Brilliantly Balanced

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.

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Don’t just be brilliant, be brilliant and balanced.

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A workload mastery program for high performing Executives and Senior Leaders.

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 brilliantly balanced.

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

Being 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.

Being Brilliant AND 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.

Factors that Influence Workload

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.

Tara, Program Participant

I came to Tanya as a self-confessed people pleasing perfectionist and was just a little bit broken. I was so overwhelmed by the demands and expectations of others I could no longer function properly. Now, for the first time in my very long career, I have boundaries that I thrive in, know when to say No, and understand the importance and value of self-appreciation and the power of ‘ish’ These changes, built session by session have touched every aspect of my life and I am a far better person for it. I could not recommend Tanya and her program enough. She is authentic, practical and the perfect balance of kindness and tough love.

Wendy - Head of Department, Education Sector

I entered the Brilliantly Balance program with an open mind and a genuine curiosity about how I could create meaningful change in my busy life. From the very first session, I began uncovering insights about myself that I had never fully understood, especially the “why” behind how I respond to challenges and situations. Each month, I’ve been encouraged to step outside my comfort zone and embrace my own personal growth. Tanya has an exceptional ability to read people, not just through their words, but through their body language and how they present themselves. This has been a journey of self-discovery, and I’m incredibly grateful for the opportunity to work with Tanya throughout this program.

Kristy Crawford - Leader, Local Government

It was such a pleasure to be in Tanya’s care — and that truly is what it feels like: care. Our professional relationship was authentic, warm, and deeply supportive. Tanya is a remarkable champion of people, especially mothers striving to be high achievers in the workplace. She offers thought-provoking feedback and leaves you with meaningful questions and practical insights you can immediately put into action. She has an incredible ability to identify exactly which tools and perspectives you need to navigate the challenges you’re facing. I cannot recommend Tanya’s mentorship highly enough. I’m incredibly grateful to my organisation for supporting this opportunity and even more grateful for Tanya simply being Tanya.”

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.

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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.

Program Details

Mode of Delivery

This is a 6 month 1:1 coaching program with 1 session per month and fortnightly check-ins. Delivered virtually or face to face depending on location.

Email alexandra@tanyaheaneyvoogt.com for further information and bookings.

Numbers and Pricing

This is a fixed price program delivered 1:1.

Bespoke Modules

Tanya provides relevant changes to existing programs and additional bespoke content based on your specific context and needs.

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