Flagship Program
Designed to Hold
Leadership, Roles & Systems
A two-day workshop on how your role really runs, the systems around it, protecting the time only you can spend, and cutting the firefighting at its source. Most leadership programs inspire in the room — then nothing changes on Monday. Designed to Hold is diagnostic-first and hands-on, built on your operation, your roles and your own position descriptions. Each leader puts their real role on the table — how it actually runs, not how it's written — and leaves with a rebuilt position description and a personal action plan. The business walks away with a system-level read of where accountability drifts, which systems are unowned, and what to fix first.
Real outputs from a workshop — select one to bring it forward.
Two days, built on your operation
- Your real weekDay 1 — each leader maps their actual week: meetings, firefighting, the honest hours
- Your role as it runs todayBuilt cold — deliverables, the systems only you hold, your definition of "ready"
- Where the fires startFirefighting mapped to the upstream work that wasn't done
- Run the mine — the capstone simulationDay 2 — teams run an identical operation for a year; their decisions set the conditions, the conditions set the result
- Operating-control maturityThe room ranks how in-control each system really is — and sees where it disagrees
- Turn a gap into the right actionEach gap walked through a test that places it at the right leverage — not just "try harder"
- The PD reveal & rebuildTheir live role vs. their written PD — the difference is the work, rebuilt into a new draft
- Prepare to actEach leader reviews their own outputs and drafts the conversation with their manager — what to raise, what they need, what they'll own
The backbone: what the room builds — and takes away
The workshop isn't the slides or the simulation — it's the participants' own thinking, made into documents they can act on. Every activity earns an output.
Every participant leaves with
- An individual role report — how their role really runs, and whether it buffers or amplifies pressure
- A rebuilt draft PD — in your own document format, grounded in the real role
- A personal action plan — their gaps placed at the right leverage, not just "try harder"
- A manager-conversation plan — what to raise, what they need, what they'll own and when to check in — drafted in the room, ready for the one-on-one
- A take-home booklet — their week, their role, and everything they flagged, personalised to them
The business receives
- A consolidated report — the cross-cutting read across every role: buffers vs amplifiers, unowned systems, where accountability drifts
- A systems maturity roadmap — operating-control maturity by system, the contested ones, and a wave-ordered action register by owner
- A role-operating pack — every role on a page, plus the gaps and systems the room flagged
- All rebuilt position descriptions — a corrected PD set for the whole leadership team
How the two days run
Day 1 diagnoses — the real week, the real role, the fires and the pressure, captured honestly. Day 2 designs and commits — the reveal, the capstone simulation, operating-control maturity, corrective actions, and time to prepare each leader's own next steps. Catering breaks built in; times firm up on the day.
Standard
Pre-work ingest, both days facilitated, and the full participant + client output pack.
Bring your own devices
No hardware to buy — participants join on their own device via a personal, secure link.
Custom
Configured to your sector, level and method — mining today, oil & gas, marine and more on request; frontline to corporate.