Employee Engagement and Strategic Leadership: The Manager’s Course

  • This program teaches managers, directors and vice-presidents how to use leadership techniques that engage employees to contribute more, adapt quickly to everyday change and stress and maintain highly productive working relationships.

    You will learn to evaluate various current working relationships with staff and your own bosses, and apply new productivity-building, motivational leadership techniques immediately into your workplace.

    Who Should Attend

    • Vice-presidents, directors and divisional managers
    • Experienced managers with at least five years’ experience
    • Human resources trainers and organization development specialists
    • Senior managers from sales, IT, operations, manufacturing and finance

    What You Will Learn

    • Master the principles of employee engagement to build highly productive, results-driven business teams
    • Introduce local leadership practices that involve staff and achieve higher levels of commitment
    • Understand the root causes of poor performance, job stress and employee mismanagement
    • Evaluate your own organization’s health and resilience, plus new ways to lead
    • Use engagement strategies to effectively manage projects and business teams
    • Assess your own level of engagement and find new ways to engage others
    • Use the processes of appreciative leadership to establish highly productive and motivated teams
    • Practise appreciative leadership behaviours and learn to engage others when solving difficult problems
    • Establish drivers to improve operating performance in small and large departments
    • “Employee engagement & Strategic Leadership is an exceptional course. I will be able to use the appreciative mindset right away in my workplace. It was extremely challenging, engaging and will provide me with advanced skill sets.”

      T. AitkenDeputy Fire Chief
    • “Great experience. I will put that practice in place as soon as I arrive. Just listening and asking objective questions - that will probably resolve all my conflicts.”

      L. DagenaisOffice Supervisor, Hobart
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  • This program has been approved for CDP hours under Section A of the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Log of the Human Resource Professionals Association (HRPA). Be sure to note the program ID number on your CPD log. For more information about certification or continuing professional development, visit the HRPA website at www.hrpa.ca/hrdesignations_/Pages/Continuing-Professional-Development.aspx