Strengths Compass for Leaders
Finding it harder to sustain the way you're working?
This workshop was designed for you.
Next two-day workshop · July & August 2026 · Places limited
A two-part workshop with three weeks between sessions
Next intake: Tuesday 28 July & Thursday 20 August 2026
Investment: $795 + GST including your Leader Profile
Day 1: Understanding the terrain
Explore how your strengths, energy, and responsibility are currently interacting
Between the two sessions
Test one small, strengths-led experiment in your role
Day 2: Recalibrating with intention
Reflect on what you learned and explore more sustainable ways of working
This workshop may be for you if you are noticing any of the following:
Finding that work is taking more out of you than it once did
Noticing that responsibility has gradually accumulated over time
Questioning what is yours to hold and what might be shared or let go
Trying to make sense of patterns that have become harder to ignore
Looking for practical, evidence-informed ways to work differently
Ready to test small, intentional experiments and learn from what they reveal
Suitable for both emerging and experienced leaders, whether self-funded or organisation-supported.
Workshop options
Online
Tues 28 July & Thurs 20 August 2026
Adelaide (in-person)
Tues 22 Sept & Thurs 15 October 2026
Investment
$795 + GST- Includes Leader Profile
Group size
Limited to 10 participants
Format
Two workshop days, three weeks apart
Need support to attend?
Download the workshop flyer to share with your manager or organisation
Moving beyond insight alone
Leadership in complex, people-focused roles can be demanding and depleting. Many leaders are thoughtful and self-aware, but still find themselves questioning whether the way they are working can continue. Insight is a starting point. What people often need next is a way to explore that understanding in practice.
Many strengths approaches focus on helping people understand and apply their strengths. This workshop explores how strengths are currently being used, at what cost, and what supports sustainable contribution over time.
It recognises that these patterns are shaped by more than individual capability alone. The way work is structured, the expectations people carry, and how responsibility is distributed all play a role.
Strengths crafting in practice
This workshop introduces strengths crafting, an approach grounded in job crafting research.
Strengths crafting involves exploring small, intentional adjustments in how you work.
The focus is on learning from what those adjustments reveal over time. It supports a more sustainable way of contributing without adding more.
Using your Leader Profile
Using your Leader Profile, you'll identify one small, realistic experiment to test between sessions and reflect on what it reveals in practice.
The profile reflects your current role, energy, and work context.
“I attended Sharon’s Strengths Compass for Leaders workshop and found it to be an insightful and perceptive approach to supporting students to identify and work with their 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)
A different kind of leadership workshop
Our 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 decisions are made about what may need to change.
The workshop is built around the Strengths Compass, a reflective framework that helps people notice patterns, make sense of what they are experiencing, and explore what supports sustainable contribution over time.
This is not insight for its own sake. It is insight translated into practice.
Day One: Understanding the terrain
Understanding the Skills Discovery model and energy dynamics
Recognising patterns of overuse, depletion, and responsibility accumulation
Distinguishing between strengths that propel contribution and those that protect sustainability in leadership practice
Exploring the five zones of strengths crafting in your leadership context
Designing a small, strengths-led experiment for your role
Day Two: Recalibrating with intention
Reflecting on what your experiment revealed in practice
Exploring what emerging patterns reveal about how work is structured
Using energy as information to guide sustainable choices
Understanding ethical load and responsibility dynamics
Refining your strengths crafting approach
Building a more sustainable leadership practice
Participants leave with
Understanding of how strengths, energy, and responsibility interact in their context
Experience designing and testing a small strengths-led experiment in their role
Greater discernment about overextension and what supports sustainability
The propelling and protective strengths distinction as a lens for ongoing self-leadership
Clearer boundaries around what is theirs to carry and where responsibility needs to be shared
Greater confidence in identifying the conversations, supports, or adjustments needed next
“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
Ready to recalibrate?
You can book online below or contact us if you'd like to discuss suitability for yourself or your staff.
A Leader Profile is included in the registration fee, completed close to the workshop so it reflects your current energy and work context.
All registered participants are offered an optional 15-minute phone consult before the workshop to discuss their role, context, and goals.
This workshop can also be tailored for organisations. Contact us to discuss virtual or in-person delivery options.
How this work often fits
Individual Coaching
A personalised space to explore your strengths, energy, and contribution within the realities of your work and life.
For Organisations
Bring this thinking back into your organisation through our Strengths & Sustainability Pathway.
If you'd like to explore how this work might support you, your leaders, or your organisation, you're welcome to get in touch.