Learning Programs & Workshops
Our programs can be delivered worldwide and are relevant and effective across sectors and industries. They are supported by scientific research and dedicated to creating experiences where often heavy work is fun and easeful.
View our range of programs, tools and modalities and contact Cass Spong to book in a complimentary 15min discovery call with if you have any further questions.
Systems Thinking & Systems Leadership
Sheoak Leadership Program
Team Formation, Coherence and Performance
Learning Experience Tools & Modalities
Sheoak Leadership Program
In a world of constant change, are your leaders equipped to bend, not break? Discover the power of resilience with our adaptive Sheoak Leadership Program.
Navigating Uncertainty in Leadership
In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, leaders must be prepared to tackle unpredictable challenges and adjust to new realities.
Without the ability to continuously learn and adapt, leaders risk becoming overwhelmed and ineffective in guiding their organisations through turbulent times.
Traditional leadership programs often fail to provide the flexibility and responsiveness needed to keep up with ever-changing demands placed on leaders.
Sheoak Leadership Program
The Sheoak Leadership Program is designed to evolve alongside your leadership journey, offering a dynamic and adaptable learning experience. Like the resilient Sheoak tree, our program equips leaders with the skills and mindset needed to bend, not break, in the face of adversity.
Through a carefully curated blend of workshops, coaching, and experiential learning, participants will develop the agility, resilience, and strategic foresight necessary to lead their teams and organisations through uncertainty.
With an emphasis on continuous learning and real-time adjustments, the Sheoak Leadership Program adapts to your team's unique context. With relationship and interations at its core, the Sheoak approach will ensure your leaders are ready to address the challenges of today and tomorrow.
Participants apply lessons in the workplace, leading to real time application, learning and feedback, resulting in powerful, organisation wide ripple effects.
Sheoak Ripple Effect
The Sheoak approach will tailor program content to your needs. Our team have designed content for emerging leaders through to seasoned executives, creating a real time learning environment that ripples through your organisation.
Lateral Communication
Master communication skills for handling high-stakes conversations using diverse enquiry methods and feedback models, based on trust and accountability.
Reframing Conflict
Navigate team dynamics confidently, using strategies to manage stress, fear, and conflict, and turn conflict into an asset.
Coaching
Adopt a coaching mindset to set goals and facilitate effective meetings using coaching techniques.
Navigating Complexity
Apply systems thinking to tackle complex challenges, tailoring strategies to various situations and environments.
Awareness and Self-Development
Boost self-awareness, mindfulness, and energy management, leveraging support networks for growth.
Team Building and Resilience
Build resilient, high-performing teams and inclusive behaviours, with an appreciation of diverse styles, preferences and perspectives.
Tools and Resources
Access a wide range of Sheoak practical tools and resources tailored to the program for learning and application.
A partnership between…
Powered by…TopTeams
www.topteams.com.au
Contact Cass to discuss the Sheoak options and customising to your organisational need.
Team Formation, Coherence & Performance
Wanting your team thinking more creatively, communicating more effectively and delivering more innovative & effective results?
We offer customisable workshops and learning programs designed to engage all participants and support your team to form, reset, align and perform. Each program is designed through a structured process of listening and understanding your unique context. Our programs are informed by neuroscience, wellbeing research and play research for boosting creativity, performance and team coherence at work. We know that the heavy work can be made both lighter and fun, whilst weaving meaningful productive relationships and achieving awesome performance results.
“Play is state of mind that one has when absorbed in an activity that provides enjoyment and a suspension of sense of time. And play is self-motivated so you want to do it again and again.”
— Dr Stuart Brown
Leading in Complex Systems: Systems Thinking and Systems Leadership Learning Programs
Course Overview
Participants will learn how to navigate complex challenges and drive effective organisational change. Grounded in theory and practical application, this course offers a comprehensive exploration of systems dynamics, interconnectedness, and holistic problem-solving approaches.
The course is designed to:
Understanding key concepts and principles of systems thinking.
Why our approach to problem solving in mechanical systems need to be different in living systems.
Identifying leverage points for effective intervention and change.
Introduction to the capabilities and practices of Systems Leaders.
