Course material
Structured material for a course you already run, or one you are building — designed so it works as a taught session and stands up on its own afterwards.
For training and internal knowledge
Training material for the real world
Ariadne builds course material, takeaway guides and reference people reach for while they are doing the job.
Most training is designed for the room it is delivered in. The useful part is needed three weeks later, on site, by someone who was not there.
Show us the problemTell us what people keep asking after the training has finished.
What we make is based on designing and delivering training, in-house and as public courses — on what it is like to run a course, and to sit on one.
The problem
Training is built for the day it is delivered, not the day it is needed
Someone experienced spends a week preparing. The session goes well. People leave with a folder, a deck, and a good feeling.
Three weeks later somebody is standing in front of the actual job with an actual question, and the folder is on a shared drive they cannot get to on their phone. So they ring the person who ran the session.
That is not a training failure. The material was fine. It was just built as an event rather than as something to reach for.
The knowledge was transferred. It just is not available where the work happens.
Where the problem shows up
A small cost, paid over and over
Every week
The same handful of questions reach the same experienced person.
Every new starter
Months of getting up to speed, mostly by asking colleagues.
Every change
What people actually do drifts further from what the document says.
Every leaver
A part of how the work is done goes out of the door with them.
What it's worth
What is left once the training day is over
Before
- The material only makes sense if you were in the room.
- Finding the relevant bit means scrolling forty slides.
- An update means rewriting the deck and running the session again.
- Only the person who wrote it can deliver it properly.
After
- It stands on its own for someone who was not there.
- People land on the step they need in seconds.
- Change it once and everyone has the current version.
- Someone else can pick it up and run it.
What we build
Built from how the work is really done
Takeaway guides
The thing someone keeps after the session: a guide they can follow while doing the job, on a phone, in a plant room, with no signal.
Reference and troubleshooting
The answers to the questions that keep coming back, organised so people can find them without knowing what the thing is called.
Onboarding material
What a new person needs in their first weeks, in the order they need it, so getting up to speed does not depend on who happens to be free.
How it works
Start with the questions you already get
The best place to begin is not a syllabus. It is the list of things people ask after the training is over. That list already exists, in somebody's inbox.
Built with your expert, not around them
We work with the person who knows, and take the load of writing and structuring it off them. Usually a couple of sessions, not a couple of months.
Scoped and priced upfront
Agreed as a fixed cost before it starts. See what it costs.
Works where the work is
On a phone, on site, offline if it needs to be. No login and no seats — and it does not stop working if you stop paying us.
What it costs
Everything it takes, agreed before we start
One price, end to end — working out what is genuinely needed, building it, and getting it into people's hands. The first twelve months of looking after it are part of that price, not an extra line that appears later.
from £2,400 + VAT
- Structured and built with the person who knows the work
- Published, hosted and kept available for the first twelve months
- Yours to keep. You own the material and can self-host if preferred
On request, material can be structured so that further guides are more cost-effective. No per-seat licences and no learning-platform subscription.
Built once, kept current
Out-of-date training is worse than none
Procedures change, equipment is replaced, and the guidance that was right last year quietly becomes wrong.
We review and version material as things change, so the procedure people follow is the one that is written down — and so you can show which version was in force when.
Who we work with
Organisations where a few people carry most of the know-how
Manufacturers training distributors and installers, professional services firms bringing new people up to speed, and operations teams whose procedures matter and change. We are a particularly good fit where the expertise is concentrated in a small number of people.
Start with one problem
What do people keep asking?
Tell us the question your experienced people answer most often. That is usually the first guide, and it is usually worth more than a course.
Show us the problem See the full Ariadne offering