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The world is changing and those changes are accelerating rapidly. More than ever, a skilled and empowered workforce is the greatest asset for creating outstanding business results in the 21st Century.
The Canada-Ontario Job Grant provides an opportunity for employers to invest in their workforce, with help from the government.
The Job Grant provides direct financial support to individual employers who wish to purchase training for their employees. It will be available to small, medium and large businesses with a plan to deliver short-term training to existing and new employees, and will:
- Provide up to $10,000 in government support per person for training costs.
- Require employers to contribute one-third of the total costs. There will be additional flexibility for small businesses to provide an in-kind contribution towards their share of the costs.
- Require training to be delivered by an eligible, third-party trainer.
To learn more about whether you might qualify as an employer for the Canadian-Ontario Job Grant, please contact the Employment Ontario Contact Centre. Call toll-free (no charge): 1-800-387-5656 or through the TTY number: 1-866-533-6339 or email at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
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Two Ground-Breaking Leadership Programs To Empower Your Potential
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Women in Leadership: Empowering Your Performance
What defines empowerment? Empowered leaders are true to themselves at all times and are willing to share their unique skills and capabilities for the benefit of others. Empowered leaders behave in progressive, collaborative and inspiring ways because they are aligned with who they are, not what they are. From a corporate perspective, cultivating empowered mindsets in leadership teams makes good business sense because when high performing teams feel empowered they have increased willingness to execute on multi-complex goals more seamlessly. In this inspiring and engaging workshop, emerging women leaders will deepen their capacity by learning 21st Century global trends, business acumen, interpersonal communication, how to express career and life aspirations, develop inner confidence, cultivate decisiveness, overcome fear of change, release limiting beliefs, focus strategically and build strategic alliances.
Leadership Self-Awareness: Actualizing Your Potential
Why is self-awareness important in the corporate world? Because the more leadership responsibility we have, the more challenges we must manage. New research is demonstrating that leaders who are able to navigate these challenges consistently, fairly and confidently are able to do so because they lean on core principles developed through self-awareness. Our breakthrough Leadership Self-Awareness: Actualizing Your Potential workshop addresses the “Inside-Out” dimensions of personal leadership, helping participants define their passion, purpose and vision for their next steps in life and at work. In this workshop global leaders learn a road-map for creating the inner sustainability required to develop a clearer sense of who they are, create capacity for self-renewal, clarify their options and develop the inner power and confidence necessary to make tough business choices. When we are not clear about who we are, we often feel pressured by even the smallest demands and simplest requests.
To learn about how to drive market leadership by aligning attraction, retention, development and engagement strategies to the needs of a diverse global workforce, contact our office directly at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or phone 1-855-818-BOOM
Why Cultivating Self-Awareness is Essential for 21st Century Leaders
Written byThe world is changing and those changes are accelerating rapidly. The pillars of traditional hierarchical thinking are crumbling thanks to the power of social networks, increased transparency, and dramatic shifts in global demographics. Business transformation through process automation is a key area of global focus, and yet it is not the only trend on the horizon. According to a recent CIBC World Markets Report, there's also an increase in cooperation forming between smaller and larger firms to create temporary work clusters. From our observation of this phenomena, cross-sector clusters are forming for the purpose of developing new strategies, ‘just in time’ solutions, networking and forecasting of business cycles that are tough to pin down. As if the globe did not have enough on her plate, C-level executives of High-Value Add firms are creating breakthroughs in exponential growth and reporting e-tech, clean-tech and ‘many-other-techs’ as evolving beyond human capacity to adjust to their releases. Notwithstanding these enormous pressures, every layer of leadership is expected to stay focused, remain calm during chaos, adaptable, open minded, positive and focused on the bottom line. The 21st Century is a Hero’s Journey.
Why Self-Awareness?
Self-awareness is the first component of emotional intelligence. According to Maslow, it represents growth of an individual toward fulfillment of their highest potential and meaning in life. In Maslow’s theory of self-actualization, individuals are recognized as an integrated organized whole. From a 21st Century leadership perspective, the more responsibility leaders have ~ the more challenges they are required to face and impact those around them. When we create expansion in our organizations, we must also develop the human potential in our teams to help them navigate increasing complexity with purpose, meaning and relative ease.
Need for Purpose and Meaning
From our research with 50 leaders in organizations spanning 4 continents, a systemic issue facing their teams is a need for purpose and meaning. A similar outcome was reported in a 2016 ILO report, where 324 experts from 54 countries agreed that technological advancement is making the boundaries between work and personal life more and more difficult to identify.