Developing strategies for leading organisational change initiatives using a systems approach.
Addressing resistance and fostering buy-in from stakeholders.
Course Outcomes
This course provides a solid foundation in systems thinking and systems leadership, empowering participants to navigate the complexities of today’s organisational landscape and drive meaningful change by:
Providing a practical overview of systems thinking and systems leadership.
Equipping participants with practical tools and techniques for analysing and influencing complex systems.
Demonstrating enhanced leadership capabilities by integrating systems thinking into leadership practices.
Equipping participants to steward effective change initiatives, leveraging systems insights and fostering collaborative approaches.
Course audience
The ideal course participant is someone who:
Managing small or large teams or roles that require leading through influence and working with diverse stakeholders.
Professionals who are looking for a practical introduction to systems thinking and leadership and practical tools that they use immediately to support them in taking a systems approach to the way they work and lead.
Workshop format & duration
This workshop can be delivered on-line or in-person and depending on the team and organisational context and focus areas, it can be delivered as a half-day, full-day or two-day workshop.
Individual modules can also be delivered in 2-hr workshops.
Additional reading and reflection activities are provided to support the team in their learning and application.
Testimonials
“A very worthwhile course. Learning how to consider how our decisions and actions affect the bigger picture is an invaluable skill.”
— Penny M, Victorian Public Purpose Sector
“This session is an excellent dive into understanding Systems Thinking/Leadership.”
“Professional, respectful, detail explanation with examples and in the language that I understand coming from a budget/finance background.”
— Jimmy I, Victorian Public Purpose Sector
Contact Cass to discuss options and customising to your organisational need.
The workshop will include delivery of content and interactive processes and tools to support participants to integrate their learning. The workshop is customised for the context of the team or organisation, and where possible integrates current work projects into the learning process.
Tools & Modalities
Some of the tools and modalities drawn upon in our programs are
TEAMS
In a LEGO Serious Play workshop:
Individuals think differently. Teams communicate differently. Outcomes are more creative and innovative.
TEAMS/INDIVIDUALS
Flow Game:
This is for people who are longing to rise above the busyness of the day to day, to think together, align and gain perspective, clarity and inspiration, so they can take more purposeful actions back in their personal and professional lives.
LEADERSHIP
Coaching:
As a leadership coach, I will support you to discover a deep connection to your essential self.
You will not only realise your potential but create a positive ripple effect for your team, organisation and community.
TEAMS/ORGANISATIONS
Top Teams:
Assessment, report, debrief, roadmap & coaching
A proven evidence-based approach to transforming teams into top teams that is enabled by a world-leading assessment and data-driven model.
WHAT IS LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®?
LEGO® Serious Play® (LSP) is an inclusive methodology designed for adults. It actively engages every participant, catering to all learning types–visual, auditory & kinesthetic, enabling everyone to contribute!
LSP is a facilitated process encouraging dialogue and reflection, helping reveal the system to itself, surfacing collective wisdom to create alignment, solve problems, improve decision making, support organisational change and much more!
Using the bricks as a medium to represent and express complex ideas through storytelling and metaphor. The process unleashes creativity, new mindsets and ways of thinking, seeing and sensing in a way that is both; easeful and fun, whilst being serious and powerfully insightful.
You literally have the issue, challenge, system, idea right there on the table for everyone to talk about, to play with, to change, to test, to improve, to decide on together.
In a LEGO Serious Play workshop:
Individuals think differently
Teams communicate differently
Outcomes are more creative and innovative
What to discuss how LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® can work for your team and organisation?
BOOK a 15 min call with Cass to explore the best workshop or learning program for your unique context.
PROGRAMS POWERED BY TOP TEAMS
A proven evidence-based approach to transforming teams into top teams that is enabled by a world-leading assessment and data-driven model.
TEAM [noun]
A group of 2 or more people, who have common goals, and must work together to achieve these goals.
TOP TEAM [noun]
A team that successfully realises its goals, achieves more together than they can alone and each team member.
For more information check-out: TopTeams
What to discuss how TOPTEAMS can work for your team and organisation?
BOOK a 15 min call with Cass to explore the best workshop or learning program for your unique context.
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