Customized Client-Based Leadership Programs

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 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 programs 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.

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

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

Customization: Our Leadership Programs are customizable to support the unique needs of your organization and ensure maximum relevance and impact for your staff. Working together, we can align the programs to your team’s skills, goals and organizational focus areas.

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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 and partners 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 program 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 [program] 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. Beyond just technical skills, this program 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.

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 program participants will be required to commit to approximately 2 hours of self reflection and application between modules.

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 within 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.

“ Our experience at Today’s Family has been one that has deepened and developed our understanding of our impact and the possibilities we hold. Creating space, time and intentionality to focus on leading oneself, leading others, and leading in the organization has built the confidence, resilience, and the effectiveness of our leaders to serve in our communities. We have grown from the experience in a multitude of way. ”

— Brenda Ferguson, Chief Executive Officer, Today’s Family Early Learning and Child Care

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, these 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.

Not ready to book a program for your organization, check out our open-enrolment programs 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.