Symphonia Leadership Development - Pty Ltd

Have you ever been responsible for making something happen, but had no direct authority over the people involved?

Flawless Consulting® is a practical two-day workshop for anyone who needs to influence others, build stronger working partnerships and have more honest, productive conversations.

We’ll explore how to:

• Contract clearly and manage expectations
• Recognise and work with resistance
• Build shared accountability
• Influence without relying on authority
• Create genuine 50/50 partnerships

Date: 19 & 20 August 2026 (Johannesburg)
Facilitator: Dr Louise van Rhyn

With only two weeks to go, there is still time to join us.

Find out more and register here:
https://www.symphonia.net/event/flawless-consulting-1-contracting-19-20-august-2026-jhb/

Curious about Flawless Consulting® and how it can strengthen workplace partnerships and influence?

Join Louise van Rhyn, who has facilitated more than 200 Flawless Consulting® workshops, for a free online conversation.

📅 Thursday, 6 August 2026
🕙 10:00 - 11:00
💻 Online via Zoom

Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/ay4BwJfRS5iSzOA9h1xqZA #/registration

Sometimes a workshop catches your attention, but the decision sits quietly in the “maybe later” corner.

- Not because it is not useful.
- Not because the need is not there.
- But because work is full, diaries are crowded, approval takes time and choosing development can become one more decision in an already busy day.

Flawless Consulting® | Powerful Influencing is for people who recognise those real workplace moments where influence, trust and clear conversations matter.

- The moment where expectations need to be clarified.
- The moment where resistance needs to be understood.
- The moment where partnership matters more than position.
- The moment where the quality of the conversation shapes the quality of the work.

If this has been on your radar, this may be a good time to take the next step.

Upcoming public workshops:

Johannesburg
19 & 20 August 2026
Register here: https://www.symphonia.net/event/flawless-consulting-1-contracting-19-20-august-2026-jhb/

Cape Town
26 & 27 August 2026
Register here: https://www.symphonia.net/event/flawless-consulting-1-contracting-26-27-august-2026-cpt/

More information: https://www.symphonia.net/flawless-consulting1/

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One conversation can shift the work

Sometimes one conversation changes the direction of the work.

• Not the big presentation.
• Not the perfect spreadsheet.
• Not the beautifully colour-coded project plan that took half a lifetime and three coffees to finish.

One honest conversation.

• The one where expectations become clearer.
• The one where resistance is finally named.
• The one where both sides stop performing agreement and start building real partnership.
• The one where accountability becomes shared instead of silently passed around.

Flawless Consulting® | Powerful Influencing is built around those conversations.

It is practical, human and deeply relevant for anyone who needs to influence, support, guide, partner or work across teams and stakeholders.

Because better work does not only come from better plans.

Very often, it comes from better contracting, better listening and better conversations.

Our upcoming public workshops are:

Johannesburg
19 & 20 August 2026
Register here: https://www.symphonia.net/event/flawless-consulting-1-contracting-19-20-august-2026-jhb/

Cape Town
26 & 27 August 2026
Register here: https://www.symphonia.net/event/flawless-consulting-1-contracting-26-27-august-2026-cpt/

More information: https://www.symphonia.net/flawless-consulting1/

Influence when you don’t have authority

Some of the hardest work conversations happen when you are responsible for the outcome, but not fully in control of the people, decisions or moving parts around it.

• You need input from another team.
• You need a decision from someone senior.
• You need honesty from a client.
• You need cooperation from people who are already stretched.
• You need to move something forward, but you cannot simply instruct it into existence.

So, you start relying on something far more human than authority.

• Trust.
• Clarity.
• Partnership.
• Courage.
• The ability to have the conversation.

This is why Flawless Consulting® | Powerful Influencing continues to matter.

It gives people practical ways to build stronger working relationships, clarify expectations, work with resistance and influence more effectively, especially when the path is not neat and the people involved all see the world slightly differently.

It is a workshop about work, yes.

But more than that, it is about people trying to work better with people.

Upcoming public workshops:
Johannesburg
19 & 20 August 2026
Register here: https://www.symphonia.net/event/flawless-consulting-1-contracting-19-20-august-2026-jhb/

Cape Town
26 & 27 August 2026
Register here: https://www.symphonia.net/event/flawless-consulting-1-contracting-26-27-august-2026-cpt/

More information: https://www.symphonia.net/flawless-consulting1/

The moment we all recognise

You know that moment in a meeting when everyone is nodding, but somehow nothing is actually clear?

• The project sounds important.
• The deadlines sound urgent.
• The expectations sound obvious.

But the real questions are:

• Who is actually responsible for what?
• What does success look like?
• What are we not saying out loud?
• And why does it feel like everyone has left with a different version of the same conversation?

This is the space where Flawless Consulting® | Powerful Influencing lives.

• Not in theory.
• Not in perfect boardroom language.
• But in the real conversations between real people trying to get meaningful work done together.

It helps us pause before rushing into action, contract more clearly, listen for resistance, build trust and create shared accountability.

Because often, the quality of the work depends on the quality of the conversation that came before it.

For those who would like to explore this in practice, our upcoming public workshops are:

Johannesburg
19 & 20 August 2026
Register here: https://www.symphonia.net/event/flawless-consulting-1-contracting-19-20-august-2026-jhb/

Cape Town
26 & 27 August 2026

Register here: https://www.symphonia.net/event/flawless-consulting-1-contracting-26-27-august-2026-cpt/
More information: https://www.symphonia.net/flawless-consulting1/

Have you ever needed to influence an outcome, but didn’t have direct authority over the people involved?

That is exactly the kind of real workplace challenge explored in the Flawless Consulting® | Powerful Influencing workshop.

Join us for one of our upcoming 2-day workshops:

Johannesburg
19 & 20 August 2026
Register here: https://www.symphonia.net/event/flawless-consulting-1-contracting-19-20-august-2026-jhb/

Cape Town
26 & 27 August 2026
Register here: https://www.symphonia.net/event/flawless-consulting-1-contracting-26-27-august-2026-cpt/

This workshop is practical, interactive and designed to help participants build trust, clarify expectations, manage resistance and work in stronger partnership with others.

Please feel free to share this with someone who may benefit from attending.

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