Activ8 Change: Corporate Programs

Executive Stress & Personal Effectiveness in the Workplace

Employees want more from work than a pay cheque! They come to work to feel satisfied at their performance, reach their potential and enjoy their work. Whether you care about the wellbeing of your employees or want to help them thrive under pressure, our corporate offerings can help your employees wake up each morning excited about the day ahead.

How? By helping employees understand how stress affects their daily performance, emotional intelligence and leadership abilities and providing them with the tools to deal more effectively with anything that is thrown at them, be it a new leadership role, difficult team member or complete restructure.

Tailored solutions

We provide tailor made solutions to address the current needs of your company, from general lunch time talks, to workshops for particular groups of employees, to one-to-one coaching to help employees implement changes in their leadership style, emotional intelligence and stress management skills. We even have a new program where we spend a day a month at your premises for employees to “drop in” and have a one-to-one executive coaching session to debrief and find solutions to current challenges.

Read through some of our offerings below. However, do email or phone us to discuss how we can tailor the perfect solution to your current environment and challenges.

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Lunch time talks, Workshops and Key Note Presentations

As well as the obvious health and wellbeing benefits of helping employees keep their stress levels under control, Sacha’s presentations tackle the key performance effectiveness issues that are created by stress such as the impact on decision making, self-management, emotional intelligence, communication, bouncing back from setbacks and dealing with difficult staff.

Typical outcomes:

Understand research regarding how the brain works to maintain optimum productivity in high stress environments

Understand how self-management improves emotional intelligence both internally and externally

Learn specific strategies that can be used in the work place to improve the ability to move from detail oriented thinking to seeing the bigger picture when under pressure

Improve ability to manage difficult staff in challenging situations

Learn simple stress-management techniques to reduce stress and improve work life balance

Strengthen resilience to setbacks and challenges

Incorporate more efficient habits into daily work behavior by learning practical techniques to reduce the damaging effects of stress on productivity /li

Sacha’s keynote presentations are full of case studies and practical tools that employees can apply immediately in the workplace. Presentations can be targeted at a general employee level or toward the specific stressors faced by People Leaders and executives. Call or email Sacha directly to organise a time to complete a preliminary needs analysis to determine the best solution.

"For those that like to challenge themselves and are prepared to change behaviour to reach the next level, I highly recommend Sacha's coaching. Her structure is simple and very time effective. She listens and observes where you are on your journey and then asks the questions you know you should be asking yourself. At the end of each session you are revitalised, more self-aware and ready to tackle the next important challenge. The sessions are well documented so you don't lose focus and you can easily review your own progress. This approach has helped me to delegate more effectively, empower and develop others and build a stronger support network. As a result, I have achieved something very important to me - a better work life balance."

-- Colette Munro, Senior VP, MES, Schneider Electric

Executive Coaching

Despite knowing what we “should” do to be more effective in the workplace or reduce stress, change is actually hard! This is why you can send your employees to a fantastic training course only to find that employees come back and keep doing what they have always done. Executive coaching on the other hand, provides a formal framework to set targets and goals around new habits, and holds the employee accountable to following through on new behaviours.

Our coaching is based on a “tough love” approach – the coaches role is to support the employee, congratulate them for their successes and also challenge the employee to face tough situations head on. For high performers, this is a truly satisfying experience and the greatest tool for reaching potential and transitioning to higher levels of performance.

As mentioned by Patrick Eltridge CIO of Telstra in a recent address to women in IT and telecommunications -- the best learning opportunities come from mentors and role models that make you uncomfortable, are willing to have the tough conversations with you and stretch you beyond what you used to be capable of. This is what coaching is all about!

Coaching for New Leaders

According to Watkins (2003) in The first 90 Days, the actions that an employee takes in the first three months of a new leadership role determine whether he or she will fail. Ensure your new leaders have a greater chance of success by offering them a coaching program tailored specifically to the challenges of transitioning into a new leadership role. Not only will they feel supported to manage the stress throughout this challenging time, but they will be given the skills to lead a team of high performers.

Open Door Days

Our Open Door Days make it possible for more employees to access the benefits of one-to-one coaching. We come into your premises one day a month for the full day and employees can drop in for a 1/2hr session. There is only so much support a manager can provide his or her employees. Open Door Days are a great support mechanism to help employees debrief challenges with an independent person, and deal with specific behavioural change issues. These positive psychology days are also a great wellbeing offering for staff to manage stress, deal with personal issues and pull their head above water to feel more effective in tackling their work demands.

Want to Know More

Please contact us to discuss how we can tailor our services to your company or teams needs... the perfect program may just be possible! Call 612 9938 3905 or 0408 246 984 to book in a time to discuss your needs.

You can of course email us you enquiry any time. We look forward to hearing from you.

Confidentiality & Privacy Policy

All contact you have with Activ8 Change is completely confidential. Your personal information is never ever transferred to any third party without your permission. This includes all contact details and everything discussed with an Activ8 Change Coach or Facilitator.

"I have hired Sacha to run various workshops over the years that have always been very good value and produced fantastic results months after she delivered them. That is the difference when you use Sacha's services, whether it is coaching or workshops, you see and feel the change on the day and enjoy them well into the coming months and years ahead. For example I still use a time management tool she showed me at one of her workshops four years ago, it's had a positive impact on my career ever since."

- Allyson Riley, Marketing Manager, Independent Contractor Microsoft Australia.

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