Ambition Empower

What am I signing up for?

Ambition Empower is a continuous professional development program. The program consists of several tracks. Each track focuses on a specific subject area. The track leader plans the content of the online live sessions, and curate other material for you to read, watch or listen to between sessions, in order for you to keep growing.

How does it work? What do I have access to?

The number of tracks will vary over time, the aim is to offer 4-15 tracks to choose between. Each track will have an online session every once a month. As a member, you have access to all the tracks, including all the curated materials. It will probably be too much for anyone to follow several tracks, but that is not our goal. The idea is for you to pick the tracks and topics that you are most interested in, and that create the most value to you. The “access-to-all” set-up is to create flexibility for both you and us. Follow the tracks and/or the sessions that you want and just ignore the rest.

On each track, the track leader goes through one topic per month.

Each topic consists of four weeks; 

1. Intro week, with overview material to help you get started.
2. Explore week (with the live session), where you learn straight from the track leader and work together with the other members,
3. Deep Dive week, where you focus on some of the most important concepts of the topic, and
4. Reflections week, where you reflect on what you learn and how you can apply it in your context. 

Will the sessions be recorded?

The decision right now is that they will not be recorded. We aim for a lot of interaction and dialog, and to be recorded can be a bit intimidating. We also know that things you can do “later” often tends to never get done. But we are just starting up and this will be evaluated, and if this change and sessions will be recorded, then that will be communicated to all members. 

How much time will it take me?

That’s up to you, but we think that an average of 30-60 min per week will give you great value. That’s also the amount of time we recon it will take to follow a specific track. Essentially, time is the most valuable currency we have. Our ambition is that Empower will save you time while keeping you on top of your game. Just having someone like e.g. Kim Goodwin selecting the most important things to consume, will save you hours (or days) of digging through material that just won’t help you very much. Add to that the possibility to discuss these topics with peers, and thereby possibly avoid making the same mistakes they did. This is bite-sized professional development to make it possible for you to fit in your already busy everyday life.

At what time are the sessions?

The track leaders are located in many different time zones, and that will affect the time of the sessions. We also know that many senior professionals also have family and other responsibilities, so this mostly has to happen within normal work hours. Some sessions can be in the morning, others early afternoon, and the lates ones are at 4 pm (CET, UTC+01), on weekdays.