Your first monthly meeting will be a 90-minute group coaching session with your coach and your peers on Zoom.
With the In-House Network, you might already know your peers, or you might not. This first meeting is a chance to meet in a different environment and develop some group norms — how do we want to work together? How do we want to support each other this year? We’ll also take time to consider your leadership vision and values and ensure you are applying those to your own learning goals for the program.
Session 2 is your first full-day leadership course — Flexible Leadership, based on the Everything DiSC Management profile.
Flexible leadership means moving from a one-size-fits-all approach (“this is my leadership style”) approach to providing direction, motivation and development in a way that aligns with each individual.
The happiest, most successful, most confident managers and leaders notice the needs of their employees and flex their leadership style accordingly. That may seem daunting, but these are important skills that you will develop with this course.
Our third session together in The Network features a group coaching conversation focused on the essential skills of Giving Feedback and Seeking and Receiving Feedback.
Together we will review what’s needed for good feedback and we’ll dive into how to give and receive feedback. Our conversation will build on the leadership skills you developed in the Flexible Leadership course, learning how to adapt feedback to the person receiving it.
For the fourth month of your Network program we’ll be back in the virtual classroom for a day and diving into Teamwork Fundamentals.
If you’re a manager, or you will be soon, you’re filling two roles; you are part of a leadership team and leading another team. How do you and your peers on the leadership team work cohesively on the high-level goals rather than silently in competition with each other, while also leading team members who report to you (and who quite likely expect you to be their advocate and representative on the leadership team)?
This workshop helps you become a better teammate, whether you’re part of a project team or a leadership team. It also gives you the foundations to lead a team, by integrating the model from Lencioni’s book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, into your work teams.
Our fifth session is a group coaching conversation with your coach and peers which will focus on developing the team members who report to you.
We’ll take what you learned in “Teamwork Fundamentals” and review how you’ve been using it for yourself with your own peers while also helping the team you lead develop.
We will integrate what you’ve learned thus far about flexible leadership and teamwork to help you build cohesive teams among those reporting to you.
By the sixth gathering you will be seeing enormous success in your leadership of others and developing the necessary confidence to lead. In this month’s course we will tackle the often-challenging subject of conflict.
Workplace conflict is inevitable. It may not always be visible but you’ve no doubt experienced it and it’s happening around you.
We’ll help you improve self-awareness around conflict behaviours (your own, and others’) and learn how to deal with it. This course helps you effectively respond to the uncomfortable and unavoidable challenges of workplace conflict.
Our seventh meeting of The Network is another opportunity for group coaching — synthesizing all that you’re learning in The Network and applying it to real-life situations.
We’ll bring together what you’ve learned about adapting your leadership style to those you lead and what you’ve learned about conflict and different responses to it, namely how to have difficult conversations. These are the awkward and difficult conversations that managers must have where “agree to disagree” isn’t an option — and that so many try to avoid, which leads to bigger problems.
Instead, you’ll have the tools to confront the conversation head-on.
Our eighth gathering will be our final day-long workshop together — Agile Leadership.
We go a little deeper this month when we come together for an introduction to emotional intelligence, exploring what it is, how it helps a leader and how to develop it in yourself. You see, unlike Intelligence (IQ), Emotional Intelligence (also known as EQ) can be learned, developed and improved. And that’s exactly what we’re going to start in our eighth session.
The day-long course will be based on an assessment you have completed ahead of time which gives you tremendous personal insight.
This is also the time when you are able to book your private one-to-one coaching session.
Our ninth meeting is our final session together. We’ll have spent a year together (because we don’t meet in July, August or December) and at this final group coaching session, we will bring it all together and ensure you are well-positioned to continue on your leadership track of success.
In this last group coaching session we will spend time on reflective practise, considering how leading self and leading others intersect and what that means for your leadership career.
We’ll tie-in our learnings from the year and launch you with confidence and success.
One of the benefits of The Network is that you have four full-day courses where you learn the foundations of excellent leadership. By joining The Network you will attend:
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The In-House Network combines peer-learning and executive coaching with four foundational leadership courses, over one year. Whether you’re new to leading or you want to strengthen your skills before moving up, as a member of The In-House Network, you will learn from each other and from our focused curriculum.
The In-House Network group coaching sessions and courses are facilitated and guided by one of our highly acclaimed, internationally certified executive coaches. As well, you get a private one-to-one coaching session with your coach near the end of the program, to ensure you set off from the program strengthened and ready for enormous success.
