Advanced Resilient Leadership Certificate Program - A Culture Blueprint for Changing Times

Overview:

Toxic workplace cultures are well-defined and ravaged workers are leaving in pursuit of better places to work. Would you like to make your culture the place everybody wants to join? Are you willing to run some experiments to improve your culture?

Building a team has never been harder than it is right now, but every person’s actions count. You also do not need to be a formal leader with a fancy title to have a profound impact because change happens gradually one person and one moment at a time. Culture is always changing and evolving. Our job is to continually adapt, respond, learn, adjust, and keep going. 

This leadership series is an integrated set of reflections, and practical, applicable exercises for anyone interested in creating a culture where people can thrive and do their best work. If you want to get playful and learn some new ideas to invigorate energy and build more humane places to gather this series is for you. Each course “Starts at Start” and offers at least 10 Useable Ideas you can start today.

Certificate Information:

This program comprises of the following four courses:

1. From Toxic to Terrific … Change Your Team for the Better! - Wednesday, May 7, 2025
2. Brave Spaces and a Curious Mindset … Amp up the Learning - Wednesday, May 14, 2025
3. From Success to Significance: Make Work Meaningful - Wednesday, May 21, 2025
4. From Languishing to Flourishing: Decide to Be Happy at Work - Wednesday, May 28, 2025

You can take one, a select few, or all four courses in any order to start your journey to great workplace culture. Upon completion of all four courses, you will receive a certificate of completion.

Advanced Resilient Leadership Certificate Modules

Module 1 - From Toxic to Terrific ... Change Your Team for the Better

Are you ready to unleash your team’s full power and potential in an ever-evolving workplace? This session will help you develop a game plan to move teams from isolated to ALL IN. If you have sensed hesitation and holding back from your team and you are ready to get everyone “in the game” … let’s go!

Helping your team move further from apathy, cynicism, negativity, shrugging and putting in time to caring, optimism, ownership, positive energy and resilience is not a waiting game. It is a decision to take action. You will take away 10 useable ideas that you and your team can try out right now.

Module 2 - Brave Spaces and a Curious Mindset ... Amp up the Learning!

Is it time to think again? Is your team learning and unlearning? Old beliefs and stale thinking can keep teams stuck and unproductive. How do you get people to do something they have never done? How can you support your team to keep stepping up to new challenges, learn fast and continue to perform?

This session is packed with a dozen ideas leaders can apply so people are excited to learn together, share ideas, ask questions, make suggestions, and improve over time. These practices will bolster your courage to speak up and help you generate the trust necessary for your team to do the same.  If everything is a little too quiet, now is the time to amp up the learning and take your team to new levels of free expression, full engagement and real confidence.

Module 3 - From Success to Significance: Make Work Meaningful

How do you make work meaningful? So many ways. If you are beginning to ask this question and are ready to take some concrete actions to bring purpose to life this session will help.

If you want to build a sense of Purpose and real Meaning for your team and attract the best talent to work for you, this session will give you tools to do that.  Employees more than ever want to make their time count and they want to work in organizations that focus on doing good and allow them to act on their values. The added benefit is that knowing what matters adds years to life and improves all measures of health, especially our mental health and resilience.

Module 4 - From Languishing to Flourishing: How to Get Happy at Work

You need to have more fun. In a world where languishing became a common way to describe our mood, most teams are ready to amp up energy and start flourishing. This seminar will invite you to consider new ways to bring more lightness, fizz and energy to your work and life.

In this final seminar in the series you will leave inspired about what is possible when you focus on opportunities for real joy in the workplace. What would happen if people finished more days of work thinking, “that was awesome”? It is the uplifting moments we remember because we learned something, felt proud of something, laughed and smiled about something or had a real moment of connection with someone. This session will outline a dozen ways to make those days happen more often.

Learning Objectives:

Upon completing all four courses in this program, you should be able to:

• Develop a game plan for creating and building trust, belonging, and optimism in yourself and your team
• Bolster your gumption to lead boldly even when it is uncomfortable
• Gather new insight about how to make the changes you try stick
• Create psychological safety in your teams for learning, innovation, and growth
• Have greater insight into the blocks that stop sharing and learning
• Develop high trust teams where people feel great belonging to
• Develop a game plan for building more meaning and fulfillment for yourself and your team
• Develop a more contagious culture that attracts and retains the best employees
• Strengthen team purpose, resilience, and engagement
• Take your team from languishing to flourishing
• Create experiences that are enlivening and set the stage and create highlights your teams will remember
• Inspire your team to commit to their own practices and habits that build more happiness