Who are the programs for?


Sometimes our development takes a back seat and we are working hard in our jobs, but not always focussing on our growth or even our careers.

These 1-Day programs are designed for professionals and leaders who want to keep investing in their learning and effectiveness, focusing on particular areas of competency.

Whether you are interested in navigating your career more intentionally, getting clearer about your strengths, values and purpose or looking to improve the way you communicate with others, or learning to manage challenging situations more effectively, increasing your impact and influence or building greater resilience these programs can be a great way to continue to increase your effectiveness and engagement at work.

Short Programs


  • Discuss common career inhibitors and accelerators
  • Identify your motivations, aspirations, goals and development themes
  • Articulate your professional values and know your story
  • Identify how to expand your networks for satisfaction and success
  • Identify other practical tips and strategies to navigate your career more intentionally
  • Identify your preferred communication style and preferences
  • Discuss the characteristics of resilient people
  • Explore how to adapt and flex to the different communications styles and preferences of others
  • Understand elements of group dynamics and practice ways to ‘read the room’
  • Practice using conversational intelligence to explore problems, identify solutions and communicate more effectively
  • Develop more effective, active & empathic listening techniques
  • Determine ways to communicate effectively so that people engage with you and information, faster and more intentionally
  • Uncover tactics to maximise confidence and minimise self-doubt
  • Define the role of power and privilege when working with influence and navigating workplace politics
  • Discuss the elements of developing organisational savvy
  • Discuss and practice utilising 11 fundamental influencing tactics and strategies
  • Practice critical skills when writing or presenting to busy and more senior people
  • Discuss the characteristics of resilient people
  • Review the development model for resilience
  • Identify ways to develop resilience reactively and proactively
  • Determine an appropriate action plan

Adaptive leadership is the practice of mobilising people to tackle tough challenges.  The adaptive leadership program is designed for middle/senior leaders who are interested in solving more complex workplace problems.

  •  Describe the difference between a technical and adaptive problem
  •  Define each of the adaptive leadership principles and why they are relevant to solving adaptive problems
  •  Outline a specific workplace problem they have either attempted to solve or wish to focus on and that they cannot solve alone
  • Practice (and receive feedback) on how well they accurately describe the problem to others and enlist the support of peers
  •   Identify new questions that can help them and others better understand and diagnose the problem itself
  • Develop a strategy for engaging courageously and enlisting others in the issue
  •  Conduct further observations, analysis, interpretations and interventions
  •  Diagnose the political landscape by identifying and interviewing stakeholders including identifying and leveraging allies and opposition
  • Orchestrate conflict by creating a holding environment e.g. on-site / off-site in order to gain new perspectives and focus on an issue people don’t normally deal with during their day-to-day work
  •  Generate a level of trust and open discussion that may not be present in the workplace by using group norms
  • Generate multiple interpretations of data analysis before auditioning ideas and ripening the issue
  • Design iterative and improvisational interventions
  • Sell small pieces of the idea and score some early wins
  • Hold themselves accountable to their peer group by way or report backs and peer check-ins
  • Provide support, guidance and sustenance to other leaders
  • Review the key differences between management and leadership
  • Confirm and affirm your leadership values and purpose
  • Identify and practice situational leadership approaches
  • Explore the characteristics of high performing teams
  • Determine ways to foster greater trust and candour in your team
  • Practice giving effective performance feedback & coaching
  • Discover ways to increase accountability and commitment, particularly when delegating
  • Design a process for determining your team’s values, purpose and ways of working

Adaptive leadership is the practice of mobilising people to tackle tough challenges.  The adaptive leadership program is designed for middle/senior leaders who are interested in solving more complex workplace problems.

  • identify the four forms of feedback.
  • Utilise more specific forms of positive feedback.
  • Practice using the SBI & SBIBI feedback models.
  • Demonstrate the ‘FeedForward’ process to move people towards success (not just pointing out ‘wrong-doing’).
  • Explore ways to avoid assumptions and inferences in challenging conversations.
  • Describe the most common instrinsic motivators and how to facilitate less defensive responses in others and motivate progress.
  • Practice soliciting and receiving FeedForward from others.
  • Determine ways to navigate difficult conversations and regulate better under pressure.

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