Empower Leadership Training Series
Discover the secrets to leading others, implementing ideas, introducing change and driving initiatives to achieve long-term success.
Red River College’s Empower Leadership Training Series consists of comprehensive in-house workshops designed to develop leadership skills. These workshops are built to address the important needs in today’s workplace and provide the skills needed for existing and emerging leaders to succeed in their careers.
One- and multi-day workshops are available and each is designed to bring relevant, timely and immediately applicable training to the market in a cost-effective manner. This is made possible by leveraging the expertise of Red River College’s trusted instructors.
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Who Benefits the Most From the Workshops?
- New supervisors and managers.
- Emerging supervisors and managers (0-3 years).
- Current leaders, including team leaders, project leaders, department leaders and business leaders.
- Human resource managers and specialists.
- Rising stars.
- Small business owners.
- Individuals recognized as role models by their peers.
- Individuals driven by self-improvement.
Current Workshops
Project Management Essentials – SOLD OUT
Workshop Overview
- Topic: Project Management
- Price: $395 + GST
- Date(s): January 27, 2020
- Time: 8:45am – 4:30pm (registration at 8:30am)
- Location: Red River College, Notre Dame Campus (FM34)
- Presenter: Gord Gibben, PMP
Description
Project management has been described as: “Doing something that has never been done before, for people who don’t know what they want, with too-limited resources that you do not control, and being held completely responsible for the results.”
Managing a project is a multidisciplinary undertaking. At any given moment, you will have a multitude of activities to oversee, each requiring a unique skill set that you use to get things done in an effective and timely manner.
Project management can become the catalyst for change, driving consistency and helping project managers run their operations more smoothly and with less room for errors. Project management can drive many benefits, provided it is done in the right way.
For many years, Red River College has been helping organizations address their project management pains and increase project success.
What You Will Learn
- Manage project issues and changes.
- Identify and manage project risks.
- Understand and manage project management triple constraint.
- Create a project charter and scope statement.
- Create project schedules and work breakdown structures.
- Monitor progress and report to stakeholders.
Presenter – Gord Gibben, PMP
A recognized expert in “soft skills,” Gord is the president and lead instructor for GPM Training Solutions Ltd., specializing in leadership training for corporate and academic clients. He is a frequent speaker and instructor at professional development conferences. An energetic and highly interactive instructor, one of Gord’s strengths is his ability to relate practical real world experience to classroom theory.
Gord brings to his training sessions over 30 years of leadership experience in government and private sector organizations. He has managed multi-million-dollar projects, established Project Management Offices, and written over sixty e-books on project leadership.
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Building High Performance Teams
Workshop Overview
- Topic: Team building
- Price: $345 + GST until Jan. 31 at 11:59pm ($395 + GST starting Feb. 1)
- Date(s): February 4, 2020
- Time: 8:45am – 4:30pm (registration at 8:30am)
- Location: Red River College, Notre Dame Campus (FM34)
- Presenter: Gord Gibben, PMP
Description
Survival depends on your leadership and this interactive workshop strenghtens every aspect of team leadership skills. Foster an environment of creativity and unite team members to reach common goals with stronger collaboration, team cohesion, unity and support to achieve organizational goals.
What You Will Learn
- Gain team commitment to the five stages of team development.
- Identify team building and team subverting behaviors.
- Identify and apply appropriate coaching techniques.
- Prepare a Team Charter.
- Describe the characteristics of a high performance team.
- Describe drivers and barriers to team performance.
- Describe the building blocks of high performance teams.
- Describe the characteristics and leadership required in high performance teams.
Presenter – Gord Gibben, PMP
A recognized expert in “soft skills,” Gord is the president and lead instructor for GPM Training Solutions Ltd., specializing in leadership training for corporate and academic clients. He is a frequent speaker and instructor at professional development conferences. An energetic and highly interactive instructor, one of Gord’s strengths is his ability to relate practical real world experience to classroom theory.
Gord brings to his training sessions over 30 years of leadership experience in government and private sector organizations. He has managed multi-million-dollar projects, established Project Management Offices, and written over sixty e-books on project leadership.
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Past Workshops
Closing the Leadership Gap
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Workshop Overview
- Topic: Supervision and Leadership
- Price: $395 + GST
- Date(s): September 24, 2019
- Time: 8:45am – 4:30pm (registration at 8:30am)
- Location: Red River College, Notre Dame Campus (FM34)
- Presenter: Roland Marcoux, BSc
Description
This workshop has been designed to teach leadership essentials and how to apply them. It is a very interactive, focused and exploratory one-day workshop. It is intended for Team Leaders, Project Leaders, Department Leaders, Business Leaders, and Emerging Leaders and for people interested in continuous improvement and personal development.
