PEOPLE & PERFORMANCE CONSULTANCY
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Experienced, enthusiastic and informed people and culture professional offering commercially focused services to fast track people related performance
TRAINING WORKSHOPS
Tailored design and/ or delivery of skills training, planning and talent development workshops covering essential business skills and team building. Workshops are interactive, immediately applicable and deliver results for participants and the organisation. Topics include customer service, retail sales, manager as coaching, leading change, induction, performance management, resilience and self management, team building and planning workshops.
PEOPLE & CULTURE PROJECT SUPPORT
Pragmatic scoping, design and operational implementation support for culture, engagement and development related change projects and programs, recognition frameworks and tools. Working as an on or offsite resource, long or short term assistance with visioning and values development, planning workshops, engagement and culture surveys, performance management and recognition frameworks, on-boarding programs, blended learning, capability and organisational development frameworks.
TRAINING PROGRAM DESIGN
Help translating your great ideas and content into creative, pragmatic and impactful face to face and blended learning programs that get results, whether you have the content or need the content sourced and full design provided. The focus on learning within context through experience and problem solving makes for relevance and engagement as well as results. And of you want to create blended learning that’s doable too.
FACILITATION & PLAN ON A PAGE
For organisations and teams seeking to challenge and clarify their ways of working as a group or articulate their Vision, Values and Mission, then generate and prioritise strategies and actions, synthesised into a one page document, a strong and neutral facilitator can make all the difference in managing the process, personalities and inputs.
TRAIN THE TRAINER
For internal non trainers who want to deliver engaging training as part of a broader role, or new freelance trainers looking for mentoring and resources to fast track their performance. Workshops, coaching, trainer toolkits and starter course materials are available to help simplify your success delivering great training that engages hearts and minds.
CAREERS AND TRANSITION COACHING
Whether it is your choice or not, planning the next steps in your career or transitioning into a new role, can be overwhelming on your own. Coaching from someone with the experience of 7 career reinventions on 2 continents and related coaching qualifications, will help you simplify your choices and support you during the transition. Using a variety of diagnostics to better understand your strengths, motivated skills, preferred working environment, your values and your broader life context, you can clarify your next steps more easily, with less anxiety and greater peace of mind.
Our Valued Clients
APPROACH
Learning is an athletic rather than purely an intellectual pursuit, so ultimately, participants need to be able to change their actions as a result of participating in a learning program. However, what motivates one person to take action, can be different to what engages another, so to ensure rich and inspiring experiences for all, I design and deliver programs that draw on the bodies of knowledge from a variety of perspectives including self-directed learning, positive psychology and neuroscience, adult learning theory, instructional design, change, sports, business education and employee engagement. While one-off learning events can be inspiring and energising at the time, they rarely result in ongoing behavioural change, so where sustained change is the goal, I design support resources, job aids, reward programs and operational frameworks to reinforce the change.
TESTIMONIALS
See what people are saying after working with me
“Irina took time to really understand our firm, its strategy and business drivers and that came out in her materials and facilitation.”
FOUNDER
“Irina is a delight to work with. She is enthusiastic, has a positive attitude, a broad range of interests which she brings to her consulting roles… and always exceeds my expectations.”
ART DIRECTOR
“Every course that I have attended with Irina has been a wonderful experience. I have always come out of her courses understanding myself better as well as learning something new.”
ITC & PTP MANAGER
“I think one of Irina’s strengths is that she really attempts to understand the culture of the business and then applies her training to that culture…or desired culture.”
HEAD OF FINANCE OPERATIONS
FREE: DEBRIEFING TRAINING TOOLKIT
Debriefing is an art, not a science, and it is often the difference
between a good experiential learning activity and a great one.
ABOUT
Irina Burgess is an enthusiastic, collaborative and pragmatic trainer, coach and learning designer. After working in sports development, operations management, retail and education in both Australia and England, Irina moved into designing and delivering soft skills and leadership training, as well as culture and engagement programs for companies and teams. Irina’s talent lies in her ability to translate content and outcomes into hands-on learning experiences, frameworks and practical programs, that allow individuals and teams to enjoy their work more, do their jobs better and accelerate business results.
Outside work, she is a mum, Spin class enthusiast, fan of live comedy, 70s dance moves, French films and living in Sydney.
Qualifications
- Masters in HR Management & Coaching Psychology
- Masters in Leisure and Tourism
- Postgraduate in Education and Management
- Certificate IV in Workplace Training and Assessment
- Diagnostic tools MBTI, DiSC and MSCEIT
