Corporate Basics The Career Accelerator
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Corporate Basics

The Career
Accelerator

The workplace skills nobody teaches you, but everyone expects you to know.

A practical career development experience for professionals in their first 1–3 years of work. Learn how to manage up, build credibility, navigate workplace dynamics and position yourself for growth then apply what you learn in your actual workplace.

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Live Intensive Sat, 19 Sept 2026
Format Fully Virtual
Experience Assess → Learn → Apply
Cohort Limited Seats
Ameze Obaseki, Founder of Corporate Basics
Ameze Obaseki
Founder, Corporate Basics
Facilitator
The reality

Does any of this sound familiar?

01

Your manager says, "Let's have a conversation," and you immediately start wondering what you did wrong.

02

You rewrite an email several times because you're worried about how your tone will come across.

03

You have something to contribute in a meeting but aren't sure when to speak, or whether what you want to say is good enough.

04

You're doing good work, but somehow other people seem to get noticed more.

05

You don't know how to disagree with someone senior without sounding disrespectful.

06

Sometimes, it feels like everyone else understands how work operates while you're learning through mistakes.

If any of this sounds familiar, Corporate Basics: The Career Accelerator was created for you.

Your early career is where your professional habits begin to compound.

How you communicate, manage expectations, respond to feedback, build relationships and approach your work now can shape the reputation you build over time.

The difference these skills can make

  • You communicate with your manager with greater confidence and clarity.
  • You make your contributions visible without feeling like you're showing off.
  • You build a reputation for being capable, dependable, and ready for greater responsibility.
  • You handle feedback, mistakes, and difficult conversations more effectively.
  • You build stronger professional relationships before you need them.
  • You develop the judgement to read workplace situations and respond appropriately.
  • And when opportunities come up, you have the credibility and visibility to be considered for them.

These are skills you'll use long after the programme ends.

This is more than a Saturday class

Learn it. Apply it. Come back and refine it.

Corporate Basics is built around one simple idea: you shouldn't just learn about work. you should have the opportunity to apply what you've learnt while the programme is still happening. That's why the experience moves through five stages.

01

Assess

Before the live session, complete your Soft Skills Gap Assessment and pre-work to identify your strengths, development areas, and the workplace challenges you want to improve.

02

Learn

Join a focused 4-hour live intensive built around practical frameworks, real workplace situations, exercises, case discussions, and live Q&A.

03

Apply

Return to work with specific implementation objectives and put what you've learnt into practice in real situations, with structured prompts and community support.

04

Reflect

Join the Corporate Basics Application Lab. bring what happened at work, discuss what worked, troubleshoot what didn't, and practise difficult situations.

05

Refine

Turn what you've learnt into a practical 30/90-Day Career Development Plan, with clear priorities for what to keep strengthening.

Full Programme Timeline
Pre-programme
Assessment + Pre-work
19 September
4-Hour Live Intensive
Following Workweek
Guided Workplace Implementation
26 September
Live Application Lab
Final Step
30/90-Day Career Development Plan
Curriculum

What we'll work on

Area 01

The Shift from School to Work

Understand what workplaces actually reward, how expectations change once you start working, and what it means to contribute effectively beyond simply completing your tasks.

Area 02

Managing Up

Learn how to understand your manager's expectations, communicate effectively, and build working relationships that earn trust.

Area 03

Building Credibility, Visibility & Trust

Learn how strong professional reputations are built, make your contributions visible, and position yourself for greater responsibility and opportunities.

Area 04

Navigating Workplace Dynamics

Develop the judgement to handle feedback and difficult conversations, build strong professional relationships, and navigate office dynamics with maturity.

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Early participants

What early participants are saying

Before launching Corporate Basics, these ideas were tested with early-career professionals through a pilot programme. Here's what they had to say.

"I'd call it an experience because it was far more than just a class. I now understand the importance of things I used to avoid at work."

Pilot Participant 1

"Thank you for such a mind-shifting session. I left with practical action steps I'll begin implementing immediately."

Pilot Participant 2

"I learnt to see office politics not as something to fear, but as something to understand and navigate wisely."

Pilot Participant 3

"One of my biggest takeaways was understanding where power lies in organisations and how to build the right alliances professionally."

Pilot Participant 4
What's included

Everything you need to learn and apply

Your Corporate Basics experience includes:

01

Soft Skills Gap Assessment + Pre-work

02

4-Hour Live Career Accelerator Intensive

03

Corporate Basics Participant Workbook

04

Workplace Templates, Scripts & Frameworks

05

Guided Workplace Implementation Week

06

Live Corporate Basics Application Lab

07

Session Recording

08

30/90-Day Career Development Plan + Certificate

Plus community accountability and support throughout your implementation week.

The goal isn't to spend four hours collecting notes. It's to learn something on Saturday, use it at work, come back with real experience, and leave knowing how to keep improving.

Ameze Obaseki
Meet the founder

I didn't create Corporate Basics because I had work figured out from day one. I created it partly because I didn't.

I started my career at Nigerian Breweries and went on to gain experience across organisations including EY and Deloitte. Along the way, I learnt that doing good work was only one part of succeeding professionally.

I also had to learn how to communicate with different managers, navigate workplace dynamics, build relationships, make my contributions visible, and understand expectations that were rarely written down.

Today, my work sits at the intersection of strategy, organisational development, and workplace culture. Corporate Basics brings together lessons from my own career, my work with people and organisations, and the patterns I've seen hold talented professionals back so you don't have to figure everything out the hard way.

Ameze Obaseki
Strategy Consultant · Founder, Corporate Basics
Corporate Basics

The Career Accelerator

Live Intensive: Saturday, 19 September 2026
Fully Virtual
₦25,000
Join the September Cohort

Limited cohort. Registration closes before the programme begins or once all available seats are filled.

Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

Who is Corporate Basics for?

Corporate Basics is designed primarily for professionals in their first 1–3 years of work. If you have more experience but still feel you have gaps in navigating the workplace, you're also welcome to join.

When does the programme happen?

The main live intensive takes place on Saturday, 19 September 2026. You'll complete your assessment and pre-work before the session, apply what you've learnt during the following workweek, and join a live Application Lab later that week.

What is the Application Lab?

The Application Lab is not another teaching session. It's a live space to discuss what you tried at work, what happened, where you got stuck, practise real scenarios, and get guidance on questions that came up during implementation.

Is this theoretical?

No. Corporate Basics is built around practical workplace situations, frameworks, exercises, and real-world application.

Will the live intensive be recorded?

Yes. You'll receive access to the recording so you can revisit what you've learnt.

I'm naturally shy or introverted. Is this still for me?

Absolutely. Corporate Basics isn't about becoming the loudest person in the room. It's about learning how to communicate, build credibility, navigate relationships, and grow professionally in a way that still feels authentic to you.

Corporate Basics

You don't have to learn every workplace lesson the hard way.

Build the judgement, communication skills, relationships, and professional reputation that can serve you throughout your career.

Corporate Basics
Live Intensive · Saturday, 19 September 2026 · Fully Virtual
₦25,000
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