People · Learning · Performance · Intelligent Work

We build the capabilities organisations need to perform, adapt and grow.

Ideas & Update strengthens leadership, people capability, learning, performance and the systems behind them through consulting, learning experiences and practical workplace solutions.

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Capability in motion
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Building people, learning and performance capability for changing workplaces.

How we thinkContext before content.
Start with the challenge

What are you trying to strengthen?

Select an area to explore practical ways we can support your organisation.

01 · Leadership

Build stronger leaders for people, performance and change.

Strengthen the judgement, behaviours and people leadership capability managers need to lead effectively in changing organisations.

Leadership developmentPeople managementCoachingChange leadership
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How we work

Solutions designed for the realities of work.

Understand the context, design the response, create the experience, support application and embed capability.

01Understand
02Design
03Experience
04Apply
05Embed
Context before contentApplication before activityPerformance beyond participation
How we can help

Capability solutions built around real organisational needs.

Leadership & People Development

Build managers and leaders who can lead people, performance and change.

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Learning & Capability Development

Strengthen L&D functions, learning journeys and workplace capability.

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Competency & Performance

Connect roles, capability expectations, assessment and performance.

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People & Organisational Solutions

Address people, HR and organisational effectiveness challenges.

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AI & Intelligent Work

Develop practical human capability for AI-enabled workplaces.

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Team Effectiveness

Strengthen collaboration, communication and collective performance.

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Experience across sectors

A wider view of our work and thinking.

Explore our work across sectors in 2026, spanning learning experience design, leadership development, capability consulting and performance improvement.

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Learning that moves into work

Different contexts. Different learning journeys.

01 · Open Public Learning

Learn alongside professionals across organisations.

Practical facilitated learning experiences designed around workplace application.

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02 · In-house Learning

Bring the experience into your organisation.

Adapt an Ideas & Update learning experience to your people and context.

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Coming up

Your next public learning experience.

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Latest from Ideas & Update

What we’re learning, building and exploring.

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Insight

Why capability development has to move beyond the workshop.

Thinking about transfer, context and application that lasts beyond the workshop.

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Ideas & Tools

Practical frameworks that help move from conversation into action.

Reusable tools and models for people, learning and intelligent work.

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Ideas & Update
Ideas & Update

Curious about work. Serious about learning. Focused on performance.

Since 2009, Ideas & Update has brought people, learning and organisational performance expertise together. We help organisations identify capability challenges, design relevant solutions and sustain improvements beyond a single intervention.

What capability challenge are you working through?

Tell us where you are trying to get to. We’ll help you think through what it may take to get there.