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Ability Accelerator™ & Coaching
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Ability Accelerator™ & Coaching

Mindavation’s new trademarked strengths-based coaching and mentoring approach has been developed specifically to help businesses fast-track team and individual success.

The Ability Accelerator™ Program is fully customisable: you co-design the content with us. Capability assessments using the Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI) framework indicate growth areas. Work applied learnings from the one-on-one coaching program tailored to your business context.

AAP™ and our extensive range of people development programs and workshops (below) have been proven to improve staff retention, quickly grow individual and team ability, achieve lasting competency shifts and respect the time constraints of busy teams.

If you want to demonstrate your investment in your people, drive results and improve your talent retention, contact us today to find out more.

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Ability Accelerator™ Program

Our strengths-focused program uses work-applied coaching strategies that staff apply after every session. It's perfect for time-poor teams with just an hour every fortnight. The mix of coaching sessions and onsite masterclasses uplifts your staff capability without losing days to traditional training. Skills become embedded in daily operations, not left in a training room. Lasting professional development to help your teams succeed.

New Manager Fundamentals

Help your new managers master the fundamentals of effective team leadership, feedback delivery, and stakeholder management to drive immediate impact.

Team/Group Coaching

Partner with our experienced coaches to elevate team performance. Our personalised one on-one coaching solutions build strategic thinking and the ability to lead complex organisational change.

Influencing Without Authority

Strengthen your ability to influence decision-makers at all levels with our proven techniques that build coalitions, navigate organisational dynamics and achieve your objectives.

Confident Speaking Masterclass

Master techniques for structuring compelling narratives, managing nerves, and delivering high-stakes presentations that command attention and inspire your audience.

Facilitation Success Workshop

Increase you core skills for effective facilitation, managing challenging conversations, understanding group dynamics and conducting outcome-driven meetings and workshops.

Customised Team Programs

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Action-driven Training

Our targeted learning solutions range from in-person training to online enablement across a number of professional knowledge streams. All of our course offerings are fully customisable to meet your needs.

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Consultant’s Way

This industry-leading course provides practical skills for anyone performing an internal consultant role. Learn effective questioning methods and how to objectively prioritise client needs to achieve outcomes.

Project Success Immersion

Using insights from our highly rated ‘BA Bootcamp’ and ‘10 Mighty Tools’ courses, our Project Success Immersion an interactive workshop where you get to apply project theory to real-world scenarios.

Design Thinking Training

Learn to use the latest design thinking principles, tools and human-centred techniques to deliver business initiatives with confidence.

Managing Self and Others

This course increases your perceptions and belief as a leader be examining behaviours and situations that inhibit or enhance effectiveness. Participants leave with practical tools they can use right away.

Strategic Influencing and Negotiation

Develop your influencing abilities and choices and applying simple techniques to improve the odds of your suggestions being accepted and implemented.

Business process modelling

In his most popular online LinkedIn Learning Course, Haydn Thomas walks you through how to get the most out of business process modelling techniques and avoid common pitfalls in projects.

Risk Management

Effectively identify and mitigate risks by completing our online Thinkific course. Get the latest tips, techniques and templates to substantially increase project success.

High-energy Workshops

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Leadership Capability

Accelerate leadership excellence across your organisation through our comprehensive capability development solutions that strengthen people leadership and decision-making at all levels.

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Courageous leadership masterclass

This masterclass for middle and senior managers enhances your ability to manage risks, employ creativity to solve problems and be persistent to achieve results.

360-degree Feedback Assessments

Individual or group assessments, using the globally recognised Hogan 360 feedback model, to make development decisions and analyse your performance to maintain relationships.

Advancing Strengths Assessments

Strengths-based relationship-focused assessment helps individuals or groups understand their core motives, how they experience conflict and their strengths to create a workplace where relationships thrive.

Adaptive Leadership Sprints

These group or individual sessions helps leaders create environments where teams can innovate, fail safely and speak up. This directly impacts retention.

Relationship Dynamics Sprints

Our workshops provide an indispensable toolkit for leaders looking to create harmony in their teams and increase results in constantly evolving environments.

Critical Judgement Workshops

Sharpen your decision-making ability through our program focused on developing your critical thinking capability, risk assessment and ethical reasoning under pressure.

Executive Development Sessions

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Change & Strategy Planning

Partner with our experienced senior change advisors to design and implement transformation initiatives that deliver sustainable organisational outcomes.

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Strategic Change Advice

Our senior change professionals that help leaders design, plan and execute transformation programs, build stakeholder commitment and develop effective narratives to communicate progress.

Machinery of Government Transitions

We are Machinery of Government (MoG) and business transition specialists, helping accelerate delivery of Commonwealth and State Government agency whole-of-government change initiatives.

Business Planning Facilitation

Work with our professional facilitators who bring structure, focus and collaboration to your business planning workshops, ensuring strategic clarity and energising team commitment.

Effectively Engaging Stakeholders

Discover tips and tricks to understand stakeholder influence and impact, embed engagement in projects and manage difficult and disengaged stakeholders.

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Professional Mentor Who Transforms Careers

I have been lucky enough to have Haydn as my (professional) mentor, and I would strongly recommend him to anyone seeking guidance and support. He had a profound impact on my self-confidence, my integrity, and vastly improved my skills when dealing with others both in and out of the workplace. I can honestly say that I wouldn’t have made it so far in such a short period of time without his expert guidance and advice.

Beyond Bank I Client I Executive Coaching and Mentoring

The Best Professional Course I Have Ever Done

I took part in Mindavation’s “The Difference between Good and Great Project Managers” course and it was without doubt the best course that I have ever done during my professional career. I have participated in many courses with a significant number during my time at the Federal Government, but this one was delivered with a perfect mix of both theory and practice.

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Highly Recommended Business Analysis Trainer

I took Mindavation’s interactive training course on how to become an awesome business analyst (BA). I left the course inspired and motivated! I would recommend Haydn as a BA mentor, trainer or presenter to anyone!

IIBA Australia Hobart Branch I Client - Senior BA I Training - Business Analysis

The Project Expert We Needed

Mindavation prepared and delivered training materials for our organisation, bringing to life his many years of experience in Business Analysis and Project Management. Without his help we would not have been able to achieve project management maturity and building capacity within the organisation for undertaking projects.

Charles Sturt University I Client - BA Practice Lead I Training - Project Management and Business Analysis

Dedication to Critical Change Requirements

Mindavation’s Margie Sheedy is recognised for her dedicated and professional contribution to the coordination of critical change requirements across our regulatory initiative.

Comcare I Client I Organisational Change Consultant