Leadership Development
Become the exceptional leader, you were born to be.
In our current times of great change & complexity, more than ever we need leaders who are exceptional at what they do. If you want to thrive as a leader now is the time to focus on your development & future proof your skills.
Depending on your challenges or aspirations, I combine the power of coaching psychology, personality testing & 360 feedback to give you accelerated development & drive phenomenal success.
Having worked as a Board Member & HR director for Volkswagen Group Australia and HR manager for the Qantas CIO, my style and ability to provide exceptional insight is grounded in real experience at C-suite level & from coaching hundreds of leaders throughout my career.
Authentic, empathic & highly intuitive, I provide a safe container for you to explore your leadership style, capabilities & underlying issues so you can decide on what you want to develop, change or amplify in your capacity as a leader.
Below, you will find valuable information on the key tools I use to support leadership development, all which are used by 75% of top 500 fortune companies. Know that I offer several tools as I am yet to find one tool, methodology, psychotherapy or silver bullet that meets the diversity of clients needs or the complexities of todays world. In summary, these tools are (you can click on link to skip to tool):
2. Hermann Brain Dominance Instrument Test (HBDI)
3. Clifton Strengths
4. 360 Feedback
If you are not a reader, book in a free discovery call so we can discuss the best development approach for you.
1. Hogan
Who you are determines how you lead.
Nearly two-thirds of the people currently in leadership positions will fail. The most common reason for failure will be their inability to build and maintain a team. Their inability to build a team is typically rooted in dysfunctional interpersonal tendencies.
Hogan is a scientifically validated personality assessment that accurately predicts your personality, your reputation and your impact as a leader. Cutting edge, Hogan is the only personality tool that can predict critical blind spots, that impede your success.
Know your Dark Side ® & thrive with your Bright side - your tool for leadership success.
We all have a dark side that if left unconscious derails our career, destroys relationships and diminishes our ability to succeed. Having worked with hundreds of leaders, often they are not aware of their dark side until their career stagnates, they receive remedial feedback or struggle with workplace performance. Drive becomes ruthless ambition, and attention to detail shows up as micromanaging. By completing Hogan, you will understand your dark side, discover what drives you and learn how to amplify your bright side (see below). Through coaching we will also develop a leadership philosophy & development plan to ensure long term success.
1. Identify your dark side (derailers)
The HDS is the only personality assessment that identifies critical blind spots that that get in the way of leaders’ success. These behaviors typically emerge when leaders are under stress or when they become complacent and stop monitoring their behavior.
2. Discover what drives you
The Motives, Values, Preferences Inventory (MVPI) describes personality from the inside – the core goals, values, drivers, and interests that determine what we desire and strive to attain. By assessing values, you can understand what motivates you and what type of position, job, and environment you will excel in.
3. Amplify your bright side
The Hogan Personality Inventory (HPI) describes normal, or bright-side personality – qualities that describe how we relate to others when we are at our best. Knowing these enable us to amplify our strengths.
2. HBDI
With over 2 million Thinkers globally, HBDI solutions are used by 97% of Fortune 100 companies.
The HBDI® is a powerful psychometric assessment that defines and describes the degree to which we think in the four quadrants of the Whole Brain® Model. The data helps us adapt our thinking preferences to communicate effectively, improve decision making and problem solving. Whole Brain® Thinking is universal, scalable and applied across many contexts.
The foundation for thinking agility, cognitive diversity, and innovative thinking.
A key trait for success as a leader is knowing how to authentically adapt your leadership style. Those who do it well, achieve phenomenal results, build effective teams, resolve conflict, communicate influentially & lead employees to high performance. In a nutshell, they are the leaders that organisations love & retain as talent. HBDI, gives you proven tools to achieve this & more. Develop your leadership style with coaching & HBDI (see below).
1. Understand your thinking preferences, strengths & blind spots
Your HBDI ® profile results allows you to understand your thinking preferences, that is what part of the brain do you prefer to use when making decisions, problem solving & communicating. We also explore the foundational concepts of thinking preferences and the Whole Brain® Model.
2. Increase your emotional intelligence & thinking agility
To increase your thinking agility & emotional intelligence, we expand your thinking preferences so you can become more ‘whole brain’. By expanding your thinking agility you can adapt your leadership style for maximum impact.
