Engineers and Geoscientists BC

Leadership Communications

Date(s):
Thursday, January 30, 2020
8:00 AM–8:30 AM: Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30 AM–4:30 PM: Seminar (Lunch will be provided)
Format:
Coast Coal Harbour Vancouver Hotel By APA 1180 W Hastings Street Vancouver, BC V6E 4R5
Status:
Advanced registration is now closed. A limited number of registrations will be accepted at the door.

Eligible for 7 CE Hour(s) of Formal Learning

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** 3 minutes walk from Burrard Skytrain Station or 10 minutes walk from Waterfront (Expo or Millenium Line) Skytrain Station/Canada Line.

** Public parkade next to hotel. Hotel valet parking $20 per day plus taxes (voucher will be provided at session).

Event Details


Cost

Early Bird Price Engineers and Geoscientists BC Member: $425.00 + GST = $446.25 until January 16, 2020

Engineers and Geoscientists BC Member and EIT/GIT Regular Price: $525.00 + GST = $551.25

Non-Member Price: $525.00 + GST = $551.25

Student Member Price: $262.50 + GST = $275.63

Contact

Shirley Chow

Event Presenter(s)


Michael Samson
INSPIRE

Event Description


The seminar incorporates leading edge research in both neuroscience and effective leader behaviours to provide participants with the communication skills and processes that work for leading people effectively. Participants' will gain powerful skills in communicating their leadership, addressing performance issues with aplomb, and courageously address judgments that are getting in the way of leading others effectively using a world-renowned communication process.

About the Event


Seminar Description

The seminar delivers five leadership communication skills and processes for participants to learn and practice, using real situations that exist back in their workplace.

The morning focuses on learning and practising “Communicating Leadership” processes, along with the model for communicating authentic leadership.

The afternoon focuses on learning and practising how to address personal judgments that are getting in the way of effectively leading others, and how to communicate performance issues both skilfully and gracefully.

Each process or skill introduced is practised in a series of activities, ranging from personal work, working in pairs, to working in small groups for supporting additional learning from each other.

The seminar concludes with learning how to listen as a leader, demonstrating both support and courage. This skill and activity can have a profound impact on the participants’ leadership back at the workplace.

Objectives

Empower engineering and geoscientists’ leaders and supervisors to have the leadership presence to effectively lead their team(s).

The seminar incorporates leading edge research in both neuroscience and effective leader behaviours to provide participants with the communication skills and processes that work for leading people effectively. Participants’ will gain powerful skills in communicating their leadership, addressing performance issues with aplomb, and courageously address judgments that are getting in the way of leading others effectively using a world-renowned communication process.

Unique Features of the Session

More than 60% of the seminar is experiential learning (i.e., the participants’ are practising the skills they are learning). This is important for supporting the participants’ engagement during the seminar, plus provide both a sense of self-sufficiency and optimism in using the skills back at their respective workplace.

Two of the five core skills and processes presented offer the opportunity for participants’ to look more deeply into how they see things” (Theory of “What Is”) and what they believe is the best thing to do (“Theory of Action”) as a leader. Insights from learning these particular leadership communication skills and practising them with real situations can create a significant shift in the leaders’ behaviour. This is real development, and while it cannot be guaranteed, the skills and accompanying activities are set up to support these experiences occurring for participants’.

The design of the program allows for participants’ to work with the facilitator to take a ‘deeper dive’ into the skill where needed, supporting participants’ experience personal support from the facilitator, where able.

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this seminar, other than participants’ need to be a supervisor or manager of people in their respective organizations’.

Target Audience

Engineers and geoscientists’ who have direct reports (i.e., supervisors, managers, and directors/vice-presidents) and are wanting to boost their leadership presence. The participants’ tenure as a supervisor or manager does not matter.

Presenter

Michael Samson

INSPIRE

Michael is President of INSPIRE CANADA, a boutique organization development firm.

Since 2007 Michael has assisted engineering and technology companies with their organization and people development needs, ranging from supporting significant organizational change initiatives to providing unique leadership team development experiences involving community engagement.

He and his team work across Canada supporting clients rise to meet their aspirations and create great organizations, as they define this.

Michael completed his master’s degree in Organization & Leadership Development with LIOS, Leadership Institute of Seattle at Saybrook University. Through the program Michael was fortunate to learn from both one of the first students of Kurt Lewin – ‘the father of Organization Development’ and senior leaders of Leadership Development at both Microsoft HQ and Amazon HQ. He was given special access to Amazon’s Leading at Scale™ program with permission to incorporate for his clients.

He has a degree in commerce, specializing in human resource management and also marketing at the University of Otago, New Zealand. He was a member of the Honours Program in both disciplines.

He is a certified facilitator for the Clear Leadership™ and Appreciative Leadership™ programs and has facilitated the Clear Leadership program for various organizations prior to developing his own acclaimed leadership and people development programs.

In wanting to support clients achieve desired outcomes from their investment in people and leadership development; Michael created the unique Follow Up For Follow Through© service model.

Sample of past and existing clients include: Agreement Express, ACL Software, Beedie, BC Hydro, Bell Canada, Business Objects (now SAP), CHC Helicopter, Elastic Path Software, Glance Technologies; Knight Piesold Engineering, Mobify Research & Development, Neovasc, Nucleus Networks, Rhythm  Engineering, SOPHOS, SacreDavey Engineering, and Traction on Demand.