Attention New Leaders
We appreciate your feedback on what would help you build the skills you need to engage your staff, delegate work and effectively start and guide a team.
Leaders in transition face a steep learning curve with high expectations and often receive insufficient support to be successful in their new role. In fact, research has shown that nearly 50% of leader transitions fail.
A leader in a new role must quickly adapt to new processes, perspectives, and expectations. There is also an expectation for them to ramp up their skills fast and build new key relationships. Leaders often struggle in any one or more of these areas.
These struggles create risks that can have immense impacts on the business as they can reduce productivity, performance, and engagement of the incoming leader and out further into the organization.
Potential risks are created at every level of the organization and profitability, productivity and morale can be negatively affected.
If struggles are not addressed there will continue to be risks to the business such as interruption of business and service, financial cost increases, revenue loss, staffing challenges, and work relationship difficulties.
The outcome of not addressing these struggles, impact not only the transitioning leader, but their direct reports, partners, other internal as well as external stakeholders including customers.
The Leader Foundations Leadership Academy is a customized program specifically created to support new leaders build a solid foundation to succeed in their new roles. This interactive, practical learning and implementation program will get leaders up to speed fast. They will identify skills they need to develop or strengthen to level up and increase their effectiveness.
In this program, participants will:
- identify and understand the most important elements of their work to help them make decisions on how best to optimize their role
- increase their skills to have higher quality and more productive conversations that increase trust
- increase their skills to communicate more simply and powerfully
- learn the skills to execute project plans and tasks more effectively
- learn the skills to resolve unproductive conflict and
- identify what professional skills gap exist and take action to address any gaps
This six-month training program includes:
- Orientation and kickoff group webinar (1 hour)
- Managing Myself workshop (1 hour)
- Six monthly half-day workshops (4 hours each)
- Six monthly implementation sessions (90 minutes each)
- Individual skill building, practical learning and implementation sessions (5 hours)
- Accountability team sessions (monthly) (1 hour)
- Assignments pre- and post half-day modules
- Knowledge checks after each half-day module
- Participant manual consisting of assessments, quizzes, worksheets, tips, and tools in PDF format
- Development of an individual action plan for learning and building knowledge, skills, and abilities
Total hours: 46 hours plus additional hours to complete the assignments.
The Program Structure:
Orientation and Kickoff Introductory Session: get a clear understanding of the program overview including expectations for assessment and completion
Module 1 – Success in New Role: identify and understand the most important elements of your work to help you make decisions on how best to optimize your role
Module 2 – Conversational Intelligence: knowing how to have healthier conversations to connect better, strengthen relationships, increase trust and mutual success
Module 3 – Active Listening: learn how to become a better listener to improve your communication skills
Module 4 – Executing Effectively: learn the skills to execute project plans and tasks more effectively
Module 5 – Resolving Unproductive Conflict: learn the skills to resolve unproductive conflict
Module 6 – Closing the Gap and Taking Action: knowing what professional skills gap exists and take action to address the gap
OPTIONAL MODULES
The Coach Approach for Managers: Empower your leadership with coaching conversations that drive growth and engagement.
Build Your Influence Conversation Flexibility: understand how to improve your one-on-one influence.
Positive Intelligence®: Increase Your Mental Fitness – Improve your performance, boost your happiness factor, and have more success.
Power UP Your Leadership Presence: How to beat Impostor Syndrome – develop strategies to combat impostor syndrome and cultivate self-worth and self-confidence which are essential foundations for overall well-being and success in life.
Additional coaching sessions can be purchased separately.
How Learning Will be Assessed
In order to receive a Certificate of Completion participants must:
- complete a knowledge check after each workshop
- complete all assignments and
- provide an individual action plan within two weeks of the final workshop.
Program Delivery:
The program will be delivered virtually via Zoom.
Course Materials
Participants will receive a PDF version of the Participant Workbook including content, assessments, quizzes, tips, and tools. Links to Google forms will also be provided.
Knowledge check
After each half-day workshop, participants will answer an online knowledge checks.
Dates
Please contact Marielle for new dates.
- Orientation Session
- Managing Myself workshop
- Module 1
- Module 1 Implementation
- Module 2
- Module 2 Implementation
- Module 3
- Module 3 Implementation
- Module 4
- Module 4 Implementation
- Module 5
- Module 5 Implementation
- Module 6
- Module 6 Implementation
All individual Skill Building and Learning sessions run concurrently.
Investment
The cost of the program is $7499 plus $500 GST/per participant.
The costs include: all workshops, individual skill building and learning sessions, and training materials.
- Training material: $500
- Tuition fees – workshops and individual skill building sessions: $6,999
For more information, prices or to book a workshop for your organization please contact us.
Grants and Training Funding
Your organization may be eligible for funding through:
The Canada-Saskatchewan Job Grant. Employers may be eligible to receive two-thirds of the training cost. Employers can make multiple grant applications to a maximum of $100,000 per fiscal year, and up to $10,000 per individual trainee.
The Re-Skill Saskatchewan Training Program. Employers can make multiple applications to a maximum of $5,000 for the duration of the program.
Please note: Due to high program demand, applications are being prioritized and processed approximately two weeks prior to the start date of training. Applications submitted less than 10 business days prior to the start date of training may not be approved.
What my clients are saying…
“I feel more confident in my communication and listening skills. The workshop has made me a better listener and I am looking forward to sharing my coaching skills.” – L.P., Coaching 101 Participant
“The Coaching 101 workshop was a great way to challenge the way you lead and work with others. Giving us some real tools to use right away to improve communication and being a good coach!” – Cecilia, Foundations Learning & Skills Saskatchewan
The Coaching 101 was excellent. I feel more knowledgeable and confident when given the opportunity to apply coaching skills. Applying GROW will allow our team to learn and succeed in a positive way. – Ashley, Next Level Painting.
I attended the Coaching 101: Motivate Your Team Through Coaching 2024 Workshop. The workshop was great in the way it explained the definition of coaching and gave examples of how we can use them in our personal and professional life. Marielle was organized, knowledgeable, and prepared facilitator. I would highly recommend this workshop to others looking for professional development for their employees. – Jocelyn, Foundations Learning & Skills Saskatchewan
“Marielle is a wonderful mentor and coach. She is kind and compassionate. She is able to motivate and uses wonderful techniques to engage her audience. She has worked with our management team on three separate programs over the past year. The growth in our managers has been exponential. We can see the things they have learned seep into every aspect of their work and interactions with others. I highly recommend Marielle as a professional and competent trainer of people and teams. We are grateful for the expertise she provided to our key employees.”
– Janet McRoberts, Janet Southam Consulting Inc.
Our leadership team participated in the Executing Effectively program facilitated by Marielle. As the CEO, I felt we often get stuck at the execution stage given many priorities and the need for inter-roles coordination. No matter how solid the strategy is, a planned and coordinated execution is what matters in the end.
I really valued the critical content around tools this program offered and really appreciated Marielle’s relaxed facilitation style which sets a positive tone when you are bringing a diverse team together. I highly recommend this program and in fact I’m considering asking for a refresher so that team members can assess their own effective implementation of action plans. – Carm Michalenko, CEO, Saskatoon Community Foundation
About Coach Marielle
Marielle Gauthier, owner of Redworks Communications and Coaching, works with leaders of small to medium-sized organizations to make improvements in individual and team performance and achieve business goals in an efficient and effective manner.
She provides strategic consulting, training, coaching and facilitation in the areas of leader development, employee engagement, career success, effective communication, relationship building, customer service, effective execution, stress management, time management and retirement lifestyle planning.