Wellington Leadership Group: Getting Great Advice

I'm delighted to welcome Steven Youngblood to present at this upcoming Wellington Leadership Group. During his presentation, Seven will be sharing his thoughts on 'Getting Great Advice'.

Our teams produce a lot of advice.

We have whole teams whose job is to research, analyse and assess information and help inform executive and other decisions. Sometimes analysis and advice can miss the mark, which can be because of a disconnect between what management wants and how they commission work. Even when you have great commissioning, teams can get caught up on answering every angle or otherwise lose focus on how advice can be used by decision makers. When this happens, advice can linger or bounce around without agreement, or we look to outside sources for advice we can use. 

There are some things we can do to help us get and give great advice. This session will help you understand why focusing on answering the right questions makes for great advice you can use to make better decisions.

About Steven
Steven is a strategy consultant coming from a significant background in public service, who has been helping Government with their trickiest problems for his entire professional life.
He helps executives and leaders with the hard stuff. This means working with those in small, ambitious agencies to diagnose and solve problems getting in their way and help them prioritise the actions they need to take to achieve their goals and deliver effective services.
His mission is to lift the confidence and capability of government, to turn the dial away from the use of large consultancy firms and towards developing the skills and capabilities of teams to ensure leaders get and give great advice

About Cillín Hearns
An Irishman living in New Zealand, Cillín has a strong background in information technology and consulting. He has several years experience in project management and project governance. Cillín has led project teams through multiple concurrent projects ranging in size from $300k to $12m. He has also had the good fortune to lead and develop up to 12 teams of 140 consultants of various disciplines including Agile, DevOps, Test Analysis, Business Analysis, and Architecture so he knows what it takes to deliver.

Giving back to the community is important to Cillín. That’s why he set up the Wellington Leadership Group and the Wellington Coaches Network. With over 1,700 members in the Leadership Group, Cillín speaks on a range of topics on everything from holding difficult conversations and giving feedback to personal effectiveness and high-performing teams. With a vision to raise the level of coaching throughout New Zealand, Cillín facilitates mini workshops to advance coaching skills across all coaching disciplines and team leaders.
As a Leadership and Performance Coach, Cillín has worked with people from a range of backgrounds and at every level of the organisation. His style is both relaxed and professional with a large dose of humour at the right times which is summed up nicely by this feedback, “Fantastic – this guy rocks! Amazing speaker. The session was motivating and inspiring.”

About Results Coaching
Founded in 2011, Results Coaching (formerly Setanta Consulting), is one of New Zealand’s fastest growing coaching practices. Our promise is to expand the horizons of our clients measured by observable growth through coaching and training events. As one participant put it, “This is the type of talk I’m looking for at my stage of my career, i.e. focuses on personal development rather than technical skills.”

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