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BRILLIANTLY BALANCED
Workload Mastery Program for High Performers
Don’t just be brilliant, be brilliantly balanced.
High performers are often their own worst enemy. Driven to achieve they often sacrifice their own personal time and wellbeing strategies to deliver on business activities. They’re brilliant, without a doubt. Achieving over and above expectations – but it comes with a cost.
Mindset, boundaries, and the quest for self-actualisation may all contribute to an internal narrative that says to be a high performer – brilliance over balance must prevail.
👉 What if you could be brilliant and balanced?
👉 Feel more in control of your work day and workload?
👉 Feel happier, mentally refreshed and have more energy at work and home?
Brilliantly Balanced is my workload mastery program that helps high performers find balance to ensure their sustainable performance.
To go from being brilliant, to being brilliant and balanced.
Brilliant
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High performer known for “getting the work done” often at expense of own care or wellbeing. |
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Goes the extra mile when necessary, working late regularly. |
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Misses lunch breaks because there’s “too much to do” |
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Has high expectations of others considering their overworking patterns essential. |
Brilliantly Balanced
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Respected for the healthy modelling between getting the work done and looking after self. |
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Goes the extra mile occasionally ensuring unhealthy norms are not established. |
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Understands that breaks are essential for maintaining healthy mental and physical performance. |
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Has reasonable expectations of others – understanding own and others drive, capacity and individual factors contribute to performance. |
Through examining the factors of workload management this program helps high performers understand what drives them, their natural strengths and blind spots and the workplace factors that may be contributing to the 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 don’t know how to step off the hamster wheel
✔ You know you need to make a change but you’re afraid of losing your self-esteem or your reputation (because your inner meanie has convinced you that you can only be brilliant or balanced – not both. Wrong!)
✔ You want support to transition to being brilliant and balanced
✔ 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.
Inner Self
Through my Brilliant to Brilliantly Balanced program we first take a look at the 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 and 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.
All of 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 can help identify any of these barriers (and more) that can be contributing to your brilliance – but not your balance – and help make simple corrections.
Diagnostics you’ll undertake as part of this component of your program:
Strengths Profile
We see trends in some strength themes that link to overworking, this profile provides you with those insights and so much more.
Saboteur Assessment
We all have saboteurs, those meanies in our brain 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 fo your work sustainable high performance along with your work engagement and satisfaction.
Trust me when I say that more than one thing can be true. You CAN be brilliant AND balanced. I’ll show you how.
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 to have more agency over to find your Brilliance and Balance.
We’ll also 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 Leader’s regularly the first in and last out, then working after hours? Workplace cultural norms heavily influence our working behaviours. These generally unwritten rules tell a story that to be a high performer or successful in this organisation these are the hours you need to put in.
This can make it exceedingly difficult for high performers to believe they 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
people bring to their 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 leaders know the value in supporting their high performers to be Brilliant and Balanced because they absolutely want to retain them.
As part of your program we map out the internal work environment factors that may be contributing to your ability to balance your brilliance. Through tactical and adaptive guidance you’ll take steps to control the factors impacting your balance and step into conversations that will help ensure not only your sustainability, but others around you.
You’ll receive:
- Infographics of supportive and non-supportive responses to workload concerns
- Common conversation starters around workload that will help you articulate and negotiate better balance
- My comprehensive Workload Management Guidebook – valued at $750
Additional Program Inclusions
✔ Initial 2 hour virtual mapping and strategy session (F2F available for some locations) includes current – future state mapping, how to create space for the meaningful work of change, behavioural change models, immediate strategies to help you get instant relief
✔ Six 1:1 Monthly (or fortnightly) Virtual (or F2F*) Workload Mastery Coaching Sessions
✔ Fortnightly (or weekly) check-ins
✔ Real time access to support
✔ All diagnostics and program inclusions as outlined above
✔ 12 Months access to the Brilliant to Brilliantly Balanced Members Portal where you can access a range of videos, templates, guidebooks and tools.
✔ Complimentary leader Strengths profile and debrief – valued at $550
✔ Optional 3 x complimentary leader touch base sessions throughout your program to support them to best support you as you work towards being Brilliantly Balanced – valued at $2000
✔ Workload prioritisation and mapping tools
✔ 2 x Business books aimed at supporting your specific needs
✔ 30, 60, and 90 day virtual follow up session (30 minutes virtual) 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.
Investment
$2350 + GST per month over six months
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