Leadership is about the complex enterprise of human interaction. You cannot imagine a good leader without followers. Leaders have learned to influence others to attain goals that represent mutual needs, values and expectations. Leaders do so skillfully without ever compromising trust and respect of self and others.
What You Will Learn
- To explore the essence of becoming a good leader.
- To identify and develop your personal best leadership model.
- To create a mindset of continuous learning and growth for yourself and others.
- To develop trust building attitudes and behaviours that transform into leadership skills.
- To be known as a win / win leader.
Presenter – Roland Marcoux
Mr. Roland Marcoux, BSc, has over 30 years of experience as a practitioner in organization development (OD) and is a Certified Change Management Professional. He has worked with all levels of management in a broad range of issues in both the private and public sectors. He was the founding president of a medium sized consulting company that is now owned by the employees and is still going strong.
He has also worked in Europe, Asia and throughout the US. He has consulted and trained trainers and consultants in skills related to problem solving, decision making and strategic thinking. He has designed and delivered specific OD interventions in Canada and abroad. He has worked with management teams dealing with a broad range of issues related to leadership and Organizational Development.
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Critical Consequences – The Communication Gap
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Workshop Overview
- Topic: Communication
- Price: $395 + GST
- Date(s): October 24, 2019
- Time: 8:45am – 4:30pm (registration at 8:30am)
- Location: Red River College, Notre Dame Campus (room A137)
- Presenter: Roland Marcoux, BSc
Description
This workshop has been designed to learn about self and how this impacts how we communicate. It is a very interactive and exploratory one-day workshop and is intended for people interested in continuous improvement, self-development and excelling in a leadership role through great communication skills.
Self-awareness and communication go hand-in-hand. The self is the start in every act of communication. Our most crucial interactions come from how we communicate with others. Speaking with openness, clarity and believability is one part of the communication equation. Listening to understand, learn and cooperate with others is the other part of the equation.
What You Will Learn
- To generate higher trust in interpersonal relationships.
- To increase openness in relationships.
- To identify emotional messages that are often hidden in communication.
- To clarify assumptions that people make about one another and about situations.
- To listen to what is being said without words.
Presenter – Roland Marcoux
Mr. Roland Marcoux, BSc, has over 30 years of experience as a practitioner in organization development (OD) and is a Certified Change Management Professional. He has worked with all levels of management in a broad range of issues in both the private and public sectors. He was the founding president of a medium sized consulting company that is now owned by the employees and is still going strong.
He has also worked in Europe, Asia and throughout the US. He has consulted and trained trainers and consultants in skills related to problem solving, decision making and strategic thinking. He has designed and delivered specific OD interventions in Canada and abroad. He has worked with management teams dealing with a broad range of issues related to leadership and Organizational Development.
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Courageous Conversations at Work
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Workshop Overview
- Topic: Difficult Conversations
- Price: $395 + GST
- Date(s): November 5, 2019
- Time: 8:45am – 4:30pm (registration at 8:30am)
- Location: Red River College, Notre Dame Campus (FM34)
- Presenter: Omar P. Hawash, B.A
Description
With organizations scrambling to adapt to the intensity of a changing world, the ability to effectively have challenging conversations has become a key competency. Whether you are delivering a difficult message, giving tough performance feedback, or confronting insensitive behaviour, the way most of us feel about having challenging conversations is common.
Some of us have a hard time dealing with anger; some of us cannot deal with silence or tears. This workshop covers several of the most challenging, intense and emotionally charged types of conversations.
What You Will Learn
- Why certain conversations are so difficult and how to shift your perspective about difficult conversations.
- Understanding the dynamic of difficult conversations.
- How to prepare for and initiate a difficult conversation.
- How to manage your emotions during a difficult conversation.
- How to say anything to anyone – simple, yet effective steps to follow.
Presenter – Omar P. Hawash
Mr. Omar P. Hawash, B.A., has over 15 years of experience as a practitioner in Human Resource Management, obtained his Certificate in Human Resource Management in 2003, and is currently working on his Certificate in Adult Continuing Education. He has also worked with all levels of management in a broad range of issues in the private not-for-profit sector, and small-to-medium sized business in the business community. Omar thrives on facilitating using an interactive approach that has been well received by both small and large groups.
