Our Watermark
Why is a canoeist the watermark for a leadership and organizational development consultancy?
Our canoeist is a bowsperson. Normally, we think that the sternsperson is the leader of the canoe. They do most of the steering and shift their weight to balance and re-balance the canoe. But in rapids, everything changes. The bowsperson is the first to see the rocks, holes and safe havens ahead. When the bowsperson shouts "Go Right", both paddlers immediately stroke to move the vessel out of harm's way.
In the complex and often ambiguous circumstances that leaders must navigate, leadership that is allowed to emerge where leadership is needed creates resilient organizations.
Executive Coaching
Our coaching practice focuses on building competencies in leadership excellence, strategic thinking and engagement strategies.
The outcomes of coaching are improved performance through self-awareness and the ability to self-generate. We take a pragmatic approach, helping clients to navigate the situations they are facing now while building competencies that will serve them in the future.
Alan Sobel has been listed as an approved coach to Canadian federal government executives under Standing Offer :CSPS-RFP-07110FB01. Read more here.
The Core Skills Program
The Core Skills Program is a series of six workshops that include:
| Active listening: how to listen with intent. | |
| Generative listening and peer coaching: how to listen in ways that create new possibilities for the speaker. | |
| The structured conversation: how to engage others in a conversation that will lead to shared commitments and specific actions. | |
| Leading Difficult Conversations: how to turn conflict into possibility. Read more here. |
The Mentoring Program
Mentoring is a knowledge-sharing relationship that accelerates the expertise and organizational knowledge of protégés. It offers the mentor an opportunity to share a life time of experience, give back to the organization, and develop a new set of social connections at work. Mentoring pairs knowledge to share with knowledge to gain for both mentor and protégé. Read more here.
The Action Learning Program
Action learning is a way for leaders to learn from their actions with insights from trusted colleagues in a setting that structures collaborative inquiry and reflection.
Participants in an action learning group take time to share, question and reflect upon their actions in a group context in order to gain insights from each other and to consider how to act in the future. Inquiry and reflection is rooted in the experience of the people in the group. Consequently, learning is practical, pragmatic, and anchors participants in their own enterprise.
Leap! Corporation offers action learning group facilitation and facilitation training to organizations. Read more here.
Team Learning Program
The Team Learning Program is designed for in-tact teams. It is an arc of workshops that build direction, trust, accountability, innovation and communication skills for teams with a mission. Read more here.
New Leaders Program
The shift from individual contributor to front-line leader is a major transition for which many people are not adequately prepared. Leaders need to clarify their situations, understand their capabilities, and build a personal plan to be a better leader. The New Leaders Program helps leaders to thrive in their new roles. Read more here.
Presentation Skills for Technical Staff
The objective of this workshop is to learn to compellingly communicate technical ideas to non-technical executives and other stakeholders in two settings:
| A five minute hallway conversation. | |
| A power point presentation. |
Our Pedagogical Approach
Our pedagogical approach has five steps:
1. Create a common experience for workshop participants.
2. Introduce new ideas through brief presentations and reading materials.
- 3. Create time for meaningful personal reflection that is guided by questions that encourage exploration.
4. Create great conversations among peers using specific structures for engagement.
- 5. Drive to outcomes that are meaningful to the participants who are in the room and to their organizations
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