The Network
Become a great manager: A professional coach-led leadership program designed to develop strong leadership skills for new & aspiring managers.
Good leaders are needed now more than ever!
Register for The Network public cohort beginning October 10, 2025
An in-depth coached program for Leadership Learning that culminates in a Certificate in Leadership Foundations
How The Network Program Works
It’s a year’s investment for a lifetime return.
A Full Year of Learning
Participants in this one-year program will meet via Zoom once a month—except in July, August and December—for a total of 9 virtual meetings — some as group coaching sessions and some as full-day foundational workshops.
Group Coaching
Five of these meetings will be a 90-minute group coaching session for participants with the dedicated executive coach leading the program.
Full-Day Deep Dives
Four of these meetings will consist of a full-day course that dives deep into a core leadership competency. Each course includes an in-depth personalized leadership profile.
One-to-One Coaching
In addition to the 9 group sessions, participants will be able to schedule a private one-to-one executive coaching session with your coach.
“Partnering with Padraig to launch our first ever multi-year leadership development program has been a game-changer for all levels of leadership in our organization. Empowering our leaders with greater confidence and skills to help them lead and coach our employees in an ever-changing environment. We’ve seen a tangible shift in leadership capability, with greater self-assurance and impact across our organization. Thanks to Padraig’s expertise and support we were able to work together to customize programming that was based on leading practice from Padraig and aligned to our leadership pillars, so that we were anchored around strategy, change, DEIB, empathic and human centered leadership and of course sprinkled in with a little fun. This partnership allowed us to advance our leadership development efforts faster and with greater depth than we could have achieved on our own – it has been a wonderful journey so far.”
The Network Course Details
The Network includes four foundational leadership courses to ensure graduates have everything the need to be great leaders. These four courses are:
Flexible Leadership
Sometimes leaders can feel that, instead of doing the work they love, they are spending their days managing and solving problems for others. In management, one size never fits all. This course helps participants learn to adjust and “flex” their leadership style to read and successfully manage individuals in the way they would best respond to.
Flexible Leadership is offered in Month 2 of THE NETWORK.
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So many managers and leaders are disappointed when they get promoted to a leadership role. They used to love their work, and now, instead of doing that work, they spend their days managing others and solving problems for others. That doesn’t have to be the case! Once a leader learns how to figure out the people they’re managing and manage them in the way they best respond to, effective leadership becomes a natural part of their success.
Leading others effectively means moving from a one-size-fits-all approach (“this is my leadership style”) 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 styles accordingly. That may seem daunting, but these are important skills that participants develop with this course.
Teamwork Fundamentals
This course teaches participants to observe and assess their own approach to teamwork and gain personalized insight into working with others more effectively. It empowers them to shape new, more productive behaviours, which increases productivity and sets a strong foundation for great teamwork.
Teamwork Fundamentals is offered in Month 4 of THE NETWORK.
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How well do managers work as peer team members on a leadership team and still help their staff work as a cohesive team? This workshop helps participants become a better teammate, whether that’s on a project team or a management team. It also gives them the foundations to lead a team, by integrating the model from Lencioni’s book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, into their work teams.
In the workshop, participants will assesses their own approach to teamwork, gain personalized insights on how they can more effectively work with others and master the critical behaviours and interpersonal skills needed to work effectively in a team while leading another team.
Productive Conflict
Workplace conflict is inevitable. To deal with it before it becomes a problem, we teach participants to become aware of conflict behaviours (theirs and those of others), curb destructive patterns and resolve conflict effectively. In this course they will learn that conflict can become productive, improving workplace results and relationships.
Productive Conflict is offered in Month 6 of THE NETWORK.
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Wherever there are groups of people working, you’ll find workplace conflict. It may not be visible but you’ve no-doubt experienced it. It might be a feeling you have with a colleague, or some tension with a peer or someone whose role intersects with yours. Perhaps you feel like someone has conflict with you but they’re not acknowledging it and you don’t know how to raise it — and it’s becoming a problem.
This workshop helps your participants improve self-awareness around conflict behaviours (their own and the behaviour others) and learn how to deal with it productively. Rather than focus on a step-by-step process for conflict resolution, participants learn to curb destructive behaviours so that conflict can become more productive, ultimately improving workplace results and relationships.
Coach Approach to Leading
When leaders learn how to use some of the techniques used by professional coaches, they can bring out the best in their staff. By using a COACH Approach as one of their leadership tools, leaders empower their team members to solve problems and buy into the solutions – and to use a COACH approach with each other.
Coach Approach to Leading is offered in Month 8 of the NETWORK.
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Leaders face constant demands — from making tough decisions to navigating complex relationships and managing competing priorities. In the middle of it all, it can be hard to pause, listen deeply, and ask the right questions.
This workshop introduces your leaders to the COACH Approach — a practical way to lead with clarity, curiosity, and commitment. Through hands-on practice, they’ll experience what it’s like to be coached and to coach others, learning how to integrate powerful questions into everyday conversations.
Participants explore the common pitfalls that can derail coaching efforts and discover how to avoid them. They’ll leave not only with the skills to apply the COACH Model in decision-making, team dynamics, and project management — but also with a high-quality Coach Approach Journal to help them stay consistent long after the workshop ends.
When leaders adopt a COACH Approach, they build stronger relationships, make better decisions, and help create a culture where people feel valued and empowered.
Schedule
We recommend we schedule this program on the same day of each month (ie. the Third Thursday) and have each session start at the same time.
Because we will be offering The Network for your staff privately, we can schedule it whenever it works for you and them.
Who will benefit most from joining The Network?
Anyone who needs to:
- Prepare for a management role
- Successfully lead a diverse and dynamic team
- Be a resilient and agile leader
- Develop a more emotionally intelligent leadership style
- Resolve conflict quickly and productively
- Communicate more effectively
- Develop resilience to handle stress and anxiety
- Keep an open, positive mindset
Don’t prepare to be a manager — Prepare to be an empowered, confident, decisive manager who is certified in the Key Foundations of Leadership.
On successfully completing each of the four courses in the THE NETWORK PROGRAM, you will be awarded a digital badge certifying your achievement. You can use that badge on LinkedIn and other social media sites as well as alongside your bio on your company’s website or in your email signature block.
Once you complete the full NETWORK PROGRAM, you will be certified in Leadership Foundations and you’ll be awarded a certificate (one that is suitable for framing, as well as a digital one for on-line use) demonstrating your skills and accomplishments in leadership learning.
Set yourself up for success now!
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