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The Happy
 Leadership Program

A development program for long-term transformation. 

Empowering leaders to create thriving workplace environments. 

The Happy Leadership Program is a comprehensive series of leadership development sessions designed for leaders wanting to establish and sustain high-performing, efficient, and happy teams. Each session is full of engaging, interactive, and fun activities that will stimulate thinking and prompt reflection – leaving you prepared and empowered to foster a thriving work environment.

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* The Happy Leadership Program is a long-standing premier product of UK based, Happy Ltd. Happy Workplace Solutions is thrilled to partner with Happy Ltd. to deliver this program to Canadian leaders

Become the leader people choose to follow.

Whether you are new to leadership or an experienced leader, this program equips you with practical insights, skills, and tools that can be immediately applied after each session to improve current work culture and create lasting outcomes. 

Program Objectives:

Leaders participating in the Happy Leadership Program, can expect to leave with: 

  • A clear understanding of what enables people to work at their best
  • A comprehensive toolkit of practical, transferable leadership skills and strategies to create a happy workplace 
  • Confidence and empowerment to sustain a thriving work environment for their team
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Program Delivery

The Happy Leadership Program can be facilitated either in person, or remotely, combining interactive and engaging workshops with self-guided e-learning modules. For those who prefer complete autonomy, a fully self-guided, remote version of the program is also available.

Each Happy Leadership Program includes:

  • Engaging, interactive exploration of over 20 leadership topics, skills and concepts
  • Personalized communication style and Gallup Clifton Strengths assessments 
  • Access to all Happy Leadership Program materials throughout the program and beyond via the Happy Leadership Portal 
  • One hour of individual support to implement program learnings
  • Happy Workplace Community of Practice membership for one year

Remote Facilitation Course Overview

Session 1: Introducing Leadership - Identify who you are as a leader and the leadership attitudes you wish to be known for.

E-Learning: Building Trust and Credibility - Understand the four cores of credibility and key steps to building relationships based on trust.

Session 2: Communication Styles – Discover and understand your own communication style and learn simple steps to adapt to other people’s styles in order to maximize your influence and successfully collaborate with others.

E-Learning: Be Productive Not Busy - Discover how to be more productive and less “busy” by identifying and changing your reflection, prioritizing, email and meeting habits.

Session 3: Psychological Safety - Learn how to create Psychological Safety within your team to enable high performance.

E-Learning: Leading From Afar - Explore tools to help you make connection at a distance and real-life examples to inspire you.

Session 4: Emotional Intelligence - Develop your emotional intelligence, through understanding how your brain works.

Session 5: Equity and Inclusion - Understand the benefits of a diverse and inclusive team and the practices needed to create one.

E-Learning: Decision Making - Discover different methods of making decisions throughout the hierarchy and the benefits of being explicit about which one you are using and why.

Session 6: Introduction to Coaching – Learn how to utilize coaching techniques to move your team to success by empowering them to discover their own solutions.

Session 7: Feedback, Meetings & 1:1s - Discover powerful tools and frameworks to give feedback on performance, and lead productive, efficient meetings.

Session 8: Conversations That Matter - Practice a proven technique to prepare for important situations and discover tools for keeping dialogue open even in the most difficult circumstances.

E-Learning: Strengths Based Leadership - Discover your top five strengths through a robust on-line questionnaire developed by Gallup & Clifton Strengths and understand how well you are currently using them in your role.

Session 9: Becoming a Multiplier - Discover the unintentional ways we may be minimizing the potential of our teams and learn the skills to become a multiplier of your people’s talents and potential.

E-Learning: Motivation & Purpose - Discover how to connect people to the ‘why’ of your organization and the power this can bring.

Session 10: Autonomy - Learn how to enable trust and autonomy within your team by exploring a variety of methods such as accountability, delegation and pre-approval.

E-Learning: Recruitment & Induction - Discover the key to attracting and selecting the right team members and identify key stages of onboarding and discover ideas for each step of the journey transitioning a successful candidate into an established colleague.

Session 11: Creating Resilient Teams - Discover how to build and nurture the resilience of your team utilizing wellbeing practices as well as elements learned throughout the program.

Session 12: Leadership Purpose - Identify your leadership purpose and vision for yourself and your team.

Remote Facilitation

Facilitated Learning: 12 x 2-hour sessions held bi-weekly over Zoom

Self-Guided Learning: 8 x 45min e-learning modules via the Happy Leadership Portal to be completed in between bi-weekly Zoom sessions

Program Duration: 5 months

Participants: 6-12

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In Person Course Overview

E-Learning: Building Trust and Credibility - Understand the four cores of credibility and key steps to building relationships based on trust.

E-Learning: Be Productive Not Busy - Discover how to be more productive and less “busy” by identifying and changing your reflection, prioritizing, email and meeting habits.

Session 1: You as a leader

  • Introducing Leadership- Identify who you are as a leader and the leadership attitudes you wish to be known for.
  • Psychological Safety- Learn how to create Psychological Safety within your team to enable high performance.
  • Communication Styles– Discover and understand your own communication style and learn simple steps to adapt to other people’s styles in order to maximize your influence and successfully collaborate with others.
  • Emotional Intelligence - Develop your emotional intelligence, through understanding how your brain works.

E-Learning: Leading From Afar - Explore tools to help you make connection at a distance and real-life examples to inspire you.

