Leadership & Management
Workplace Culture

Start with You

Grounding Your Leadership in Values, Mindset, and Self-Awareness
Coming 2027

Your team doesn't just experience what you do as a leader – they experience your values, your mindset, and how you show up every day. This training helps you build the self-awareness to lead intentionally, grounded in who you are and not just what you do.

Available for Private Delivery
Certificate Included
Start with You

Self-Awareness – The First Essential of Leadership

Employees don’t just feel the impact of what their direct manager does – they also experience the manager’s values, mindset, and how they show up everyday. This workshop helps managers, supervisors, and team leaders reflect on how their personal qualities shape their impact on those around them. Leadership development often focuses on skills and actions, but who you are as a leader matters just as much as what you do. In this workshop, you will explore both dimensions and consider how balanced growth as a leader requires deep self-awareness. This is an opportunity to examine how your personal values shape behaviours, how mindset influences responses to challenges, and how curiosity can help resolve conflicts and tension. This work will culminate with the creation of a personal leadership charter that articulates your values, leadership identity, commitments, and next steps.

Learning Objectives

Recognize how who you are and what you do both shape balanced growth
Identify your core values and how they shape your leadership style
Apply the judgement-to-curiosity technique to shift your mindset
Assess your habits, engagement, and self-care practices to identify growth opportunities
Create a personal leadership charter with your values, commitments, and next stepa
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Training options built for real-world needs.

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Private Training

Personalized training solutions for your team.

$4000
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1 day
Bring a facilitator to your team – onsite or virtual
Personalize content to your context and priorities
Focus on your real challenges and scenarios
Engage in interactive discussion and practical application
Align your team around shared language and approaches
Build skills that translate directly into day-to-day work

What You'll Learn

Walk away with the knowledge and tools to make a meaningful difference. The objectives below outline what you'll be equipped to do after completing this training.

Balance Being and Doing

Understand how who you are and what you do together shape balanced growth as a leader.

Lead from Your Values

Identify your core values and how they shape your leadership style and behaviours.

Shift from Judgement to Curiosity

Practice a mindset technique for responding to challenges, conflict, and tension.

Examine Your Mindset

Explore how your attitude influences the way you respond under pressure.

Assess Your Habits and Self-Care

Evaluate the link between your habits, engagement, and self-care practices.

Create a Leadership Charter

Draft a personal charter that articulates your values, commitments, and next steps.

Our Approach

Grounded in research, practical application, and real‑world experience.

Accessible

Clear, approachable learning without unnecessary jargon.

Applicable

Content designed for real‑world challenges and opportunities.

Engaging

Facilitators bring content to life through stories and examples.

Practical

Skills and tools designed for everyday use in your setting.

What People Are Saying

Insights from our participants.

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I'll definitely be on the look out for further training from Achieve. Through other participants I have heard excellent things about other courses. The strengths of the training were the ease of access and the excellent trainer who knew their materials very well and included all participants in the lecture."

Katja Moehl

Bay St. George Residential Support Board

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ACHIEVE Centre for Leadership has become one of our most trusted resources for all things related to workplace culture and leadership. We have utmost confidence that any of their resources and materials are well-researched, verified, and represents best-practice in the industry. "

Nicole McKeen

City of Kawartha Lakes

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The best parts of the workshop were that the instructor was engaging, knowledgeable, and professional, and that the diverse group of participants provided interesting contributions and discussion."

Laine Jensen

Edmonton Police Service

Why should I learn more about this topic?

-Leadership development often focuses on skills and actions, but your team experiences who you are just as much as what you do. Self-awareness helps you close the gap between the two.
-Shifting from judgement to curiosity is one of the most practical mindset tools a leader can have – it changes how you respond to conflict, tension, and challenging behaviour.
-Reflection only matters if it leads somewhere. A personal leadership charter turns your self-awareness into clear commitments and next actions.

This training is for:

Leaders, managers, and supervisors
Human resources and people operations teams
Executive directors and senior leadership
Team leads and project managers
Employees moving into leadership roles
Professionals in corporate or organizational settings
Nonprofit and public sector administrators
Anyone who wants to strengthen their leadership and team skills

What does this training cover?

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This workshop explores how your personal values, mindset, and habits shape your impact as a leader. It covers balanced growth as a leader, shifting from judgement to curiosity, the link between habits and engagement, self-care practices, and the development of a personal leadership charter.

Who is this training for?

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This training is well-suited for new and experienced managers, supervisors, and team leads responsible for creating strong organizational cultures, shaping team behaviours, and improving performance.

What is a personal leadership charter?

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It's a working document you'll draft during the workshop that articulates your values, leadership identity, and commitments – giving you a grounded reference point for your decisions and next steps as a leader.

How does this workshop relate to The Essential Five?

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Start with You is the first Essential in The Essential Five, a leadership framework from our book, >i>You Can Manage>/i>. This workshop explores that first Essential in depth, focusing on the foundation of self-awareness that the other Essentials build on.

Do I need to take The Essential Five Framework workshop first?

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No. This workshop stands on its own, though pairing it with the framework workshop will give you a fuller picture of how all five Essentials work together.

Is this training available online or privately?

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Yes. ACHIEVE offers this workshop in live, on-demand, and private formats. Contact us to arrange a session for your organization.

Start Your Leadership with You

Build the self-awareness to lead from your values, shift your mindset under pressure, and turn reflection into a personal leadership charter. Explore training options or bring this workshop to your organization.

Available for Private Delivery

Certificate Included

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  • Step 1 — Contact us to discuss your needs and choose a topic.
  • Step 2 — Talk pricing, and we'll work out a detailed proposal.
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