Leadership Development & Conflict Management

Sun Dog Consulting is a people-first business consultancy with a knack for transforming the workplace from the inside out. Based in Adelaide and serving clients across Australia, we’re all about rethinking the old-school approaches to leadership development and team dynamics (because let’s face it, stale playbooks don’t inspire).

We focus on seamless leader integration, transformative executive coaching, and conflict management that drives growth.

How we can work with you

At Sun Dog Consulting, we specialise in optimising leadership performance and fostering cohesive teams. Our tailored services focus on the people side of your business, enabling sustainable success through these key offerings:

Our approach to Leadership Development and Conflict Management

At a certain point, every organisation will encounter crucial people events that require attention.

The first event is emerging leadership, which includes the process of appointing a new leader at any level in the organisation; the second event is the emergence of conflict, whereby the way leaders handle the conflict will determine the team culture and future success (we will refer to this as Conflict Management). Both of these events provide the opportunity to make a profound impact.

Conflict Management involves becoming comfortable with conflict situations and being able to have difficult conversations. Anyone who can do that possesses a superpower that will serve them a lifetime, both in business and in personal life.

While the introduction of a new leader is an important part of leadership management, it is just one element; the ongoing coaching of leaders must ensure they are held accountable and that the knowledge gap is bridged so that the actual behavioural elements of great leadership are demonstrated.

New Leader Assimilation is the structured onboarding process that goes beyond simply getting to know one another; it addresses the underlying expectations of the team as well as the working habits of the new leader to facilitate a smooth transition. Because of the time sensitivity, organisations need to initiate this during the hiring process of a new executive or director. Leaders also require professional guidance in dealing with the day to day people management. We know that many leaders have undergone significant leadership training and invest their own time reading books on personal development. As shown below, there is a growing need among leaders for this support.

The way our Contextual Performance Coaching differs from many other coaching, is that we require leaders to be accountable for their learning. In that sense, we see ourselves as personal trainers in a gym, and that is not for everyone. If you don’t like to be pushed and held accountable for missing sessions or can’t handle being told that your lifting technique is off, then this is not for you. However, if you don’t want to learn on your own through books or group classes, then this will definitely push you further than you’d imagine. (More in resources).