Who is this for?
Leaders looking for specific tools, techniques and skills to become a more reflective leader and to mobilize others in their department or organization.
Benefits for you
- Expand your awareness of what it means to be an effective leader
- Assess your individual strengths and areas for improvement
- Gain greater clarity about your leadership roles and objectives
- Set specific targets, goals and action plans, and link them to your real-life work issues
- Hone techniques for managing yourself and your team more effectively
- Identify solutions to leadership challenges
- Develop critical skills, behaviours and metrics for performance improvement
- Align your key learnings with your large-scale leadership purpose
Program content
Throughout the program, your coach will provide you with ongoing support and structure so that you have consistent championing, questioning and advice as your leadership—and the challenges you face—evolve.
The content will be developed by you and your coach as you move through the program. Typical themes include:
- Expanding and improving your leadership capacity, clarity and confidence so you’re better equipped to manage competing priorities
- Discovering new and more efficient ways of delivering results
- Defining and developing your unique strengths and style by using all of the capabilities and resources at your disposal
- Cultivating constructive and productive mindsets to lead in difficult or challenging situations
- Honing specific skills for performance improvement
Your coach
Chris Obst
Vancouver based
Chris is a performance-focused coach with more than 15 years of experience in challenging senior leaders to achieve business results. He coaches and consults for top companies around the world, including Microsoft, Apple, PWC, and Canfor. His talent for motivating high-performing teams earned the National Post “Canada’s 50 Best Managed Private Companies” Award. He also writes extensively about leading energy, and his keynotes inspire high performers.
Vania Sakelaris
Toronto based
Vania is a certified business and executive coach who supports boards, leaders and their teams in managing transformation. Her particular areas of focus include strategy development and implementation and leadership development at the corporate and individual levels. As a solutions catalyst, and building on 25+ years of executive level leadership of multi-million-dollar organizations, she has supported hundreds of individuals through impactful change and growth, integrating her business acumen into her coaching engagements.
Guy Gumbrell
UK Based
Guy has over 30 years of organizational development experience in public and private sector organizations across the world. An expert in leadership development and the implementation of learning through individual coaching and action learning, he is currently Director of the Domino Group in London. His particular areas of interest include the practicalities of being an authentic leader, organizational cultures that support learning and growth, and individual and organizational change.
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Contact a learning advisor for more details.
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Get in touch
604.822.8400 or 1.800.618.3932
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