Bespoke leadership development
TAILOR LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT TO YOUR NEEDS AND TURN INDIVIDUAL LEADERS INTO A TEAM OF STARS
When leaders have too much on, they can get stuck in management mode. Lift your team out of operations into strategic leadership, empowering and inspiring their people, having tough conversations confidently, and leaning into change. Life’s too short for mediocre. Let’s lift your leaders’ game.
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HERE ARE YOUR OPTIONS…
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
Presentation to your leadership team
Make your next leadership meeting fun and inspiring and sow the seeds to help your team think differently with a talk on a leadership topic to spark new ideas.
Half-day or full-day leadership workshop
Solve a particular problem, understand a key area of leadership, or quickly upskill your team to meet a tactical need. See me as a mechanic who tunes up your team.
A full leadership programme
Tackle ambitious targets or work on strategic objectives. Bed in a new company structure, help teams come together following a merger, or support a new team to align on big issues.
FACILITATING LEADERSHIP GROUPS
Guide important conversations
It's tough to contribute to strategic conversations while empowering your team to contribute openly and say what’s on their mind. I regularly facilitate conversations on purpose, strategy, and leadership challenges.
Facilitate your leadership retreat
Combine planning for the year ahead with tactical upskilling or a leadership talk. Establish community and connection between your leaders and make your day more memorable, entertaining, and valuable.
"Trust me when I say – Belinda knows her $#!t. Not afraid to call a spade a spade and with an impressive history supporting a broad range of professionals, including some very successful senior executives – there’s not much Belinda can’t help with.”
- Julie McMurray, Head of Human Resources, Dual Asia Pacific
UPGRADE THESE IMPORTANT LEADERSHIP SKILLS, OR TALK TO ME ABOUT WHAT YOU NEED MOST
Empathetic leadership
Leaders are told they need to be empathetic, but nobody says how, or tells you how to balance empathy and assertiveness. Learn how to practice authentic empathy without losing your authority.
Using conflict wisely
Conflict makes even seasoned leaders nervous. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Differentiate between healthy and unhealthy conflict and learn how to do conflict well, listening to team members, addressing issues, increasing performance and inclusive conversations.
Improve meetings
Most meetings suck. Stop wasting time and improve your meeting culture with engaging meetings that get $#!t done. Learn how to make better decisions in meetings, drive action afterwards, and deal with difficult people.
Lead change
Change initiatives fail because leaders aren’t equipped to lead change. Discover the antidotes to change resistance, how to communicate often, openly, and honestly to build trust, how to build motivation, and how to allow for integration time.
Strategic storytelling
Storytelling is a superpower that sets successful leaders ahead of the rest, and it’s a skill you can learn. Discover how to use stories to share important info, increase team and stakeholder engagement, motivation, and performance.
Build resilient teams
When change is the only constant, you need resilient leaders who can build resilient teams. Learn techniques to build trust, develop self-awareness and circumstantial awareness, grow an inclusive thinking environment, and foster better collaboration between teams.
“I've worked with Belinda for personal coaching earlier in my career, so when an opportunity arose to work with her again with my lead team I jumped on it
We had a great time on the day with a great mixture of laughter, confronting ideas, hard but useful conversations, and new ideas to tease out with the team.
And of course, true to style, the follow-up afterwards was great, with a lot of additional material, exercises and techniques shared that we'd only had time to mention in passing on the day. It was a great day, and we're still talking about it 3 weeks on!”
- Nico Johnston-Clark, Head of Digital Engineering at Livestock Improvement Corporation
WE DESIGN YOUR LEADERSHIP TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT TOGETHER
Step 1: Discovery
So, you’d like me to work with your leadership team. The first step is a call with you to nail down the purpose of our working together and discuss your thoughts and ideas. I’ll ask you about the issues you want to address and the problems you want to solve. At the end, I’ll put a package together for you.
Step 2: Design
Creating your programme is a co-design partnership. Together we identify skills and topics valuable for your team. We can use psychometrics to inform the design process, I can conduct interviews with your leaders to understand what they need from their training, and we can also survey your wider team.
I can do anything from a half-day workshop on a specific leadership topic, right through to a yearlong programme with workshops and individual coaching. The form your leadership training takes is based on your needs.
Step 3: Delivery
We map out the dates and I deliver the goods. We’ll have a plan of action, yet delivery isn’t always set in stone. Especially with longer programmes, things change. As I get to know your team, and understand them better, I may see new needs that weren’t apparent at the beginning. Good training is experiential and adaptable, so I’m flexible as a result.
Good training is also all about your desired outcomes, so I'm continually checking in. Even if we’re simply doing a half-day training, I’ll touch base at morning tea to find out how you’re feeling, and make sure we’re on track.
I MAKE YOUR TEAM’S TIME WITH ME REALLY COUNT
When your people work with me, you don’t just get the outcomes we agreed. I also deliver a heap of unspoken extras. Way I see it, you’ve given your leaders a day out of the office. They’re giving me eight hours of their life. And I'm not a cheap date, so I want to make sure you get bang for buck.
There are many bonus benefits when your team works with me. I build community and trust between your leaders by facilitating conversations where they’re safe to be vulnerable and authentic. They become more engaged and connected. They learn shared language for tricky conversations and embed values with shared behaviours that drive success.
“Belinda is an astute guide – whatever your need! I’ve engaged with Belinda both as a professional coach and had her facilitate workshops for a multi-stakeholder project. Belinda has a nous for assessing interpersonal complexities and organisation dynamics quickly; she helps you make sense of the clutter and makes the hard work fun.”
- Katina Conomos, Project Director, The Noises
LIFT YOUR LEADERSHIP TEAM AND SAY GOODBYE TO MEDIOCRITY
From global leadership programmes for multinationals to facilitating strategic planning sessions for scrappy Kiwi startups, bespoke leadership training is my jam. If you need help lifting your team’s leadership, hit me up.