You’ve built the gym, you’ve got the beautiful new equipment along with global-certified trainers, a fancy new LMS with courses, modules, and certificates.
Your team shows up, they sweat, they log hours, they collect certificate after certificate.
But the body doesn’t change.
This isn’t perception, it’s a global pattern that is seen accross industries. According to Harvard Business School professor Michael Beer, some studies show that only 10% of corporate training is actually effective. The other 90%? Waste. Beer calls this phenomenon “The Great Training Robbery“, in which an estimated $162 billion spent annually in the US alone on training that doesn’t deliver results.
In Mozambique, the gap is even wider. Most organizations invest in global learning platforms that are built for structured markets, systems, and low-friction environments like Europe or the US, with generic courses. But locally, execution happens in a completely different context in Mozambique: informal processes, approval delays, system gaps.
So you’ve basically given them the gym, but no diet, which is the same as zero.
Employees tend to forget up to 70% of new information if it isn’t immediately applied (Harvard Business Review). This is what happens when you train hard but eat wrong and we at SENSIT call it: Knowledge Leakage.
The Mozambican Paradox
There’s a blind spot in Global LMS platforms such as Udemy, Coursera, LinkedIn Learning, are often designed by people who never worked inside an environment where: a power outage interrupts a transaction mid-process, a routine approval that should be automatic takes +48h. These platforms assume predictability when Mozambique operates on managed unpredictability.
And here lies a deeper problem: Local organizational culture often rewards heroic effort over system thinking such as staying late, solving things manually, that “vou dar um jeitinho”.
Thus efficiency through friction reduction is not the norm. Heroic effort is celebrated.
This creates a vicious cycle. Training offers a systemic solution with fewer steps and more automation, but the local manager does not trust the solution without manual verification.
So the employee returns to the old method, because that is what their boss approves and rewards.
McKinsey calls this overlooking context. But in Mozambique, context is not merely ignored it is actively defended by leaders who confuse effort with effectiveness.
And when an employee tries to apply what they learned, the real system breaks. The employee is then held accountable for failing to “adapt” while the broken architecture remains untouched and unquestioned.
The SENSIT Touch: Building the Diet
The solution is not a bigger gym, nor another LMS, not more courses, nor hours logged.
The solution is a diet that works inside your actual kitchen, with all its constraints, unpredictability and friction and here’s how it works:
1. Extraction – Know Your Macros
Identify internal “Hidden Geniuses” – those who are already solving problems in real conditions. They are your proof that the right diet exists.
2. Mapping – Measure Every Meal
Break down and map what actually happens: the exact actions, decisions, and communication flows under real local constraints not theoretical best practices.
3. Playbook Creation – Build the Meal Plan
Turn the extracted knowledge into structured, repeatable frameworks. No guesswork. No “vou dar um jeitinho” as a strategy. Just clear execution architecture that any team member can follow.
4. Simulation – Train in the Kitchen, Not Just in the Gym
We train teams using real scenarios, real pressure, and real local constraints. Your team learns how to eat not just how to lift.
Your team doesn’t need more courses. It needs a system that converts knowledge into execution.
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