Biz School Leading with Integrity, Character and Wisdom
 
 

Our Focus — Facilitating Change that Makes a Real Difference

The Biz School team have relevant backgrounds in people and organisational development, adult learning facilitation, leadership and management consulting, communication skills training and coaching. Using this experience, we support change leaders to be the leaders they need to be and to implement organisational development initiatives that make a real difference and last.

The model below identifies three different kinds of work that we believe are necessary for effective and healthy organisations.

effective and healthy organisations

Most efforts at organisational development are ineffective because:

  • They focus on improving systems, structures and strategies but the individuals don’t change, so nothing really changes, OR
  • They work at changing individuals or teams through individual skill development or naïve team building that is not connected to the technical work or the systems, structures and strategies, so nothing really changes.

Effective organisational learning and development must work in a way that keeps each of the three kinds of work linked and integrated. At Biz School, we do this by intentionally weaving three different strands into the way we work, as illustrated in the following diagram:

 

 

Many interventions focus on each different strand separately. Separately the strands have limited impact, woven together, over time, they produce lasting development.

 

Biz School’s Leading Edge Services

Biz School does not seek to be all things to all organisations. We focus on delivering support to leaders in organisations in accordance with what we know best and are most passionate about. We work with action-learning based approaches outlined above to keep the three kinds of work linked.

We focus on:
– Strategic coaching and consulting support to senior leaders, OD practitioners and change agents.
– Facilitating the development of effective leadership at all levels in the organisation, and;
– Providing training and coaching support for individuals and teams to increase their performance.

BIZ SCHOOL PRODUCTS & SERVICES MATRIX

Services we offer are summarised in the following Matrix:

  PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS TEAM EFFECTIVENESS ORGANISATION & CULTURE TRANSFORMATION LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
STRATEGIC CONSULTING     • Organisational Review
  - Analysis, Report &     Implementation

• Culture Diagnostics
  - LSI, Barrett, TWS tailor made?

• Consulting to OD practitioners/change agents
  - OD Strategy Development
  - OD Strategy Implementation

 • Consulting to OD   practitioners/change agents
  - Leadership Development     Strategy development and     Implementation
COACHING • Individual/Personal Coaching
• Women’s & Men’s Mentoring
 • Team Coaching
  - Work/Project Planning &     Completion
  - Team Learning & Performance     Planning & Review
  - Effective Work Place     Conversation & Relationship     Skills
 • Mentor Coaching for OD   Practitioners, T& D Professionals   & Change Agents • Shadowing, Feedback &   Coaching
• Executive/Management   Coaching
• Coaching to/from diagnostic   tools (eg MBTI, LSI, DiSC,   Enneagram)
TRAINING WORKSHOPS • Work Place Conversations &   Relationship Skills
• Facilitation Skills
• Coaching Skills
• Emotional Intelligence
• Managing Transitions
• Neuro Linguistic Programming   (NLP)
• Myers Briggs (MBTI)
• Stress Management
• Conflict Resolution &   Negotiation Skills
 • Emotional Intelligence
• Effective Workplace   Conversations
• Conflict Resolution &   Negotiation Skills
• Team Building using a range of   diagnostic tools (eg MBTI, LSI,   DiSC, Enneagram)
• Meeting Management
• Taking coaching to the coal   face
 • Consulting & Coaching Skills for   Change Agents
• Consulting & Coaching Skills for   OD Practitioners
• Leading & Managing   Organisational Change
 • Effective Work Place   Conversation & Relationship   Skills
• Effective Performance   Planning, Review &   Development Conversations
• Emotional Literacy &   Intelligence
• The Leader as Coach
ACTION-LEARNING PROGRAMS • Personal & Career Development   programs for Men & Women:   Life School’s “The Odyssey” – • Team Leader Action-Learning   Program • Leadership Dev & Org Culture   Change • Leadership Development   through Action-Learning and   Individual Coaching
PROCESS FACILITATION   • Business & Work Planning
• Team Building
• Conflict Resolution
• Process mapping
 • Open Space Technology
• Appreciative Inquiry
• Focus Groups
  - Needs analysis
  - Culture Change Education
 • Executive Team Coaching and   facilitation

 

For more detailed information on specific products and services please call Michael Prince on 0407 275 977 or email him at michael@windingstaircase.com.au.

 

How we work

We provide a high value, highly customised service to our clients: one size does NOT fit all. We work with you to:

– Get clear: Where are you now? What’s really happening that requires something to be done?
– Where do you want to be? What will be different if the work we do together is successful?
– How do we get there? What is the appropriate mix of strategies, products and services that will get you from where you are to where you want to go?

From this we develop a specific proposal for you. You DON’T get a pre-packaged formula or program. Drawing on our wide range of experience, you get the right program or initiative for you.