The Partnership
Anchor your leadership strengths and grow in new areas with this coach-led peer group program.
Accelerate your leadership with our high-impact, small group coached program.
We curate every group so you are partnered with other leaders who are at similar levels and who face similar challenges. Your shared experience with each other, and coaching by one of our acclaimed internationally certified executive coaches will help you grow in your leadership role.
The Partnerhip Program brings success.
Shared Knowledge and Experience
Work with successful peers who have a fresh perspective, broad experience and knowledge — and who have likely been through what you’re going through.
Professional Coaching
The Partnership is coached, facilitated and guided by one of our highly acclaimed, internationally-certified executive coaches. Each group discussion is coached and every member has one-to-one private coaching as well.
Tools, Tactic and Tips
Membership in The Partnership provides you with access to libraries of leadership tools including worksheets, self-paced classes, videos and work tools.
Focus and Commitment
Our Executive Coaches ensure Partnership meetings are kept focused on key leadership questions raised by group members as part of Leading Self, Leading Others and Leading the Organization. That commitment to a regularly scheduled, deep dive into leadership skills, opportunities and challenges brings enormous benefits.
Connection and Community
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.
Accountability
Being part of a small, focused group of peers brings with it responsibility. Peers hold each other accountable to achieve the goals they’ve set for themselves. Your Partners will support you, help you, inquire into your progress and celebrate your wins with you.
Alumni
We launched The Partnership in autumn 2020. As the number of cohorts grows and annual commitments renew, our community of alumni in The Partnership will constantly expand. Our alumni benefits will increase over time and starts with access to a wide network of leaders in private, public and non-profit organizations.
Extra Resources and Savings
The Partnership is an elite program offered by Padraig Coaching. As such, you have access to a wide range of resources as well as discounts on other Padraig leadership programs. Full details are provided below under the “What’s Included?” section.
Challenges our participants work on:
The biggest leadership challenge I face is working with individuals as individuals. Whether they are employees or other stakeholders I get the best results when I understand who I‘m working with and I tailor my approach, but I find that challenging when I’m busy and stressed.
When I was promoted to an executive role, I was presumed a leader and expected to demonstrate leadership excellence with no real experience and no training, and I feel like that is catching up to me.
I see leadership as motivating and supporting myself, managing my staff, influencing my peers and contributing to the whole organization and it feels very lonely trying to lead in all directions.
Confidence for me comes and goes. I can go for long stretches feeling in control, seeing what’s coming and planning and adapting to the upcoming tasks. But when I make mistakes, and we all do, I seem to lose the confidence as well as the abilities and tools I was using before.
Trying to juggle my own priorities for the organization and everyone else’s to deliver expected results while finding the time to lead, coach and mentor along the way is exhausting.
Trying to juggle my own priorities for the organization and everyone else’s to deliver expected results while finding the time to lead, coach and mentor along the way is exhausting.
Who should join this program?
Each Partnership group is made up of private and public sector leaders who:
have experienced and are currently leading or managing others in the workplace;
have high regard for confidentiality;
want to be part of a small, dynamic, successful group of leaders who are learning from each other;
have a commitment to mutual respect and learning, and
are willing to give of themselves, sharing their knowledge and their expertise;
also want the enormous ongoing benefits of working with your own certified executive coach.
What’s included in The Partnership?
- Your Partnership group will be you and 3-5 other leaders who are at similar levels and with similar career experience so you can learn from each other in a safe, confidential, collaborative environment while being fully supported by a certified executive coach.
- Nine live interactive 2-hour sessions with your partnership team and your Padraig Certified Executive Coach (monthly except December, July and August).
- Group coaching topics will be chosen by the group so that we’re working on what you want to work on (and your coach can offer suggestions, if needed).
- Four 1-hour private 1-to-1 coaching sessions with your Padraig Certified Executive Coach – scheduled at your convenience.
- A constantly growing library of downloadable tools and worksheets to tackle many different leadership challenges.
- Complimentary access to all live Padraig webinars we will offer throughout the year on topics related to leading organizations, leading others and leading self.
- Recordings of Padraig webinars added to your personal digital library.
- An online forum for you and your Partnership group to share information, assist each other and ask questions of each other and your coach.
- Another online forum for you to join the alumni from all current and past cohorts of The Partnership to help you build a vast network of peers and colleagues outside your organization.
- A private online journal – to take notes during discussions and to use for private journaling. Share journal notes back and forth privately with your coach.
- Deep discounts on Padraig live workshops for you and your team including both virtual and face-to-face workshops and on Padraig self-paced online classes: 15% off live (virtual or in-person) training in which you are one of the participants.
What do our alumni have to say?
Our coach asks great coaching questions that get us thinking deeply. The manager’s in our group are all very seasoned and I have learned a lot from their perspectives and experiences shared. I also like the unstructured approach to our group. We do have articles to read beforehand but the learning happens in the conversations.
Participant in The Partnership – Public Cohort
Our company is a spread out across 6 provinces. The program has helped me explore my leadership practice with peers in the company. The focus on the self has helped me reflect on my weaknesses and leverage my strengths. The focus on the team has further developed relationships that will provide benefits for each of us in the group and for the company.
Participant in The Partnership – Corporate Cohort
I think that this peer group is the ticket. I did a year of one-on-one coaching, which was excellent, but having others in the coaching with you really opens your mind and you can learn and discuss and take in what they are saying.
Participant in The Partnership – Public Cohort
The group sessions have reinforced that I’m on the right track and that others are facing similar challenges and experiences. I’ve taken away a few key lessons that I’m trying to integrate into my daily work.
Participant in The Partnership – Public Cohort
Frequently Asked Questions
When will the live sessions be held?
The Partnership is a small, bespoke program tailored to meet your needs directly. Therefore we will reach out to you once your cohort has been formed to confirm when your sessions should occur. Sessions will be the same time each month (9 sessions per year — all months except July, August and December). So, if the group decides “first Tuesday at 10 am Pacific Time” then the live sessions will be the first Tuesday of each of those months, at 10 am Pacific.
Are the live sessions “in-person” or virtual?
Our live, real-time interactive meetings are virtual so that peers in a cohort can be from different locations as well as different sectors and industries. We want the program to be accessible to a geographically diverse group of peers.
What if I can’t attend one of the live sessions?
Sessions will be scheduled at the beginning of your cohort to suit all participants. Sessions are not recorded to allow participants to be open, frank and honest with each other in their conversations. If it happens you will have to miss one session, you may ask your peers and coach if a different time could be scheduled that month. If it is convenient and suitable for the other participants, the session time could be changed that month.
Will you offer this Professional coaching program again later?
We intend to offer The Partnership intake 2 times per year (for cohort launches in September and January). We may occasionally offer a third intake in the spring, for an April launch. Registration closes approximately one month prior to the start of the program so watch this page closely for the next launch. Our current fee for the program is not guaranteed to continue for future groups.