Leadership Skills Training
Elevate your leadership potential through self-exploration, self-assessment, and self-awareness. Discover new tools and best practices to become a more engaged, insightful, and collaborative leader, driving both personal and team success.
CREATING IMPACT
Purposeful Leadership
Participants in our leadership programs gain practical, actionable skills that can be applied immediately to create a positive impact in team-based environments. Our workshops not only focus on immediate leadership improvements but also provide deep insights into the essential qualities and strategies required for long-term success as an effective leader.
Leadership Development Training Program
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Designed for those ready to elevate their leadership, our immersive Leadership Development Training program offers more than just skills — it provides a transformative experience. Become a more effective leader, with newfound confidence and grace, so you can make more meaningful impact. Unlike the typical long and boring online webinars, this is a game-changing experience that weaves together the power of live workshops, interactive group activities and support, along with the guidance of an experienced facilitator. This is about building self-awareness, big breakthroughs, and nurturing one’s unique leadership style, for real-world impact — that goes well beyond your professional life.
The 12 week hybrid program is a combination of online self-study modules and facilitator led group sessions, hosted on our online learning platform, B968 Learning.
Leadership Workshops
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The Discovering Your Leadership Style Workshop provides participants the opportunity to understand the different types of leaders and the skills of great leaders. Using the Clifton Strengths Assessment, participants gain insight into their unique strengths, areas for improvement, how to use these strengths in the workplace and how the different strengths styles can better work together. We also explore how identifying your team’s strengths can help you as a leader and your team as a whole.
Recommended Pairing: Emotional Intelligence + Understanding Motivation + Communication for Leaders
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Emotional Intelligence is an essential asset in social, workplace and personal relationships. In the Emotional Intelligence workshop, we help participants expand their knowledge of Self-Awareness, Self-Regulation, Social Skills, Empathy and Motivation. We explore different means of communication and how to best utilize each method to create positive social interactions needed in relationship management. We also discuss the benefits of increasing our Emotional Intelligence and how using empathy in leadership can help create an optimal atmosphere for success.
Recommended Pairing: Discovering Your Leadership Style + Communication for Leaders + Understanding Motivation + Creative & Critical Thinking
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In our Communication for Leaders Workshop, participants learn communication strategies and techniques to ensure clarity when sending and receiving information. Using a communication loop, participants will learn what a perfect loop looks like and how to navigate noise to ensure effective communication with a variety of audiences.
Participants are then guided through a self-assessment to identify their own communication style and apply that insight using role plays and activities to better understand how each of the different communication styles can best work together to send and receive information.
Recommended Pairing: Discovering Your Leadership Style + Emotional Intelligence + Leading Change
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Motivation plays a huge role in the success of any organization. We examine how employees are motivated, discuss different theories and the role of personalities in motivation. Using the S.M.A.R.T technique, we help students learn how they can set S.M.A.R.T goals to ensure the outcomes they wish to achieve are broken down and attainable. Challenges discussed in this workshop include: dealing with low morale and how leaders can stay motivated while motivating their team.
Recommended Pairing: Discovering Your Leadership Style + Communication for Leaders + Emotional Intelligence
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This workshop dives into how to build accountability across all team members in the workplace. Participants will learn habits that we find in accountable people and how to incorporate these habits into their own lives. We also explore the impact time management has on being accountable and where students can improve their time management skills. The workshop will also discuss how accountability can translate into improved performance and reoccurring success – which in turn lead to a better workplace environment and culture.
Recommended Pairing: Understanding Motivation + Discovering Your Leadership Style + Communication for Leaders + Emotional Intelligence
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The goal of the Feedback in the Workplace Workshop is to enable students to successfully give both positive and negative feedback. We discuss how to give constructive criticism and foster a positive work environment while doing so. We discuss the importance of active listening, when, where and how we give feedback and how to read body language in gaging how the feedback is being received. We end the Workshop on how to effectively receive feedback to promote a cohesive work environment.
Recommended Pairing: Discovering Your Leadership Style + Communication for Leaders + Accountability in the Workplace
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Whether it’s a small or large change, change can cause disruptions and distress for staff which can impact your organizations productivity, output and culture. The Leading Change workshop looks to educate participants on how to lead change productively and positively in the workplace. We delve into how people react to change and what a leader can do proactively to ensure their team progresses triumphantly. The workshop educates students on how to engage in flexible thinking, combating resistance and team led approaches to change.
