Leadership Essentials

Core Capabilities

Building the skills that unlock potential.

To thrive in any role or challenge, you need the right skills and tools. These Core Capabilities help you and your stakeholders identify opportunities, perform better, and achieve even greater success, wellbeing, and impact. At Maximy, we don’t just teach capabilities – we help you build, strengthen, and embed them so they become part of how you show up every day.

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What we offer

Develop the Core Capabilities that matter most

We guide individuals, teams, and organisations to strengthen capabilities that make a real difference. Some of the ones we focus on include:

Creating high-quality thinking atmospheres – this includes building trust and respect, actively listening, constructively challenging, creating psychological safety and giving and receiving high-quality input
Brand, presence and reputation management
Relationship building and communication
Setting expectations - including objectives, deliverables, commitments, ways of working/ engaging
Adopting a Work-in-Progress / Growth Mindset - including experimentation and innovation
Strategising and planning
Managing performance, productivity and resilience
Having important / crucial / difficult conversations
Dealing with and adapting to change
Time & energy management
A reflective practice
The fundamentals of managing thoughts, emotions, behaviours and habits.

How skilled am I and my stakeholders?

It’s easy to assume we’re ‘good’ at these skills – but when we dig deeper, we often uncover gaps and untapped opportunities.

We ask reflective questions to help you – and your stakeholders – assess where you are today and where you could be:

How well could I teach this skill to someone else?
What tools, resources, and models do I rely on?
Am I a novice, intermediate, or expert – and what does that really mean?
What are my strengths, and where do I need to improve?
What outdated habits or bad practices might be holding me back?

By understanding where you stand, you can take the right steps to develop, practise, and embed these capabilities.

Normalising Core Capabilities conversations: let's make this a habit

Here’s where the magic happens. When we talk openly about our capabilities, we:

Learn from each other’s toolkits: Share models, insights, and resources that work.
Spot opportunities to support each other: Collaborate to practise and strengthen key skills.
Create a culture of progress: Replace frustration and constraints with growth and success.

‍Start by asking:

What’s in your toolkit for this capability?
How can we help each other develop and practise it?

These conversations aren’t about judgement – they’re about growth. When we normalise them, we unlock potential that’s hiding in plain sight.

Core Capabilities

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We offer courses, tutoring, practicing (with practice ninjas) and coaching.

You’ve got one shot at life

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Discover how we can help you and/or your organisation with your leadership journey to enhance your impact today.

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