Leadership and Management Mastery
Ultimately, it is the people who are the key to success in any organization. These courses will help you boost your skills as a current or future manager and leader aiming to create a workplace of choice while achieving optimal results.
How to generate better solutions quicker
***This course is delivered remotely in smaller half-day segments and has a temporary three-day duration.***
In a fast-paced world with information overload, organizations require strong critical thinking skills to support high performance. In this course, you will learn how to use analytical thought systems and creative thinking tools to become more effective in dealing with workload and relationships.
How to measure the success of a programme
In this workshop, you will learn about performance measurement best practices and how to use strong performance indicators to show how the programme can actually make things better for the end-users.
How to Get the Best of Your Remote Team
This course is designed for managers working in a virtual environment. Whether your whole team is virtual, or just one or two members, this course will provide you with techniques and strategies required for leading a successful remote team that gets results.
How to Navigate the Rapids In Uncertain Times
This workshop will address the agility and behavioural flexibility needed to lead your team in turbulent times. You will discover a model to understand the dynamics of change and skills that you will need to effectively lead.
How to Effectively Work Together Remotely
This course is designed for managers and team members working in a virtual environment. Whether the team is virtual, or just one or two members, this course will highlight tips and techniques required for the remote team to be successful and get results.
with Pat Masters
***This course is delivered remotely in smaller half-day segments and has a temporary three-day duration.***
This Master Class in Leadership has come about from the highly successful Leadership and Management Skills Boot Camp training that Pat Masters has delivered to thousands of participants in government and business across Canada for over 10 years. This course simply had to be done. If you have attended one of Pat’s leadership courses, this course is a must for you to continue to build upon some of the core principles learned. If you are new to our programs, you will not be disappointed in the takeaways for you, as today and tomorrow’s leaders.
In this workshop, you will engage with both men and women to explore the gender-specific strengths and challenges in the workplace in an interactive, experiential and fun way and learn more about yourself in the process.
Developing the new and existing manager's skill set
This workshop is designed for those who want to boost their leadership and management skills to the next level. You will learn how, as a current or future manager, you will need to rely less on your technical skills and much more on your conceptual and communications skills, such as planning, organizing, explaining, and inspiring.
How to manage yourself and influence others
This workshop will improve your ability to manage your emotions and be perceptive of others', by addressing both intrapersonal and interpersonal skills. You will learn how to deal with change and build relationships to help you grow as both a team player and as a leader. This two-day workshop will provide you with practical skills on how to express yourself with clarity, conviction, and confidence.
How to get the best from your staff
Inspiring someone to be their best involves managing their abilities for optimum performance and creating a motivating environment that encourages people to go beyond their best. In this workshop you will learn how to help employees set and achieve goals, through a three-phase model of goal-setting, motivation, and evaluation.
Strategies to navigate through a period of transition
***This course is delivered remotely in smaller half-day segments and has a temporary three-day duration.***
Ongoing change has emerged as a key characteristic of today’s workplace. In this two-day workshop, you will gather tools and techniques to support you through periods of change and help you embrace change.
Supporting employee opportunities
Coaching is based on a partnership that involves giving both support and challenging opportunities to employees. This two-day workshop will help you to become a coach in all senses of the word: a role model, a supporter, and a guide.
How to motivate groups to share and generate ideas
Facilitation is often an important component of leading a meeting. In this workshop you will learn various techniques for helping groups receive and process information, how to assess whether consensus is desirable and possible, and different approaches for recording and disseminating the results of a meeting.
Self awareness is a competency that can be strengthened through use, just like a muscle. This innovative one-day workshop is a powerful and experiential workout for your awareness ‘muscle’. Participants will build their awareness organically, through exercises, play and practice, rather than through a study of theory.
Strategies for win-win solutions
In this practical and interactive two-day workshop you will learn communication techniques that will help you to negotiate with confidence and manage conflict. Whether you are involved in a conflict situation, intervening between two parties or need to negotiate for yourself, there are specific skills that you can employ to make the process easier, less stressful, and more successful.
Unleashing the Power of One
This highly interactive and intensive two-day workout is for teams and team members who aspire to achieve outstanding results in a workplace of choice.
Taking your skills to the next level
Outstanding results come when you can skillfully and effectively combine your leadership and your management skills. This course will help you take stock of your strengths and areas for improvement in both the practice of leadership and of management. Throughout this largely experiential program, you will learn new ways to communicate, solve problems and make decisions.
Change and stress management in government
Like it or not, circumstances, good and bad, are always changing. So the more we can manage those changes, the more we can mold them into a benefit for us, our organization, and our clients. Through lecturettes, case studies, and table work, this workshop will show you how to better manage those changes, how to work more efficiently with less resources through time management, how to bridge the gap between the generations, genders and cultures, and how to deliver services that both ministers want and Canadians need.