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Leadership & Personal Development Workshops

Practical, behaviour-based learning for current and emerging leaders.

Elemental Training & Development offers commercially available leadership and personal development courses for emerging leaders, supervisors, managers, senior leaders and intact teams. Our courses are practical, interactive and focused on helping leaders strengthen self-awareness, communication, collaboration, trust, accountability, adaptability and results-focused leadership.

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Best for: emerging leaders • supervisors • managers • senior leaders • intact teams
Delivery: virtual • in-person • private group sessions
Foundation: behaviour-based leadership development • optional DISC-based assessment integration

Course Catalogue

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The courses below may be delivered as standalone workshops or as part of a broader leadership development pathway. Stream 1 courses are offered without an embedded assessment. Stream 2 courses include a DISC-based behavioural assessment embedded into the curriculum to support self-awareness, behavioural insight and practical leadership application.

STREAM 1
Courses Without Embedded Assessment

From Subject-Matter Expert to Leader

Course Overview:
This course supports employees who are transitioning from technical, professional or subject-matter expert roles into leadership positions. Participants explore the mindset shift required when moving from being responsible for their own work to achieving results through others.

Learning Objectives:
Participants will learn to:

  • Recognize the key differences between individual contributor success and leadership success

  • Identify common challenges when transitioning into a people-leadership role

  • Communicate expectations clearly

  • Balance technical expertise with coaching and delegation

  • Build credibility, trust and accountability with team members

  • Apply practical leadership behaviours that support team performance

Course Outline:

  • The transition from expert to leader

  • Shifting from doing to enabling

  • Building leadership credibility

  • Communicating expectations

  • Delegation and accountability

  • Navigating role boundaries

  • Practical leadership application plan

Expected Outcomes:
Participants will leave with a clearer understanding of their new leadership role, practical tools for communicating expectations and a personal action plan for applying leadership behaviours in the workplace.

Duration: Half-day or full-day

Delivery: Virtual or in-person

Assessment: Not included

Price: Group pricing available. Minimum group fees apply.

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Delegation and Delivering Results

Course Overview:
This course helps leaders strengthen delegation, role clarity and accountability while maintaining quality, trust and performance. Participants learn how to move from task assignment to meaningful delegation that develops people and supports organizational outcomes.

Learning Objectives:
Participants will learn to:

  • Identify why leaders struggle to delegate effectively

  • Distinguish between assigning tasks and delegating outcomes

  • Match delegation approach to employee readiness and task complexity

  • Clarify expectations, timelines and decision boundaries

  • Follow up without micromanaging

  • Use delegation as a tool for development and results

Course Outline:

  • Why delegation breaks down

  • The leader’s shift from control to clarity

  • Delegation readiness and task-risk assessment

  • Communicating outcomes, standards and timelines

  • Follow-up, feedback and accountability

  • Delegation planning tool

  • Workplace application exercise

Expected Outcomes:
Participants will be able to delegate with greater clarity and confidence, reduce over-functioning, improve accountability and support employee development while maintaining results.

Duration: Half-day or full-day

Delivery: Virtual or in-person

Assessment: Not included

Price: Group pricing available. Minimum group fees apply.

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Feedback, Coaching and Difficult Conversations

Course Overview:
This course provides leaders with practical tools for giving feedback, receiving feedback and navigating difficult conversations with clarity, respect and confidence. Participants explore how to reduce avoidance, prepare for challenging conversations and focus on behaviour, impact and next steps.

Learning Objectives:
Participants will learn to:

  • Understand the role of feedback in trust, performance and accountability

  • Distinguish between feedback, coaching and corrective conversations

  • Prepare for difficult conversations with greater confidence

  • Communicate behavioural observations clearly and respectfully

  • Respond constructively to emotional or defensive reactions

  • Create follow-up actions that support accountability and learning

Course Outline:

  • Why feedback conversations fail

  • Feedback mindset and psychological safety

  • Behaviour-based feedback model

  • Coaching versus correcting

  • Preparing for difficult conversations

  • Responding to resistance or defensiveness

  • Follow-up and accountability

  • Conversation practice and action planning

Expected Outcomes:
Participants will leave with a practical feedback framework, increased confidence in addressing performance or communication concerns and tools for creating respectful, accountable conversations.

