Peak People Development

Our highly personalised solutions get to the heart of what you need to facilitate behavioural change and accountability in the workplace. Whether it’s working alongside you to boost leadership success, or creating a safe place to explore challenges and struggles, Peak People take a practical, leadership development focus. We blend proven tools and methodologies that lead to concrete positive action.

APPROACH

People get the best out of people.

Your people are your greatest asset. Our experience and expertise can tap into their potential, resulting in peak performance, sustained growth, and a positive work culture.

We’re passionate about developing effective, resilient and inclusive leaders. Through engaging solution design, program facilitation and executive coaching, we create tailored experiences that lead to positive change – for individuals, leaders, teams and organisations.

Peak solutions.

We believe, for lasting change to take place, people need to have:

An awareness of their personal strengths and weaknesses and the need for change.

The desire to leverage their strengths, develop their weaknesses, and be open to new ways of experimenting with thinking and behaviour.

The knowledge to learn how to change and confidence in their new abilities.

Active reinforcement of everything they’ve learned through real-world practice, observation, feedback and measurement.

While all of our programs are highly customised, this positive and sustainable approach to behaviour change underpins our process.

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SERVICES

Leadership development programs

Ideal for improving leadership performance and effectiveness, or creating greater synergies and collaboration within your team.

Our tailored programs will harness the potential of your team, develop skills and align behaviours to your business and strategic goals. Common focus areas could include building high performance teams, leadership impact, emotional intelligence, motivation and engagement, effective communication, coaching skills, feedback, influencing, conflict resolution, delegation, leading hybrid/remote teams, decision-making, leading change or customer-centricity.

Psychometric tools and simulations can be included to deepen learning and self-insight.
Programs can be facilitated face-to-face, virtually, or a combination of both.

Personal development programs

Ideal if you or your team need to boost skills and confidence in a particular area quickly.

These mini-modules provide practical tools and ideas to address specific areas of personal development. Common focus areas could include building self-awareness, giving and receiving great feedback, leveraging whole brain thinking®, working in hybrid/remote teams, leveraging diversity, psychological safety, meeting effectiveness, time management and working smarter, positive and productive mindset, new habit building, my ‘personal brand’, captivating communications, storytelling techniques and landing the sales pitch.

Modules can be run independently or clustered into bespoke programs. All can be facilitated face-to-face, virtually, or a combination of both.

Career development and executive coaching

Ideal if you or your team have specific needs and goals that would benefit from 1:1 coaching.

Our 1:1 coaching programs are designed entirely around you. We can help you identify and build on your strengths and address any gaps or potential derailers. Common focus areas could include leading people, working with others, accurate self-insight, understanding and leveraging thinking preferences, enhanced communication skills and first 90 days support. We also provide career development support, such as effective development planning, shaping your career path and successful career transition.

We recommend 3-6 months 1:1 coaching program duration for effective behaviour change. Personal programs may include psychometric assessments and other tools where appropriate. All can be facilitated face-to-face, virtually, or a combination of both.

Organisational culture, diversity and inclusion

Ideal if you want to lead cultural or business change. Or you find the behaviours of your leadership team and the aspirations of your business are out of alignment.

These programs help to identify cultural barriers or problems that are holding your business back, and provide customised, culture-based solutions to help address any gaps or weaknesses. We generally start with a culture audit, which can include engagement surveys, cultural assessments, 1:1 interviewing or focus group activities. We then work closely with you to determine the best way forward to achieve your cultural and diversity goals.

These programs are ideally facilitated face-to-face, but some aspects (such as cultural assessments) can be delivered virtually.

Psychometric assessment

Ideal if you’re recruiting and want deeper insights into your potential hires, or you’re looking to develop and get the best out of your current team.Ideal if you’re recruiting and want deeper insights into your potential hires, or you’re looking to develop and get the best out of your current team.

Our world-class assessment tools accurately and objectively identify the capabilities and preferences of individuals, teams and organisations. Our wide range of options include:

• Herrmann ‘Whole Brain Thinking’ HBDI

• Saville WAVE personality styles and 360

• Human Synergistics LSI I and II (360) & Leadership Impact

• Hogan personality assessments • Birkman career directions

• Strengthsfinder

• Cognitive testing (aptitude, verbal, numerical, abstract reasoning)

• and many others.

Our assessment process provides deep insights, which are captured and presented back to you in a simple, pragmatic report and virtual debrief session.

Workplace wellbeing

Ideal if you’re looking to instil higher levels of wellbeing into the workplace, which is proven to lead to more resilient, satisfied and productive team members, and better customer outcomes.

Our wellbeing portfolio provides practical ideas and support to help enhance individual and organisational levels of wellbeing. Common focus areas include wellbeing audits and self-assessment tools such as the ‘Global Leadership Wellbeing Survey’ GLWS (personal and/or teams) and virtual mini-modules on impactful wellbeing topics such as: healthy mindset, change your thinking, building resilience, managing boundaries, wellbeing practices, five ways of wellbeing, coping with change, supporting others in difficult times and any other wellbeing goal you might have.

Modules can be run independently or clustered into tailored programs. All can be facilitated face-to-face, virtually, or a combination of both.

ABOUT

We understand the complex challenges leaders face today.

With a vision of elevating teams and individuals to reach their peak, Elayne Verner founded Peak People in 2018. Driven by Elayne’s deep passion for improving the effectiveness, leadership and wellbeing of people, culture and business, Peak People is made up of a highly skilled team of specialists who have experience across all sectors and industries, both locally and globally.

MEET ELAYNE

Elayne Verner, Founding Director

As a Leadership & Organisational Development specialist, Elayne has spent 30+ years working across a broad range of companies and industries, including healthcare, retail, hospitality, manufacturing, construction, transport, corporate and financial services, technology, government departments and organisational development consulting services. Prior to this specialisation, Elayne was General Manager, Mirvac and Global Head, Emerging Markets Learning Strategy, Johnson & Johnson. This breadth of exposure gives her a deep understanding of complex organisational challenges and opportunities that business leaders and individuals face today.

Elayne has a Masters of Management, Postgraduate Diploma in Management, Bachelor of Arts in English & Management and a Professional Certificate of Executive Coaching, as well as AQF Training & Assessment qualifications and numerous organisational development and psychometric assessment accreditations.

CONTACT

Elayne Verner
Director

+61 (0) 447 333 978

elayne.verner@peakpeople.com.au

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