Making Wise Choices
How a strengths-focused approach helps with career development, interviews, job satisfaction, engagement, teamwork, retirement planning and more.
Half-day workshop – in person – Canberra (*)
8:45am-1:00pm
Pre-work / preparation (1 hour)
Small groups, maximum 12
Two facilitators
(*) Virtual workshops can be offered for interstate participants. Hybrid format is not available. The workshop can be tailored for your organisation.
For further details contact our facilitators:
Aurora Andruska
0412 018 350
aurora@andruska.com.au
Amanda Horne
0402 892 698
amanda@amandahorne.com.au
About the workshop
No matter where you are in your job and career, you can always benefit from planning how you can shape your current and future roles. “Making Wise Choices” will help you to head in the right direction. This workshop is for you if you want:
- Enhanced job satisfaction, motivation, engagement and productivity in your current role
- Clarity and perspective about your ideal ‘job fit'
- To be on the front foot when job opportunities arise
- To confidently influence your role
- To feel more confident in preparing for interviews
This workshop provides you with practical tools and techniques to help you to influence your career, enhance job satisfaction, increase work performance and boost your leadership capability. The workshop will include:
- Practical, interactive discussions
- Opportunities for peer discussion
- Time for quiet reflection, thinking, learning and personal planning
- The support of experienced facilitators
Other benefits include:
- If you lead others, you will gain the skills to help them to shape satisfying roles and careers
- You will learn how a strengths-focus strengthens relationships and conversations
- Retention and attraction are increased with a strengths-focused approach to career development
- Interviews: whether being interviewed or leading the interview, a strengths-focused approach is more enjoyable and effective in finding the right job fit and right candidate
- The role of how widening exposure within the organisation and how you present yourself at work, all assist with shaping your job and career
Pre-work / preparation (1 hour)
- Complete a free strengths questionnaire to bring to the worskhop
- 30-minute one-to-one virtual meeting with one of the facilitators
Optional extra session
If there is interest, a 1-hour follow-up meeting with the group can be arranged for check-in, progress check, group coaching, additional support and Q&A.
Biographical information
Aurora Andruska
Aurora Andruska is an executive coach specialising in helping people explore career options and create plans to achieve their goals. She brings with her a breath of experience in the Australian Public Service. Her work practice incorporates coaching and mentoring to assist others to achieve their potential. Most recently she led the Australian Sports Antidoping Authority through the largest sports doping scandal in Australia’s sporting history. Her experience spans policy development and implementation, organisational renewal/cultural change, corporate and service delivery. In the 2006 Australia Day Honours List she was awarded the Public Service Medal.
Amanda Horne
Amanda Horne is an accredited executive coach, small group peer learning coach, facilitator and coaching supervisor. Drawing from 40 years of corporate experience, she uses a strengths-based, reflective practice approach combined with her collaborative style which brings a presence and sensitivity to her work. The outcomes which clients experience include clarity and perspective about their style, purpose values and mindsets; broadened perspectives; enhanced self-awareness, capability, behaviours, performance and well-being; and how to lead themselves and their organisations more effectively. Clients learn reflective practices, gain deeper insights, and find better ways to solve problems and to think more flexibly. Amanda established her coaching practice in 2003. She has accrued over 5,500 coaching hours.