Omar has a passion for coaching both in the workplace, and in the community having coached soccer, football and hockey, and believes that the hallmark of a great leader is someone who assists other to become leaders.
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Effective Business Writing for Success
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Workshop Overview
- Topic: Business Writing
- Price: $395 + GST
- Date(s): December 3, 2019
- Time: 8:45am – 4:30pm (registration at 8:30am)
- Location: Red River College, Notre Dame Campus (FM34)
- Presenter: Lori Hunter
Description
Take your business writing to the next level!
In this workshop, you will explore how to write clear and effective business communication and learn methods to make your writing more audience-oriented, purposeful and economical.
Using a variety of electronic formats, you will learn the basic steps of effective and persuasive writing, including planning your approach, organizing information, writing a first draft and revising for clarity. In addition, you will be taught the main differences between electronic and traditional written workplace communication, including the pros and cons of email, instant messaging, texting, social media, podcasts, wikis and blogs and how they are best used professionally.
What You Will Learn
- Understand and describe the importance of becoming an effective business communicator in today’s changing workplace.
- Assess your purpose, audience, and apply an effective writing strategy for each.
- Write a variety of business documents that best support a specific writing purpose (e.g., email, letter, memorandum).
- Apply organizational techniques to increase audience comprehension and retention.
- Construct sentences using correct conventions for spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
- Revise messages for conciseness and proofread documents for greater clarity and accuracy.
- Identify ways in which technology helps improve business writing.
Presenter – Lori Hunter
Lori is a seasoned communications professional and teacher who has held public relations and marketing positions in both the private and non-profit sectors. Lori began her career as a television copywriter with CTV and her work career has encompassed a variety of positions including a Community Relations Rep for McDonald’s Restaurants, the Director of Marketing and Communications for the Royal Winnipeg Ballet and the Vice President of Marketing for Manitoba Special Olympics. She is currently the Communications and Public Relations Coordinator for New Directions for Children, Youth, Adults and Families. Her teaching career includes seven years as an instructor in the Public Relations Diploma Program at the University of Winnipeg’s Division of Continuing Education. Lori loves teaching and working with individuals to help them achieve their communication goals.
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Surviving to Thriving: Change Management
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Workshop Overview
- Topic: Change Management
- Price: $395 + GST
- Date(s): January 15, 2020
- Time: 8:45am – 4:30pm (registration at 8:30am)
- Location: Red River College, Notre Dame Campus (FM34)
- Presenter: Roland Marcoux, BSc
Description
This workshop has been designed to explore how individuals and organizations alike deal with change. It is a very interactive, focused and exploratory one-day workshop. It is intended for employees, employers and organizational leaders and managers as well as Change Practitioners, Team Leaders, Project Leaders, Department Leaders, Business Leaders, and Emerging Leaders.
Our climate and our society is changing, as are businesses, systems, processes, technology, values, mindsets and culture. People experience change differently, from exciting and positive, to neutral or downright negative. Change means shifts in what we do, think and feel. We need people, teams and leaders that are agile, nimble and proactive when confronted with change. We need to know what is expected of us, how to deal with these expectations and others dealing with change.
What You Will Learn
- To recognize how you react to change.
- To recognize the stages of change individuals/organizations go through.
- To explore your mindset about change.
- To manage yourself and others in the change process.
- To distinguish between managing change and leading change.
- To manage stress related to change.
Who Benefits the Most From the Workshop?
- New supervisors and managers.
- Existing managers and supervisors (0-3 years).
- Current leaders, including team leaders, project leaders, department leaders and business leaders.
- Human resource managers and specialists.
- Rising stars.
- Individuals driven by self-improvement.
Presenter – Roland Marcoux, BSc
Mr. Roland Marcoux, BSc, has over 30 years of experience as a practitioner in organization development (OD) and is a Certified Change Management Professional. He has worked with all levels of management in a broad range of issues in both the private and public sectors. He was the founding president of a medium sized consulting company that is now owned by the employees and is still going strong.
He has also worked in Europe, Asia and throughout the US. He has consulted and trained trainers and consultants in skills related to problem solving, decision making and strategic thinking. He has designed and delivered specific OD interventions in Canada and abroad. He has worked with management teams dealing with a broad range of issues related to leadership and Organizational Development.
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Empower Workshops
Project Management Essentials – SOLD OUT
Jan. 27, 2020
Building High Performance Teams
Feb. 4, 2020
Professional Development Units
Empower workshops may be self-claimed as Professional Development Units (PDU) or Continuing Education Units (CEU) requirements.