Rethink Leadership Workshop
Rethink Leadership is an interactive workshop focused on teaching practical leadership skills to overcome the overwhelm that comes with leading people.
Workshop: Friday, 5th September 2025
Who is this workshop for?
Experienced leaders, seasoned managers and business owners looking to improve their leadership capacity.
With a few years of experience under your belt, your leadership challenges and opportunities look a little different than they did when you first started leading.
Are you lacking the motivation needed to make the impact you want as a leader? It’s really hard to keep up the energy needed to role model the behaviour you want to see across your business.
If you’re leading a team that isn’t performing well, it’s time to make a move to restock your leadership skill set.
Investing your time in attending this one-day leadership training will help you find new and exciting ways to increase your capabilities to lead with impact.
When you focus your efforts to grow your leadership capacity, you will see how these skills and insights can have a profound impact on relationships in all aspects of life - not just at work.
Everyone deserves positive relationships at work.
Rethink Leadership will equip you with the skills to improve even the most difficult relationships you struggle with at work.
Join a group of 10 experienced leaders to find the solutions to help you lead to achieve the best outcomes for you, your team and your organisation.
Rethink Leadership is an interactive workshop focused on teaching practical leadership skills to overcome the overwhelm that comes with leading people.
The problems.
Most leaders share a common want to make a positive impact.
No matter what industry you work in, the greatest challenge most leaders face is how to have positive relationships with the people you work with.
But leaders don't often see this as the initial challenge.
It is more common that leaders, like you, experience these 3 problems:
1. you need to address a performance issue (you have a poor performer in your team) or a conduct issue (you have someone in your workplace whose behaviour is not ok).
2. you want to recruit and retain people who share your organisation’s purpose, vision and values but you keep losing the best people then it’s back to the recruitment drawing board.
3. you’re overwhelmed with the chaos of leading people, all you hear is you need to solve everyone else’s problems, but you have no time left to do your “actual job” (you are so over it; you're constantly refreshing Seek).
The Solution.
And Rethink Leadership offers you solutions for all 3 problems.
If you want to enhance the way you lead and the pump up the jam on your team’s results, you need to learn how to:
Build trust
Address conflict (effectively)
Make decisions (without endless rounds of ‘consultation’)
Role model accountability
The Rethink Leadership program is designed to offer you all this and more.
The Rethink Leadership Program
Rethink is a leadership workshop designed for seasoned leaders and managers who are ready to think differently about how they lead their team.
The workshop will maximise your leadership impact and supercharge your team's results.
Topics include:
• Learn about what it takes to be an effective leader in 2025 - shine a light on what's working and what's not working with your current leadership style
• How to create and maintain constructive relationships at work - amp up your skills to become a more influential leader
• Optimise decision making and leadership work practices - practical ways to have the most impact with your leadership practices
• Understand the critical nature of trust in workplaces to achieve success - an essential skill for any leader
• Learn the critical skills needed to have difficult, but important, conversations - one of the hardest aspects of being an inspiring leader is the ability to show empathy and have the hard conversations
• Effectively manage your wellbeing - inspire your team by showing how you effectively manage your own wellbeing.
BONUS SESSION: Spend one hour of the workshop focused on developing the legal confidence every leader needs. The session is presented by Tina Cooper, an experienced employment lawyer from Regional Business Lawyers.
This session will offer participants an update on recent changes to employment law and clear answers on common workplace issues - contracts, performance management, terminations, and more.
Participants will gain essential information to protect your business and avoid costly mistakes.
Register today and invest in this opportunity to develop your leadership skills to drive your team's performance and leave an enduring mark on your organisation and industry.
Workshop Content
This workshop is designed for leaders and managers who are willing to think critically about their leadership and take action to do things differently.
Each cohort is limited to 10 participants, so everyone has an opportunity to connect and share their experiences and insights.
The program is based on evidence-based leadership strategies, drawing on the latest research from a range of perspectives about what it takes to be an impactful leader.
You will leave the workshop with a customised leadership playbook full of actionable ideas and steps to enhance your ability to influence and inspire through your leadership. This will be your leadership playbook for years to come.
Topics we will cover include:
Defining your leadership legacy
Creating and maintaining constructive relationships at work
Optimise decision making and work habits
Understanding trust in workplaces
Critical skills for difficult conversations
Employment Law essentials (Regional Business Lawyers)
Recognising and responding to stress
Rethink Leadership Participants
Curious to know what previous participants have said about Rethink Leadership?
From real estate to healthcare, lawyers to mining - Rethink Leadership features a diverse range of experienced leaders from all industries.
Take a look at what they think about Rethink.
Who attends Rethink Leadership workshops?
Founders & business owners
Managers with teams of 10+ staff
Business partners
Leadership teams
Leaders with experience ranging from 2 years through to 15+ years' experience
Participants have attended from a diverse range of industries including health care, agribusiness, retail, real estate, animal health, consultancy, law and mining.
Is it time to rethink your leadership?
➡ Registrations are now open and limited to 10 participants only
➡Rethink Leadership workshop for 2025 is on Friday 5th September in Wagga
Join a group of seasoned leaders attending Rethink Leadership looking for new ways to tackle their biggest leadership problems.
About Rethink Leadership
Are you struggling to ignite your team’s motivation to deliver better results?
Are you frustrated trying to lead a team that is falling short of its potential?
Are you always trying to do more, but it’s stretching you to your limits?
