Strategic Planning the Genuine Contact Way (2025)
$2,320.00
Workshop Dates: January 30, 31, February 6, 7, 10, 12 & 13, 2025 | Online
Strategic Planning done the Genuine Contact Way is designed to mentor leaders in developing the competencies, capabilities, and capacity to successfully lead strategic planning and implementation in their organizations. Leaders will develop their skills, knowledge, confidence, and commitment to lead this work masterfully. Leaders will learn how to turn great ideas in their organization into outstanding results by creating clarity, alignment, and a systematic approach to evaluating and managing organizational performance.
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Working with personal boundaries is also an important skill in your professional life. Whether you are a consultant supporting people in organizations to work more effectively together or a leader working to create a positive work environment and achieve your business goals, working with the people’s personal boundaries is a critical ingredient for achieving success. But it’s an ingredient not often explored.
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Develop a clear understanding of your personal boundaries and learn how to work with them effectively in the workplace – whether as a leader or working within a team.
Deep Work with Whole Person Process Facilitation (2023)
Take a deep dive into working with Whole Person Process Facilitation.
Whether you’re new to facilitating meetings using Whole Person Process Facilitation or are a seasoned facilitator, this week-long online learning intensive will support you in deepening your practice with this participatory method.
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Holistic Leadership Development (Summer Academy 2025)
Workshop Dates: June 23-27, 2025 | Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Holistic Leadership Development supports leaders through emotional, intellectual, physical, and spiritual development, aiming to develop well-rounded individuals capable of leading with authenticity, resilience, and empathy in dynamic and complex environments.
In this learning module, you’ll come to understand more about your leadership and whether your mind, heart and actions are in alignment. How you engage in your leadership using a holistic leadership approach becomes a conscious choice that you make. By participating in this Holistic Leadership Development module of the Genuine Contact program, you’ll get to the very heart of how, what, when, and where to lead.
During your learning, growth and development as you go through this module, you are invited to reevaluate your choices, dreams, goals, boundaries, and the standards you have set for yourself in your leadership. A shift in perspective occurs that expands your leadership capacity.
A holistic leadership development approach is well worth adding to your leadership repertoire as you learn, grow and develop your leadership.
Working with Open Space Technology (Mentoring) (2023)
Self-Study + One-to-One Mentoring + Mentoring Circle
Executives, Facilitators, Consultants, Managers, Team Leaders, HR and OD specialists
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Purchasing the Working with Open Space Technology workshop from this page includes the self-study components as well as One-to-One Mentoring. For a complete listing of what is included, please read the full program description below.
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In this learning program, you are invited to consider the importance of this new leadership paradigm for yourself and for your organization. Many jobs today require people to use leadership skills to get the job done…think of the leadership needed every day by customer service, IT, health service, and workers in specialty knowledge areas. Think of how important it is to support these leadership skills within a leadership paradigm in your culture of “leading so people will lead”.
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The Next Level Leadership learning path includes 4 modules. Read more below.
Leadership Competencies for Thriving in Constant Change
Imagine enhancing your leadership competencies to lead your own life as well as leading a team or organization in rapidly changing times!
We live in a world of rapid-fire change. Gone are the days of slow and planned organizational change, with plenty of time once the change is enacted to stabilize the organization, work within the new state, and then plan for the next intentional organizational change. Between the ever-changing political landscape, technology increasing faster than it can be implemented, and information being generated faster than ever before, constant change is the new normal.
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