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From $1500 plus GST
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Duration
1 Hour Training plus
1/2 hour of Questions & Discussion
Course Location
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Management & Leadership:
Smart Leadership, Strong Teams, Better Bottom Lines.
Known as “the people whisperer,” Kathryn MacMillan delivers management and leadership training that goes beyond theory, shaping programs around your organisation’s culture and goals. Ideal for executives, managers, and team leaders, these sessions focus on team dynamics, performance management, and leadership pipelines—showing how smart leadership and people management skills strengthen workplace culture, reduces conflict, and drives better bottom-line results.
Leadership That Fits Your Culture. Tailored around how your organisation leads, not just theory.
Team Dynamics. Building collaboration and reducing conflict.
Performance Management. Balancing support with accountability.
Developing Leaders. Creating leadership pipelines for growth.
Culture Impact. How leadership behaviours shape workplace culture.
Profit through People. Linking strong leadership directly to business results.
What You’ll Learn in Our Management & Leadership Training
Our management training programs give leaders the tools to adapt their style to fit your organisation’s culture, not just textbook theory. Whether you’re in Sydney, Melbourne, or across Australia, you’ll learn strategies that deliver real results in your workplace.
We focus on improving collaboration, reducing workplace conflict, and strengthening team dynamics. This leadership training is designed for managers who want to create high-performing teams that thrive in competitive business environments across NSW and beyond.
Learn how to balance support with accountability through effective performance management workshops. We provide practical frameworks that HR teams, supervisors, and business leaders can use to boost employee engagement and productivity.
Strong organisations need strong pipelines. Our leadership development programs in Australia prepare emerging managers with the skills and confidence to step up into leadership roles, ensuring succession planning and long-term business success.
Leadership behaviours directly shape workplace culture. This training helps leaders understand how to foster a culture that supports employee engagement, staff retention, and compliance with Australian workplace standards.
Known as “the people whisperer,” Kathryn MacMillan shows how great leadership drives better business outcomes. From small businesses in Sydney to larger organisations across Australia, we link people strategies directly to productivity, profitability, and sustainable growth.
Request our Management & Leadership Training Suite Brochure and explore a wide range of programs designed to build confident, capable leaders. Choose from essentials such as management fundamentals, holding employees accountable, and steps to strengthen your leadership skills. Go beyond traditional management to discover how effective leaders engage their people’s knowledge, creativity, and discretionary effort.
Your training may also cover understanding human capital and ROI from your team, using DISC profiling as a practical behavioural tool, and building expertise in organisational skills, performance management, running appraisal meetings, and even hiring and termination. Every program is customised — we listen to your challenges and tailor the training to resonate with your workplace.
Your Presenter
Kathryn MacMillan MHRM&IR, MRSCA CAHRI – CEO, CIRCLE Recruitment & HR
Kathryn MacMillan is the founder and Managing Director of CIRCLE Recruitment & HR. She holds a Master’s Degree in Human Resource Management & Industrial Relations from Sydney University, is an Accredited Recruitment Professional with the Recruitment Consulting Services Association (MRCSA), and a certified professional member of Australian Human Resource Institute (CAHRI).
Ranked first at Sydney University 2017, in Management Consulting, first in 2018 in HRM and IR in Action, in 2019 Kathryn was the winner of the prestigious Kingsley Laffer Memorial Award for Industrial Relations from the University.
Her academic knowledge coupled with years of experience and ability to engage an audience, makes Kathryn a highly skilled and sought after speaker and trainer.
As seen on ABC TV, heard on Radio National and chosen guest Speaker for many associations including University of Wollongong, Government Business events, Bizness Babes program, NSW TAFE, Councils, RCSA, Business Business Business, Australian Association of Accounting Technicians, Business and Industry Conferences and The Institute of Chartered Accountants, Kathryn inspires and informs the audience with her engaging appeal and professional knowledge.
“Ask any business group what is the area they most struggle with and their response is invariably – people! People are really tricky to deal with – they change, they hide their true feelings and they hold their own perceptions of the truth…
… Human Resources & Industrial Relations is an area that can lead to dry presentations with bored attendees, therefore it’s really important that when presenting HR, IR or people skills, that I use all of mine to ensure that the presentation is engaging! I guess that’s why I have been called the ‘People Whisperer’. I can ‘whisper’ and get results from individuals or your team.”
Kathryn MacMillan
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