Leadership Development Workshops

Foundations of Leadership™:

A Coach-Approach for Leaders

Great leaders are great coaches. Their conversations inspire people and motivate them to do and be their best. More than that, people who are coached develop their thinking and deepen their sense of accountability for desired outcomes.

Real-Time, Real-World Learning
Foundations of Leadership™ is a well-established, highly successful coaching learning program that focuses on using coaching to create a collaborative, participatory and self-directed work environment where everyone is committed to the same vision and goals.

Participants can anticipate a robust learning experience focused on:
• understanding and adopting the shift in thinking that enables effective coaching
• confident application of the conversational skills and method to a variety of challenges
• discovering and acknowledging their strengths as a coach, and
• preparing themselves to integrate coaching on the job.

The Foundations of Leadership™ program is designed to help executives and managers become even better leaders and, ultimately, to help employees become more engaged and productive. It provides a powerful opportunity to grow, and to develop and use new coaching skills gleaned from the best practices in the world’s most successful organizations.

Foundations of Leadership™ teaches and connects people to the core coaching skills of effective leadership. These skills

• generate results through engagement, and
• align results with organizational goals.

The program is designed to introduce and/or enhance the skills of coaching as an effective model for leadership and is delivered in two parts.

Part One: Workshop

Foundations of Leadership™ delivers the coach-approach behaviour, skills and process in a classroom environment leveraging

• experiential learning using real issues,
• in-depth feedback processes, and
• modeling and support from a coach-facilitator.

Part Two: Sustainability Program

Sustainability of the coach-approach back on the job is created through a series of 30-minute one-on-one coaching sessions (by telephone) with each participant. The objective of these coaching sessions is to ensure the participants have an opportunity to internalize and implement their learning.

Optimizing DiSC at Work

Leveraging Everything DiSC Workplace®

Everything DiSC Workplace® is a personalized learning experience that can benefit every person in the organization—regardless of title or position, department or function—in building more productive and effective relationships at work. It teaches participants to understand themselves and others, while learning to appreciate the different priorities, preferences, and values each individual brings to the workplace. With personalized insights and actionable strategies, participants learn how to adapt to the style of others, ultimately improving engagement, collaboration, and the overall quality of the workplace.

Source:  Everything DiSC – A Wiley Brand

Program Components

Individual Everything DiSC Workplace® Profile

Every participant will be asked to complete:

• their on-line Everything DiSC Workplace®profile and receive their results immediately, and
• pre-work leveraging the Catalyst platform to learn about DiSC and explore their profile.

Workshop: Optimizing DiSC at Work

This two-hour workshop will be facilitated by Ann over Zoom and will include:

• an overview of DiSC
• a variety of group activities to deepen understanding of individual preferences and behaviours and interactive dynamics, and
• review of key insights, commitments and accountability leaving the workshop.