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Idea: rebuild our leadership development programme around each manager's learning style.

Today our 600 people leaders all take the same 12 workshops over a year. Under the idea, every leader first completes a learning style profile (visual, auditory, reading and writing, or kinaesthetic). Each workshop is then offered in four versions, and each leader takes the version that matches their style. The vendor that runs the profile would charge about $180,000 a year, and building four versions of each workshop would cost about $420,000 once.

The case I have heard for it: a 2024 Harvard study found that managers trained in their preferred learning style kept 42% more of what they learned after three months. Our learning team also says most of our leaders already know their learning style and like the idea.

About us: a large Australian financial services organisation with about 12,000 staff.