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BRILLIANTLY BALANCED

Workload Mastery Program for High Performers

Executive Coaching Program

Don’t just be brilliant, be brilliantly balanced.

Driven to achieve you can often sacrifice your own personal time and wellbeing strategies to deliver on business activities.

You perform, without a doubt and achieve over and above expectations – but it comes with a cost.

Your mindset, boundaries, and the quest for self-actualisation may all contribute to an internal narrative that says to perform at your level – brilliance over balance must prevail.

What if you could:

👉 Be brilliant and balanced?

👉 Feel more in control of your workday and workload?

👉 Feel happier, mentally refreshed and have more energy at work and home.

Brilliantly Balanced is a workload mastery program for Executives and Senior Leaders that will help you find balance to ensure your high performance is ultimately sustainable.

To go from being brilliant, to being brilliant and balanced.

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Brilliant

You’re known for being a high performer and “getting the work done” often at the expense of your own commitments or wellbeing.

You go the extra mile and work extra hours regularly (over and above executive level expectations).

You often miss lunch breaks because there’s “too much to do” – or muttered under your breath “What’s a lunch break?” when you read that.

You have high expectations of yourself, and therefore of others – and can often find others efforts disappointing.

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Brilliantly Balanced

You’re respected for the way you model high outputs and look after yourself and your team.

You go the extra mile when necessary but ensure unhealthy norms are not established.

You understand that breaks are essential for maintaining healthy mental and physical performance and achieving the most effective business outcomes.

Your expectations of others are tempered with knowledge of individual drives and needs and recognition of the individual factors that contribute to performance.

Through examining the interwoven factors of workload management this program helps you discern your ultimate drivers, your natural strengths and blind spots and the workplace factors that may be contributing to your current state.

This program is for you if:

✔ You feel mentally exhausted on a regular basis from your work

✔ You are intrinsically motivated (normally) and love getting the work done

✔ Your self-worth can be connected to your work performance

✔ You’re known for your achievements and being the “go to” person

✔ You often bring what’s “left of you” home to your loved ones rather than the “best of you”

✔ You’ve been going so hard for so long you’re not sure how to course correct

✔ You know you need to make a change but you’re afraid of losing your self-esteem or your reputation (because your inner voice has convinced you that you can only be brilliant or balanced – not both.)

✔ You want support to improve your balance whilst remaining brilliant

✔ You’d appreciate evidence based strategies and psychological tools to achieve sustainable change

✔ You’re prepared to feel uncomfortable as you have your internal narrative challenged gently and compassionately to find a more sustainable way of working going forward.

The Factors That Influence Workload

Inner Self

Brilliant to Brilliantly Balanced first explores your inner self to understand drivers of your productivity and barriers to balance.

Common barriers to balance for high performers include:

An extremely high work ethic – often socialised (modelled by parents/others) and deeply entrenched that continues to drive extended working hours.
A deep desire to “do it all” for personal satisfaction and/or belief in the purpose of the work
Fear that if you don’t “do it all” you will lose your high performer status and/or career progression opportunities
Poor boundary strength or the ‘disease to please’(often saying yes to all requests at work and home regardless of current capacity)
Work addiction
A loss (or perception of loss) of agency
A sense of inability to control or regulate the external demands or influences
Difficulty in being assertive or finding the right language non emotively

These barriers are connected with inner self, linked to self-limiting beliefs and at times fear. Awareness is the first stage of change and exploring these elements through a series of diagnostics and gentle coaching exploration helps you identify these barriers (and more) that are contributing to your brilliance – but not your balance – and enables you to make simple, but powerful, course corrections.

You CAN be brilliant AND balanced.

Diagnostics you’ll undertake as part of this component of your program:

Strengths Profile

Some strength themes can predispose you to overworking. This profile provides you with those insights and so much more.

Saboteur Assessment

Saboteurs are the voices in our head that get in the way of our happiness and success. Learn what yours are and then we’ll tackle your biggest saboteurs as part of your program using an App and coaching techniques. This report also helps identify boundary strength challenges and self-limiting beliefs.

SMART Work Assessment

Understand your current state of “thriving at work”. You’ll undertake the globally recognized SMART Work Design assessment, developed by organisational psychology researchers and understand the five components required for you to achieve sustainable high performance.

Trust me when I say that more than one thing can be true. You CAN be brilliant AND balanced. I’ll show you how.

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External Stakeholder Demands

External stakeholder demands are those non-discretionary drivers of work into your workplace. These can include regulatory and regulator demands (continually increasing), customer demands, industry partnerships, external networks, other stakeholders and visitors.

We map out the drivers of these through our program to identify the level of impact external stakeholder demands are having on your workload, and then determine which (if any) of these you can control or influence.

We’ll map out trends in peaks and troughs and explore how you are scheduling your (or others) work aligned to these trends and/or ensuring capacity for the peaks.

There are ways to better manage work demands driven by external stakeholders that ensure you can reclaim your balance.

The primary aim of this component of your program is to look at what you can change or influence, not what you can’t. We will use positive and organisational psychology techniques, internal data and historical observations during this component of your program.

Internal Work Environment

What are the cultural norms at play? Is there an expectation of over working? Are you and other Executives regularly the first in and last out. Workplace cultural norms heavily influence working behaviours. These generally unwritten rules tell can cement a limiting self-belief that to be a high performer or successful in this organisation you need to work many extra hours.

This can make it exceedingly difficult for you to believe you can achieve balance, as that internal messaging is saying balance means I don’t work these hours and therefore my success is limited.

Environments that revere workaholism and poor work/life balance are increasingly going out of fashion as they simply do not align with modern workplace expectations. High work demands continue to be a contributing course of burn out, disengagement and loss of top talent.

But internal culture norms are more than this, they also include the “ways of working” that make it hard to create more space or improve efficiencies.

Old systems, historical meetings and meeting schedules that chew up diary time, a cult of busyness, staffing levels, unclear role delineation and the actual culture that influences the energy and commitment you and others bring to your work (disengagement, absenteeism and presenteeism mean there is slack that someone else must pick up).

Pleasingly, more and more I am seeing recognition that balance leads to sustainability and a recognition of the need to support high performers to be Brilliant and Balanced.

As part of your program we map out the internal work environment factors that may be influencing your ability to balance your brilliance.

Through tactical and adaptive guidance you’ll take steps to control the factors impacting your balance and make positive changes that will help ensure not only your sustainability, but others around you.

Additional Program Inclusions

✔ Initial 2-hour virtual mapping and strategy session (F2F available for some locations)

✔ Six 1:1 Monthly Workload Mastery Coaching Sessions

✔ Fortnightly (or weekly) check-ins

✔ All diagnostics and program inclusions as outlined on this program page

✔ 12 Months access to the Brilliant to Brilliantly Balanced Members Portal

✔ Real time access to support

✔ Workload prioritisation and mapping tools

✔ 2 x Business books aimed at supporting your specific needs

✔ Workload Management Guidelines for Leaders (Valued at $750)

✔ 30, 60, and 90 day virtual follow up sessions post program to ensure your sustainable balance.

Optional Extra

Half day mapping session with your team (you decide what that comprises) to map current work demands and priorities and ruthlessly rationalise to regain control, balance, and your wellbeing. Valued at $7500. You pay $4750.

Program Duration

This is a six-month highly supportive transformative program. Some participants choose fortnightly sessions over a three-month period depending on their needs.