Articles
Thought leadership for capability practitioners
Long-form, thought leadership articles that provide ‘provocations’ and challenge the status quo on all things ‘capability’ — covering People and Systems driving capability transformation.
Issue 01 · A working diary of capability
Capability is what emerges when people and systems multiply.
Not add. Weaken either, and the whole thing collapses. The Capability Diary publishes thought leadership, leader interviews and podcasts for the executives, HR leaders and practitioners rebuilding their workforce on competency foundations.
Editor's note
"Capability has become one of the most-used and least-understood words in modern business. The Diary exists to fix that."
— Dr Peter Beven
/Workforce transformation/Competency architecture/Project-based organisations/Skills vs capability/Executive interviews/Academic perspectives/The Playbook
01 — The Premise
Provocation,
not platitudes.
We challenge the conventions of skills, competency and capability building — learn from leaders doing the work inside real organisations, and turn it into a practical playbook for capability transformation.
People
The human side: leadership, learning, culture, mastery.
Systems
The structural side: roles, competency models, technology.
Multiplied
Where the two compound into measurable capability.
02 — The Dispatches
One conversation,
three formats.
Articles, leader interviews and podcasts — published as a continuous diary of how capability really gets built.
Interviews
Coming soonLearning from Leaders
Conversations with HR executives, capability leaders and academics from leading global universities — the people building it, not theorising about it.
Video Podcasts
Coming soonDeep-dive explorations.
‘Playbook’ videos to guide you on how to implement in your workplace — to ‘deep-dives’ on topics from our thought articles.
03 — The Forthcoming Book
Building the
Competency-Based
Workforce.
A roadmap for HR leaders, C-suite executives and project-based organisations rebuilding their workforce on competency foundations. The Diary's central thesis, in book form.
- A structured roadmap, not a manifesto
- Written for project-based organisations
- Three decades of workforce transformation distilled
If you have a code from APMG you can go into the draw to win 1 of 10 free copies of the book.
04 — The Editor
Dr Peter
Beven.
TCD is built on Peter's work across more than three decades of workforce transformation, competency building, education and digital innovation.
Everything you'll find here — the articles, the interviews, the podcasts — is part of the same conversation: how capability really gets built, and what the next generation of workforce leaders need to know to build it well.
30+
Years across workforce transformation
1
Operating thesis, three formats
∞
Diary entries, ongoing
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