that your participants will enjoy, on a timeline that works for everyone.
What is production in learning?
Production in learning covers everything from producing written content to ensuring that learning technologies are working and accessible for all participants involved.
What is the meaning of sustained learning?
Sustained learning refers to the ongoing implementation of newly learned skills. Participants will develop lots of skills throughout their learning journey, and so it’s crucial that in the final stages of the process they understand how to utilise them in their roles in order to sustain the growth they have achieved so far.
Contact Us
To discover what a bespoke Learning Journey from Alchemist could look like for your business, contact us to speak to one of our friendly experts.