Leadership

Our Leadership program provides the insights that will help you to build yourself as a leader.

Through intensive self-discovery, you will achieve a deep understanding of yourself and your leadership style. You will be guided in creating a powerful personal development plan to fully realize your leadership potential.

In this program you will learn:

• How your colleagues perceive you and your leadership style
• Authentic communication skills
• Strategies to create enthusiasm and lead others to peak performance

Additionally, this program incorporates the use of three powerful and transformational tools:

360-Degree Feedback Instrument: Use this effective instrument and work with an executive coach to assess your leadership style and strengths, understand how you are perceived by others, define your core beliefs and understand how they influence you as a leader, and identify barriers to effective leadership.

Personal Leadership Exercise: Work with an executive coach to prepare a plan to address a leadership challenge you are currently facing.

The Attentional & Interpersonal Style (TAIS) Assessment: Learn how your tendencies in interpersonal style will benefit and hinder you, and develop strategies for building on strengths and shoring up weaknesses.

Post-Program Support

Queen's offers several ways to continue your learning after the program, including repeating the 360-Degree Feedback process, following up with your executive coach, alumni events and networking opportunities, and updates on the program and material.

Personal Benefits

The concepts and tools taught in the program will greatly enhance your leadership skills

• Learn the personal and organizational skills you need to be an effective leader
• Gain a better understanding of your leadership capabilities
• Learn how to apply the principles of transformational leadership
• Expand your coaching, team leadership, and project management skills
• Exchange ideas and experiences with Queen's faculty and fellow participants
• Build better relationships within and outside your organization
• Return to work with proven tools to achieve lasting change in the way teams work together

Organizational benefits

Enhancing your leadership skills will have a significant impact across your organization

• Achieve your strategic goals with stronger, more committed teams
• Help the people you work with perform at their peak
• Create an atmosphere of trust, mutual support and open communication
• Develop a high-performance culture in your organization
• Benchmark against the best leadership practices of the world's most successful companies
• Build high-performance expectations into everyday management practices

Program content

This program focuses on six themes:

Transformational Leadership

You will learn to communicate a vision clearly and authentically by inspiring, creating enthusiasm, and bringing out the best in others. Through coaching and mentoring people for peak performance, you will be better prepared to address behaviour and performance issues effectively and with confidence.

Building Awareness

Often individuals find themselves in leadership roles based on their functional expertise and problem-solving abilities. This can lead to a common leadership challenge known as the “curse of knowledge”. You will identify key areas where clarity is required clarity in order to be committed and perform at the highest levels. Working in small groups, you will break through the “curse of knowledge” and discover how ambiguous instructions and expectations can limit performance when we don’t take the time to ensure clarity.

Plays of a Coach

As a mentor, you will seek to understand what it is a person needs in order to get better at whatever it is they are doing. Through the use of the 3X4 Coaching Model, you will learn how to effectively utilize the three plays to tap into the four core communication skills.

Recognition

Experience how recognition can create a productive momentum to positively impact performance, particularly when setbacks are experienced. You will explore how to give more informal recognition and influence on others; and how to remove what blocks you from doing these things.

Skills of a Coach

Through the use of a culminating exercise, you will have the opportunity to experience how truly effective questions can allow people to solve their own challenges and how difficult, yet powerful, respectful listening can be. You will also have the opportunity to coach another participant attending the program and be coached by them also on a leadership challenge they choose and is important to them.

Confronting

By learning how to effectively prepare yourself, you will be better prepared to engage in a challenging conversation. You will explore how requiring a change in another individual triggers resistance and identifies different forms that resistance can take to address the change that is required.