Leadership Development Programs
| ACHIEVEBLUE Leader™ Program Providing effective leadership can be a very difficult balancing act. A leader must direct, but also must inspire. The ACHIEVEBLUE Leader shows you how to do both. Even with a clear understanding of an organization’s strategic plan and vision, too often leaders don’t know how well they’re leading, or what effect their leadership style is having on the people they count on to support the plan. For details on the ACHIEVEBLUE Leader™ program, click here. |
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Active Leadership™ Program Change Leadership Program Change Leadership program is designed to provide leaders with insights into the complexity of initiating and managing change as leaders of teams or organizations. It reviews the three facets of change leadership that must be dealt with in order for a leader to effectively and successfully lead a team or business through a transformational or major change. These practical approaches and concepts can also be used to deal with day to day impacts of change. The course uses self assessment and group activities to activate the learning. For deatail on the Change Leadership program click here |
The ACHIEVEBLUE LEADER™ Program
Ask yourself the following questions:
- Do you really know how well you’re doing as a leader?
- Are you aware of the impact your leadership style is having on others?
- How can your leadership behaviours have a more positive impact on achieving your organization’s strategic goals?
The ACHIEVEBLUE Leader™ is a five phase process. It begins by measuring the difference between the leader you want to be and the leader you are right now. This assessment will also identity the impact your current leadership behaviours are having on the people who report to you. In addition, this assessment is aligned to ten proven leadership strategies required for high-impact leadership.
But it’s not enough to know how wide the gap might be, it’s even more critical to know how to close the gap. To go from the leader you are, to the leader you want to be. To improve the impact you’re having on others as their leader. While the ACHIEVEBLUE leadership development process begins with awareness, it moves quickly to a behaviourally-based development process. You learn how to change the behaviours that need to be changed, and how to sustain the behaviours that are already working for you and others.
ACHIEVEBLUE Leader™ also recognizes that changing our attitudes and behaviours is an ongoing process of personal development. It provides continuing follow-up, access to podcasts and ongoing resources such as presentations, stories, tips and planners. It recognizes that the core function of leadership is to produce more leaders and it gives you the tools to do so, within your immediate work group, and within your organization.
Are you ready to take a journey of personal evaluation, understanding, and development that will help you achieve your leadership goals? To find the crucial balance point between directing and inspiring that will help you become “the best that you can be?” Contact us at 416-236-3005 today to learn more!
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The Active Leadership Program™
Intense competition coupled with flattened hierarchies, multi-dimensional teams and a diverse working environment characterize today's business climate. This reality requires a repertoire of leadership practices and skills for anyone responsible for getting results with and through others. Recent studies confirm the leader is the prime factor for creating a productive work environment and contributing to higher employee retention.
The Active Leadership program provides the concepts and the practices of Leadership in a high-impact learning-environment to help leaders effectively coach, empower and lead individuals and teams to higher levels of performance.
Duration: 3 days
Outline
- The Vision Leader:
- Defining leadership
- Upward feedback reports
- Personal Vision
- The Active Leadership Model™
- Performance Analysis
- Communicating With Emloyees
- The communications cycle
- Probing skills
- Listening skills
- Preparing communication
- Personal needs analysis
- Task Delegation
- Analysing employee performance
- Leadership styles
- Delegation and assignment
- Leading change
- Coaching Employees
- Assessing progress
- Motivating employees
- Principles of reward
- Providing feedback
- Developing Employees
- Coaching and reinforcement
- Improving performance
- Building employee development plans
- Team Leadership
- Working with teams
- Selecting team members
- The Active Leadership Model™ and teams
- Personal Development Planning
- The Organization Priorities Framework™
- The Employee Development Framework™
- Personal development plan
- Refining personal vision
- Creating and monitoring your Personal Learning Summary
Are you ready to take a journey of personal evaluation, understanding, and development that will help you achieve your leadership goals? To find the crucial balance point between directing and inspiring that will help you become “the best that you can be?” Contact us at 416-236-3005 today to learn more!
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Change Leadership Program
Change Leadership is designed to provide leaders with insights into the complexity of initiating and managing change as leaders of teams or organizations. It reviews the three facets of change leadership that must be dealt with in order for a leader to effectively and successfully lead a team or business through a transformational or major change. These practical approaches and concepts can also be used to deal with day to day impacts of change. The course uses self assessment and group activities to activate the learning.
Duration: One Day
Intended Audience
This course has been developed for People Leaders who are responsible for initiating and/or managing transformational change in the organization. This includes executives, senior directors, directors and senior managers.
Outline
Introduction to the Three Facets of Change Leadership
This unit introduces the core concepts of this program through facilitated discussion around the definition of Change Leadership, a review of the revised and updated Impact of Change Model that includes both an Individual and Leadership component and concludes with the introduction of the Three Facets of Change Leadership Model.
The Three Facets of Change Leadership: The Individual Contributor
This unit provides a deep dive into the Facets of Change Model, starting with the Individual Contributor. In this unit the following questions are answered:
- Why do people respond to change so differently?
- Can we measure and define these differences?
- What can the leader do to help people accept and navigate change?
- What are the implications for how we work with others?
The Change Styles Indicator self assessment tool measures and identifies the individual style in approaching change and situations involving change in order to manage response to change and increase productivity of the team through effective response to change. A team activity is used as a learning activation practicum.
The Three Facets of Change Leadership: Team Leader
This unit explores the Team Leadership Facet through facilitated discussion and team activities around the following questions:
- How does the leader use personal self knowledge to lead their team through change?
- What happens when the leader gets stuck in the Team Leader Facet?
- How does the leader effectively use the concept of KUBA™ in conjunction with Change Styles to facilitate effective change?
The Three Facets of Change Leadership: Business Leader
In this unit we complete the exploration of the three facets with Business Leader and discuss how the leaders alignment to and knowledge of strategy impacts their ability to successfully lead a team through change Topics covered include the Organizational Capability for Successful Change Equation, and Stakeholder Analysis. A strategy alignment exercise is used as a learning activation practicum.
Transformational Change
Using the skills and knowledge acquired in the session, we facilitate a structured brainstorming session, identifying possible transformational changes that the business could pursue in order to deliver on the strategy. This is tailored for each organization.
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