A CCL Passport alternative
Your leaders ready for the moment, without a programme to build
CCL Passport gives L&D an enterprise platform to assemble and run a development programme: courses, workshop kits, assessments, train-the-trainer. Playbooks for Leaders is the other half of the problem: the situation-specific page your leaders open the day a real challenge lands, with nothing to roll out, schedule, or facilitate.
No contract, no rollout. The whole Library, at the Founders’ rate.
CCL Passport is a programme you build. Playbooks for Leaders is a page leaders open.
Passport is built for L&D to scale a structured programme across an organisation: the curriculum, the facilitation, the assessments, the certification. It’s comprehensive, and it’s a project. Playbooks for Leaders asks nothing of L&D to stand up: each of the forty Playbooks names one real situation and works it through (Position, Play, Plan, Precedent), so a leader gets the move at the moment it’s needed, not six months after a workshop.
Side by side, honestly
| CCL Passport | Playbooks for Leaders | |
|---|---|---|
| Shape | An enterprise platform to build and run a development programme | Forty Playbooks, each for one specific leadership situation |
| Who runs it | L&D assembles, facilitates, and certifies | Leaders open it themselves, in the moment |
| To get going | Curriculum, workshops, assessments, train-the-trainer | Nothing to roll out, schedule, or administer |
| Best for | A formal, org-wide programme cascaded across levels | Leaders who need the move for the situation in front of them |
| Pricing | Custom enterprise contract (no public price) | Transparent, a single Playbook, or a team licence |
When CCL Passport is the better fit
If your job is to stand up a formal leadership programme across the organisation (competency frameworks, 360 assessments, accredited facilitation, a curriculum that cascades through every level), CCL is built for exactly that, with the depth and the support to match. Playbooks for Leaders doesn’t replace a programme like that, and won’t pretend to.
Reach for Playbooks for Leaders when you want your leaders ready for the real situations between the training, or when a full programme is more than the moment calls for.
Leadership development your managers will actually open
Adoption is the quiet failure of most management programmes, the licences bought, the logins unused, because there’s no trigger to open them. A Playbook has one built in: a leader opens it the day a real situation makes the answer worth having, not because a curriculum says to. That’s the usage that survives a busy quarter, and the transfer to the job that a feedback form never proves.
You can see it before you commit a seat. One Playbook is open in full, free, no card and no sign-up, read it here.
Give your leaders the page, not just the programme
Pair your development with the situation-specific Playbooks your leaders open in the moment, one subscription, the whole Library, your whole group. Start with the free sample.
What L&D buyers ask
Is Playbooks for Leaders a CCL Passport alternative?
For one part of the job, yes. CCL Passport is a platform to build a development programme; Playbooks for Leaders is the situation-specific reference your leaders open in the moment, with nothing to roll out.
How is it different from CCL Passport?
Passport gives L&D the curriculum, workshops, assessments and certification to run a programme. Playbooks for Leaders gives leaders forty Playbooks, each for one named situation, worked tool by tool to a next move, no facilitation, no rollout.
Can it replace our leadership programme?
Not a full enterprise programme with assessments and accredited facilitation, that’s what CCL is for. It pairs with one: the in-the-moment layer for the situations between the training.
Can we try it before buying seats?
Yes. One Playbook is open in full to everyone, no card and no sign-up, read it here.