The Network
Become a great manager: A professional coach-led leadership program designed to develop strong leadership skills for new & aspiring managers.
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.
1 Year Training
You and your peers 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.
Group Coaching
Five of these meetings will be a 90-minute group coaching session with your peers and your dedicated executive coach.
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. We’ve described all four courses below.
One-to-One Coaching
In addition to the 9 group meetings, you will be able to schedule a private one-to-one executive coaching session with your coach.
The Network Course Details
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 you’ve learned how to figure out the people you’re managing and manage them in the way they best respond to, effective leadership becomes part of your toolkit.
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 you develop with this course.
You’ll attend “Flexible Leadership” in Month 2 of The Network.
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 do you and your peers work as a cohesive team (rather than silently in competition with each other) while also leading the team members who report to you? This workshop helps you become a better teammate, whether that’s on 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.
In the workshop, you will assesses your own approach to teamwork, gain personalized insights on how you can more effectively work with others and master the critical behaviours and interpersonal skills needed to work effectively in a team.
This program empowers you to shape new, more productive behaviours to increase productivity, and bring the language needed for good teamwork to the teams you are on and the ones you lead. It will completely redefine what it means to work together to build a culture of teamwork.
You’ll attend “Teamwork Fundamentals” with your peers in Month 4 of The Network.
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 program helps you improve self-awareness around conflict behaviours (your 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, you’ll learn to curb destructive behaviours so that conflict can become more productive, ultimately improving workplace results and relationships.
You’ll attend “Productive Conflict” in month 6 of The Network.
Agile Leadership
The best leaders use Emotional Intelligence to respond effectively and efficiently to challenging or problematic situations. We coach participants to move beyond their comfort zone in adapting to a social or emotional situation and to solve the problem at hand by employing an agile approach to workplace interactions.
Agile Leadership is offered in Month 8 of the NETWORK.
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Do you find you react or respond on instinct a lot of the time? For example, when a challenge arises or a problem erupts, or when an employee comes to you with this type of issue or that type of issue, do you tend to react the same way each time? Do some things “push your buttons”? Do others take the energy right out of you? Agile leaders use Emotional Intelligence to adapt how they respond to situations they are facing. You’ll learn how to do that in this workshop.
Emotional Intelligence refers to how effectively and efficiently you can adapt to a social or emotional situation to solve the problem at hand — because an approach that works well in one situation won’t always work the same way in the next. Agile leaders use Emotional Intelligence to modify how they respond to situations they are facing. You’ll learn how to do that in this workshop.
This workshop teaches you how to read the emotional and interpersonal needs of a situation and respond accordingly. You will discover an agile approach to workplace interactions and learn to navigate outside your comfort zone, empowering you to meet the demands of any situation. And you’ll learn the leadership skills to support and grow a thriving agile culture.
We recommend Agile Leadership as your starting point for building stronger Emotional Intelligence as a leader. The next level is our Emotionally Intelligent Leader program.
“Agile Leadership” is presented in Month 8 of The Network.
Schedule
The Network meets monthly at the same day and time (for example, one cohort might meet the third Thursday of each month at 9am Central Time / 7am Pacific Time).
The cohort alternates between 90 minute group coaching session one month and full-day leadership workshop the next — always starting at the same time (in this example, at 9am CT on the Third Thursday).
The Network doesn’t meet in July, August and December.
NEXT GROUP STARTS SOON
Cohorts run twice per year and can fill up early. Click below for more information, to see the dates of the next cohort and to register.
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 with a certification in Leadership Foundations.
When you successfully complete 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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Frequently Asked Questions
When will the live sessions be held?
The Network meets monthly at the same day and time (for example, one cohort might meet the third Thursday of each month at 9am Central Time / 7am Pacific Time).
The cohort alternates between 90 minute group coaching session one month and full-day leadership workshop the next — always starting at the same time (in this example, at 9am CT on the Third Thursday).
The Network doesn’t meet in July, August and December.
What if I can't attend one of the live sessions?
Can you run a cohort for our organization separately?
Absolutely! A number of our organizational clients have opted to have us run cohorts of The Network exclusively for their staff. They have found this a great way to focus the coaching and conversation on their organization, while bringing together peers from different offices with no travel costs.
If you’re interested in talking about that option (with no obligation, of course) then click here to schedule a call.
Are the live sessions "in-person" or virtual?
All of our meetings are live, real-time interactive meetings via Zoom so that participants in your Network include folks from different locations as well as different sectors and industries. We want the program to be accessible to a geographically diverse group of leaders.
Will you offer this program again later?
We intend to offer cohorts of The Network 2-3 times per year (with annual cohort launches in September and January and occasionally April). Registration closes the month prior (for example, for a January cohort, registration will close in December). Click through to our registration site for information on upcoming dates.