Wairua Consulting can work with you to develop professional development plans that include one-on-one coaching and mentoring, group facilitation and to develop training material and courses that are customised to meet your exact requirements. All our work is grounded in a knowledge of sound educational design principles and expertise in facilitation and communication.

Mentoring and coaching

Creating a regular space to reflect on your own career or business decisions is important and there are times when being able to discuss options, situations that have arisen or explore greenfield options with an experienced mentor is invaluable. Wairua Consulting is able to offer you and your management team individual or group based, one-off, short-term or ongoing mentoring and coaching.

We can bring our independent thinking, facilitation skills and experience to your situation.

Facilitation

Working in groups is a powerful way to solve problems and generate new ideas. But to get the most from a group situation you need an experienced facilitator who can ensure that all the views are heard and that people are not ignored. Our experience in group processes means that we can help you to harness the power of groups in your organisation and achieve impressive results.

Speaking engagements

Our team are all competent and experienced presenters, much in demand in their respective fields! We are always happy to discuss how we can work with your company or conference to provide topical and engaging presentations. We regularly work with media organisations, providing commentary on our specialist areas.

Training courses

We develop and deliver custom training packages for professional organisations and not for profit groups. Educationally sound and clearly focussed group learning is a valuable tool for developing strengths and synergies within groups. Wairua Consulting has delivered training workshops and presentations nationally and internationally, for example:

• Bay of Plenty District Health Board, Tauranga: One day workshop focussed on developing workforce skills and awareness of maternal mental health.
• Community Psychiatric Nurses Association, Leeds, UK: Key issues in nurse prescribing.
• Ewha Woman's University, Seoul, Korea: The potential benefits available to indigenous communities from harnessing new information and communication technologies.
• University of Auckland: Software development methodologies for electronic commerce.
• University of Waikato: The Internet and civil society.
• Unitec, Auckland: Under-graduate course in eCommerce, post-graduate courses in strategic planning, project management, community informatics, communication and mental health.

Our teaching experience covers business and technology strategies, eBusiness, project management, community technology (including eGovernment and eDemocracy), eLearning, technology and small/medium enterprises (SME), communication, tourism and technology, migration and health.

Online learning

Many education providers have made or are making the move to incorporate eLearning into their curriculum, but what are the key issues for management, teaching staff and students? Is online learning a management tool (to reduce cost and increase availability), a teaching tool (supporting learning through pedagogically sound practices) and is it student-centred?

Learning online, outside the live classroom environment presents both opportunities and challenges. It changes the nature of teaching and the offers space for different ways of learning to. We have successfully helped clients, such as the University of Auckland, transition out of the classroom.

• Our research in this area is focussed on the potential of online learning to support different ways of knowing and to extend the learning space