Suppose you are a trainer, facilitator, learning & development professional, or even a leader running internal workshops.
In that case, you know how much time, energy, and brain-power go into designing a high-impact training course from scratch.
But what if you could achieve more with far less preparation? What if you could deliver a powerful strategic leadership workshop without reinventing the wheel?
That’s exactly the opportunity I want to show you today.
Why building from scratch is often the bottleneck
When you try to design a full-day workshop on strategic leadership skills, you’re typically facing:
- Researching frameworks, leadership theory, case studies, activities, and assessments.
- Designing and editing presentation slides.
- Writing participant workbooks or handouts.
- Creating facilitator notes, ice-breakers, games, and worksheets.
- Testing flow, pacing, and ensuring the content connects to applied action.
- Branding, customizing, perhaps printing or distributing materials.
In short, you’re investing many hours in preparatory work before you even step into the room. (And in fact, the original product page actually notes you’d likely invest 20-30 hours of prep if you started from scratch.)
And that’s to get to “ready to deliver”.
You still need to focus on delivery, adaptation, and follow-up.
Now imagine you could bypass most of that work and instead focus your energy on bringing in your facilitation magic, tailoring to your audience, and delivering with confidence.
Enter the ready-to-go solution.
That’s where the course pack from Oak Innovation comes in. Specifically, the “Start Running Strategic Leadership Training Programs That Get Results” workshop pack (often referred to as the Strategic Leadership Excellence Trainer Toolkit).
Here’s a snapshot of what it offers:
- 77 professionally-designed PowerPoint slides, fully editable.
- A 71-page participant workbook with exercises, activities, and insights.
- Facilitator notes and guides to help you confidently deliver the session.
- Engaging extras, such as icebreakers, games, and assessments, to make learning interactive and practical.
- Full licence for lifetime reuse (once you purchase) and brand rights for your own delivery context.
How using this pack lets you achieve more.
Let’s talk specifics: by using this ready-to-go toolkit instead of starting from scratch, you can:
- Save prep time: The pack takes away the heavy lifting of design & creation. On the product page, they mention you “would likely invest 20-30 hours of prep” if building from scratch.
That means you shift your focus to delivering, not fiddling with slide layouts and formatting. - Be crisp and professional: Professionally-designed slides and workbook, so you present with polish and consistency. Your audience senses that professionalism and pays more attention.
- Focus on your unique value: With the structural material already in place, you can dedicate your time to customizing it—adding your voice, tailoring examples to your organization or audience, and injecting stories and lived experiences that make the workshop truly yours.
- Offer high-impact outcomes: The materials are built around strategic leadership concepts — such as strategic management, culture vs. climate, leadership theories, and decision frameworks — not just “leadership blah-blah.”
That means you’re not just running a leadership module; you’re developing strategic leadership capabilities: clarity of direction, cultural alignment, and proactive decision-making. - Scale & reuse: Because the license allows for lifetime reuse and custom branding, you can deliver this multiple times, refine it, and reuse it. You’re not locked into a one-off.
- Less stress, more confidence: Walking into a room knowing you have the complete toolkit at your disposal changes your mindset. You’re ready, poised, and excited to deliver, not scrambling. The product page emphasises this.
How to get the most from the pack
To make this work for you – and maximise your return on investment – here are some tips:
- Personalise the materials: Use your branding, adjust colours, add your logo, tailor examples so they resonate with your audience. The slides are editable.
- Adapt duration & flow: Although the pack is designed for a full-day workshop (initially described as “approx. 8 hours”), you can adapt it for shorter segments or split across multiple sessions, depending on your audience and context.
- Engage participants by using the provided workbook and activities, and add your local context or recent cases/situations from your organisation to deepen relevance.
- Facilitate action-oriented takeaway: Don’t let the workshop end with “great session”. Use the provided tools to ensure participants leave with a clear roadmap or action plan (this is built into the pack).
- Evaluate & iterate: Start with a pilot, if possible; gather feedback on how the material was received and adjust the slides/workbook accordingly. Because you own the pack for lifetime reuse, you can refine and improve over time.
- Promote internally: If you’re delivering inside an organisation, position this as a high-value strategic leadership development initiative (not just “another training”). The content supports alignment of leadership behaviour, culture, and strategy.
Real-life impact you can deliver
When leaders adopt a strategic mindset rather than merely reacting day-to-day, entire teams and organisations change.
According to the pack’s description, participants will understand the difference between being a good leader and being a strategic one; they’ll learn how to shape a vision that inspires action; they’ll have practical frameworks for decision-making and culture alignment.
As the trainer, you walk in ready, prepared, and confident — and deliver with energy, rather than fumbling through slide creation or ad-hoc content.
In short
If you’re building a strategic leadership workshop from scratch, you’re looking at 20-30 hours of prep (at least). However, by leveraging the ready-to-deliver pack from Oak Innovation, you can significantly shorten the preparation curve, deliver higher-impact content, and focus your energy where it matters: on facilitation, engagement, and action.
Here’s the product link again:
Start Running Strategic Leadership Training Programs That Get Results – Oak Innovation
Choose smarter.
Save your time.
Elevate your delivery.
Make strategic leadership real.
Catherine Fitzgerald is the founder of Oak Innovation. With over 30 years of experience in the training and development industry, Catherine and her team are ideally positioned to help corporate trainers, people managers, and consultants access editable training course material.
