The Highlands Group partners with a biopharmaceutical company that maximizes the potential of small molecule drug conjugates (SMDCs) with companion imaging agents to create a year-long Leadership Development University for the company’s directors and managers. The development experience will include:

• Learning and application of content such as leadership vs. management, true dialogue, difficult conversations, organization and team effectiveness, coaching skills, engagement, leading and managing change, and decision making
• In-class adult learning exercises combined with virtual team sessions and coaching
• Ropes course experiences and guest speakers
• Individual and organizational assessments
• Individual development plans

Each leader will have individual coaching to identify the areas for development that will have the greatest impact on their leadership. Each leader will craft an individual Leadership Development Plan including a vision that includes objectives for the leader’s business and personal environments. Elements of the coaching process will include:

• Assessing strengths using the Leadership Circle Profile™ and the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument™.
• Understanding reality vs. vision and developing the motivation and commitment for change.
• Redirecting energy from reactive patterns to creative competencies.
• Developing new skills to move forward.

Cenovus selected The Highlands Group to help the organization remain competitive and resilient in the oil industry. The Executive Team recognizes that challenging times are unique opportunities for firms to retool their organization—not only to weather the storm, but to emerge as a stronger and more effective organization. The Highlands Group is honored to partner with Cenovus to build organizational capacity through delivering change leadership courses, building an effective Executive Team, and aligning senior leaders through leader summit business meetings. Leaders are learning about leading and managing change effectively across the organization, modeling and encouraging new behaviors, building their own change capability, engaging employees in the change process, and aligning the organization to deliver results.

The focus of the partnership will be to:

1. Research, develop, and adopt a standardized change framework, process, methodology, and toolkit that can be implemented across Cenovus.
2. Centralize change resources from across the business into a centralized change office.
3. Build a learning strategy to meet the capability requirements of leading, managing, and sustaining change broadly within the organization.
4. Provide change consultant resources to partner with the business to enable employees to adapt to change.
5. Create a culture of change that enables results.

After five years of research in 35 different organizations and across 13 different industries, TRCLARK and The Highlands Group announce the release of their highly anticipated book The Employee Engagement Mindset published by McGraw-Hill