Common challenges we address

We help address many challenges.  Here are some of the most common.

Our leaders are new, overwhelmed or ineffective

Often they haven’t developed competency in cultivating conditions – conversationally or structurally. This can be very relevant for technical experts promoted to a leadership role.  They’re directing or doing instead of creating the environment where others can flourish. We build this cultivating conditions competency.

Our profitability is decreasing

Declining profitability (margins) is often a sign the current skills and ways of working no longer suit the needs of the organisation.  We help address this and achieve profitability improvement.

Some of our team are not contributing

Many factors may impact on someone’s fulfilment of their role.  We help leaders ensure they are fulfilling their part in enabling their team while also holding their team accountable for fulfilling their parts.

We want to grow

Growth usually involves new and greater complexity.  We help develop the clarity and competency to achieve profitable growth.

We want to invest in our people

We help organisations develop their people in ways that align individual and organisational goals.  It’s a win-win approach.

Change initiatives keep failing

Change requires structural and behavioural change.  This involves personal, interpersonal, team and organisational competencies.  We help achieve sustainable improvements.

Teams aren't working together

Collaborating requires many competencies.  We help equip people with the mindsets and skills to harness differences in perspectives and expertise, for the benefit of the organisation.

We're too dependent on a few key people

We build competency throughout the whole team and within the organisational systems.  This reduces reliance on any one person.

Our best people are leaving

People can only tolerate frustrating, difficult or stagnant conditions for so long.  We help create organisational conditions that enable people to do their best work while growing their competence.

Industries and organisation types

  • Service – trade and professional

  • Contracting e.g. building, construction

  • Health

  • Manufacturing

  • Education

  • Government

  • Member organisations

  • Co-operatives and franchises

  • Not for profit

Workplace roles

We understand the unique needs of each type of role we work with:

Team members are responsible for fulfilling their role within the organisation

Emerging Leaders are demonstrating the traits and interest to fulfil a leadership role

Team Leaders are responsible for assigning and coordinating work within their team

Unit Leaders are responsible for a part (unit or department) within their organisation

Divisional Leaders are responsible for multiple units within their organisation

Organisational Leaders are responsible for the whole organisation

Partner approach

We’re focussed on understanding you

From working with many people, roles and organisations, we know how different each is.

We meet you where you are. We partner with our Clients to understand their needs and goals, tailoring our services to suit.

We have a range of solutions to suit a variety of budgets, timeframes, learning needs and preferences.

We’re committed to achieving measurable positive impact

We understand how essential it is to achieve gains from L&D investment.  We focus on areas that will have an immediate benefit on people’s day to day work.  From our experience we know this grows their capacity, effectiveness and confidence.  This in turn grows their appetite to learn more ways they can flourish in their role and organisation.

Do our values align with yours?

Respect

We value ourselves, each other, our work, our world.

Autonomy

We are each able to choose for ourselves

Partnership

We all have an important role and are responsible for fulfilling it

Collaboration

We achieve more together (no-one can do everything)

Harmony

Our differences can combine in harmonious ways

Balance

Getting the mix right. Sustainable success comes from combination (rather than extremes)

Integrity

The strength of any whole depends on the combination and coordination of its diverse parts

Learning

We love learning!
It’s how we fulfil our potential

Our Clients

Here are some of the organisations we’ve delivered learning services for:

MTA  |  Dairy Goat Cooperative  |  Fisher & Paykel  |  Dominion Construction  |  22 Degrees  |  Auckland Heat Pumps Ltd  | Cushman & Wakefield  |  MOTAT  |  Ergo Consulting Ltd  |  Fidelity Life  |  Massey University  |  Hauora Whanui  |  IMG Ltd  |  Churchill Hospital  |  IGENZ |  CoSell Ltd  |  Institute of Management New Zealand  |  Rosebank Business Association  |  Komatsu  |  Insight Online  |  Cospak  |  Lynch Phibbs  |  Skills Group  |  McLarens Young  |  Muriwhenua Collective  |  Altex Coatings Limited  |  Pool Magic  |  Red Badge Group  |  Sysmex NZ  |  Te Hauora O Te Hiku O Te Ika  |  Winstone Aggregates  |  Employers & Manufacturers Association  |  NZ Strong   | OPUS  |  Mitchell Vranjes Structural Engineers  | Construction Cost Consultants  |   Sika (NZ) Ltd  |  DHL Global  |  DHL Express  |  Tamaki Health  |  Radius Care  | Counties Manukau DHB   |  Waitemata DHB  |  Kids After School | and many more…

We enjoy working in partnership with our Clients

“Equip consistently design and deliver excellent training – our members love them! They learn practical business skills that work, from facilitators who understand them, their industry and their business.

Working with Equip is great – they’re flexible, professional, and nothing is ever too much trouble.  They fit in with what we need and provide real value.  It’s more than a service – it’s a partnership.”

Kim Preston, MTA (Motor Trade Association)

“Financial literacy is really important for our people—both those who work with numbers, like QSs, and those responsible for financial results. The training has definitely improved awareness, sparked great questions, and the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive.

People are getting a lot out of it—it pulls together the many different pieces of finance in a way that makes sense, helping them see how everything connects. An unexpected bonus is the increased appreciation for what our finance team does, and how each person’s role impacts the wider business. We’ve seen improved compliance as a result.

Working with Equip is easy—they’re flexible, open, and great at tailoring the programme to suit our industry and business. I really enjoy working with them.”

Grant Judge, Dominion Constructors Ltd

“”‘“We choose to deal with Lisa and Equip as over the years (and many training sessions) they have consistently delivered excellent value for money.

It is apparent that Lisa has a wide and diverse knowledge and that important ability to be able to connect with people.  Additionally, Lisa has always been very generous and accommodating with her time and resources:  whether it be the initial meeting to discuss my teams’ training needs and distilling those conversations into a customised course, to following up post training and having a touch base session with participants to see how they are progressing.

In recent times Equip have been a great help with improving our training we deliver to customers. We are a software company and while we are very knowledgeable on our product, we are not professional trainers. The Train the Trainer course provided us with very valuable information, tools and tips for delivering training. And even better, we received very positive feedback from our customers after incorporating this learning into our courses.”

Jan Preston, Sysmex New Zealand Ltd

Still not sure? Try us out

Experience our learning facilitation.

Choose from one of 3 mini workshops to see how our learning facilitation suits you and your team.

  1. How to increase engagement and ownership when assigning work
  2. How to grow capability using coaching questions
  3. How to reduce interruptions and improve focus

Auckland based workshops may be run onsite.
Areas outside Auckland will be run online.