To be successful in the 21st Century, emerging leaders must cultivate a strong foundation of inner sustainability by integrating self-awareness practice into their daily routines. The benefit from doing this is to become aware of the emotional, personal and cultural drivers of themselves and their teams. How do they achieve this?
Cultivating Self-Awareness Happens Through Reflection
One simple exercise for creating more clarity through self-awareness is to ask three fundamental questions before key decision making;
1) Who Am I (As A Leader)? : To align to purpose and meaning in career and life, it's important to have a clear sense of our unique skills, values, passions and opportunities for growth. We cannot express our full potential, if we do not have a clear sense of who we are.
2) Why Am I Doing This? : Committing to a new role or activity is a big deal. It is an investment of our time and energy and can impact a lot of people. If your objective is to actualize your full potential, to create meaning and purpose in your life, than it's important to reflect on why you do what you do. What are your true motivations? Are they sustainable? Will the role stretch you? What might you learn from the experience? If the role does not resonate, do you have the courage to say no? Why do you do what you do?
3) Where Am I Going? : If we commit to a role, we must be clear on the goal. Asking good questions that create goal clarity is essential for generating success and especially where 21st Century business strategies will adjust over time. If we're not clear on goal expectations, we're likely not going to achieve them.
Cultivating self-awareness is a journey and can eventually be developed as a centrifugal force for creating inner-sustainability in global leaders experiencing high degrees of pressure and change. This is particularly true when leaders commit to practicing a variety of inner reflection exercises coupled with go/no go decision frameworks, and experiential learning from applied practice.
Other Benefits from Cultivating Self-Awareness
- Increased Agility, Adaptability, Flexibility
- Greater Expression of Authentic Self, Unique Skills and Capabilities
- Greater Meaning and Purpose, Intrinsic Motivation
- Increased Emotional Maturity, Calm Under Pressure
- Increased Clarity In Decision Making, Focus In the Now
- Open Minded, Objective, Patient
- Increased Perseverance, Courage, Confidence
- Creation, Solution, Idea Generation
- Goal Orientation – Big Picture View, Tactical Execution
The Risk Of Doing Nothing
The global economy is bifurcating into two worlds operating under very different paradigms. 1) Command and control hierarchies and 2) Increasing-returns value-add business characterized by observation, intelligent positioning, collaboration, focus, inspiration, innovation, intuition, and strategic play. Successful execution in the 21st Century requires a focused, empowered and conscious effort from the entire team ecosystem. Building inner-sustainability in leadership teams has a lot of upside potential. Doing nothing (no inner- sustainability development), is also an option albeit forcing teams to mobilize around perpetual change and challenge will eventually override their human spirit and desire to sustain high levels of performance.
Summary
The world is changing at a pace where workforce development can no longer be ignored. The 21st Century business imperative is to build self-aware leaders capable of harmonizing expanding work environments and achieving exceptional results with less effort. Cultivating leadership self-awareness during a time of unprecedented change makes good business sense, demonstrates company support, and reinforces the message that individuals can handle whatever may come their way.
Continued Success,
Ann Marie MacDougall
Ground Breaking Leadership Empowerment Programs
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Thriving as a Leader in the 21st Century
Empowerment for Women Leaders: Unlocking Your Potential
Why is empowerment important in the corporate world? Because the more leadership responsibility women have, the more challenges they must manage. New research is demonstrating that leaders who are able to navigate these challenges consistently, fairly and confidently are able to do so because they lean on core principles developed through self-awareness. Our Empowerment for Women Leaders workshop addresses the "Inside-Out" dimensions of personal leadership, helping participants define their passion, purpose and vision for their next steps in life and at work. In this workshop women leaders learn a road-map for creating the inner sustainability required to develop a clearer sense of who they are, create capacity for self renewal, clarify their options and develop the inner power and confidence necessary to make tough choices. When we are not clear about who we are, we often feel pressured by even the smallest demands and simplest requests.
