Who is this for?
- People leaders, executives, directors and divisional managers
- Experienced managers and supervisors
- Human resources and organization development specialists from the private and public sector
Benefits for you
- Assess your personal leadership style and grow your capacity to engage others
- Ensure a “line of sight” for employee activities to reflect strategic directions
- Use appreciative inquiry to bolster individual and team performance
- Resolve behavioural challenges impacting morale and productivity
- Facilitate others when solving difficult problems or creative strategies
- Enhance your organization’s reputation as an employer of choice
Program content
Contemporary Workplace Context
- Exploring external influences and internal factors impacting employee engagement
- Exercise: building the business case for motivating and retaining top talent
Foundations of Employee Engagement
- Characteristics of engaged employees, methods for assessing employee engagement
- Exercise: preparing an employee engagement checklist
Critical Leadership Competencies for Employee Engagement
- Assessing your engagement style
- Exercise: determining your employee engagement learning aims
Performance Management
- Developing employee performance expectations, assessing and enhancing performance
- Exercise: creating and using employee performance criteria
Respectful Workplace Behaviours
- The impact of personality styles; setting and upholding expectations
- Exercise: practicing appreciative inquiry to address situational dilemmas
Workplace Teams
- How group dynamics impact employee engagement; assessing your team’s assets and liabilities
- Exercise: practicing facilitative leadership to address workplace challenges
Strategic Alignment Practices
- Cascading organizational goals to individual and team actions, collaborating for shared goals
- Exercise: creating a strategic dashboard for “line of sight” among employees
Making a Leadership Difference
- Exercise: developing your re-entry plan for enhanced employee engagement
Special feature
The highly interactive workshop enables you to apply a variety of practical tools to address “real-time” matters you are facing now.
Program leader
Dr. Gordon McIntosh
Gordon has 40+ years of management and consultancy experience in the areas of strategic leadership. He has conducted over 1,400 training sessions throughout Canada and internationally, involving more than 140,000 people. Participants affirm that his dynamic sessions enable them to make an immediate leadership difference back at their workplace.