Andrew McDuie
Founder / Coach / Facilitator
My Background
With over 20 years helping people improve, learn and overcome challenges in professional and personal situations I value the opportunity to help develop skills, knowledge, results, confidence, self-understanding and valuable results.
My Core Mission
Helping people, organisations and teams develop their strengths, use their unique capabilities, overcome challenges and improve their performance to create their own professional and personal fulfilment.
Why Me?
I'm motivated to help people improve by helping them value who they are, not because I tell them, because they learn to tell themselves. They learn what makes them unique and I help them hear their own voice, both personally and professionally.
I always try to be myself and accept I'm far from perfect. I enjoy getting the opportunity to know people better and learn how I can be better.
I enjoy parkrun the effort and the challenge. I read and enjoy learning. I like travel though I rarely have the experiences I expected. I like adventure though I'm risk averse. I value challenges but I'm more effective with guidelines and a plan. I focus on the future which distracts me from being present.
The Values I Live By
Honesty is the foundation of great relationships
Authenticity is our greatest strength
Responsibility for our actions provides learning
Respect - Self and Others encourages
Autonomy drives motivated action
Learning is not knowing but asking questions
The Beliefs I Live By
We are our own worst enemy
Effort is success and should be rewarded
Aspirations and motivations should be emotion not thought driven
Questions are more powerful than answers
Your actions are your choice
Every day is what you make of it
Right and wrong are guides to learning not absolutes
How We Help Clients
Aim Act Achieve acts as a bridge from where organisations and individuals are to where they want to be.
We address your real situation, we are practical not theoretical.
We focus on action not models or plans.
We aim for a better future not simply fixing yesterday.
We engage your perspective, experience, understanding, ideas and aims and help you take clear, practical actions to make change starting today.
We will challenge you to be better .
Aim . Act . Achieve is a Australian based personal and professional performance improvement business that has helped individuals and organizations unlock their full potential and achieve meaningful results in their real world.
3,900+ organisational clients from multinationals to charities, schools to sports clubs, individuals to SMB's across all industries, our expertise is our adaptability to your needs.
We know that helping people use their unique strengths, personality and experiences is the best way to create valuable outcomes, personally and professionally.
14,500+ individual clients over 20+ years across business, executive, sports and individual performance, our clients want to be helped to achieve not told how to do it.
Experience working with all sizes and structures of organisations within complex environments and addressing real-life situations with in-depth knowledge of Human Development, Psychology, Organisational Development and Learning and Development practices.
3 Masters Degrees in Human Development and Understanding, over 55 accreditations in skills improvement programs to continually improve our understanding of helping people and organisations to be themselves better.
To achieve valuable results, continuing to grow and develop, individuals and the organisations need to value their unique combination of strengths and weaknesses and learn how to use their individuality to achieve growth and self-development. Individuals to Team to Organisation.
Aim . Act . Achieve can help your organisation and you personally develop confident, effective leaders within your real world context. Using your strengths. Managing your weaknesses. Being yourself, better.
Experience and Expertise
KNOWLEDGE, PROCESS AND METHOD
Psychology
Knowledge, practice and qualifications for understanding and addressing human emotional and cognitive experience to enhance life, personally and professionally.
Learning and Development
Over 20 years of learning and development working across industry, not for profit, government and private sector with a wide range of adaptability to differing learning needs.
Facilitation
By generating ideas to improve and then translating ideas into behaviour and actions people learn what works and what doesn’t, for them in their situation.
Coaching
Coaching within companies, organisations, sporting teams and privately the experience in being able to engage motivation, explore opportunities, generate self responsibility and develop individuals and the teams they are part of.
Flexible
Having experience with so many differing clients enables a flexible approach to client engagements and needs. The aim is not to fit the client to a model but to help our client discover, utilise and maximise their own unique methods and approach.
Multi Modal
By focusing on client current ,and future, needs rather than delivering specific activities or programs we can bring a multi modal approach which creates unique experiences and a range of possible outcomes for clients addressing wider identified and unidentified needs.
Human Centred
Our philosophy is based in the belief that humans take action and make effort by engaging emotions, thinking and unique personal characteristics, voluntarily. We believe in positive motivation and strong reasoning not coercion and justification.
Practical Reality
Rather than spending effort on theories or outdated models or views of development and organisations we encourage clients to focus on their reality through complex consideration to create meaningful and effective practical action.
CREATING AND ACHIEVING RESULTS
Performance Coaching
Using strengths, challenges and opportunities to maximise individual performance through motivated, strengths focused change, for individuals and groups.
Workshops and Programs
Improving individuals skills in collaborating and coordinating with other people to increase the effectiveness and outcomes for all involved.
Seminars
Delivering insights, ideas and information to create new ways of thinking and unlocking solutions by offering short, effective engagements of motivation, thinking and future positive actions focused on a specific situation or need.
Keynotes
Addressing client groups to provide targeted, specific and valuable insights to support development activities including off-sites, strategic planning, team development and organisation development programs.
Individuals
Skilled coaching and counselling to allow the client to fully express their experiences and enable them to respond and act accordingly with consideration to emotional, situational, personal and professional needs.
Groups
Facilitating groups of clients who can learn from each other with similar and differing perspectives and experiences to create valuable insights and interactions to encourage acceptance and action.
Human Skills
Focusing on personal development and performance skills for individuals and interaction and influence skills for successfully engaging with stakeholders, developing productive relationships and creating new networks.
Organisational Acumen
Through challenging and exploring the macro of the organisation and the micro view of individual experience the client develops a connected and relevant understanding of how to be effective and act accordingly.
