Customized Client-Based Community Leadership Courses

Explore our Customized Client-Based Community Leadership Courses

Community Leadership courses are available virtually, in-person, or in a hybrid format to organizations anywhere in Canada

Recommended minimum number of participants: 8-10

Prices vary depending on delivery method, course selection, and level of customization required.

If cost is a prohibitive factor, we can work with your organization to explore potential grants and funding opportunities that may be available in your region or sector. Ask us about this additional service!

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Community Leadership Courses Overview

Are you ready to elevate your organization’s leadership and change management skills and create lasting impact for your management team? CCEDNet is pleased to offer customized Community Leadership programs, designed for non-profit, social purpose, and corporate change-makers to unlock the full potential of their leadership and capacity to navigate change.

Our courses are designed to provide practical knowledge to your organization’s leadership and management professionals and aspiring leaders who are looking to efficiently and effectively develop their skills as the next generation of change-makers.

Organizational change is not easy. Oftentimes it has challenges and is incumbent on strategic, thoughtful leadership. How you navigate change and support others to move through it is critical.

This unique learning environment is intentionally designed to respond to your experience and help non-profit, community-based, and social purpose leaders, managers, and organizations navigate challenges, change, and opportunity successfully. You’ll gain tools to help strengthen your team and encourage problem-solving and creativity, so that you can collectively navigate and respond to innovation and current work priorities.

For whom: Leaders and managers supporting employees through change or overseeing organizational change and looking to build a proactive response and plan through the transition.

Prerequisite: Due to the applied nature of this course participants will be required to commit to approximately 2 hours of self reflection and application between modules.

Module 1 (7 hours):

Understand organizational change through the Change Curve and Bridges Transition Model;
Analyze your change in more detail to better inform your problem solving and response(s);
Develop the skills and script to participate in a change conversation based on principles of effective communication; and
Explore the essential skills of change leaders, assess your own strengths and weaknesses and commit to actions or strategies to improve your organization’s capacity to lead through change.

Module 2 (7 hours)

Examine how to most effectively navigate uncertainty and ambivalence;
Embed resilience within your team(s);
Explore the context of the change to leverage strengths and opportunities and mitigate limitations, and threats;
Begin to map out an action plan that helps your organization and stakeholders to intentionally and strategically navigate change; and
Reflect on the posture you want to embody as change leaders

“ This was the most effective professional development experience I’ve had as a nonprofit leader. The workshop made me feel less alone in my change management frustrations and gave me just the boost of confidence and planning I needed to face change head on. The tangible nature of the course ensured I could almost immediately put what I was learning into practice in my work life. ”

Join a community of brave, innovative and determined leaders from across Canada to examine your leadership through 6 days of supported and embodied learning.

Designed to respond to your experience, this unique learning environment will help organizational leaders and managers navigate real-world leadership challenges that participants can immediately apply to their roles.

For whom: Leadership and management professionals and change-makers in non-profits, SPOs and corporate sectors looking to adopt practical tools that will elevate staff leadership skills and impact, strengthen teams, foster problem-solving and creativity, and effectively meet the challenges and opportunities of the work environment.

Prerequisite: Due to the applied nature of this course participants will be required to commit to approximately 2 hours of self reflection and application between modules.

Key outcomes: Beyond just technical skills, this course will equip your organization’s leaders with tools to help strengthen your teams and partnerships, encourage problem solving and creativity, and empower personal growth, confidence and emotional intelligence.

Module 1 (14 hours): Leading and Understanding Myself

Identify leadership strengths, preferences, and areas of development needed for your environment
Understand different leadership approaches, and learn to adapt to different situations
Explore reflective listening and emotional intelligence that builds communication and trust
Examine differences between Leadership and Management and skills needed for both
Examine Inclusive Leadership, power dynamics, and building cultures of belonging

Module 2 (14 hours): Leading and Understanding Others

Explore Leadership as a system and identify factors that create healthy workplaces
Deepen your team’s understanding of motivational drivers for staff and your organization
Refine delegation skills and strengthen each leader’s coaching capacity
Explore listening, questioning and feedback skills that foster healthy communication
Discover leadership styles and opportunities to strengthen leadership capacity
Examine role transitions and impact on responsibilities and behaviour

Module 3 (14 hours): Leading in the Organization

Understand different working styles and improve the ability to manage them
Explore how to support teams as they form, storm, perform and transform
Consider how to manage organizational change while engaging your teams
Improve your team’s ability to handle difficult conversations with confidence
Assess your team’s resilience and ability to bounce back from challenges
Reflect and create a plan for future leadership posture using these new skills.

Optional Accreditation: This program offers the opportunity to achieve an internationally recognized, university level Award in Leadership GCU certification.

More Details

Our programs are proudly offered in partnership with the Social Enterprise Academy. Designed to help leaders focus, reflect, plan and act on the areas that will make their organisations more successful, SEA programs prioritize peer-learning, facilitation over teaching, and transformation learning environments that are meant to be responsive to each organization’s unique needs.

Our programs can be delivered to your organization virtually, in-person, or through a hybrid format absolutely anywhere in Canada. Costs vary based on method of delivery.

Each program includes time with our staff and facilitator prior to delivery to ensure it is customized to your organization’s needs. And, if you have an idea you’re not sure we can deliver on, just ask! We want to work with you.

For our client-based programs to be most cost effective, we recommend a minimum of 8-10 learners per cohort. However, our cohorts are designed to be interactive and intimate, so we don’t recommend having more than 20 participants at a time.

Finally, if you think cost may be a prohibitive factor, we can discuss options for exploring grant and funding opportunities that may be applicable to your region and sector.

Not ready to book a program for your organization, check out our open-enrolment courses offered to individuals at select times throughout the year!

Book Your Program

We’re excited to meet you and explore how we can help. Please email Adriana Zylinski, Learning Manager at to learn more and get started.

Accessibility

CCEDNet is committed to creating an accessible environment for all of our program participants. Accessibility goes beyond space considerations. So, please let us know if your team requires any form of additional support to attend this program.