Duration: Half-day or full-day

Delivery: Virtual or in-person

Assessment: Not included

Price: Group pricing available. Minimum group fees apply.

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Leading through Change

Course Overview:
This course supports leaders in guiding people through change with clarity, empathy and practical leadership action. Participants explore common responses to change, the leader’s role in reducing uncertainty and how to maintain engagement, trust and forward momentum.

Learning Objectives:
Participants will learn to:

  • Understand how individuals and teams experience change differently

  • Recognize emotional and behavioural responses to uncertainty

  • Communicate change with clarity and consistency

  • Support trust and engagement during transition

  • Identify barriers to change adoption

  • Apply practical tools to guide people through change

Course Outline:

  • The human side of change

  • Common reactions to change and uncertainty

  • The leader’s role in change adoption

  • Communicating what is known, unknown and changing

  • Building trust during transition

  • Helping teams move from resistance to action

  • Change leadership application plan

Expected Outcomes:
Participants will be better equipped to communicate during change, support team members through uncertainty and apply practical leadership behaviours that help maintain trust, engagement and results.

Duration: Half-day or full-day

Delivery: Virtual or in-person

Assessment: Not included

Price: Group pricing available. Minimum group fees apply.

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Leading Effective Hybrid Teams

Course Overview:
This course helps leaders strengthen communication, trust, accountability and engagement in hybrid or distributed work environments. Participants examine the leadership behaviours needed to create clarity, inclusion and connection when team members are not always working in the same location.

Learning Objectives:
Participants will learn to:

  • Identify common challenges in hybrid and distributed teams

  • Strengthen communication rhythms and expectations

  • Build trust when visibility is limited

  • Manage performance through outcomes rather than presence

  • Support inclusion and participation across locations

  • Create practical agreements for hybrid collaboration

Course Outline:

  • What changes in hybrid leadership

  • Communication rhythms and meeting norms

  • Trust, visibility and connection

  • Managing performance through outcomes

  • Inclusion and participation in hybrid environments

  • Team agreements and working norms

  • Application plan for hybrid leadership

Expected Outcomes:
Participants will leave with practical tools to improve clarity, connection, communication and accountability in hybrid or distributed team environments.

Duration: Half-day or full-day

Delivery: Virtual or in-person

Assessment: Not included

Price: Group pricing available. Minimum group fees apply.

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STREAM 2
Courses With Embedded DISC-Based Behavioural Assessment

Leading Self and Others Through Behavioural Awareness

Course Overview:
This course helps participants strengthen self-awareness and leadership effectiveness through behavioural insight. The DISC-based behavioural assessment is embedded into the curriculum to help participants understand their natural behavioural tendencies, communication preferences, leadership strengths and potential blind spots.

Learning Objectives:
Participants will learn to:

  • Interpret their behavioural profile in a leadership context

  • Recognize how behavioural preferences influence communication and decision-making

  • Identify leadership strengths and possible overextensions

  • Understand how others may experience their leadership style

  • Adapt communication and leadership behaviours to different people and situations

  • Create a personal leadership development action plan

Course Outline:

  • Introduction to behavioural awareness

  • DISC-based behavioural profile review

  • Natural style, adapted style and leadership energy

  • Communication preferences and leadership impact

  • Behavioural strengths and potential blind spots

  • Adapting leadership approach to others

  • Personal leadership action plan

Expected Outcomes:
Participants will leave with increased self-awareness, a clearer understanding of how their behaviour affects others and practical strategies for adapting their leadership style to improve communication, trust and effectiveness.

Duration: Half-day or full-day

Delivery: Virtual or in-person

Assessment: DISC-based behavioural assessment included

Price: Group pricing available. Minimum group fees apply.

 

Behaviour-Based Communication for Leaders

Course Overview:
This course helps leaders communicate more effectively by understanding behavioural differences and adapting their approach to different communication needs. The DISC-based behavioural assessment is used to help participants recognize their own communication patterns and identify how to improve clarity, trust and collaboration with others.

Learning Objectives:
Participants will learn to:

  • Understand their natural communication preferences

  • Recognize how behavioural differences influence workplace communication

  • Identify common communication gaps between different behavioural styles

  • Adapt communication to improve clarity and reduce misunderstanding

  • Strengthen listening, feedback and expectation-setting

  • Apply behaviour-based communication strategies in real workplace situations

Course Outline:

  • Behavioural preferences and communication

  • DISC profile interpretation

  • Communication strengths and friction points

  • Adapting communication for different styles

  • Listening, clarity and expectation-setting

  • Behaviour-based feedback and collaboration

  • Communication action plan

Expected Outcomes:
Participants will be able to communicate with greater awareness, adapt their approach to different behavioural needs and reduce misunderstandings that affect trust, collaboration and performance.