E-Learning: Decision Making - Discover different methods of making decisions throughout the hierarchy and the benefits of being explicit about which one you are using and why.

Session 2: Building great working relationships

  • Equity and Inclusion- Understand the benefits of a diverse and inclusive team and the practices needed to create one.
  • Introduction to Coaching– Learn how to utilize coaching techniques to move your team to success by empowering them to discover their own solutions.
  • One-to-Ones– Discover what an effective 1 to 1 is, why do them and what should be discussed.

E-Learning: Strengths Based Leadership - Discover your top five strengths through a robust on-line questionnaire developed by Gallup & Clifton Strengths and understand how well you are currently using them in your role.

E-Learning: Motivation & Purpose - Discover how to connect people to the ‘why’ of your organization and the power this can bring

Session 3: Motivation in a high trust culture

  • Becoming a Multiplier- Discover the unintentional ways we may be minimizing the potential of our teams and learn the skills to become a multiplier of your people’s talents and potential.
  • Autonomy- Learn how to enable trust and autonomy within your team by exploring a variety of methods such as accountability, delegation and pre-approval.
  • Feedback - How to prepare, behave and present yourself assertively when giving feedback

E-Learning: Recruitment - Discover the key to attracting and selecting the right team members.

E-Learning: Induction - Identify key stages of onboarding and discover ideas for each step of the journey transitioning a successful candidate into an established colleague.

Session 4: Keeping things on track

  • Conversations That Matter- Practice a proven technique to prepare for important situations and discover tools for keeping dialogue open even in the most difficult circumstances.
  • Creating Resilient Teams- Discover how to build and nurture the resilience of your team utilizing wellbeing practices as well as elements learned throughout the program.
  • Leadership Purpose - Identify your leadership purpose and vision for yourself and your team.

In-Person Facilitation

Facilitated Learning: 4 x 1-day sessions held monthly at your organization or an offsite location

Self-Guided Learning: 8 x 45min e-learning modules via the Happy Leadership Portal to be completed in between monthly sessions

Program Duration: 4 months

Participants: 8-20

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Remote Self-Guided Course Overview

 

  1. Introducing Leadership- Identify who you are as a leader and the leadership attitudes you wish to be known for.
  2. Building Trust and Credibility (E-Learning) - Understand the four cores of credibility and key steps to building relationships based on trust.
  3. Communication Styles– Discover and understand your own communication style and learn simple steps to adapt to other people’s styles in order to maximize your influence and successfully collaborate with others.
  4. Be Productive Not Busy (E-Learning)- Discover how to be more productive and less “busy” by identifying and changing your reflection, prioritizing, email and meeting habits.
  5. Psychological Safety- Learn how to create Psychological Safety within your team to enable high performance.
  6. Leading From Afar (E-Learning) - Explore tools to help you make connection at a distance and real-life examples to inspire you.
  7. Emotional Intelligence - Develop your emotional intelligence, through understanding how your brain works.
  8. Equity and Inclusion- Understand the benefits of a diverse and inclusive team and the practices needed to create one.
  9. Introduction to Coaching– Learn how to utilize coaching techniques to move your team to success by empowering them to discover their own solutions.
  10. Decision Making (E-Learning)- Discover different methods of making decisions throughout the hierarchy and the benefits of being explicit about which one you are using and why.
  11. Feedback, Meetings & 1:1s- Discover powerful tools and frameworks to give feedback on performance, and lead productive, efficient meetings.
  12. Conversations That Matter- Practice a proven technique to prepare for important situations and discover tools for keeping dialogue open even in the most difficult circumstances.
  13. Strengths Based Leadership - Discover your top five strengths through a robust on-line questionnaire developed by Gallup & Clifton Strengths and understand how well you are currently using them in your role.
  14. Becoming a Multiplier- Discover the unintentional ways we may be minimizing the potential of our teams and learn the skills to become a multiplier of your people’s talents and potential.
  15. Motivation & Purpose- Discover how to connect people to the ‘why’ of your organization and the power this can bring
  16. Autonomy- Learn how to enable trust and autonomy within your team by exploring a variety of methods such as accountability, delegation and pre-approval.
  17. Recruitment (E-Learning)- Discover the key to attracting and selecting the right team members.
  18. Induction (E-Learning) - Identify key stages of onboarding and discover ideas for each step of the journey transitioning a successful candidate into an established colleague.
  19. Creating Resilient Teams- Discover how to build and nurture the resilience of your team utilizing wellbeing practices as well as elements learned throughout the program.
  20. Leadership Purpose - Identify your leadership purpose and vision for yourself and your team.

Remote Self-Guided

Facilitated Learning: No facilitation provided

Self-Guided Learning: All learning is completed individually via the online Happy Leadership Portal

Program Duration: Approx. 30 hours to be completed at the pace of the participant

Participants: N/A

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What People Think

Chief Executive, Just-IT: These ideas have energised me and my business to make changes that have increased our bottom line and made people more successful and fulfilled at work. 

Participant – July 10, 2024:  I thoroughly enjoyed the course. I was a little dubious about taking part on-line as I normally prefer face to face courses but the duration of the on-line course meant that I was able to put some of learning in place. It also meant we got a really geographically diverse range of people all of whom I really enjoyed working with. Nicky and Haley were amazing and I cannot thank them enough for the way they have delivered the course.