Workplace Solutions

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In-house Facilitation

Workshops, rounds tables, planning sessions

Want help coming up with an agenda to meet your needs? Someone to facilitate to enable you to step back, even participate? I can work with you to identify the objectives and how to foster engagement to achieve what you need.

PRICE

Client, Community, Stakeholder Consulting

Seeking feedback from clients, community and stakeholders? Wish to better understand their needs and how to meet them?

I can assist with interviews and focus group facilitation with a final report summarising findings.
Naturally curious and someone who seeks to understand someone’s experience, views and ideas I ask questions customising my approach to the audience.

I am a good communicator who can utilise mixed methods to elicit feedback and insights into the needs, issues and interests of client, community and other stakeholders.

A particular skill of mine is engaging with clients and communities in activities, either individually or in groups, to maximise their involvement.

I am also able to design surveys/questionnaires.
I produce reports or presentation slide decks that are easily understood and speaks directly to your needs.

I produce reports or presentation slide decks that are easily understood and speaks directly to your needs.

5-8 Interviews

8-12 Interviews

12-15 Interviews

15+ Interviews

Focus Group (up to 8 participants

2-3 hours facilitation)

* Note cost per interview and includes

planning, facilitation , thematic analysis and summary report

$200.00

$220.00

$230.00

$240.00

$900.00

Facilitate Community and Public Meetings/Forums

Community engagement is often complex, invoking strong feelings, sensitive even controversial issues, conflict and diverse interest groups. This requires the use of highly skilled facilitation for successful outcomes.

I am skilled at facilitating a dialogue between services and the clients and communities they serve. As someone with a client support background I am empathetic and able to engage a diverse range of people across what can often be sensitive concerns and issues.

I have experience in co-design processes, eliciting people’s lived experience in a way that’s supportive and productive. Good facilitators assist the group to achieve their purpose by helping people hear each other, coming to understandings, pooling their wisdom and take on board concerns, needs
and ideas.

If you need someone to elicit feedback, oversee a panel, MC a forum, facilitate a town hall style meeting or workshop I can work with you to deliver the event, set the agenda and/or coordinate the planning as required.

1-2 hour event facilitation including

up to two hours planning

2-3 hour event facilitation including

up to two hours planning

Half day event facilitation including

up to two hours planning

Full day event facilitation including

up to three hours planning

Summary report recommended where you
are seeking contributions and eliciting feedback

$650.00

$800.00

$950.00

$1200.00

$250.00- $500.00

Vision and Value-Based Session

Want help leading a team through vision, mission and values exercises? Such sessions can help teams bond, find a common purpose, move towards desired ways of working and embrace change.

Half day event facilitation including up to two hours planning

Full day event facilitation including up to three hours planning

Two days including up to four hours planning

2 hour follow up sessions including up to two hours planning

Summary report (recommended where you are seeking contributions, eliciting feedback or wanting to communicate to teams and/or management)

$950.00

$1200.00

$2,600.00

$650.00

$250.00-

$500.00

Project Planning and Development Including Co-Design Processes

Identified an unmet need? A gap in service delivery? Preparing for a tender opportunity? Let me assist.

I have extensive experience designing clinical and client support services, community development initiatives, health promotion campaigns, client and community workshops and developing resources.

I help teams brainstorm drawing on instructional design processes. Together we develop the aims, objectives, define the target audience, evaluation methods, draft A Logic Model, identify stakeholders, risks and mitigation strategies and more!

The benefit of doing this with your team is they design the initiative and maybe even put some extra ideas for the future in the bank. This builds confidence, ownership and skills.

Wish to also work with clients, people with lived experience or community to co-design? I am skilled in workshopping with people and their lived experience in a strengths-focused and trauma informed way that is supportive and empowering.

Don’t have time to do a collaborative process but want an idea worked up? A tender needing drafted? I can help with that too.

I charge $100-150 an hour. Talk to me about your needs and I can
provide a cost estimate.

Team Culture Building Workshops

Wish to foster a positive work culture within your team?

Address any underlying issues or introduce changes within a strengths-based approach?

Increase a team’s understanding of one another’s work styles, improve communication and foster team work through interactive workshops?

Reinforce team mission and purpose?

Through well facilitated processes, we work on ways forward to develop your desired sense of team.

Our team building workshops start with:

An exploration of how people feel the team is going

The key issues that need to be worked on

Formulate a team agreement

What is working well and not so well

Identify common values and strengths

2-3 hour workshop with up to 2 hours planning + summary report

Half day workshop with up to two hours planning + summary report

Full day workshop with up to three hours planning + summary report

$800.00

$950.00

$1,300.00

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Review and Evaluations

I am a firm believer in continual quality improvement. Reviews and evaluations of programs measures whether objectives are being met, client satisfaction, grow, meet the needs of funders and to evolve with changing needs and environments.

