Workshops

Coaching Unleashed

Participants develop a solid foundation in coaching, enabling them to address any situation through a coaching approach. Coaching skills and powerful tools and practices gained from this program can be easily transferred to any work context. BreakPoint’s Coaching Unleashed workshops use the AscensionTM model and curriculum to offer you the coaching model, mindset, and tools your leaders need to be able to develop the capacity of others in your organization.  

Note: This is not a coaching certification program; it supports leaders to use coach-like skills to the benefit of their organization.

Leadership Unleashed

Understanding the foundational principles of leadership is fundamental for current and potential leaders. The words “leadership” and “management” are often used interchangeably, but there are some very important differences.

This module is designed to provide participants with a basic grounding in the theory and practice of leadership and its particular applications. Leadership basics are explored using BreakPoint Solutions’ proprietary AscensionTM model, where participants identify the elements of their personal leadership styles.

Building leadership self-awareness allows for understanding a leader’s core capabilities and sheds light on areas that may need to be developed. This foundation informs the construction of a leadership development plan that is unique for each leader and includes concrete milestones to guide and measure leadership improvement.

governance unleashed

Boards of Directors are unique teams within any organization. This interactive workshop will introduce a number of different governance models, noting that blindly adopting any one model cannot serve all organizations.

Participants will work through and become familiar with common challenges and pitfalls in governance, and what systems, structure, and processes they can proactively establish to support effective and sustainable governance.

Organizational Culture Unleashed

Participants establish an understanding and appreciation for what organizational culture actually is and the elements that go into creating it. This understanding informs an exploration of how leaders - at all levels - are responsible for and able to sustain and/or change culture and why that ability can be so fundamental to an organization’s success.

Strategic Planning Unleashed

Every organization or business at one time or another engages in strategic planning. Sometimes these efforts are large, complex, months in development, and engage hundreds of staff. In other circumstances, the strategic plan may be carried around in the head of one founder or leader. Neither process guarantees organizational success; however, strategic planning done right and directed toward an appropriate vision is a tool for success. Participants in this workshop will learn the key building blocks for effective strategic planning. 

Teams Unleashed

By definition, leadership requires working with teams. To understand leadership styles and team dynamics, it is important to know the values and motivations that underlie behaviour. By first examining one’s own values, a leader is able to understand how they align with the organization and are better able to translate the larger vision to employees. Theories of motivation, individual and generational differences, and how motivation relates to engagement will be examined.

This interactive, team-based workshop helps leaders and teams develop and articulate their shared vision and values. Together, they will work through challenges they face and build an appreciation for the skills and strengths each team member has to contribute.

Participants can expect to take away individual and team-based action plans that ensure the investment in a strong team continues after the workshop, to where it matters most: the workplace.

Performance unleashed

Getting the most out of an organization’s people has never been more important. We look at performance development as part of the broader talent management process within an organization, and appreciate the connections to career development, competency development, compensation, and employee rewards. From onboarding to performance management, one of the most important and challenging functions is performance development.

Regular, ongoing performance development discussions create a rich opportunity for coaching and mentoring employees. This module will further your understanding of the key components of effective performance development and how to powerfully structure and approach to ensure meaningful employee engagement and performance.

accelerating personal impact/influence

It can be said that leadership is made up of three key components:

1. seeing what needs to be done

2. understanding all the forces at play

3. having the courage to act

One of the ways leaders take action and make things happen is through communication and conversation. All too often, however, leaders find themselves shying away from their most impactful conversations because those can be the most challenging.

In this module, we will explore the fundamentals of good communication and delve into how to overcome barriers to successfully engage in some of our most difficult conversations. We will speak to issues of clarity; non-negotiables; systems of support; sorting perceptions from reality; and obligations to self, individuals, and teams. We will focus on some of the most challenging scenarios individuals leaders may face, including engaging and motivating teams, effective and appropriate delegation, cross-functional peer discussions, managing up, addressing performance issues, and terminations.

Cultivating a strategic mindset

Organizations are increasingly asking their staff and leaders to see the big picture when making decisions in their individual day-to-day roles and tasks; i.e., to have a strategic mindset or outlook. But what does that actually mean? What does a strategic mindset look like? How can it be created and cultivated? What happens when there isn’t a clear and objective definition?

In this module, we will explore the concepts of strategy, systems thinking and big-picture perspective. We will also support individual leaders to translate organizational mission, vision, values, and strategic directions to their own level of accountability. Finally, we explore what organizational systems complement and support integration, or which create their own barriers.

Better change: best practices for transformation

Leadership is always about change. Leaders are either initiating or responding to change. Nothing is static, and organizations that fail to continuously evaluate and respond to their environment are at risk of negative consequences, including becoming irrelevant and extinct. The benefits and cost of change are significant and yet, with all that weights on that reality, most change initiatives - personal or organizational - fail to realize most of their potential.

In this module, we will discover and appreciate individual, team, and organizational change. We will explore models and principles for effective change management, and introduce tools and tactics for each participant to more effectively implement change in the future.

personal and organizational resilience

Change is the only true constant. That has never been truer than in today’s environment. And with change comes a test of personal and organizational capacity and resilience. The degree to which we can respond to change and adversity determines whether we just survive or actually thrive through change.

In this module, we will identify the signs of resilience at both a personal and organizational level. More importantly, we will look at how we can build resilience. Resilience - the capacity to sustain and grow through change - is not innate or a given. Resilience is a quality that can be cultivated. Participants will leave the session with the beginnings of their own personal resilience-building plan, along with tools and techniques to support their teams and organizations grow in capability.