NOTE: Skill Development sessions are now conducted via live virtual events and the Peer Community sessions are conducted in-person.
Module 1 - "Leading Through Change"
Session 1 - Change Management
- Overview of Organizational Systems Thinking model.
- Fundamentals of the change curve and how to lead through it
- Key components of a change management plan
- Identifying the learning opportunity
- Assessing the level of mastery and giving effective feedback
Session 2 - Culture & Future State
- Organizational vision/mission creation
- Requirements to establish and sustain desired culture
- Organizational culture assessment
- Power of mental models
- Create alignment, meaning, and a higher purpose for work
Module 1 includes:
- 4 - half day skill development sessions
- 4 - peer community group sessions (part of the skill development days)
- 1 - half day peer community group session (In-person)**
- 1 - 2 hour on-site coaching gembas (go & see) (*GTA only)
- 2 - 1 hour coaching calls
Module 2 - "Leading on Purpose"
Session 3 - High Performance Leadership
- Gain methods and tools to lead deliberately and with purpose
- Understand essential cadence routines of an effective leader
- Leverage the natural personal and business rhythms
- Determine strategic vs tactical leadership focus
- How to conduct effective gemba (go/see/engage)
- Create and utilize leader standard work
- Experience the role of a leader in problem solving
- Skills for active listening and questioning
- Make a commitment to self development
Session 4 - The Human System
- Leadership skills for engagement and high performance
- Steps to create responsible engaged employee
- Methods to create performance standards and effective communication
- Development of high performance teams
- Approaches to creating a no fear environment and meaning at work
- Establishing a control board culture with alignment and managerial vision
- Techniques to create a bias for action, motivation and personal achievement and higher levels of accountability
Module 2 includes:
- 4 - half day skill development sessions
- 4 - peer community group sessions (part of the skill development days)
- 1 - half day peer community group session
- 3 - 1 hour coaching calls
Module 3 - "Build & Sustain High Performance"
Session 5 - Organizational Systems Thinking (OST)
- Understand OST fundamentals and the leader’s role
- Learn the principles to build an OST system – management, production/operations, human systems
- Conduct a current organizational OST assessment
- Draft the to-be-state system based on OST
Session 6 - Build and Sustain HIgh Performance
- How to build and leverage mechanisms
- Organizational Systems Thinking™ – alignment of the 3 systems
- How to read the systems and people
- Conducting process audits and sustaining improvements
Module 3 includes:
- 4 - half day skill development sessions
- 4 - peer community group sessions (part of the skill development days)
- 1 - half day peer community group session
- 1 - 2 hour on-site coaching gembas (go & see) (*GTA only)
- 2 - 1 hour coaching calls
All skill development sessions run from 8:30AM - 5:00PM EST and the peer community group sessions run from 12:30PM - 5:00PM EST.
On-site coaching gembas and coaching calls to be scheduled individually
* Alternative options can be discussed individually for participants attending from outside the GTA such as a virtual gemba or additional coaching calls.
** It is our intention that the half day peer community group session will be conducted in-person within the GTA. We will make the final decision and location determination approximately 3-4 weeks in advance based on the COVID situation in Ontario.