What defines empowerment? Empowered leaders are true to themselves at all times and are willing to share their unique skills and capabilities for the benefit of others. Empowered leaders behave in progressive, collaborative and inspiring ways because they are aligned with who they are, not what they are. Women leaders will learn how to:
- Become an authentic leader and feel empowered
- Develop an inner foundation for improved clarity and leadership self-awareness
- Develop and strengthen intuitive, emotional and social intelligence
- Lead through influence, not authority
- Transform negative thinking into a positive mindset
- Release old habits of limitation
- Become clearer in decision making
- Face and overcome fear of challenges
- Be more present when listening
- Be more objective and leave behind right and wrong frameworks
- Identify and leverage core strengths and unique capabilities
- Create breakthrough goals and an action plan to achieve them
This workshop will introduce practice tools along with examples of how authenticity can be applied to create personal and professional advantage. Individuals who participate in this workshop will be able to:
- Develop an inner foundation for greater self-awareness
- Develop personal and professional clarity and focus
- Cultivate a deeper connection to their passions and purpose
- Overcome limiting beliefs and feel empowered
- Transcend fear into inspired action and positive outcomes
Testimony:
"It was very nice meeting you at the leadership seminar. I would like to express my thanks to you for your impressive speech. I remember you said that most women tend to be more comfortable in perfecting their plan before taking actions. I am one of these women, but I realized that the lack of confidence to take actions would make us miss many opportunities! The most important thing is that your seminar helped me to find my passion in my heart deeply. As a newcomer to Canada myself, now I realize the way to achieve my self-value and make me feel real happiness is by helping other people to succeed. That means a lot to me. Please take my sincere thankfulness. " ~ J. Liu, Research Assistant, Hospitality Industry, Hong Kong
To learn more about these workshops or other services we invite you to contact us by calling us at 1-416-699-2666 or by emailing us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
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Thriving as a team in the 21st Century
Intrapreneurship 101: Building Innovation Mindset in High Performing Teams
This ground-breaking experiential workshop will change the way you think about your job and your career. Intrapreneurs are people or groups within a business or cross-functional team who take direct responsibility for identifying corporate solutions and turning ideas into profitable finished products through assertive risk-taking and innovation. Intrapreneurship 101 provides in-depth training in our core team leadership methodology and is based on the belief that intrapreneurship can be learned, practiced and mastered.
Intrapreneurship 101 develops leaders and teams to achieve exceptional levels of performance and facilitates a shift in mindset as leaders learn what it takes to align people, foster innovation and achieve high performance during periods of accelerated change.
Participants will learn how to:
- Think like an intrapreneur, both personally and professionally
- Foster an intrapreneurial spirit within a company
- Link an intrapreneurial culture to an organization's mission and values
- Manage and support five generations in the workforce
- Identify and leverage individual and core strengths in diverse teams
- Forge a shared purpose that inspires teams into focused action
- Create win-win agreements for team engagement and accountability
- Lead teams through influence, not authority
- Create a solution mindset vs. a negative mindset
- Adapt a workforce through accelerated change
- Turn an idea into a profitable finished product or solution
- Create breakthrough goals and an action plan to achieve them
Memorable real world stories of intrapreneurship (case studies) will be introduced, analyzed and measured. This workshop will enable participants to:
- Think like an intrapreneur
- Demonstrate key concepts and behaviors in intrapreneurial leadership
- Recall models of intrapreneurship applied in business environments
- Create base frameworks for optimizing cross-functional team success
- Analyze and apply intrapreneurial solutions to core business challenges
To learn more about this workshop or other services we invite you to contact us by calling 1-416-699-2666 or by emailing This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
To learn about current trends in the workplace click here http://workplacetrends.com/idevaffiliate/idevaffiliate.php?id=129
“LeaderBoom founder, Ann Marie MacDougall, gets my highest recommendation as an executive-leadership coach and mentor. Her unique ability to recognize, understand, and explain complex business relationships has revolutionized not just my thinking, but also the thinking of many other leaders and most importantly, my actions. Her "outside of the box" thinking and teaching is unique and exciting, her interactive leadership development seminars are inspiring and full of value for any leader. Ann Marie is one of the top contributors to the success I enjoy as a business professional today." - J. Casten, Professional Coach, Toronto
“LeaderBoom helped me to do a thorough needs analysis of my professional situation, asking the hard questions that I needed to face and really listening to my answers to help me objectively see where I was and the action required to move forward and achieve my goals. Without their help, I would be stuck in a holding pattern." - S. Brown, University Instructor, Chile
"LeaderBoom Inc. and Ann Marie MacDougall were exceptionally skilled in navigating the key areas of our strategic focus by providing quality research, sharing strategic insights and initiating high value business relationships. I definitely encourage any global company looking for strategic business and research support to reach out to them."- Patricia Olby Kimondo, CEO People Productions, Stockholm, Sweden
“LeaderBoom's seminar generates fascinating conversation that provides diverse insight and perspective on leading edge business principles” - L. Tran, Marketing Intern, Oakville
"Ann Marie MacDougall is an inspiring influencer with a wealth of knowledge, and her global strategic insights always impress me. I've volunteered on the pilot of her programs and appreciate her ability to listen and offer objective recommendations which have helped me to achieve my professional goals. Most importantly, I've learened through Ann Marie, how to increase self-awareness by clarifying my unique interests, passions, skills and capabilities. If your goal is to pursue leadership development, you should definitely reach out to Ann Marie!"- J. Cao, HR Advisor, Toronto
"Ann Marie MacDougall get's our highest recommendation for her professional approach and engaging delivery style. Her unique global insights help emerging women leaders feel empowered and focused to take their performance to the next level." - ACCES Employment, Ontario
"LeaderBoom's seminar includes valuable research and insights, particularly the discussion on potential for doing business with other countries.” - M. Ul-Hasan, Senior Analyst, Toronto
"LeaderBoom's seminar presents vital global trends that are changing the workforce landscape and offers insights and solutions to help meet the challenges facing us now. Moreover, the facilitated discussion creates a space for exchanging ideas and experiences on creating and sustaining high-performance, high-impact teams and workplace cultures. I left inspired with new insights and a fresh perspective on how to more effectively impact change in the workplace."- K. Goulet, Director, Canadian Banking, Toronto
“Ann Marie came to Ryerson MBA in January to speak with the class! Phenomenal speaker!”- S. Capobianco, MBA Candidate 2014, Toronto
“Thanks @ryersoncareers for sending me to this seminar today @leaderboominc I love this stuff!”- S. Gellman, MBA Candidate 2014, Toronto
"I wanted to thank you again for the very interesting seminar, but more than that the opportunity to interact/share experiences with a diverse and interesting collection of professionals." - Marc M., Engineering Consultant, Toronto.
