Leadership Growth for Managers & Senior Managers
Build the leadership capability to lead people, teams, and performance with greater confidence and impact.
Effective leadership starts with understanding what it means to lead, what people need from their leader, and how individual behaviours shape team performance and culture. This program develops the practical leadership capabilities managers and senior managers need to lead with greater self-awareness, build trust, navigate challenges, develop others, and create strong team performance.
We work alongside managers and senior managers to strengthen the behaviours, skills, and leadership mindset required to lead people effectively, build high-performing teams, and contribute to a strong culture of leadership.
How your managers lead every day shapes how teams perform.
Leadership growth is most effective when learning is connected to real leadership practice. Our program provides a structured development journey that builds progressively over time, while giving participants opportunities to reflect, experiment, receive support, and apply what they are learning between sessions.
Our Approach
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The program begins by establishing a shared understanding of leadership and inviting participants to examine the lens through which they currently lead. Assessment and reflection help participants build greater awareness of their leadership strengths, patterns, and opportunities for growth.
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Participants complete the EQ-i 2.0 assessment and meet individually with a ViRTUS-certified coach to debrief their results. The assessment provides insight into emotional intelligence strengths and development opportunities, giving each participant a personalized foundation for the program.
The individual debrief helps participants connect their results to their leadership experiences, identify meaningful development priorities, and consider how their emotional intelligence influences relationships, communication, decision-making, and performance.
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Facilitated sessions follow a curated curriculum that builds progressively across core areas of leadership. Topics include emotional intelligence, communication, trust, feedback, performance-based leadership, coaching, resilience, decision-making, change, strategic thinking, and leading across boundaries.
Over time, participants deepen their ability to lead themselves, lead others, and contribute to stronger teams and organizational outcomes.
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Before each session, participants complete manageable reflection and thought exercises through ViRTUS Habit Builder. Pre-work connects upcoming learning to current leadership challenges and prepares participants for deeper discussion and application during the session.
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Between sessions, participants meet in rotating groups of three to reflect on their learning, share experiences, and support one another in applying new leadership practices. Rotating trios encourage cross-functional connections, diverse perspectives, and the sharing of practical approaches across the leadership group.
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Participants use ViRTUS Habit Builder between sessions to turn development goals into consistent practice. They commit to specific habits, track their progress, reflect on their application, and receive guided coaching feedback.
The platform reinforces the shift from learning to sustained behaviour change by creating regular opportunities for reflection, accountability, and deliberate practice.
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Each year concludes with an opportunity to reflect on growth, connect learning across the program, and identify how leadership thinking, behaviours, and habits are evolving.
The final capstone provides a broader opportunity to recognize progress, consolidate learning, and consider how participants will continue applying their development.
The Leadership Growth curriculum is built around the fundamental capabilities managers and senior managers need to lead effectively. The multi-year journey progressively deepens these capabilities as participants encounter increasingly complex leadership situations.
Common areas of focus include:
Core Areas of Development
Self-Awareness & Emotional Intelligence
Understand your leadership impact, recognize patterns and triggers, and make more intentional choices in how you lead.
Performance & Accountability
Set clear expectations, address performance effectively, and create accountability while maintaining strong working relationships.
Communication & Relationships
Strengthen communication, listening, feedback, and relationship-building skills that create clarity, connection, and trust.
Coaching & Developing Others
Build the capability of others through effective coaching, feedback, support, and intentional development.
Trust & Team
Performance
Create the conditions for people to contribute, take ownership, collaborate, and perform at their best.
Leading Across Boundaries
Build effective relationships beyond your immediate team and contribute to collaboration across the organization.
Decision-Making & Strategic Thinking
Make sound decisions, manage competing priorities, and increasingly connect day-to-day leadership with broader organizational objectives.
Resilience & Adaptability
Navigate uncertainty, change, and challenging situations with greater clarity, resilience, and effectiveness.
The ViRTUS Difference
The ViRTUS Difference
We build leadership capability through practice, reflection, and sustained application.
Leadership effectiveness develops over time. Our approach combines a curated, multi-year leadership curriculum with practical application, peer learning, reflection, and habit formation.
Participants build a strong foundation of leadership capability and then deepen that capability over time, applying new approaches to the real challenges they face as leaders.
