Leading

Leading Society

The concept that business has a role to play in society beyond simply being an economic entity is now well established and is usually described as Corporate Social Responsibility. Assisting companies in creating meaningful experiences for staff in the area of Corporate Social Responsibility was one of the founding principles of Juno Consulting.

We like to use a combination of skills based volunteering and custom designed leadership experiences to help leaders to gain the perspective and insights that interacting with disadvantaged members of society can bring.

Typically, our skilled volunteering opportunities last 4-6 hours and are designed for teams of 8-12 people. Here is a list of our current offering:

Mock Interviews for the unemployed
Cold Calling & Phone Skills for the unemployed
Back on Track - Life Design for the unemployed
Workplace Communication Skills for the unemployed
Team Building for the unemployed
Problem Solving for the unemployed

Apart from the Mock Interview workshops (which run once a month) all of these experiences can be arranged on request. Our community partner will typically be part of Job Services Australia, the agencies providing services to people on unemployment benefits.

To find out more, explore the brochures on the right, look through our Experiences or give us a call on (03) 9866 7993.

Leading Business

The area of leading business involves all the leadership activities related to the company’s strategy, activities in the marketplace, products, services, supply chain management etc. A whole industry of management consultants exists to service this area and it is not our core business.

Nevertheless, we have significant business knowledge in many sectors, including IT&T, Energy, Utilities, Manufacturing, Financial & Professional Services, FMCG and local government. This broad range of experience underpins our ability to deliver consulting services and coaching in the Leading Complexity area of our leadership model. There is some overlap between the Leading Business and Leading Complexity areas and our capacity to understand your business will prove valuable when addressing issues such as Accountability, Performance and Efficiency.

Leading Self

Self-awareness and self-regulation are the basis for being a well-rounded and flexible leader. We all possess natural leadership abilities and we all have areas of leadership we feel uncomfortable with and would rather avoid. Some of us avoid performance management or difficult conversations, others fail to inspire and motivate their teams and some of us might find it difficult to build and maintain relationships.

Becoming aware of our natural behavioural preferences is the very first step on the road to expanding your leadership capabilities. This is best achieved through a combination of feedback (360 tools, coaching) and experiences that offer perspective on non-preferred leadership behaviour. That sounds easy enough and yet we display a remarkable propensity for discounting feedback that does not fit our own self-image. Increasing self-awareness requires a change of self-image and not everyone is ready to face themselves in an undistorted mirror.

With increased self-awareness usually comes the desire to change our current ineffective and unproductive behaviours and to gain access to new behaviours. This is where self-regulation comes into play. Self-regulation requires the individual to unlearn ingrained behaviours and replace them with new, more effective behaviours. With a good coach, this process usually takes 6-8 weeks and is best done one behaviour at a time.

Juno Consulting has created a number of programs and experiences to allow junior to middle managers to enhance their self-awareness and to increase their ability to self-regulate in the moment. These programs are ultimately designed to give leaders the insights, tools and coaching to become more flexible and more effective in their current and future roles.

To find out more, explore the program brochures on the right, look through our Experiences or give us a call on (03) 9866 7993.

Passport to Work

Passport to Work is a pre-employment training program for unemployed job seekers. Five days of attitudinal and job search training are combined with a three months facilitated mentoring program. Business mentors from partner companies aid the participants in their job search and keep them focussed on achieving their goals.

This program has been run successfully over 20 times in Melbourne, Sydney, Bendigo, Geelong and Ballarat. It achieved an average success rate of 60% of participants gaining employment at the end of the program.