Thriving or just surviving?
Blue Skies assists boards, executives, team leaders and teams to strengthen leadership, working relationships and team dynamics. This leads to better decisions being made faster, saving time and money, and creating impact.
Our services focus on four key areas:
You will receive practical tools that optimise effectiveness and wellbeing, and maximise outcomes.
A collegiate, exploratory approach
Simon starts by exploring your main leadership challenges and auditing your organisation or team to:
- assess the level of organisational health, internal wellbeing and effectiveness
- identify any areas of dysfunction
- review existing internal support systems and practices and how they are impacting your workforce and clients or beneficiaries.
You will then receive a diagnosis and a tailored plan for moving forward onto a better footing. However, unlike some consultants, Simon doesn’t simply tell you what you need and leave you to do the rest. He appreciates how overwhelming that can be for leaders in complex and demanding operating environments.
Instead, Simon works with you to develop a sound pathway for implementing the recommended changes. He walks alongside you and your teams for as long as you need, providing practical guidance, training and stewardship to ensure the improvements are realistic for your organisation and successfully embedded.
HEALTHY TEAMS: Create high-performing teams
Training and individual coaching programs to help teams:
- Address internal dysfunctions
- Diffuse interpersonal conflict
- Improve morale and engagement
- Increase focus on collective results
- Enhance decision-making
Services available:
Diagnostic: Internal team dynamics health assessment
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Program
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
Services available:
Strategy review
Strategy consultation
Strategy workshops with boards, executives and teams
TRAUMA-INFORMED PRACTICE: Upskill individual’s, team’s and the entire organisation
Training customised to all levels from frontline care to executives and boards.
- 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
Services available:
Tailored Training packages for:
- Frontline workers
- Team leaders
- Managers
- Executives
- Boards
Clinical Supervision
Audit: Review your organisations therapeutic care capacity
Implement: Embed therapeutic care
The benefits of getting it right
Outcomes you can anticipate from working with Simon:
- Higher-functioning executive and frontline teams.
- Better results for you and your clients.
- More effective team meetings.
- Engaged, happier, more satisfied staff.
- Lower recruitment costs due to higher staff retention.
- Low staff burnout and turnover.
- Less incidents.
- Higher success rate at achieving your goals.