3. Tackle challenging problems & people
As a leader, you would know that different tasks require different mental processes, and different people prefer different kinds of thinking. Together, using HBDI, we understanding others, their needs and frustrations & come up with strategies to solves these challenges.
See how the football team - Canberra Raiders used HBDI for improving group & team performance.
3. Gallup
You will be successful because of who you are, not because of who you are not.
Being your best self means playing to your strengths at work and everywhere else. Discover your strengths and learn how to use them to thrive with Clifton Strengths 34.
Clifton Strengths Explains How You Are Uniquely Powerful.
Your Clifton Strengths themes are your talent DNA. They explain the ways you most naturally think, feel and behave. Gallup research shows that developing people's natural strengths leads to significant increases in performance, along with greater engagement, wellbeing and business results.
Paired with coaching, together we:
+ Understand what makes you unique.
+ Focus on what you do best.
+ Understand your blind spots and how to overcome them
+ Refine your leadership philosophy & development plan for long term success.
Paula Tufa’s Top 5 Strengths: 1. Empathy; 2. Strategic; 3. Learner; 4. Connectedness; 5. Relator.
Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid.
- Albert Einstein4. 360 Feedback
According to Forbes, 85% of Fortune 500 companies use the 360 degree feedback process as a cornerstone of their overall leadership development process. Simply, 360 feedback is a tool that provides leaders with the opportunity to receive performance feedback from their boss, peers, direct reports & customers. One great advantage of 360 feedback is that it improves self-awareness and your emotional intelligence.
“I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better.”– Elon Musk
Why participate in a 360 review?
360 feedback is a great way of understanding how people view your leadership performance at work. Paired with a personality test, it can breathe meaning into the data, showing you aspects of yourself that are unconscious. Further, when you know the impact of your style on those who work with you, this understanding gives you power to be intentional about how you lead & pursue success.
My 360 review is designed on evidence based leadership models, so that developmental actions are based on proven behaviours & styles that create outstanding performance. My 360 review covers:
1. Leadership Style & Capabilities
How effective you are in leading teams & achieving organisational outcomes is underpinned by the leadership capabilities you possess such as integrity, perspective taking capacity, judgement, drive, influence, empathy & authenticity. Your leadership style is made up of your daily interactions, decisions & actions. The 360 review provides a mirror into your style & capabilities that your raters observe on a daily basis.
2. Blind spots, red flags & key areas for improvement
More than likely, you will have development areas, unless of course you are enlightened like the Dalai Lama! The 360 review ask raters for their view on what these are & how you can improve.
3. Strengths & great performance
You have incredible innate gifts that not only need to be recognised but leveraged. Knowing these, build confidence & performance.
Overview of process
1. We have a discovery call to understand your goals & what you want to achieve
2. Online, you will receive an email with log ins to 360 platform. Here you, invite your raters to participate & you will complete self evaluation (survey takes 15mins)
3. At conclusion of survey period, your data is cleansed & 360 report is generated. A debrief of your feedback is given within a coaching session or in conjunction with Hogan, HBDI or Clifton Strengths personality profile.
"There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that, once unleashed, can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality."
- Anthony Robbins.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can i use a prior test?
Absolutely. However, I would recommend retesting to reflect any shifts & changes in your operating style & personality.
How accurate are these tests?
Very. Having conducted hundreds of debriefs (including with cynics), I have not had a session where a leader has not felt the test accurately aligned to their personality & what motivates them.
WHen will I get reports? WIll I understand them?
Reports are sent to you electronically at commencement of debrief.
All reports are written in simple, straightforward language. So, you will understand your test results, their implications, and what you should work on to improve.
Is it Possible to fake an assessment?
Most instruments have built-in measures to identify where faking or distortion has occurred.
It is also worth noting that distortion in results is not always the product of deliberate faking. Respondents may feel nervous or cynical about the assessment, or they may have misunderstood the instructions. Different cultures also respond differently to the test-taking situation.
Is it confidential?
Yes! i adhere to very strict ethical & privacy laws that govern business in Australia. All your information will be kept completely confidential, and will never be passed on to any third party (recruiter or employer). If your work has paid for you to undertake development, I only share what we have completed & your high level action plan. The discussion or any personal matters that arise are kept strictly confidential.
where?
Online via Zoom or face to face at my private home office located in the Sutherland Shire, Sydney.