THE LEADER’S DISCIPLINE™
A Coaching Approach to Leadership
This badge is awarded to leaders committed to their own lifelong refinement as Mentors to others in their work, community and family.
The Leader’s Discipline™ is an intensive exploration of a coaching approach to leadership. A personal operating system is created to build a culture of accountability, marked by ever-increasing levels of performance, learning and engagement.
Through this experience, participants will
- Notice how mental state influences performance, learning and engagement
- Practice and build on their ability to coach leaders and teams of leaders
- Investigate when coaching is most effective
- Address current leadership issues
- Increase their ability and confidence in giving and receiving honest feedback
Contact Hours: 16 hours
Commitment: 2.5 days in person; Online, as arranged
Prerequisite: none
Participant Group: 6-24
THE PRACTICE OF COACHING
An Introduction to Positioning Others
This badge is awarded to leaders interested in tools for positioning others to amplify performance, learning and engagement.
The Practice of Coaching is an introduction to the experience of being coached, coaching others and functioning within a coaching culture where individuals support and challenge each other through intentional conversations.
Through this experience, participants will
- Discover the strong influence of personal conduct in leadership
- Observe and review two “live” coaching sessions in real time
- Practice giving and receiving feedback related to performance
- Work in drills to integrate key coaching approaches
- Reflect on opportunities for practicing coaching in the future
Contact Hours: 8 hours
Commitment: 1 day in person; Online, as arranged
Prerequisite: none
Participant Group: 12 – 300 individuals
OPPORTUNITY IN CONFLICT
Engaging Difficult Conversations
This badge is awarded to leaders committed to the constructive transformation of conflict into opportunities for growth, learning and development.
Opportunity in Conflict is an interactive exploration of the transformative nature of conflict. It is designed for leaders who want to address problems constructively by inviting understanding and detecting opportunities.
Through this experience, participants will
- Develop an understanding of interest-based negotiation and how to do it
- Gain new strategies in preparing for and navigating through difficult conversations
- Practice skills for analyzing and transforming difficult situations
- Practice skills for delivering tough messages
- Develop a capacity to create graceful change and stronger relationships
Contact Hours: 16 hours
Commitment: 2.5 days in person; Online, as arranged
Prerequisite: The Leader’s Discipline™ (suggested)
Participant Group: 12 – 24 individuals
ENGAGING DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS
A Coaching Approach to Conflict
This badge is awarded to leaders preparing to address necessary conversations normally avoided.
Engaging Difficult Conversations is an introduction to constructive approaches, tools and ideas for navigating through everyday conflicts in the workplace.
Through this experience, participants will
- Explore their personal style and approach to conflict.
- Learn how to listen for important cues and how to respond
- Gain new strategies in preparing for and navigating through difficult conversations
- Investigate when to intervene in a difficult situation
- Increase their confidence in engaging a variety of perspectives
Contact Hours: 8 hours
Commitment: 1 day in person; Online, as arranged
Prerequisite: none
Participant Group: 12 – 300 individuals
TOOLS OF ENGAGEMENT
A Systems Approach to Teams and Communities
This badge is awarded to leaders committed to creating the space for meaningful conversations in groups of 5 to 500.
Tools of Engagement is a survey of unique and effective approaches for hosting better group meetings, creating a learning organization and engaging the wider community system.
Through this experience, participants will
- Extend the philosophies of a coaching approach from small teams to larger systems
- Gain an understanding of the practicality of leadership at all levels and the learning organization
- Learn new and engaging alternatives to overused keynotes, Panel forums and ineffective meetings
- Acquire new, timely and effective approaches for communicating properly across silos
- Gain an appreciation of the value of story in organizational life
Contact Hours: 16 hours
Commitment: 2.5 days in person; Online, as arranged
Prerequisite: The Leader’s Discipline™ (suggested)
Participant Group: 15 – 24 individuals
FOCUS ON SELF
Exploring Personal Leadership and Development
This badge is awarded to leaders committed to self-discovery, by being inwardly directed and outwardly open to the insights of others.
Focus on Self provides an opportunity for leaders to reflect on their own life story, philosophy of leadership and future direction. Incorporating the use of 360° feedback from their organization, leaders ultimately gain clarity on the stories they would like to create in the world around them.
Through this experience, participants will
- Reflect on deepening themes in their story to date
- Receive feedback from those experiencing their leadership
- Make important choices about personal direction, conduct and practices
- Offer, share and receive support from other leaders
- Construct a plan for personal and professional development moving forward
Contact Hours: 16 hours
Commitment: 2.5 days in person; Online, as arranged
Prerequisite: The Leader’s Discipline™
Participant Group: 12 – 18 individuals
THE COLLABORATIVE TEAM
Harnessing the Creative Process
This badge is awarded to leaders committed to exploring the rigor and creativity required for effective collaboration.
