Collective Campus

// Collective Campus

Notes for L&D and the people who run the work

Essays on AI adoption, capability and the workshops.

14 October 2026

A long table, one larger empty chair, a cracked cube set aside and a magenta stop line across the surface

Corporate innovation

What a corporate innovation workshop should leave the sponsor able to decide

A dark ledger of stacked slabs beside glowing cubes, with a faceted shield woven into the desk

AI training

What AI training for finance teams should change in the close

Two rooms split by dark shards, a circle of silhouettes on one side and one person at a glowing screen on the other

Psychological safety

What psychological safety training for hybrid teams has to practise

13 October 2026

A long table with one chair pulled out, a faceted shield woven into the surface, and a small circle of silhouettes

Psychological safety

What psychological safety training for managers should change

An oval board table, two empty chairs, a stack of glowing cubes and a faceted shield at the centre

AI governance

What AI governance training for executives and boards should settle

A winding path of glowing steps beside a paper prototype, scissors and an empty chair facing a small group

Design thinking

How innovation and L&D leaders choose human-centred design training

12 October 2026

A winding path of glowing steps with one step lit, beside an empty chair and a service counter

Customer experience

What a customer experience workshop should fix

A row of office desks with glowing cubes and a magnifying lens over one sheet

AI training

What generative AI training for employees should include

A locked gate in front of a stack of glowing cubes, with a shield woven into the gate

Acceptable use

What AI acceptable use training for staff should cover

9 October 2026

A glowing cube on a desk beside a blank checklist and a forked neon path

Critical thinking

What a critical thinking workshop should change for teams that use AI

A paper phone prototype on a neon path facing an empty customer chair

AI design sprints

What an AI design sprint workshop should leave the team able to ship

A service path of blank tickets leading to an open door with a glowing fix cube

Customer experience

What belongs on a customer experience workshop agenda before you pay

7 October 2026

A sticky note wall split by a glowing double diamond path, with an empty chair facing it

Design thinking

What a corporate design thinking workshop should cover

A manager's desk lit in cyan facing a row of team desks along a neon path

AI training

What AI training for managers should change on a team

A thick binder on a desk beside a small glowing test cube on a neon path

Lean startup

What a lean startup workshop for corporate teams should test

6 October 2026

A board table with a sealed folder and a key in front of a node swarm

AI governance

How a board chooses an AI governance workshop

A ring of chairs with one standing figure and a blank speech shape

Psychological safety

What to ask before you book a psychological safety workshop

Two desks along a neon path, one sheet finished and a stack of blank cards

AI training

How an AI upskilling programme for staff should run

5 October 2026

A ring of chairs with one seat lit and a standing silhouette

Psychological safety

What a psychological safety workshop should change in an intact team

A neon gate in front of a node swarm, with a key and a sealed folder

AI governance

What AI governance training for leaders has to settle

People silhouettes around a rough prototype, with a forked path

AI design sprints

How a Melbourne corporate team runs an AI design sprint

3 October 2026

A desk with one finished sheet beside a pile of unused prompt cards

AI training

What should a one-day corporate AI training session leave the team able to do?

A glowing gate in front of a swarm of nodes and a sealed envelope

AI governance

Who is allowed to let an internal AI agent send a message?

People silhouettes around a rough prototype on a table

Design

How do you design a service with the people who actually use it?

October 2026

Three neon terraces beside a fading brochure slab in a dense collage

L&D

Stop buying an AI academy brochure: the three levels that actually move adoption (literacy, workflow, governance)

A neon scale holding a chevron against two crossing strokes

AI adoption

From compliance AI training to judgment at work: teaching teams to challenge model output

A ring of chairs with one seat lit, set in a torn collage

Capability

Psychological safety is the real AI adoption bottleneck (not another Copilot license)

Three neon slabs beside an empty disconnected rectangle

L&D

The unpromptable stack: coaching, judgment, and collaboration skills L&D must protect in an AI-heavy workplace

Three separate neon rooms above one dim hall

AI adoption

Role-based AI training beats all-hands demos: a practical playbook for enterprise cohorts

A three-node map beside a faded grid of empty boxes

L&D

Skills frameworks without the theatre: mapping critical thinking, AI fluency, and leadership for midmarket orgs

A tall neon column beside a shorter one and a marked blank sheet

L&D

Why critical thinking beat AI literacy on the 2026 L&D priority list (and what that means for your curriculum)

Five rising neon columns, an arrow and a stack of cubes

AI adoption

Building an internal AI design sprint that ships a real workflow change in one week

A neon gate in front of a swarm of nodes, a shield and a lock

Capability

AI governance for non-lawyers: what every product and ops team needs before they ship agents

Descending rings beside a steady row of equal blocks

Capability

L&D budgets fell but hours did not: how midmarket teams stretch capability without more spend

Insights

Insight

10 Companies That Failed To Innovate, Resulting In Business Failure

From Blockbuster to Kodak, the incumbents that clung to a winning model until the market moved on without them.

Insight

Top 20 Must Read Books On Innovation

A curated stack of books on innovation, entrepreneurship and building inside large organisations. The ones worth stealing from.

Insight

How to Run A Successful Ideation Session

Fifteen minutes. One problem. A room of people. How to run an ideation session that actually produces options worth testing.

Insight

The Difference Between Design Thinking, Lean Startup, and Agile

Three tools that get mashed together in corporate decks. What each is for, where they overlap, and how to use them without the theatre.

Insight

How to Value Investments in Corporate Innovation: a Calculator

Why the traditional business case breaks on uncertain bets, and a practical way to value innovation investment across the funnel.

Insight

5 Open Innovation Success Stories

How P&G, LEGO, Samsung and others opened the gates and let outsiders help invent what the inside team could not see alone.

Insight

How to Conduct a Problem Interview

Fall in love with the problem, not the solution. How to run a problem interview that separates real pain from polite interest.

Insight

Forget ROI. Innovation Needs a Different Set of Metrics

Treating a disruptive bet like a term deposit is how incumbents miss the next S-curve. What to measure instead of classic ROI.

Insight

5 Types of Innovation Theatre Happening in Your Organisation Right Now

Idea contests without funding. Hoodie tourism. Outposts that never ship. How to spot innovation theatre and stop performing it.

Guide

How to rapidly test ideas with AI

Hypothesis. Thinnest AI-assisted test. Kill date. Named owner. For innovation, product, L&D, and digital leads who would rather leave with a decision than another slide.

Read the insights →