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Foundations of People Leadership
Overview
Designed for employees stepping into management for the first time, this workshop covers the core mechanics of leading people: setting expectations, giving feedback, running effective 1:1s, and handling early performance issues with confidence.
Learning Outcomes
- Set clear expectations and goals with direct reports
- Deliver feedback that is direct, kind, and actionable
- Run structured, useful 1:1 meetings
- Recognize and respond to early performance and conduct issues
- Build trust and psychological safety on a new team
Format Includes
Interactive exercises, small-group role play, a feedback framework toolkit, and a take-home 1:1 meeting template.
Leading Through Change & Ambiguity
Overview
Change is constant in most organizations — this workshop equips leaders with practical tools to guide teams through ambiguity, reduce change fatigue, and keep people engaged and productive during periods of disruption.
Learning Outcomes
- Communicate through uncertainty without over-promising or under-informing
- Recognize signs of change fatigue on a team
- Use a simple framework for leading teams through transitions
- Build personal resilience as a leader under pressure
Format Includes
Case-based discussion using real organizational change scenarios, a change communication planning tool, and a self-assessment on personal change resilience.
Executive Presence & Strategic Communication
Overview
This workshop helps senior leaders sharpen how they communicate with influence — in meetings, presentations, and high-stakes conversations with executives, boards, and clients.
Learning Outcomes
- Structure messages for clarity and impact under time pressure
- Project confidence and credibility in high-stakes settings
- Handle difficult questions and pushback with composure
- Adapt communication style for executive, board, and client audiences
Format Includes
Recorded practice presentations with individual feedback, a message-structuring framework, and a personal executive presence action plan.
Coaching Skills for Managers
Overview
Moves managers from “telling” to “coaching” — building the skills to ask better questions, develop their team’s problem-solving ability, and support employee growth without doing the work for them.
Learning Outcomes
- Use a simple coaching conversation framework (GROW-based)
- Ask better, more open questions in 1:1s
- Support career development conversations
- Know when to coach vs. when to direct
Format Includes
Live coaching practice with peer feedback between sessions, plus a coaching conversation guide.
Building High-Performing, Psychologically Safe Teams
Overview
Grounded in trust and psychological safety research, this workshop helps teams identify what’s holding them back — communication gaps, unspoken conflict, unclear roles — and build a shared plan to work better together.
Learning Outcomes
- Identify team strengths and dysfunction using a structured assessment
- Build shared norms for communication and conflict
- Increase willingness to raise concerns and take risks as a team
- Leave with a team working agreement
Format Includes
Pre-workshop team survey, facilitated discussion of results, and a co-created team working agreement.
Board Governance Essentials for Leaders
Overview
Covers the fundamentals of effective board governance in the Canadian context — fiduciary duty, board-staff relationships, financial oversight, and effective board meetings. A practical companion to CLA’s self-paced Board Governance course.
Learning Outcomes
- Understand fiduciary duty and legal responsibilities of board members
- Distinguish governance from operations
- Read and question financial statements as a board member
- Run and participate in more effective board meetings
Format Includes
Case studies drawn from Canadian non-profit and corporate governance, a board self-assessment tool, and a meeting effectiveness checklist.
Inclusive Leadership in Practice
Overview
Moves beyond awareness-building into practical behaviour change — helping leaders recognize bias in everyday decisions (hiring, promotion, assignment of work) and build habits that make teams more equitable and inclusive.
Learning Outcomes
- Recognize common patterns of bias in management decisions
- Apply an inclusive decision-making checklist to hiring and promotion
- Create more equitable participation in meetings and assignments
- Respond effectively when bias or exclusion shows up on a team
Format Includes
Scenario-based small group work, a bias-interruption checklist, and a personal inclusion action plan.
Women in Leadership
Overview
Addresses the specific dynamics women often navigate in leadership roles — visibility, negotiation, executive presence, and building sponsorship — combined with practical strategy for career advancement.
Learning Outcomes
- Build a personal leadership brand and visibility strategy
- Practice negotiation for role, scope, and compensation
- Identify and build sponsor relationships (not just mentors)
- Navigate common workplace dynamics with confidence
Format Includes
Peer cohort discussion, negotiation role play, and a personal career strategy worksheet.
Leading Reconciliation-Minded Workplaces
Overview
Developed with respect for Indigenous perspectives on leadership and workplace culture, this workshop helps organizational leaders understand their role in reconciliation — from land acknowledgment practice to building genuinely inclusive policies and relationships with Indigenous employees, partners, and communities.
Learning Outcomes
- Understand the historical and organizational context for reconciliation in Canadian workplaces
- Move from symbolic gestures to substantive action
- Identify practical steps for policy and culture change
- Build respectful, informed relationships with Indigenous colleagues and communities
Format Includes
Facilitated discussion, case examples from Canadian organizations, and an organizational action-planning worksheet. Note: this workshop is developed in consultation with Indigenous leadership advisors and is customized per engagement.
Succession Planning & Building Your Leadership Pipeline
Overview
A working session — not just a lecture — that helps leadership teams identify high-potential talent, close critical skill gaps, and build a practical succession plan for key roles.
Learning Outcomes
- Identify critical roles and succession risk across the organization
- Build criteria for identifying high-potential talent
- Design individual development plans for successors
- Leave with a draft succession plan for at least one critical role
Format Includes
Working session format using your organization’s actual org chart and roles (under NDA), plus a succession planning template.
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