SERVICES

COACHING SERVICES

I provide individual coaching services to executives, managers and others who are keen to reach their full potential.

I bring warmth, empathy and experience to our coaching sessions. Drawing on my qualifications in coaching, I structure the sessions to focus on what you want to change and what you will do to achieve that change.

You are in the driver’s seat and I am sitting beside you, building trust, probing and challenging you to step up and step out. Dream big!

Because I’ve worked in all sorts of places I have faced lots of challenges and you may face some of these too:

managing work and family
winning that job with a great application and great interview with confidence
building and motivating teams to be their best
managing performance issues
responding to bullying and harassment
speaking truth to power – giving feedback to supervisors
building confidence to be a leader
managing ethically challenging situations
negotiating – salary, hours and flexibility, roles and resources

CAREER PLANNING & IMAGINING

I offer support to people who want to plan next steps in their career. Or perhaps you want more life/work balance or you want to cut back and transition to retirement. Maybe retirement is an outdated idea as more of us want to grow old with purpose and meaning.

I’ve had lots of changes in my career and moments of sheer terror: walking into a Minster’s office as a senior advisor for the first time, moving from state to federal government and stepping up as a CEO.

More recently I’ve returned from living overseas and re-imagined the next phase of my life with purpose. I've asked the question: ...Imagine if..what would you do?

Learning from these changes, I offer the following support:

Structured conversations on planning your next career move
Practical tips and actions to support your next career move
When and how to network to expand career options
Practical support with writing job applications and preparing for interviews
What to do when you are stuck in a role and can’t see what’s next
Re-imagining life with purpose as we live longer.

JOB APPLICATION AND INTERVIEW SKILLS AND PRACTICE

I provide tailored coaching in winning that next job. My services include:

support in writing a pithy one page application that will get you an interview
support in writing to address specific selection criteria
practice job interviews and feedback
tips on what to do before you get to interview - what to read, who to talk to, what to prepare
tips on how to present yourself at interview and how to answer tricky questions, what to do when you freeze
tips on different kinds of interviews - scenario based questions, behavioural questions, presentations

And my success rate is good - with well written applications leading to shortlisting for interviews and well prepared interviews leading to job offers!

WOMEN LEADING

These days there’s a lot of talk about women’s leadership. We’re told to ‘Lean in’ or ‘Fake it till we make it’ or ‘Suck it up princess’.

But what if none of these options sound like you?

How do you find your leadership position that feels ok for you and that feels real for you? Some people call this authentic leadership. For me, it’s about being comfortable and confident with yourself so that you can offer leadership with others.

Good leaders:

• Are self-aware

• Act with integrity

• Listen before speaking

• Show their vulnerabilities and take risks

• Value and seek out team members who think differently

• Understand individual motivations

• Develop people to be their best

• Make tough decisions when needed

• Plan for succession

I offer coaching support to women who are keen to find their own voice and identity as leaders. I support women to find ways to be good leaders within differing workplace cultures and with different kinds of leaders.

TALKING TO GOVERNMENT

Understanding how to work with government can be critical for many businesses and non-government organisations. Having worked in government and parliament at senior levels, I offer extensive and credible relationships across the bureaucracy and parliament.

I also have deep knowledge of government processes and when and how to talk to government, when to seek funding and how to get policy changes agreed.

Being based in Canberra, I am plugged into what’s happening.

I like to keep it simple – focusing on relationships, short sharp messaging, evidence and data to support positions and looking for win-win situations and alliances.

FACILITATION

My facilitation skills and experience have been developed over many years in a wide variety of settings. I’ve facilitated and trained women in the Solomon Islands on financial literacy in small community settings. And I’ve facilitated major partnership meetings for the International Federation of Red Cross Societies across the Pacific with participants from up to 18 countries attending.