"The subject matter addressed in LeaderBoom's seminar is of utmost importance and very related to productivity improvement of any corporation. I enjoyed it very much." - Subhas M., Global Executive, Toronto
"The global trend insights are incredibly fascinating. I've had the opportunity to attend and participate in Ann Marie's seminar, and it was highly informative. If you haven't attended one of these leadership seminars, you definitely should! " - T. Yawney, Digital Media Consultant, Toronto
"It was very nice meeting you at the leadership seminar. I would like to express my thanks to you for your impressive speech. I remember you said that most women tend to be more comfortable in perfecting their plan before taking actions. I am one of these women, but I realized that the lack of confidence to take actions would make us miss many opportunities! The most important thing is that your seminar helped me find my passion in my heart deeply. As a newcomer to Canada myself, now I realize the way to achieve my self-value and make me feel real happiness is by helping other people to succeed. That means a lot to me. Please take my sincere thankfulness. " ~ J. Liu, Research Assistant, Hospitality Industry, Hong Kong
"Thank you for the valuable insights shared at Acces' Women in Leadership Program. Your starting and ending points made for a well rounded week that had an effective thought provoking start coupled with an end that should allow us to pursue unprecedented results armed with relevant information, increased self awareness and behaviours to succeed personally and professionally in Canada." ~ S. Sherry, Newcomer to Canada, Toronto
"I would like to thank you for your inspiring and motivating session at the Acces Women In Leadership program. I feel, I now can reflect on myself with more clarity and shed light through different perspectives." - S. Saha, Newcomer to Canada, Toronto
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Building 21st Century leadership qualities still requires showing people the way. Young career professionals across the globe, who are beginning to lead businesses now and will increasingly do so in the coming decade, are asking for support to develop their leadership competencies.
According to author, and speaker, Dan Schawbel, the Millennial Generation will make up more than 75 percent of the workforce by 2025.
At LeaderBoom, our global advisors have accumulated over 100 years in leadership wisdom. From our research, education and experiences, we have designed powerful individual and group mentoring programs that support leaders to improve their skills, capability and bottom line performance.
What Can I Expect From My Mentoring Session?
Expect to receive valuable advice and feedback from your LeaderBoom mentor, who has a minimum 10 years of successful leadership experience, as well as specific action items to help move you closer to achieving your leadership goals.
Are the Mentoring Sessions Customized to meet Individual and Group Needs?
Yes. To become a capable leader and efficient team, we encourage our clients to build a foundation of self-awareness by identifying their strengths, capabilities and opportunities for further growth. Leadership is a journey and we collaborate with each individual and group to customize mentoring programs that help them reach their full potential.
"LeaderBoom helped me to do a thorough needs analysis of my professional situation, asking the hard questions that I needed to face and really listening to my answers to help me objectively see where I was and the action required to move forward and achieve my goals. Without their help, I would be stuck in a holding pattern." - S. Brown, Instructor, Toronto
"LeaderBoom Founder, Ann Marie MacDougall, gets my highest recommendation as an executive- leadership coach and mentor. Her unique ability to recognize, understand, and explain complex business relationships has revolutionized, not just my thinking, but most importantly, my actions. Her "outside of the box" thinking and teaching is unique and exciting. Her interactive leadership development seminars are inspiring and full of value for any leader. Ann Marie is one of the top contributers to the business succcess I enjoy today." - J. Casten, Professional Coach, Toronto
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