Consultancy Services
Working 1:1 to create your leadership legacy
“You helped build me into a leader and develop confidence, strength and value myself.”
— 1:1 leadership client (2023).
Leadership roles are incredibly rewarding.
When you can work to your strengths to organise and motivate teams to achieve their best, the sense of collective achievement is powerful.
But leadership roles can also be hard.
The challenges are many and varied, and at times being a leader can be stressful and isolating. It is easy to waste weeks, months or years worrying about these situations. But the types of situations you are dealing with on a daily basis require consideration and insight into the factors that are causing stress.
It is common for leaders to feel overwhelmed by these challenges. Knowing when to seek support and take action to work through these challenges is a courageous step for anyone. Seeking support from peers, colleagues or friends can offer short lived relief. It is likely you are not growing your capacity to manage leadership challenges effectively if you are simply feeling validated or worse, receiving unhelpful advice.
Do you spend time thinking about how best to manage work relationships?
Thinking and planning about how best to respond to difficult circumstances can lead to further frustrations, when you feel uncertain about how to move forward. Managing complex relationships with your business, within your team and clients can take significant amounts of time but can often leave you feeling stressed and overwhelmed. Experiencing these feelings for a prolonged period of time can contribute to fatigue, poor health and burnout.
Do you have a clearly identified problem and you are looking for the right professional to help you find the right solution for you?
Some clients engage my services with a clear vision. Other clients aren’t as clear.
The purpose of the initial consult is for us to bridge the divide between your everyday perception and how I can help.
You can test my skills in analysis during an initial consult as you provide a brief summary of the history of current challenge. I will then recommend options to work together on the solution.
If your situation is particularly complex, involves people and needs a customised response then I am the consultant for you.
If your problem is simple and needs a single solution, I am not the consultant for you.
My recommendations are based on your desired outcomes. I don’t offer one and done solutions.
I practice within the parameters of the Code of Ethics of the Australian Association of Social Workers.
Understanding there is an alternative way
of leading is a critical step.
If the leadership style you currently operate from is not bringing you the results you want, then taking action to change your approach will move you closer to these results.
Being a great leader requires continuous learning and effort to ensure you are performing your role effectively.
Accessing professional guidance and emotional support in a confidential space can allow you to work through these challenges from your own personal and unique set of circumstances.
My consultancy practice specialises in working with leaders who feel stuck, overwhelmed or uncertain about how to take next steps in their work.
Drawing on my expertise, my skills and close to 25 years’ experience in professional services– I can work with leaders experiencing challenge in a range of circumstances and industries.
I can play a critical role to support you to move closer towards the results you are looking for.
Client Outcomes
Here are some examples of client outcomes which may help you think about your own outcome goals:
1. Address personal barriers that have previously prevented progress and development
2. Build your capacity to identify and maintain boundaries
3. Develop skills to effectively respond to challenging workplace situations
4. Create high trust relationships at work with colleagues and clients
5. Navigate challenging times in the workplace
6. Deliver and receive thoughtful feedback to improve performance
7. Clarify difficult decision making and implement your decision
8. Examine systemic challenges that prevent goal attainment and actions to overcome them
9. Develop professional and personal development pathways for your continuous learning
10. Recognise and manage stressors to prevent burnout and keep you engaged in your role
“You helped build me into a leader and develop confidence, strength and value myself. The most valuable part was how to have hard conversations with staff and be confident in what I wanted for my business”
— Small business owner, beauty industry.
There are two ways we can work together.
Ready to build your leadership capabilities?
Schedule an initial consult to explore working together 1:1 to help you achieve your leadership challenges.
Your Challenges
Here are some examples of challenges clients have identified when we started working together:
lack of clarity about how to elevate their existing business
how to transition from long term, permanent employment to starting a business
developing internal business processes to manage employees
having important, and often difficult, conversations
creating meaningful measures of success
strategic planning
bold decision making about the future of their business
setting and holding boundaries
The consultant you get
knowledgeable
skilled
experienced
supportive
reliable
Clients described me as: adaptable, intuitive, direct, caring, reliable, and supportive.
Pricing
Direct with you
Delivered online or in person, 1:1 leadership coaching is best for leaders looking to build their skills and confidence in a personalised way.
Typically, clients choose to meet monthly, with the occasional need to pull a session forward when working through a complex issue.
3 sessions
$2, 407.50 AUD
Ideal for you if you are looking for:
guidance in managing a performance concern (have an important conversation that requires a good dose of planning, guidance and bravery)
create small changes to how your team works together and supports each other
establish your leadership style as an emerging leader.
Investment excludes GST.
6 sessions
$4, 815.00 AUD
Ideal for you if you are looking for:
strategies to set up effective ways for your team to perform effectively together
support to work through performance reviews across your team and need specific guidance in managing varied challenges across the team
guidance in how to effectively manage up
starting or growing your own business and need a longer timeframe to support you with taking action.
Investment excludes GST.
12 sessions
$9, 630.00 AUD
These sessions are for transforming the impact of your leadership. Are you challenged by complex interpersonal dynamics, low morale, conflict, and low productivity?
This package is ideal for:
navigating complex interpersonal relationships and knowing how to manage them
aligning your team to set and achieve collective goals
creating internal systems and processes that help your team perform as a group
building a high trust work culture
fostering high performance and results focused output
establishing a feedback culture, including facilitating 360-degree feedback across the organisation.
Investment excludes GST.
You Receive
60-minute sessions to share your challenges, work through potential solutions and identify the action you will take.
Accountability support that works for you to take action – either email follow up or concise phone calls to check in between sessions.
If you face a leadership challenge and require urgent support.
References and resources so you can further immerse yourself in the evidence.
You will receive a terms and conditions document outlining the nitty gritty aspects of our agreement.
Case Studies
All names are changed for confidentiality.
Government Sector
Sarah works as a senior leader in the human services sector of a government department. Frustrated by complex and inefficient systems, Sarah wants to explore what her next professional steps are to find a way to work that aligns with what she values.
We worked together for 3 sessions and here is what Sarah said:
“Working with Belinda helped me clarify my professional goals and make sure what I was doing in my career aligned with my longer-term goals. She was clear, kind and concise with her advice and observations and was able to tailor sessions to be flexible with regards to delivery and structure. I really felt she was on my side and that she was truly interested in seeing me achieve my goals.”
Small Business Owner
Rebecca is a small business owner in the beauty industry. She has a small team to manage but lacked any confidence to set and hold boundaries as the leader.
Rebecca wanted to develop the business, yet wasn’t sure how to have some hard conversations with staff to help her achieve her business goals.
We worked together for 6 sessions and here is what Rebecca said:
“I first worked with Belinda by attending one of her leadership workshops. The quality was top-shelf. Through 1:1 leadership coaching Belinda helped build me into a leader and develop confidence, strength and value myself. The most valuable part of coaching was how to have hard conversations with staff and be confident in what I wanted for my business. The unexpected gain was its ok to be a strong boss and if staff aren’t in line with your beliefs then your business is not the place for them. You are the best of the best.”
