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Capability Trainings

Enhance skills, drive performance, expand impact

At Symbia, our Capability Training sessions are immersive, energizing, and tailored to real-world team needs. Whether you're looking to address stress, sharpen communication, or elevate leadership, our sessions are crafted to deliver measurable value—fast. Whether you want face to face, virtual or hybrid we've got something for everyone.

With Symbia... Develop modern leaders. Drive measurable growth. Increase business impact.

Developing the skills to navigate an ever changing and pressured world is no longer a nice to have, it's a pre-requisite for the future.

Leadership & social influence, Flexibility & agility, Motivation & self-awareness, creative thinking & curiosity are all called out within the top 10 skills for 2030 - you can cultivate all of these skills with Symbia.

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Build your own learning journey

Our Capability Training library spans nine key themes. From foundational mental fitness to brave decision-making, our sessions unlock growth at every level. Mix and match topics to create a custom learning pathway for your team or function:

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Self Leadership

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Stress & Perfomance

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Navigating Change

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Sustainable Perfomance

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Business Partnering

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Communication & Persuasion

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Line Management

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Leadership Development

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Team Effectiveness

Empowering Teams With Practical Tools For Immediate Impact

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LIVE INTERACTIVE LEARNING:

Theory meets practice with storytelling, case studies and hands-on application.

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FLEXIBLE FORMATS:

90-minute bursts, 6 month virtual programs, half-day intensives, or multi-day journeys.

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TOOLKITS INCLUDED:

Every session comes with follow-up resources so learning continues beyond the Zoom room.

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TAILORED TO YOU:

Align with your skills framework or internal priorities—or let us design a bespoke journey

Taster of our Mini Series

(3 x 90min live virtual sessions) - build your own or choose from our most popular 

Navigating Change

Navigating Change & Uncertainty

Dealing With Uncertainty

Exploring the impact of the change on our motivation levels. Learn how to ‘control the controllables’ and move forward with ambiguity. Unlocking performance even during stress, uncertainty and change

Navigating Change

Experience the neuropsychology of change, how to identify and manage resistance & reframe perspectives Practice moving into the ‘growth zone’ despite uncertainty or our desire to stick with the status quo.

Cultivating A Growth Mindset

Master the foundational thinking habits to help you see possibilities rather than obstacles and failure. Apply the 4 steps of moving from fixed to growth and how to coach others to do the same

Strategic Relationships

Strategic relationships & Influence

Building Stakeholder Relationships

Strategize who, where and how to build stronger relationships in an authentic and genuine way. Create a unique stakeholder map with a practical action plan to grow your sphere of influence.

Managing difficult 
people & situations

What do you do when emotions start to rise? Learn how to deal with and diffuse tension in the room, tune-in with empathy and communicate to an effective resolution.

Influence &
Persuasion

Influencing is a learned skill, doing it without ‘authority’ is a practice. Practice the influencing styles and communication techniques that engage and persuade any audience.

Problem Solving

Critical thinking & Problem solving

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Create clarity around a brief or problem by asking the right questions to get to the core of any challenge. Practice ‘problem reframing’ to unlock thinking and deliver against the right requests.

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Communication

Quickly build rapport, use foreshadowing and ‘labeling’ to focus attention and navigate competing agendas and structural sensitivities. Practice the impactful skills of communication.

Creative Problem Solving

With the right tools, you can view challenges from different perspectives and generate creative solutions, and break free from unproductive conversations.

Stress & Performance

Stress & Performance

Priority setting & pushing back

Learn what, how and when to prioritise vs say no (effectively without damaging relationships). Practice defending your focus while enhancing your business partnering skills.

 

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Create clarity on what you can control and influence and what’s worth your focus. Set clear strategies for action ensuring you can navigate stress effectively without letting it overwhelm you.

Confidence under pressure

Practice skillfully handling challenge, even from senior leaders. Learn to read body language and use tools to regulate emotions while deciding your next move.

Conflict & Negotiation

Conflict & Negotiation

Active listening

Get clear on the different types of listening and how to ‘suspend’ the judging / solving part of our brain.
Apply the new skills to navigate confusion, challenge & conflict.

Dealing with difficult situations & people

Even with the best of intentions some conversations can go in an unhelpful direction. Learn and practice how to skillfully handle these scenarios with grace & emotional intelligence.

The art of Negotiation

It can be daunting, but it’s simply a ‘conversation with a purpose’. How can you influence the discussion to get the outcomes you want? In this session, learn a six-step stairway that hugely improves the chances of a successful outcome.

Example Learning Journeys

Elevate Your Skill

Courageous Conversations

Business Partnering

Finding Your North

Don't See What You're Looking For?

We design bespoke programs and one of trainings for our clients all the time, through our briefing process we'll help create bespoke sessions tailored specifically to your goals, culture, and context. Whether it’s a one-off topic, a multi-day intensive, or a series aligned with your internal frameworks—we’ll co-create something that works. Want a case study or briefing call?

Measurable Results, Real Impact.

Research and measurement underpins our work, we're as tired as you at having to convince stakeholders and budget keepers of the untangiable benefits of training so instead we make sure we can demonstrate the TANGIABLE and the MEASURABLE impact of all our programs.

Jawade Malek | Supply Chain Capability Development Lead

"Working with Symbia’s team has been a very positive experience for us at HEINEKEN."

By supporting us in designing and delivering our Train-The-Trainer program, they brought strong expertise, practical insights, and a consistently professional, respectful and positive attitude. Their contribution made a real impact and I highly recommend them.

Jawade Malek | Supply Chain Capability Development Lead

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Mohammed Fouad | Medical Education & Scientific Relations Lead

"I now have positive mindset in both my personal and professional life."

The program meant colleagues engaged with diverse topics that deepen understanding of effective leadership and enhanced skills in managing challenges. One of the key takeaways was the emphasis on mental fitness, which has empowered me to cultivate resilience.

Mohammed Fouad | Medical Education & Scientific Relations Lead

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Franziska Bloch-Creasey | Head of HR

"There is something for everyone’s preferred learning style."

The course assumes that some foundational understanding exists and so the concepts and tools discussed go one step further, which, when supplemented with experiences and perspectives from different participants, provide very actionable insights to strengthen our ability to lead self and others. 

Franziska Bloch-Creasey | Head of HR

Atlas Copco | Alumni Of The EDGE

We have a preference for learning journey's rather than 1 off interventions (search Ebbinghaus' forgetting curve and you'll know why). As such our programs tend to be virtual and interactive. We deliver twice a day to hit all timezones. We of royce also deliver training in face to face immersive settings also. CTA 'Enquire about our capability sessions.