Leadership is a tough gig.
There is constant pressure to deliver more with less. It can take a toll on our relationships and wellbeing - affecting us both at work and in our life outside of work.
But it also incredibly rewarding. To see the growth and development of your team members. To overcome obstacles. To achieve great outcomes together.
If you are a people manager or leader and you want to rethink your leadership style and strategies to deliver better outcomes (for yourself and your team), this one-day workshop is for you.
An evidence-based approach to leadership development.
Every year there is another "must read" leadership book or podcast recommendation.
But do you have time, and the head space, to consume ALL the leadership content?
As a leadership consultant, I make it my business to immerse myself in learning about leadership practices, perspectives and current workplace challenges.
Working with leaders from a broad range of industries means staying on top of my game to ensure I am across industry trends. Participants benefit from the wealth of experience and insights gathered from tried and tested strategies that achieve results for leaders.
Many of the popular leadership books are based on specific work environments, like Google, Microsoft or other huge businesses based in the US. This means, these concepts can't be directly implemented into your workplace, particularly if you are facing human resource constraints, limited budgets and uncertainty.
There are a few necessary steps to take these concepts and interpret them for implementation.
And that's what I do.
I help leaders and managers make a significant impact in their leadership by understanding the unique aspects of their business.
My approach to capacity building draws on providing considered and curated advice to each client so they can apply their skills and knowledge into their daily leadership practices.
And this means adapting and translating the research and helping you apply it to your unique work context.
Rethink Leadership is a one-day highlights reel of leadership research.
Each participant receives a leadership playbook to guide action taking after the workshop.
Here is a list of some of the references used in the workshop:
📍Simon Sinek - Start with Why
📍Brene Brown - Dare to Lead, Atlas of the Heart
📍Patrick Lencioni - The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
📍Jim Collins - Good to Great
📍Adam Grant - Hidden Potential
📍Kirstin Ferguson - Head and Heart: The Art of Modern Leadership
This one-day workshop distills the reading equivalent of more than 500 hours of leadership research PLUS draws on my 25 years of experience in leadership and results in supporting leaders just like you to take meaningful action to lead with impact.
Join me for the only Rethink Leadership workshop for 2025.
Friday 5th September 2025
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Location: 77 Gurwood Street, Wagga Wagga NSW
Only 10 spots available.
How much time do you spend on people problems?
Have you ever calculated how much time you spend on people problems?
I mean those impromptu knocks at your door "do you have a minute?" followed by a 45-minute account of why Pedro isn't pulling his weight in the team.
Or those lengthy conversations you have debriefing with a friend, or partner, over dinner where you end up purging your frustrations about the interpersonal politics of Jeanette and Jenny not getting along.
The fact is, as a leader it can feel like there is never enough time in the day to meet all your responsibilities.
But then you add the perennial people problems, and it can all end up feeling too much.
⌛️So, how much time do you think you spend each week attending to leadership activities?
And is it enough?
Or is it too much?
Kim Scott, author of "Radical Candor" (2017) recommends leaders should be spending about 10 hours per week on active leadership activities.
But for many leaders and managers, 10 hours on leadership feels completely unrealistic - particularly if you also spend time on the tools (metaphorically or literally).
🗓️How does 10 hours stack up against your existing leadership practices?
One of the topics in Rethink Leadership is ‘Optimise decision making and leadership practices’. This session allows you to evaluate your current leadership practices and learn about how to optimise your time to have the greatest impact.
You will also learn:
➡️how to provide developmental feedback that makes a difference to performance
➡️when to have those tricky conversations
➡️what other leaders and managers do to resolve people problems
➡️how to find a common ground with people you find hardest to work with, and
➡️a whole lot more of unknowns that can't be planned for but generally involves participants having "ah-ha" moments throughout the day as they make new discoveries and realisations about their greatest leadership challenges.
Workshop Outcomes
Don’t miss this opportunity to gain:
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Insights into Your Leadership Style: Uncover your strengths and areas for improvement, enabling you to become a more effective leader.
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Skills to Empower Your Team: Equip yourself with new tools to help bring out the best in your team members, fostering their growth and success.
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Effective Work Habits: Implement proven practices that boost productivity, reduce frustration, and increase job satisfaction.
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Improved Wellbeing: Discover techniques to manage and minimise stress, and improve your mental and emotional well-being.
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Actionable Plan: Craft a personalised playbook that you can put into motion immediately, driving positive change over the days, weeks, months, and years ahead.
Meet Your Leadership Consultant
Dr Belinda Mawhinney
My leadership consultancy draws on a mix of Social Work, leadership, management, and research experience (that’s the Dr bit), with over 25 years working across professional services and running businesses. It’s this blend of head and heart wrapped up with bow of strategic thinking that shapes a practical, grounded approach to helping leaders and organisations succeed. By strengthening relationships.
Facilitating in-person leadership workshops is the perfect workday for me. Join me to have a chance to address your biggest people problems.
Essential Information (FAQ)
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Rethink is a workshop designed for leaders and managers motivated to learn new practical skills and knowledge to make them a better leader.
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Of course!
Participants often come as a leadership team or duo.
Learning together has a multiplier effect and the ideas that are developed within the workshop are magic.
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Solutions to your biggest people problems.
Each participant gets a leadership playbook to develop and customise throughout the day. This is a power point free workshop.
A full day program starting at 8:30am and wrapping up at 5pm (full catering included).