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Leadership in life
Overwhelmed by ‘Busyness’? Wanting to have more balance in work and personal life? Looking for direction towards your life’s purpose? Needing a format to create a plan to achieve the above? The concept of self-leadership has gained traction in recent years as organisations recognise the practice of leadership begins at a personal level. Although there are now a variety of self-leadership models available, each tends to focus on different aspects of life. While some focus on how to enhance your performance in the workplace, there is an increasing view that self-leadership can be beneficial at a more personal level –...
Leading and managing teams
Leadership and Management are two very different (complementary) skill sets that are crucial for people in supervisory and leadership roles to possess if they are to safely guide their teams to the expected destination. The Leadership at Work team are excited to offer newly appointed and experienced managers the opportunity to establish (and reaffirm) these skills within a series of single day professional development sessions. Each session incorporates key learnings from the Leadership course including a blend of theory and practical coursework that is the trademark style of our course delivery. The role of the team leader and manager Leadership...
Problem Buster: new online problem solving tool available!
Wherever variation occurs in a process, out of specifications results will also likely occur. At a recent Root Cause Analysis session I facilitated we discovered 38 possible causes to a problem occurring in a food processing plant. The multi departmental problem solving team eventually narrowed it down to the two most likely causes and using data analysis eventually discovered the root cause. The Team used all of the 10 Problem Solving steps listed below. These same steps have been applied to countless problems over several decades with very impressive results. The key step, as is often the case, was...
Organisational Transformation for Executive Leaders
Organisational development process for all Australian corporations. Practically all of us involved in organisational improvement programs have witnessed the lack of sustainable change, and the inexorable reversion to ‘the way things were’, despite the best efforts of both internal and external change agents. This workshop explains why sustainable change is difficult but, more importantly, what can be done to really achieve organisational improvement. Leadership At Work organisational development facilitator Robert Re has more than 30 years’ experience in organisational development and brings together two powerful forces for sustainable improvement. – Aspiring to Greatness, renowned organisational development practitioner Dennis Pratt’s great work which...
Problem Busters
In this program we not only help organisations uncover the known and unknown solutions to their recurring problems; but in many cases we help them discover what their problem is in the first place. Read our Problem Busters brochure for more information, or contact us.
Conflict Management
Most people don’t like conflict and many actively avoid it. But, like it or not, we all need to deal with it at work. A conflict properly negotiated to extinction leaves no residues, such as frustration, bitterness, patronage or feigned closeness. Relating is searching out our differences and negotiating them to the point of satisfaction. There must be room in the context of relating for frustration to be expressed. Each conflict, properly negotiated, leaves only a recognition of who we are to each other at this moment. This workshop, incorporated into the Leadership At Work & Leading and Managing Teams...
Time Management
‘If only I had more time!’ This cry can be heard from almost any manager’s rooftop regardless of industry or experience. This course provides practical skills to concentrate on what really needs to be done, identify what doesn’t and effectively delegate the rest. A must have management tool. One thing we can attest to with this program, is that if you use the tools, the tools work, and if you do not use the tools – they don’t work! An interactive workshop – this course is practical, hands-on learning at its best. Participants question assumptions, which leads them to be...
The First XI
A course designed for your organisation’s executive team. This workshop is designed for the leaders and decision makers of your organisation and is ideally suited as a lead-in to a strategic review and strategic planning conference. Contact us for more information regarding The First XI workshop.
DISC Profiling Systems
DISC profiling is a powerful workplace behaviour model. It can be used very successfully as an additional recruitment tool to ensure you are hiring someone with the natural disposition to do the job well, and also as a powerful team-building tool. When teams understand each other’s profiles they are able to work more cohesively, therefore enabling more collaboration and productivity due to a greater understanding of the people involved. DISC (Dominance, Influence, Steadiness and Compliance) profiling involves assessing an individual’s personality and behavioural traits aimed at building stronger, more fulfilling relationships. In an organisational sense, DISC training and assessments are...
Sustaining Workplaces
This course is designed to help create and maintain a sustainable organisational culture. “Why should I care about future generations? What have they ever done for me?” – attributed to acting icon Woody Allan. The notion of sustainability has been with us for some time. Management thinkers such as Drucker, Deming, Handy, Weisbord, McGregor, Senge, Pratt and many others have written great works on this topic. The need for humans to seek ways to make our lives, our institutions and our planet sustainable for future generations is paramount, and the role of the organisation in achieving sustainability is crucial. It...