Getting the best out of you, your team and organisation
Is your team high performing or high maintenance?
- Can your people articulate your current goal, purpose and direction?
- Can team members respectfully challenge each other’s ideas?
- Are teams working well together or in silos?
- Can they safely call out poor performance or behaviour?
If conflict, absence of trust, lack of clarity, or poor communication are affecting your team or organisation, Blue Skies can help.
Blue Skies’ Founder Simon Benjamin specialises in helping teams and leaders, identify and overcome common team dysfunctions so people thrive and teams succeed.
Build a high-performing team
How is your team performing?
Is everyone rowing in the right direction?
Blue Skies uses the internationally recognised Five Dysfunctions of a Team model and other evidence-based approaches to build the capacity of individuals and teams to work together more effectively.
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Program provides a framework that enables team members to:
- Improve communication and minimise internal politics,
- Thrash out ideas and find solutions,
- Challenge one another on poor behaviour and performance,
- Keep each other accountable,
- Save time and money by making better decisions.
Are you unsure how to address areas of dysfunction in your team?
Reach out to Simon for a no-obligation chat about your needs.
Solve leadership challenges
Are you:
- Needing to resolve a complex issue?
- Unsure about the best way forward?
- Wanting to grow your leadership capability?
Simon provides individual coaching and leadership groups for leaders who are ready to engage and grow.
Develop strategies people buy into
Where is your team or organisation heading?
Do you know? Do they know?
A key feature of effective teams and organisations is a clear, actionable strategic plan that internal stakeholders know about, are willing and able to commit to, and can readily report against.
Simon is an engaging facilitator who assists Boards and leadership teams to develop clear, actionable strategies that provide direction, motivation and meaningful results.
Deliver trauma-informed leadership
People working in high-pressure, emotionally demanding environments often prioritise the needs of their employer and clients ahead of their own health and wellbeing. This can contribute to burnout, vicarious trauma and unhealthy behaviours that impact the workplace and clients.
Simon has extensive career experience delivering trauma-informed, therapeutic care as a CEO, senior manager and frontline worker in social sector organisations. He has also informed sector-wide reforms working alongside the government and other agencies. He delivers practical training at all organisastional levels and consultation on organisational wide therapeutic practice.
Services
HEALTHY TEAMS
Create high-performing teams
Training and coaching programs that enable teams to:
- Challenge one another on work issues
- Keep each other accountable
- Build cohesion and minimise internal politics
- Collectively address poor behaviour and performance
- Save time and money by making better decisions
CONFIDENT LEADERS
Strengthen leadership capability
Small group and individual coaching to help leaders:
- Lead with clarity and confidence
- Gain perspective to see the big picture
- Overcome leadership challenges
- Address knowledge gaps and personal blind spots
- Develop alongside supportive peers
MEANINGFUL STRATEGY
Gain clarity, direction and alignment
Expert facilitation for strategic planning sessions that:
- Focus on the end result
- Identify strategic priorities
- Build a realistic, clear and actionable plan
- Gain organisational buy-in
- Get everyone rowing in the right direction
TRAUMA-INFORMED PRACTICE
Upskill and support care teams
Team-based training for care-orientated teams:
- Grow trauma-informed capability
- Embed therapeutic care into everyday practice
- Identify and respond to signs of secondary (vicarious) trauma
- Minimise incidents and burnout
- Improve service delivery and outcomes
About Simon Benjamin
Simon specialises in helping organisational leaders overcome team dysfunction. He equips them to address complex interpersonal dynamics that affect the wellbeing and performance of people in workplaces.
Having lead teams in high-growth, high-stress environments for the past 15 years, and experiencing his fair share of team dysfunction, Simon is well placed to guide your team through its journey to better health and higher performance.
Simon is a skilled practitioner of Patrick Lencioni’s ‘The Five Dysfunctions of a Team’ approach. He works in partnership with team leaders to identify and respectfully address dysfunction within and between teams, using a supportive, non-judgemental, trauma-informed approach.