Reviews and evaluations don’t have to be scary for teams. They can also be an effective way of celebrating success and achieving buy-in for future visions and opportunities.

Speak with me about what you might like

included in a review. Options include:

Client satisfaction surveys

Community and stakeholder feedback questionnaires

Focus groups with employees,
clients and/or stakeholders

Semi Structured interviews

Review of client data e.g., outcome measures, attendance, demographics

Talk to me about your needs and I canprovide a cost estimate.

Customised Training

I bring a Certificate IV in Workplace Training and Assessment and over 12 years experience designing and facilitating workforce training. I have established and managed a social enterprise training arm for a not-for-profit offering in-person, online and e-learning for government agencies and community organisations. I have additionally project managed and written the content and story boards for elearning as a consultant.

I utilise a mix of interactive and reflective activities to engage participants. I also provide a relevant suite of resources.

Half day up to 25 people $includes results of de-identified pre and post survey plus recommended next steps

Full day up to 25 people includes results of de-identified pre and post survey plus recommended next steps

Customisation includes training needs analysis (survey of teams and consultation with sponsor), development of relevant case studies and modification of sessions

$1500.00

$2500.00

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Debriefing and Action Learning Reflective Practice

Wish to support your team to unpack critical incidents?

Empower teams to reflect and improve existing processes?

Actively engage in quality assurance?

One-off or regular facilitated sessions assist individuals and teams to engage in quality assurance and best practice. It is through reflecting on what we do well, gaps in knowledge and skills, our blind spots and what we find challenging that we grow and improve.

For workers on the front line of health and community services having an external person to debrief with can help manage vicarious trauma, potential burn out and foster a culture of self care.

$160.00

$120.00

$130.00

5-8 Interviews

Individuals

3-5 participants

5-8 participants

*NOTE cost per session with 30 mins plus minutes allocated per person in groups

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

What’s the process?

Make contact and we can have an informal no-obligation chat about what you are looking for. If you are then interested in proceeding I will then send you via email a list of any further information or clarification I require before forwarding proposal for your consideration. We can then organize an onboarding meeting if required.
In what regions do you work?

I can provide Australia wide services. Where travel outside of metropolitan Sydney is required I do so with travel costs and per diems covered. Where possible in the planning stages I work online to keep costs down, and can deliver a number of services online if that is your preference.
What expertise do I bring?

I have worked within government and not-for-profit organisations as a clinical employee, sole project worker and manager establishing clinical, health promotion, community development and peer programs and as an executive director led high performance teams managing regional, state and national programs and campaigns with a division of 75 staff and over 200 volunteers, and establishing two fee-for-service programs. I have also managed regional offices and remote staff so understand the workplace shift of hybrid work. I draw upon my undergraduate studies and clinical expertise of individual, group and community behaviour and practices as a trained Occupational Therapist and post graduate studies in population health. I have an Advanced Diploma in Community Sector Management, and undertaken numerous short courses in change management, managing underperformance, giving and receiving feedback, coaching for high performance, managing underperformance, managing in times of disruption and uncertainty and clinical supervision. I am currently completing a Diploma in Leadership Management Coaching after which I will be eligible and seek to be accredited with the International Coaching Federation.
What is the cost?

I wish to offer an accessible service to community, not-for-profit and health organisations. I understand that not-for-profits and community workers have limited resources and discretionary funds so I aim to keep costs. I do this by providing sessions online, providing reduced not-for-profit rates and offering packages. I also provide electronic access to resources. If your preference is in-person then I can come to you for an additional cost. Please note costings are non-inclusive of GST and travel expenses for outside metropolitan Sydney.
Do you bundle and do packages?

Yes, I am happy to speak with you about what it is you are wanting to engage a consultant for. I am holistic in my approach and are able to explore what services I may be able to assist you with to achieve the outcomes you are looking for. If someone is wanting to bundle or develop a package of services, I will incorporate a saving.
Do you take on short-term projects

Yes, I enjoy taking on time-limited projects. Examples of projects I have taken on a consultant to date include co-design and consultation facilitation and writing a final report with recommendations for a national health strategy and project managing and writing the content and story boarding for an eLearning package. I particularly enjoy service development, health promotion project management and working with teams to build positive and productive cultures. Tell me what you are looking for from a consultant and I will let you know if I am the right fit for you.