Confidential Advisory Services

Making the choice to leave a position, department or agency can be a difficult decision, it is even more difficult when executives are facing career transitions or being encouraged to look for another position that would be considered a better fit. While change is not always easy, the possibilities of opening a new door can be exciting. Reach out to the team to discuss your career reflections, aspirations, and strategies in a safe and confidential space. We can be a great sounding board and give you additional tips, strategies, or insights, and help you reframe your inner dialogue.

Conflicts are inevitable in the workplace and when not proactively managed at an early stage, it can escalate quickly, affect your wellness and mental health, the psychological health safety of your team, and your reputation as a leader. Learning how to strategically deal with conflicts, abrasive styles, and workplace irritants and turning those difficult situations into learning opportunities can be a game changer for you and can lead you to thrive rather than just survive in your role. Reach out early to the ASE team to discuss practical strategies and tips to deal with difficult situations, including conflict with your immediate supervisor.

The ASE team provides a safe space for executives facing very difficult situations and emotional distress when confronted with perceived harassment and bullying in the workplace, or when named as respondents in violence and harassment complaints or subject to administrative investigations. Reach out in total confidence and we will support throughout the process until the final report is sent to you. We can help you navigate through the process; help you prepare your responses to allegations and for the investigations interviews and refer you to legal counsel if appropriate.  It should be noted that APEX does not accompany clients to interview nor disciplinary hearings.

Reach out for broad advice, reflections and strategies related to effective people-centric management strategies like building a culture of care, trust, and psychological safety.  Discuss your views and reflections with us about the future of work and hybrid workplaces. Hybrid workplaces and future of work considerations are an amazing opportunity to transform the public service and the way we all work throughout our careers. You are in a position of influence, and we would be delighted to help you navigate the associated challenges and lead your teams through times of change.

Reach out to us to leverage the power of relationships to enable strong, strategic, and authentic performance discussions with your supervisor and with your management team. At the heart of building a culture of care and psychological health and safety is building trust and setting the stage for open and honest two-way discussions that identify barriers to success and learning opportunities for growth and development. We can be a great sounding board when it comes to preparing you for challenging performance discussions and helping you navigate the performance management and talent management process and challenges for executives.

While retirement planning can be exciting and stimulating, it can also prove to be challenging, especially when you are considering retirement for health, mental health, or psychological safety reasons, or when you have a perception that you are forced into retiring early. Reach out to discuss strategies, options, and considerations.

As an executive, do you understand your terms and conditions of employment? Do you have any concerns, fears, or perceptions you would like to discuss? Or perhaps you have a need for specific advice or interpretation? Reach out and if the ASE team doesn’t have the answer, we can access experts who will! We can also brief you on APEX advocacy and research work we are doing on your behalf to improve your working conditions.

Work-life balance has always been important, but when the pandemic hit, everything changed. Many leaders were confronted with paradigm shifts, biases, beliefs and were struggling to find new ways of leading, thinking and working in a virtual working setting while juggling new and emerging priorities and stressors at work and at home. Some thrived, others struggled, some unfortunately collapsed and had a wake-up call and realized status quo was no longer an option…Which is your experience? Reach out to the team to have a discussion on setting boundaries, work-life integration tips and effective time management strategies and options.