WHAT WE OFFER
How does Core Management Solutions support you
Core Management Solutions is an organisation that gets to the core of the issue. We identify the problem or problems that are specific to you using our unique methodology. Core Management Solutions then brings in the ‘best in class’ solution providers. We don’t add to your problems by changing what you do mid-stream but rather by ensuring that what we deliver adds value to what you want to achieve. We mentor you and your business through to a better way of working. We work in a collegiate way with other providers to ensure that there is full alignment to your business outcome. We focus on harnessing your strengths, addressing your weaknesses, and aligning your whole business to achieving maximum efficiency.
What does Core Management Solutions provide
BOARD MENTORING & ALIGNMENT
Board Mentoring and Alignment
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supporting Boards and their members to work together more effectively and reduce their risk and corporate exposure.
A recent research study conducted by SACS Australia identified the very different skills needed by board members and chairpersons. However, the requirements for not-for-profit organizations and other Board like structures, such as Councils are very similar. Core Management Solutions provides sound support for all of these roles. We provide the following support to both new and existing Boards to make their lives easier and more effective.
General Board Skills:
- Overview of the function of a Board /Advisory Board /Council
- Specific responsibilities of your Board
- Principles of good governance
- Protocols for Board behaviour
- Introduction to understanding financial accounts
- What are the risks to a Board
- How to manage those risks
- Conflict of interest issues
- Duties of care & dilligence
- What questions to ask of management
- Interaction with staff & management
- Mentoring and Coaching
Skills specific to Board members:
- How to ensure effective engagement on the Board
- How to ensure that key issues are addressed
- Protocols for engaging management and the chair
Skills specific to Chairpersons:
- Managing the Board agenda
- Good meeting management
- Facilitation skills
CONSULTING SOLUTIONS
Consulting solutions
- aligning and developing your business efficiency and ensuring that you are implementing the strategy best suited to you.
- we mentor you through the implementation.
Key to our consulting solutions is the ability to define the problem or issue you face and then to provide effective ways of delivering the outcomes that you desire

Key to our consulting solutions:
- ‘best practice’ in theoretical frameworks and development of strategic alignment
- high level project Management principles for effective implementation
- full assessment of business and people requirements
- thorough people skills alignment & development
- clear and effective communication
- effective delivery of process and structural support
- ‘end to end’ business alignment
- ‘best in class’ leadership skills
MENTORING DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS
- these are comprehensive programs that address personal, professional and organisational development to maximize your employee’s contribution
- they are targeted at the level within the organization that you want to develop
- there are programs for all levels within the organisation
- these are supported by mentoring for maximum effectiveness
Previous programs have identified that our unique combination of professional, organisational, and personal skill development supported by mentoring over a sustained period is truly successful. Our courses average between 5–10% core competency improvements. We take a goal oriented approach to providing meaningful development programs supported by mentoring which delivers a very powerful learning environment.
Some satisfied clients testimonials include the following insights:-
“ The different topics worked in together to help me now and in the future”
“ Understanding how to improve myself & understanding others experiences”
“ I did not know what to expect except that I’d energy charged”
“ Learning about learning types helped me .. & my personality type … can build on this to work better with each other”
Key to our development programs:
- goal directed mentoring support throughout the program
- adult learning techniques
- personal insights through the use of Learning Styles, SLTDI, and other specific tools
- understanding of the value of diversity through speaker forums and learning tools
- understanding of teaming and the value of teams
- develop an awareness of the nature of organisations, how they work and how to find ways of working within them
- strong informational support and theoretical frameworks and a structure that provides a variety of modes for accessing information
- tools such as mind-mapping that aid memory, learning and entrepreneurial thinking
- ‘best in class’ facilitators for those rare ‘aha’ experiences
SPECIFIC DEVELOPMENT TOOLS
Specific ‘state of the art’ development aids
- we have a suite of specific development aids that include such tools as easy on-line 360 degree assessments, SLTDI for personal awareness, instant performance feedback
- corporate alignment mapping that provides organisational diagnostics
A number of unique tools and some old favourites are provided that provide insights into organizational and individual core competencies and expand awareness.
A special favourite of Core Management Solutions is the Singer Loomis Type Deployment Inventory (SLTDI) development tool. This is a sequel to MBTI and similarly has its basis in Jungian psychology. It is fresh and provides additional insights into the more complex ways in which individuals collect and analyse information. It may provide a more relevant tool for organisations in its special applicability to tasks and the workplace.
Core Management Solutions is one of only a handful of providers of SLTDI in Australia.
Other key tools provided by Core Management Solutions are:
- Corporate Alignment Mapping
- 360 Degree assessments
- SLTDI
- Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
- Belbin
- DISC
- Competency and Core capability assessments
- Balanced Scorecarding
- Talent identification
- Talent Mapping
- Passion Mapping
- Project management – Prince 2
- Goal setting & Mentoring
- Meeting Management & Facilitation
- Time Management
- Facilitation
- Presentation
- Communication
- Negotiation