Finding a partnership of peers from outside your organization to work together, committed to each other’s success, is rare. Having a community to turn to for support, talk openly with and grow together is the number one thing most leaders tell us they wish they had.
While groups in The In-House Network are larger than in our other programs, we ask for a commitment to confidentiality when you join the program and again at each meeting. Our focus in the program is to help people share their wins and their challenges in service to each other.
You will receive four, personalized and focused leadership assessment profiles through the year — each of which acts like a guide for leadership success. As well, membership in The In-House Network provides you with access to our digital library of leadership tools including worksheets, strategy tools, videos and webinars.
Our Executive Coach facilitator ensures The Network meetings and course days are kept focused on key leadership learning as part of Leading Self and Leading Others. That commitment to a regularly scheduled, deep dive into leadership skills, opportunities and challenges brings enormous benefits.
As a member of The In-House Network you have access to a wide range of resources and fantastic discounts on other Padraig leadership programs. Full details are provided below under the “What’s Included?” section.
Being part of a group of leaders brings with it responsibility. Participants hold each other accountable to achieve the goals they’ve set for themselves. Your In-House Network will support you, help you and celebrate your wins with you.
When your participants successfully complete each of the four courses in The In-House Network they will receive a digital badge that they can display in their signature block or include in a “Meet our leadership team” web page.
Once they have successfully completed the full Network program they will receive a Certificate in Leadership Foundations — that includes both a certificate that can be framed as well as a digital certificate demonstrating their skills. The digital certification, like the individual badges, can be displayed online to show their success in leadership learning.
And, of course, those certifications become something others in the organization want to strive to achieve.
An In-House cohort made up entirely of aspiring leaders from within your organization can be launched at any time.
When you’re ready to start, we’ll register each of your participants and we’ll work with you to have them develop their leadership learning plan that they’ll use as part of The In-House Network.
Our program is fun and fulfilling while giving participants a rock-solid foundation in leadership. Participants are expected to spend a few hours between sessions thinking about their leadership skills and applying what they’ve learned. A critical component of the program is to ensure participants’ leaders support them in the program — not just with uninterrupted time for the meetings and courses, but to engage them in what they are learning and to provide opportunities for them to apply what they have learned.
Participant access to all online tools and other benefits begins immediately on launch date.
Peer programs are generally directed only at very senior leaders at exceptional cost.
We have always believed our business has grown as successfully as it has because we have given our clients exceptional return on their investments with us – and they (you) have, in turn, repeated business with us and referred us to friends, colleagues and allies.
That has served us, and you, very well for 8 years, so we’re not about to change it now.
The introductory price for your The In-House Network is
That price includes all of the benefits listed above.
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We work with you to schedule the right time for your participants. Ideally, The In-House Network live sessions will be offered at the same fixed time each month, September through June. (For example, the “first Tuesday” of each month at 7am Pacific/10am Eastern). If you have more than 20 participants ready to start, we will launch more than one cohort simultaneously but meeting on different days/times.
Every one of our meetings are live, real-time interactive meetings via Zoom so that participants in your Network can include folks from different locations and those working from home. We want the program to be accessible to a diverse group of leaders.
Sessions are not recorded to ensure participants feel they can be open, frank and honest with each other in their conversations. If a participant must miss one coaching session, we recommend they alert one of their peers to provide them with notes. If a participant has to miss a course session, they will not be able to receive credit for that session (nor the Certificate for the overall program). Participants can, of course, speak to their coach and peers to review materials and get an overview of the topic. (Note we do offer the courses for public-registration from time-to-time so for an additional fee the participant could still complete that course and earn the Certificate).
Absolutely. We have a couple client organizations who are doing just that — they have established an In-House Network for aspiring leaders and they also have some of their new or inexperienced leaders in one or more of our public offerings.
We intend to offer the public version of The Network 2-3 times per year (for annual cohort launches in September and January and occasionally April). Registration closes the month prior (ie. for a January cohort, registration will close in December). More information on the single registrant public version of The Network is found here.
“The Partnership” is our small group, highly personalized program of peers with one-to-one coaching included for participants.
In addition to The Network, we also offer The Partnership – a small group, highly personalized program for leaders and managers who seek to elevate their success, their teams, their organizations and their own career.
