Value-Focused

• We offer strategies to value and motivate employees. Leaders with these skills create workplaces that yield higher productivity, retention and profitability.

Customized Training

• We are dedicated to consulting, training and coaching with the objective of making your training unique to you.

Supported Pace

• We support the full range of experience and abilities of leaders. We meet you where you are, and take you to the next level and beyond.

Flexible Approach

• We are attentive to your needs. You have the freedom to explore and offer feedback in order to make adjustments to the training.

Knowledge and Experience 

• We offer research-based approaches proven to make leaders successful.

Thoughtfully Designed Training 

• We engage participants in meaningful, rich, and experiential training.

Well-Rounded Expertise

• We are adept in developing relationships, resolving conflicts, building trust, and improving organizational success.

Unique Opportunities

• We are certified in administering and interpreting standardized assessments to objectively evaluate needs and progress.

Authenticity 

• We are genuine. We walk our talk. We passionately believe in what we do.

Two Leaders

• You benefit from two knowledgeable leaders who support your experience and encourage the development of your team. Our magic lies in how we complement each other.

Common Bond

• Our own relationship as colleagues, business partners and friends serves as a role model for leaders in creating thriving, successful relationships. Over the years, we have leaned on each other through challenging work transitions and major life events from birth to death.

Humour and Fun

• We challenge participants to grow through enjoyable activities. We lead with integrity and honesty, and a good dose of humour.

Nancy holds a Master’s Degree in Counselling Psychology and is a Certified Hakomi Therapist. She is trained in mediation, leadership development, executive and lifestyle coaching, and psychological assessment. Nancy has worked in many leadership roles including as Director of Student Services for Battle River School Division in Alberta, and has presented to and provided consultation for various organizations in Alberta, British Columbia, and Ontario. Nancy has supported many clients through transformational life events. She is a dynamic speaker and powerful facilitator of change.

Nancy is devoted to her partner and adores being a mother to her two remarkable adult sons. She’s inspired by nature and enjoys travel, dance, and learning the ukulele.

Kathryn is a Registered Psychologist in Alberta. She is experienced in business and has held many leadership roles in organizational settings. In addition to co-managing a successful family business, she is a Consulting Psychologist to Neurodevelopmental and FASD Assessment Clinics in central Alberta for Alberta Health Services and serves as the Clinical Supervisor to a Family Enhancement Program in Wetaskiwin, Alberta. Kathryn has training and expertise in organizational consultation, psychological and intellectual assessment, leadership development, counselling, executive and lifestyle coaching, and workshop facilitation. Kathryn’s ease in connecting with people, together with her refreshing approach to training, inspires leaders to grow.

Kathryn and her partner delight in their four adult children. She takes pleasure in adventure, reading, and yoga.

This course consists of 3 modules and assists leaders in understanding emotional intelligence, and in developing and applying emotionally intelligent skills that are scientifically correlated with successful leadership. Becoming an effective leader within one’s own circle of influence, and recognizing the relationship between emotional intelligence and leadership, is a focus of the training. Specific strategies to develop emotional intelligence are taught and practiced. Each participant leaves the training with an individual growth plan for developing their emotional intelligence, as well as a roadmap for accountability to their plan.

The course is delivered in person through a combination of lecture, video clips, and individual and group activities. The majority of the learning is experiential, with directed activities to promote learning and individual integration of the skills taught.

Research irrefutably confirms that emotional intelligence plays a critical role in leadership.1 The emotional intelligence of leaders is highly correlated with their ability to foster positive work environments, creating satisfied, highly motivated employees and yielding significantly higher productivity, retention, and profitability. Emotional intelligence is key to this competitive advantage. EQ (Emotional Quotient) has twice the power of IQ (Intellectual Quotient) to predict performance. EQ is also a better predictor than employee skill, knowledge or expertise (Freedman, 2010, The Business Case for Emotional Intelligence).

Analysis shows that emotional intelligence plays an increasingly important role at the highest levels of organizations, where competencies in technical skills are of negligible importance. In other words, the higher the rank of a person considered to be a star performer, the more apparent it is that the reason is his or her capabilities in emotional intelligence. When star performers are compared with average ones in senior leadership positions, nearly 90% of the difference in their profiles is attributable to emotional intelligence factors rather than cognitive abilities (Goleman, 2004, Harvard Business Review).

Course Evaluation: Participants will be expected to develop individual accountability plans to be shared with the facilitators and select colleagues. This accountability plan will articulate the skills to be developed, the methods used to practice the developing skill, a timeline for implementation, and who will assist in holding the individual accountable for the skill development. These plans will be reviewed extensively during the third module, with ongoing plans for development of skills generated.

As a result of this training, participants will:

• Understand what emotional intelligence is and why it is critical to transformational leadership
• Learn about the research supporting the concept of emotional intelligence and emotional intelligence assessment
• Appreciate the value of developing emotional intelligence
• Develop one’s EQ in relation to skills required for leadership through practice and 
implementation of research based strategies in 15 areas of emotional intelligence
• Generate ongoing plans for self-improvement
• Embrace the evolution of transformational leadership – from “dominance to partnership”, in recognition of leadership as service. (Shift from dictating and directing to motivating and supporting, while inspiring accountability and commitment)
• Explore key leadership and relationship issues with peers and colleagues
• Understand how relationships and communication support effective leadership
• Support team building and create sustainable plans for team improvement

Three Learning Modules: Each module is 7 hours, and consists of theory, practice, individual goal setting and opportunity for integration of skills learned.

Course Materials: This course focusses on facilitating individual and group processes. Skills are taught and then practiced through individual and group activities. Training materials required, therefore, are negligible. Costs for photocopying of materials developed by the facilitators, when required, will be charged in addition to the training cost, but will cost no more than $15.00 per participant.

Additional costs: Costs for travel and subsistence for the trainers, when required, will be charged additionally.

Main Office
#230 9008 99 Avenue
Edmonton, Alberta
T5H 4M6

Kathryn Graff M.Ed. R.Psych.(AB)
780.608.5688
kathryn@flourishconsultants.ca

Nancy McLeod M.Ed. CHT.
780.678.0568
nancy@flourishconsultants.ca