Category 1: This category is made up of 8 skills for strengthening managers who have to negotiate the learning and development role in organizations. These 8 skills will be useful for managers in typical senior positions in the L & D and Training functions and other senior functional/line managers who have training responsibilities.

Category 2: The 10 skills which come under this category will enable managers to shift from a human resource management approach to a more dynamic resourcefulness enhancement perspective. The shift in orientation from resource to resourcefulness strategies and methods has become an imperative in the changing context of organizations.

Category 3: This category consists of 10 skills enhancement solutions. This category of skills is oriented to helping individual managers and high performance teams to diagnose skills in relation to roles, responsibilities and accountabilities. Exposure to these skills will help in auto diagnosis of individual and group skills thus paving the way for self managed skill enhancement.

Category 4: This category is a bouquet of 21 skills organized around 3 management contexts in which skills may be deployed- skills for producing results, skills when roles and responsibilities change and skills needed when intiating significant and disruptive organizational changes.

Category 5: This category is a set of 10 skills categorized as self-development skills which will help individuals contribute in high performance workplaces.

Category 6: This category of 10 skills will help educators and trainers enhance their ability related to teaching-learning engagement to higher and deeper levels, primarily to translate the curriculum into the language of skills and skills development.

Category 7: This category is a methodology to turnaround management education institutions which are finding it difficult to survive after having come into existence with a great deal of hope. The turnaround transformation initiatives require such institutions to initiate engaging with SAMDA which has developed a well thought out seven phase process in order to enable turnaround transformation at the leadership, faculty and student levels.