You don't manage anyone. It's still the hardest part of your job.

A manager you can’t read. A colleague making everything harder. The meeting where you should have spoken up and didn’t. Worksparks helps you work out what to say, before you have to say it.

14 days free · Cancel anytime · A$29 a month after that, GST included

What people bring

Most work problems are people problems wearing a work costume.

The deadline isn’t the problem. The conversation about the deadline is the problem. These are the ones people actually open Worksparks for.

A manager who checks everything twice

You want the oversight to ease off without it turning into a confrontation, and without looking like you’re avoiding scrutiny.

The colleague nobody wants to work with

You’ve absorbed it for months. It’s affecting your work now, and you’re not sure whether to raise it or keep absorbing it.

Asking for more money

You’ve earned it and you know it. You don’t know how to open, what number to say, or what to do if they say no.

Speaking up in a room where everyone sounds certain

You have something worth saying. Working out how to say it in eight words is the difference between being heard and being talked over.

Feedback that landed badly

You’ve been replaying it for three days. Somewhere in there is something useful and something unfair, and they’ve got tangled together.

Someone being treated badly, including you

You need to work out what’s actually happening, what to write down, and who to tell. That’s a different job from deciding how you feel about it.

How it works

Five minutes, and you know what to say.

Built on 35 years of coaching people through exactly these conversations. Not a chatbot with a prompt on top.

01 / Say it badly

Talk it out, or type it

Describe what you’re facing without editing yourself. Sixty seconds of talking, or type it if you’d rather. The messier the truth, the more useful this gets.

02 / Sort it

Work out what's actually going on

Separate what happened from what you’re worried it means, and both of those from what you can actually do something about.

03 / Walk in ready

Leave with the words

An opening line you can copy, and the steps that follow it. Not “communicate assertively.” The sentence you’re going to use.

Confidentiality

Nobody at your work can read this.

This matters more here than anywhere else on this site. If you’re working out how to handle your own manager, the tool you use to do it cannot be a tool they can see.

No-one can read what you write — not your manager, not HR, not us

Conversations are encrypted in transit and at rest

Your data is never sold, and never used to train AI models

If your organisation paid for your seat, they've bought your access — not visibility of what you discuss

Built to the Australian Privacy Act and GDPR

You can delete everything, any time you like

Being straight with you

Some things need a person, not an app.

Worksparks is good at helping you think clearly and find the words. It is not a substitute for people whose job it is to act.

If any of this is what you’re dealing with, please talk to someone as well

Bullying, harassment or discrimination. Threats or violence. A risk to someone’s health or safety. Something you think might be unlawful. A formal disciplinary or dismissal process. Or a serious worry about how you or someone else is coping.

Worksparks can help you get clear on what happened, what to write down and how to raise it. It can’t investigate, advise you on the law, or act on your behalf. Your union, your HR team, a lawyer, your employee assistance program, or your GP can.

In Australia, Lifeline is on 13 11 14 and Beyond Blue on 1300 22 4636. If someone is in immediate danger, call 000.

Pricing

Less than one hour with a coach. For a year.

A$29 a month

or A$290 a year — two months free. GST included. Team and Organisation plans available.

You've been carrying this one around for a while.

Give it five minutes and see what it looks like from the outside.

14 days free · Cancel anytime · A$29 a month after that, GST included