The Collaborative Team is a series of experiential exercises designed to uncover, explore, test and practice the mindset of the creative collaborator and the teams that own excellent performance together.
Through this experience, participants will
- Explore their own creative style
- Learn to respond to initiatives and ideas of others productively
- Reflect on the value and purpose of collaboration and when to invite it
- Increase their capacity to keep collaborative projects on track and focused
- Engage in a collaborative design that meets a defined and evolving goal
Contact Hours: 16 hours
Commitment: 2.5 days in person; Online, as arranged
Prerequisite: The Leader’s Discipline™ (suggested)
Participant Group: 15 – 18 individuals
INNOVATION LAB
Value Creation Through Design
This badge is awarded to leaders committed to fully participating in the creation of new value in their organization by bringing ideas into a design form.
Innovation Lab is a design process highlighting the necessity, rigor, focus and imagination required to create the concepts that will move organizations, communities and society forward in increasingly unpredictable organizational landscapes and markets.
Through this experience, participants will
- Learn to recognize the difference between simple, complicated, complex and chaotic systems
- Experiment with new mental models for leaders in innovative environments
- Recognize the importance of progressing past brainstorming and ideation
- Acquire tools and approaches for co-designing multiple innovative concepts
- Increase their ability and confidence to move beyond “what works”
Contact Hours: 16 hours
Commitment: 2.5 days in person; Online, as arranged
Prerequisite: The Leader’s Discipline™ (suggested)
Participant Group: 15 – 36 individuals
THE POWER OF PAUSE
The Practice of Being Empty
This badge is awarded to leaders committed to practicing right action through the complimentary disciplines of reflection, inquiry and pause.
The Power of Pause is a survey and introduction to the practices of pausing from around the world, designed to provide leadership practitioners the opportunity to explore, experience and perhaps choose approaches that they can make their own.
Through this experience, participants will
- Explore the imperative of pausing within the relentless call to action
- Engage a variety of approaches from experienced practitioners
- Reflect on the value created and not created in their current work rituals
- Examine the potential benefit of an increased level of vitality in personal and professional spheres
- Craft a plan for incorporating more space for pause as a leadership practice
Contact Hours: 16 hours
Commitment: 2.5 days in person; Online, as arranged
Prerequisite: The Leader’s Discipline™ (suggested)
Participant Group: 12 – 15 individuals
CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT
Leading Process Transformation
This badge is awarded to leaders committed to initiating and sustaining successful, team-driven, business and management process improvements in their organizations.
Continuous Improvement explores the principles and practices of business and management process redesign. The Berlin Eaton approach is then applied and tested on the process challenges brought by participants.
Through this experience, participants will
- Examine the roots of continuous improvement and process redesign, surveying the work of W. Edwards Deming and other well-known approaches to continuous improvement
- Streamline a business process to accomplish a goal in partnership with suppliers and customers
- Explore a management process to set performance targets and lead towards achieving them
- Assess and plan for the implementation of a process within a timeframe and with key deliverables
- Consider how to support the people and teams that are critical to implementation over the long term
Contact Hours: 16 hours
Commitment: 2.5 days in person; Online, as arranged
Prerequisite: The Leader’s Discipline™ (suggested)
Participant Group: 20 – 40 individuals
This badge is awarded to leaders committed to continuing to practice their craft. The Recharge badge may be earned multiple times.
Recharges are integration events that build on the foundations of learning and practice that occurred during keystone experiences, such as The Leader’s Discipline, Opportunity in Conflict and Focus on Self. Prior to a Recharge, participants have had time to apply and practice the learning. The integration experience provides the opportunity to continue deepening both understanding and practice in a supervised setting so that leaders can get real-time feedback on their performance from both peers and course facilitators.
Through this experience, participants will
- Reflect on current successes and challenges in application of theory and skills
- Share learning and discuss possible approaches in light of specific contextual features
- Practice and integrate learning in real time
- Set goals for further practice and integration
Contact Hours: 8 hours or as arranged
Commitment: 1 day in person; Online, as arranged
Prerequisite: One of the 16-hour keystone courses
Participant Group: 6 – 30 individuals
THE MACGREGOR CUP
Ex Eximio Eximia
This badge is conferred upon individual Roy Group clients whose leadership development activities have made a significant impact on organizational practices.
The MacGregor Cup award is Roy Group’s highest honour and symbolizes a client leadership practitioner who demonstrates personal mastery, leadership and character. Ex Eximio Eximia means “Out of the finest (person) come the finest things.”
