Develop leadership from within - and continue to train - little and often

Beyond Training

Most organisations invest in training to improve safety, security, and incident response — and for good reason. Well-designed training builds awareness, shared language, and baseline understanding across teams.

At Good Drills, we deliver high-quality, scenario-based training that helps people understand what “good” looks like in critical moments.

But training alone — no matter how well delivered — has a natural limitation.

It is moment-in-time.

Capability rises immediately after delivery, then gradually fades as time passes, people move roles, and operational pressures take over. The challenge isn’t the quality of training. It’s what happens after the course ends.

When Critical Moments Occur, Leadership Is the Deciding Factor

High-risk incidents and critical moments are relatively rare. But when they occur, expectations are absolute: calm leadership, sound judgement, and a coordinated response.

That level of performance isn’t created by policies or occasional training alone.

It’s created through:

Regular practice
Leaders who are confident to lead under pressure
Teams who have rehearsed together
Shared expectations about what “good” looks like

In other words, through culture and leadership, reinforced over time.

Where Traditional Training Works — and Where It Falls Short

Traditional, large-group or one-off training plays an important role. It:

Builds awareness and common understanding
Introduces frameworks and language
Lifts baseline knowledge across the organisation

But on its own, it struggles to create:

Sustained confidence over time
Consistency across teams and sites
Leadership depth in critical moments
Ongoing practice without external support

That’s not a criticism of training — it’s simply a reality of how people and organisations work.

A Complementary Model: Developing Internal Champions

The Good Drills Champions model is designed to sit alongside — and extend — formal training.

Rather than replacing training, it ensures the capability created by training sticks, grows, and compounds over time.

The model works by:

Selecting a small cohort of respected internal leaders (“Champions”)
Investing in their development through a focused leadership programme
Providing them with the full Good Drills system — content, frameworks, and tools
Equipping them to run short, practical, team-based drills embedded into everyday operations
Supporting them through follow-up sessions as confidence and culture embed

The result is not more training activity — but stronger leadership ownership of capability.

Why This Approach Creates Lasting Impact

Training creates understanding. Champions create continuity.

Once Champions are developed, organisations retain the ability to build and refresh capability internally — without restarting from zero each year.

External expertise is used where it adds the most value

Good Drills continues to support leaders, refine standards, and strengthen capability — while reducing the need for repeated delivery of the same core content.

Capability scales naturally

Champions provide local ownership across sites and teams, maintaining consistent standards while allowing flexibility for different environments and risks.

Leaders grow beyond the drills

Champions develop transferable leadership skills — decision-making, communication, and command — that influence culture well beyond safety scenarios.

Good Drills - Train the Champs

When organisations combine strong training with internal Champions, capability becomes visible, repeatable, and resilient.

Practice becomes business-as-usual.
Leadership confidence grows.
Culture compounds rather than decays.

And when critical moments arrive, teams are ready — not because they attended a course once, but because they’ve practised together consistently over time.

Contact us to discuss if our Good Drills Champs program is the right fit for your organisation.

Training Builds Awareness. Champions Build Capability