Duration: Half-day or full-day

Delivery: Virtual or in-person

Assessment: DISC-based behavioural assessment included

Price: Group pricing available. Minimum group fees apply.

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Building High-Trust Teams Using DISC-Based Behavioural Assessment

Course Overview:
This course supports leaders and teams in strengthening trust, communication and collaboration through behavioural awareness. The DISC assessment is embedded into the course to help participants understand individual and team behavioural patterns and how those patterns influence working relationships, decision-making, conflict and team performance.

Learning Objectives:
Participants will learn to:

  • Understand individual and team behavioural preferences

  • Identify how behavioural differences affect trust and collaboration

  • Recognize team strengths, friction points and blind spots

  • Improve communication across different behavioural styles

  • Create shared team agreements for collaboration and feedback

  • Apply behaviour-based strategies to improve team effectiveness

Course Outline:

  • Foundations of trust and team effectiveness

  • Individual and team behavioural insights

  • Team communication preferences

  • Collaboration strengths and friction points

  • Navigating conflict and behavioural differences

  • Team action planning

Expected Outcomes:
Participants will leave with a better understanding of individual and team dynamics, practical strategies for strengthening trust and communication and shared agreements for improving team collaboration.

Duration: Half-day or full-day

Delivery: Virtual or in-person

Assessment: DISC-based behavioural assessment included

Price: Group pricing available. Minimum group fees apply.

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Emerging Leader Development With DISC-Based Behavioural Assessment

Course Overview:
This course supports emerging leaders in building self-awareness, communication confidence and foundational leadership behaviours. The DISC-based behavioural assessment is embedded into the course to help participants understand how their behavioural preferences influence their leadership style, delegation, communication, decision-making and relationship-building.

Learning Objectives:
Participants will learn to:

  • Understand their behavioural style and leadership tendencies

  • Identify the mindset shift from individual contributor to leader

  • Communicate expectations with clarity and confidence

  • Recognize how behavioural preferences affect delegation and accountability

  • Build trust and credibility with team members

  • Apply foundational leadership practices to real workplace situations

Course Outline:

  • Leadership identity and transition

  • DISC-based behavioural profile review

  • Self-awareness and leadership impact

  • Communication and expectation-setting

  • Delegation and accountability

  • Trust-building and credibility

  • Personal leadership development plan

Expected Outcomes:
Participants will leave with increased behavioural self-awareness, practical tools for stepping into leadership and a personal action plan for strengthening communication, trust and accountability.

Duration: Half-day or full-day

Delivery: Virtual or in-person

Assessment: DISC-based behavioural assessment included

Price: Group pricing available. Minimum group fees apply.

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Adaptive Leadership and Behavioural Flexibility

Course Overview:
This course helps leaders strengthen adaptability, self-awareness and behavioural flexibility in complex leadership environments. The DISC-based behavioural assessment is embedded into the course to help participants understand how their natural behavioural tendencies support or limit their ability to lead change, influence others and respond effectively under pressure.

Learning Objectives:
Participants will learn to:

  • Understand their natural leadership tendencies under normal and pressured conditions

  • Recognize how behavioural patterns influence adaptability and decision-making

  • Identify personal leadership strengths and potential derailers

  • Adapt leadership behaviour to different people, contexts and challenges

  • Strengthen influence, trust and communication during complexity or change

  • Create a practical behavioural flexibility action plan

Course Outline:

  • Adaptive leadership in complex environments

  • Natural leadership style and pressure patterns

  • Behavioural flexibility and leadership effectiveness

  • Influencing and communicating across different styles

  • Leading through ambiguity and change

Expected Outcomes:
Participants will leave with a stronger understanding of their leadership patterns, practical strategies for adapting their behaviour and tools for leading more effectively through complexity, ambiguity and change.

Duration: Half-day or full-day

Delivery: Virtual or in-person

Assessment: DISC-based behavioural assessment included

Price: Group pricing available. Minimum group fees apply.

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