Why Strengthen Skills, Competencies, and Systems?

Organizational leaders recognize the importance of strengthening their leaders' management skills, competencies and systems through management training.   

As social and management innovation leaders, Arete Initiative views the deliberate evolution of management practices as a key vehicle to evolve leaders and their leadership skills and overall organizational growth.

Through the Leadership In Management Innovation Training course, Arete Initiative will guide your organization's leadership group through an array of modules that offer skill-building experiences for leadership growth by practicing innovation in  management skills.

OUR APPROACH

The purpose of the Leadership In Management Innovation Training Course is to strengthen individual management and leadership skills which lead to enduring growth opportunities for your organization.  These benefits will be visible through:

• improved communication and collaboration among leaders in teams working on complex projects,

• more effective processes to deliver services and/or products to your organizations’ clients and effective strategies for managing change,

• improved competencies, structures and practices to respond to real time information for your customers and your business,

• testable management practices to lead teams in an effort to drive engagement, productivity, consistency, scalability, and sustainability of your organization's culture,

• And measurable financial impacts and potential savings including reduced staff turnover, especially throughout critical growth periods, and project cost savings as a result of improved collaboration and communication.

In our experience, research and engagement with leaders from a wide range of organizations and industries it is clear that there is a seismic shift underway calling for new ways of 'being' as leaders that drive strategy, innovation, organizational excellence in an effort to thrive in the 21st century.

However, there remains a significant need for management systems to actually foster coordination of purpose-driven people doing meaningful work. When faced with volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous circumstances, conventional patterns of organizing and leading break down. As a result, creating meaningful experiences for leaders to think differently and safely trial and learn new approaches to practicing leadership become important and extend across many areas including: 

Importantly, these new ways of working call for cultivating new mindsets such as:

As people and organizations develop, it creates the need to identify, craft, and develop a proficiency in leading management innovation AND the underlying leadership mindsets that enable it to occur. Doing so well will ultimately lead to continued growth, continued impact and increasing responsiveness.

THE EVOLUTION OF LEADERSHIP iN MANAGEMENT

Individuals participating in the course will learn in different ways, at different paces and in a way that builds community across the learning cohort. Individuals will be tasked to work with their existing teams to trial and plan to slightly alter how they operate in their real-worried setting and apply action-learning to deepen overall learning and retention. Over time, participants feel empowered to continue implementing innovative management tactics across other parts of their company, learn how to rapidly improve them, and, eventually, extend reach to the whole company. 

We do not facilitate this management training course as a set of chronological steps, but rather a simultaneous one. Not a rigidly structured one, but favoring fluidity and adaptability to maximize the learning of the individuals and the cohort.

The vital part of our process is working with the participants through guided experiences of learning these topics WHILE learning new mindsets that will create the most value, and breakthroughs.

About the Course

INSTRUCTION & CERTIFICATION

The Leadership in Management Innovation Training course is scheduled for:

• 24 instructional hours per employee

• can be completed in 52 weeks from the start date of the first training session.

Upon successful completion of the course Arete Initiative will provide a certificate of completion to each participant.

cOURSE OUTLINE

Overall, we offer a series of four “learning cycles” with full-cohort sessions occurring approximately every two months, and interim course checkpoint meetings for individuals and subgroups happening in the months in between the full-cohort sessions.

The course outline looks like the below pattern of leadership discovery:

This pattern is proposed to repeat four times throughout the course to with through all 4 topics with the last full-cohort session as a debrief of the development, progress and outcomes that have taken place over the course of the year.

The course design includes the following engagement process (subject to amendment based on participant needs):

• Kick-Off: Personal Insight and Goal-Setting

• Role Clarity and Commitment Management

• Coaching and Performance Feedback

• Group Decision-Making & The Work of Teams

• Learning Reflection

This course can be provided to any interested individual and is especially rich when more than one person from an organization enrolls.

Should an organization desire private, internal training, please contact Arete Initiative to discuss customization opportunities.

Contact the team at Arete Initiative today to learn more about the Leadership In Management Innovation Training course.

COURSE FEES

This course is $3,500 per person plus GST and typically takes one calendar year to complete.

Contact the team at Arete Initiative to discuss your team or group’s participation in this course.

NEXT COURSE DATES

Please inquire about future dates!

*please note - intermittent small group engagement would be 2 to 3 hours between each of the above noted moments.