Recommended Pairing: Emotional Intelligence + Communication for Leaders + Understanding Motivation
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In the Leadership Strategies and Coaching Workshop we look at what makes good and bad bosses, the differences between coaching and mentoring and how participants can bring each method into their workplace. Describing the competencies found in great leaders, such as trust and a growth mindset, as well as introducing tools -like the GROW method and mind-mapping- participants learn how they can employ leadership strategies for a successful coaching process.
Recommended Pairing: Emotional Intelligence + Communication for Leaders + Conflict Resolution + Leading Change
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Without a doubt, leaders will encounter conflict. Within this workshop, we will dive into the four main types of conflict, as well as discovering the most common conflict styles. Participants will be guided through the steps to resolving conflict, breaking them down and introducing tools to help discover the root cause of the conflict while working towards an effective resolution by maintaining personal wellness, finding common ground, generating options and creating a solid plan with action steps.
Recommended Pairing: Emotional Intelligence + Communication for Leaders + Leadership Strategies and Coaching + Leading Change + Creative and Critical Thinking
A team with experience
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Trinidad Puga Figueroa
Program Team Member
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Angela Bliss
Program Team Member
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Aislinn Mackay
Facilitator
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Jessika Houston
Facilitator
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Karin Burns
Facilitator
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trinidad puga figueroa
Program Team Member
Trinidad was born and raised in southern Chile and came to Canada in 2021. She has a strong interest in community development, focusing on local talents and resources to create solutions that are relevant to each area. She has worked with communities to identify their goals and design development paths that reflect their unique culture and values. As a Program's Team Member at Bungalow, she focuses on creating high-quality materials that reach those seeking growth and learning opportunities. In addition to her work, she enjoys outdoor activities, spending time with family and friends, and has a passion for artisan work and cooking. Trinidad holds a degree in Sociology from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. -
angela bliss
Program Team Member
From a small-town in Ontario, Angela has a background in Human Resources management and a love for design and photography. In her role as Program Team Member at Bungalow 968, she blends her passion with her professional experience, working closely with people and celebrating their successes through the programs we offer. She supports participants through their learning journey, provides detailed program reporting for clients and takes care of many of Bungalow's social and email campaigns.
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aislinn mackay
Facilitator
Aislinn is an educational facilitator and developer with an interest in math and engineering. She has worked as a study session facilitator, designing and implementing engaging workshops and supplemental learning support to students with diverse learning needs. She approaches design and facilitation using applied principles of universal instructional design, continual improvement and scaffolding to enable a successful learning environment. She has developed content for STEM programs at the elementary school level, as well as working with Indigenous outreach organizations aimed at increasing Indigenous youth participation in STEM fields. Aislinn holds a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from Carleton University.
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jessika houston
Facilitator
Over the past 20 years, Jessika has worked in various management capacities in both the Corporate and Non-Profit Sectors. She has founded two of her own businesses, as well as co-creating several federally funded, community-based life skills programs. In 2016, Jessika earned her Life Coaching Certification from Integrative Wellness Academy.
Currently, Jessika is the Founder and Lead Life Coach of Glitter N’ Grace Life Coaching, is the Program Manager for Surrey SHARES - a storytelling and coaching program for Seniors, is a contracted Facilitator for Bungalow968 Employment and Life Skills training programs and is a member of the Community Mental Health Committee as an Advocate and Presenter and recently became a Published Author.
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karin burns
Facilitator
Karin skilled educator with over 20 years experience learning and growing as a primary grades teacher, high school teacher, outdoor educator, instructor, coach and mentor. She is a recently certified instructional designer with a passion for curriculum design and development with Indigenous communities. Karin has also recently trained in Coaching Leadership. Karin has taught a wide range of participants from diverse cultural backgrounds, neurodivergent learning styles and ranging in age from young to old. She has co-developed education curriculum with First Nations groups, championed STEM education for girls and women, taught and developed curriculum for Waldorf Schools and worked as an outdoor educator in Ontario and BC. As a Squamish resident, Karin greatly values our growing and vibrant community, as well as acknowledges the ancestral lands we work and play upon.
Karin holds a Graduate Certificate in Instructional Design from Royal Roads University, and Bachelor of Education, Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Physical and Health Education from Queen’s University Canada.
More Programs
Bungalow 968 offers a range of long form and short form programs and workshops designed to empower Indigenous Communities across Canada.