Stronger skills. Stronger performance.
Workplace Skills Development
Practical programs that help people communicate more clearly, think more effectively, make better decisions and create greater value at work.
Choose a ready-to-deliver program, adapt an existing program to your organization or build something around a specific capability need.
Capability that shows up at work
Skills development starts with what people need to do better.
Katalyst develops practical workplace capability around the work people actually do.
Some organizations need a proven program that can be delivered immediately. Others need the content, tools and examples adapted to their organization. Sometimes the requirement calls for a new program built around a particular role, team or business priority.
In every case, the focus is the same: clear tools, active practice and application to the workplace.
Ready to deliver
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Katalyst Essentials®
Skills people use every day at work.
Eight practical one-day programs covering the capabilities that affect everyday workplace performance.
Choose one priority skill, combine several into a capability plan or adapt the content around your team and operating context.
Eight Essentials. Immediate application.
Public workshops
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Learn with Katalyst.
Katalyst regularly offers selected workplace-skills and HR capability programs as public workshops.
Follow us for upcoming topics, dates and registration information.
Customized programs
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Built around your work, people and priorities.
A customized program begins with the capability the organization needs to strengthen.
We work with clients to understand the roles involved, the situations people face and the results the organization needs. We then build the content, tools, cases and practice around that context.
Relevant context
Organization-specific cases, scenarios and tools.
Connected delivery
Individual programs or capability pathways delivered over time.
Application support
Workplace assignments, action planning and follow-up sessions.
Coaching
Individual or small-group support connected to real work.
Negotiation for Value Creation
A program built around real supplier negotiations.
Phu Bia Mining asked Katalyst to strengthen the commercial negotiation capability of its procurement team.
We developed a two-day program built around the supplier negotiations the team handles in its work. The program covered:
- Preparing systematically for supplier negotiations
- Responding to pressure, anchoring and other supplier tactics
- Pushing back on price increases
- Negotiating payment terms, delivery risk and penalty clauses
- Protecting value while maintaining productive supplier relationships
Participants mapped risks and opportunities across supplier categories, practiced their responses through live negotiation scenarios and applied the tools to upcoming negotiations.
Follow-up coaching helped key team members apply the approach to live supplier negotiations, review their results and prepare more effectively for their next negotiation.
The program strengthened the team’s ability to prepare more effectively, respond with greater confidence, make stronger decisions across price, terms and risk—and create more value for Phu Bia.
Specialist capability areas
Development built for particular roles and professions.
Better people decisions. Stronger performance.
Practical capability for the people responsible for selecting, managing and developing others.Explore HR Capability →
Developing lawyers for what clients need now.
Targeted workshops, individual coaching and application to real legal work at every career stage.Explore Legal Development →
Start with the work
What should your people be able to do better?
Choose a ready-to-deliver program, adapt an existing program or talk to us about a capability need specific to your organization.Talk to Katalyst
Programs for new managers, experienced managers, frontline leaders and senior leaders.