Private cohorts for teams

When several people in the same team need the same habit, a public evening is a poor fit. I run closed groups in your office, in the one-north classroom, or as a hybrid. The work is still yours: three to five typical tasks from the team, a draft programme within a week of the scoping call, and an NDA before any files move.

Working session
A scoping conversation before a private cohort.

Three formats

Half-day primer

4 hours · up to 12 people

A single morning or afternoon for a team that needs a shared baseline: how to brief a model, how to check a claim, and a first pass on what may leave the building. We use two or three of your own examples on screen. People leave with a one-page checklist and a prompt pattern they can try the same week. This fits a team that is curious and busy. I cap the room at twelve so I can still look at screens during the practical block.

Two-day intensive

2 × 6 hours · up to 12 people

Two days, usually a Thursday and Friday, with homework overnight on a team file. Day one is framing, prompts, and a confidentiality drill on a redacted pack you supply. Day two is one process built far enough to run: a repeating write-up, a sheet check, or a no-code loop. I need a named owner in the team who can answer “what happens if this step is empty”. Online colleagues may join if the room has a decent camera; I still want most people in the same space.

Six-week embedded

Weekly 3-hour sessions · up to 12 people

Six evenings or late afternoons with the same twelve, plus the four-week clinic after. We pick one team process in week one and refuse to switch it for something shinier in week four. Between sessions I comment on homework the way I do on public courses. This format suits a squad that already shares tools and can protect the calendar. It is the closest I get to sitting with you while the process meets a real Monday.

How scoping works

We start with a short call, usually thirty minutes. I ask who will be in the room, what tools you already pay for, and which tasks currently sit with one person who is tired of them. You then send three to five typical examples. I do not need secrets on that first call; a redacted sample is enough to see the shape.

Within a week I send a draft programme: hours, format, what I will demonstrate, what the team will build, and what I will not cover. You may cut a topic. You may not add a second process “while we are at it” without stretching the hours. Once you approve the draft, we pick dates and I send the NDA.

Data and confidentiality

We work on your examples. I sign an NDA before any materials come to me, and I keep those files only for the duration of the engagement plus thirty days, unless you ask me to delete them sooner. Nothing from your pack is used in a public course, a note, or another company’s room.

In the classroom I ask people to work on copies. If a public model is in use, we stay on stripped files. If your policy forbids public tools, we stay inside whatever private assistant your security team already allows. I will not argue you into a tool your security team has already refused.

Where we run it

In your office anywhere in Singapore, provided there is a table, a screen, and a network the group may use. In my classroom at 79 Ayer Rajah Crescent, #04-08, which already holds twelve. Or hybrid: a core group in one of those rooms and a few people on a call. Hybrid needs a decent microphone in the room; a laptop speaker at the end of a board table will waste everyone’s afternoon.

I do not fly in for a one-off. If your team is split across cities, we run online for everyone rather than pretending the people on the speakerphone are in the cohort.

Group session
A closed group using a shared room.

Fees

Fees are calculated from the format and the number of people in the room, still capped at twelve. As an orientation: a half-day primer starts from S$3,200 for up to twelve people, including materials. Two-day and six-week work is quoted after scoping, because the preparation on your files is the expensive part. Travel within Singapore is included. I invoice the company. A deposit of half the fee holds the dates; the rest is due five working days before we start.

If you want a public-course seat for one person instead, the open catalogue is cheaper and faster. Private work is for a team that needs the same files in the same week.