Strengths Compass for Leaders
Carrying sustained responsibility and finding it harder to maintain your energy over time?
This workshop was designed for you.
A two-day virtual workshop · May & June 2026 · Places limited
For people leading in complex roles seeking a more sustainable way of working with their strengths
Next intake: Tuesday 26 May & Thursday 18 June 2026 · $795 + GST including your Leader Strengths Profile · Places capped at 10
A two-part online workshop with a three-week application period
Day 1 — Understanding the terrain
Explore how your strengths, energy, and responsibility are currently interacting
Between sessions
Experiment with one small, strengths-led adjustment in your role
Day 2 — Recalibrating with intention
Reflect on what you learned and design more sustainable ways of working
A practical starting point to move from insight into sustainable action
Leadership in complex, people-focused roles can be demanding and often depleting. Many leaders are capable and reflective, but insight alone doesn’t always translate into change. Knowing what to do with that understanding, in the reality of your role, is another thing entirely.
Most strengths approaches focus on using more of your strengths. This workshop takes a different approach. It looks at how your strengths are being used, at what cost, and what supports sustainable contribution over time.
Details
Next Virtual Workshops
Choice of two dates:
Workshop 1: Tuesday 26 May & Thursday 18 June 2026
Workshop 2: Tuesday 28 July & Thursday 20 August 2026
Price: $795 + GST- Includes your Leader Strengths Profile
Format: Virtual | Two non-consecutive days separated by three weeks
Group size: Capped at 10 participants to support depth of reflection and quality of the experience
Need support to attend?
Download the workshop flyer to share with your manager or organisation
This workshop is for people who are:
Carrying responsibility that has grown over time, often without clear boundaries
Capable and reflective, but finding that insight alone hasn’t shifted how work is carried
Noticing that strengths they rely on are starting to cost more than they give back
Looking for practical, evidence-informed ways to work differently, not generic leadership advice
Ready to make small, intentional adjustments rather than a complete overhaul
This includes people working in care-based, service, and other people-focused roles.
It is suitable for both emerging and experienced leaders, whether self-funded or supported by their organisation.
Where insight becomes practical change
This workshop introduces strengths crafting, an evidence-based approach to working with your strengths in real roles.
It supports a more sustainable way of contributing without adding more. The focus is on adjusting how your strengths are currently being used, so they continue to energise rather than deplete you.
You will apply this directly using your Leader Strengths Profile*, focusing on one small, real adjustment between sessions.
*The Leader Strengths Profile is included in the registration fee
Day One: Understanding the terrain
Understanding the Strengths Profile model, including Realised Strengths, Unrealised Strengths, Learned Skills, and Weaknesses, and how energy shapes each
Recognising patterns of overuse, depletion, and how responsibility can accumulate around capable people
Distinguishing between strengths that propel contribution and those that protect sustainability
Introducing the five zones of strengths crafting and identifying what is most relevant to your leadership context
Designing one small, realistic crafting experiment to test in your role
A different kind of leadership workshop
This is not a workshop built around content or performance.
The focus is on creating space to think more clearly about how you are working, and what is actually sustainable in your role.
Conversations are grounded, reflective, and shaped by the realities of your context, not generic leadership models.
The pace is deliberate, allowing patterns to be recognised before change is designed.
The design reflects how sustainable change actually happens: through insight, experimentation, and ongoing recalibration.
Day Two: Recalibrating with intention
Reflecting on what your crafting experiment revealed in practice
Recognising patterns of overuse and underuse, and what they signal about how work is currently structured
Using energy as information to guide sustainable choices
Understanding ethical load and responsibility dynamics, and distinguishing what is yours to hold
Refining your crafting approach based on what you learned
Building a more sustainable way of leading through ongoing, small-scale adjustment
Outcomes - Participants leave with:
A clearer understanding of how their strengths, energy, and responsibility are interacting, and what this means for sustainability
Experience designing and testing a real strengths-led adjustment in their role
A practical way of recognising overextension, ethical load, and structural pressure without self-blame
Greater discernment about where strengths are supporting or undermining sustainable contribution
The propelling and protective strengths distinction as a lens for ongoing self-leadership
Clarity about what personal effort cannot compensate for, and where responsibility or support needs to be shared
A grounded sense of what conversations, boundaries, or supports may be needed next
This is not insight for its own sake. It is insight translated into practice.
“I attended Sharon’s Strengths Compass for Leaders workshop and found it to be an insightful and perceptive approach to working with strengths. Sharon brings a calm and knowledgeable presence to facilitation and group discussion. I came away with a clear understanding of how this approach can be adopted in practice.”
- Patricia Muncey, Manager Field Education, Adelaide University | Participant, Strengths Compass for Leaders workshop (2 days)
Ready to recalibrate?
You can book online below, or contact us to discuss suitability for yourself or your staff. All participants are offered an optional 15-minute phone consult before the workshop to discuss their role, context, and goals.
A Leader Profile is included in the registration fee, completed close to the workshop so it reflects your current energy and work context.
Early registration is encouraged for the May/June intake to secure your place.
This workshop can also be tailored for organisations. Contact usto discuss virtual or in-person delivery options.
“This training challenged me in all the right ways, not just in content, but in the quality of interaction and reflection it fostered. Sharon held the space with calm, confidence, and deep knowledge, responding with care and relevance to real workplace challenges. A great workshop I’ll be recommending to others.”
- Sandra Constantine, Senior Practitioner
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