The Banff Management Course

SKILLFULLY INFLUENCING OTHERS, EFFECTIVELY MANAGING SELF

April 8th - 11th, 2025 or,

November 4th - 7th, 2025

The Fairmont Banff Springs
Banff, Alberta CANADA

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Leadership is an action, not a position. Research indicates that leaders are “mostly made.” This means that while some aspects of leadership come more naturally to some people than others, most leadership qualities can be developed.

The International Management Course provides expert training on the most important duties and responsibilities of today's manager.

To be a highly effective, trusted and respected leader, you need a broad range of skills across a wide range of disciplines. At this year's Banff Management Course, you'll get all the essential skills you need to handle a diverse range of responsibilities.

The course is structured in an "MBA-style" format, focusing on the core skills & tools needed for success. It provides an ideal synergy between theoretical concepts and proven real-world applications.

Whether you are a newer manager seeking to take control of your job, a senior administrative professional with management responsibilities, or a seasoned manager wanting to update and refresh your skills; at this remarkable seminar, you will gain the confidence and the tools, tips and strategies to excel.

At this remarkable seminar, you will foster the skills needed to drive performance and develop your team. You will learn how to manage conflict successfully and improve your ability to deal effectively with different and sometimes difficult people.

Designed for those who want to develop effective strategies for influencing others, this powerful course will improve workplace relationships with colleagues, staff and other stakeholders.

You will expand and refine your critical thinking and decision-making skills and learn to manage time, stress, and negative emotions effectively in the workplace. You will improve your memory skills remarkably, enabling you to deliver speeches and presentations impromptu without the need or desire for written notes. I

In short, you will enhance your leadership skills and learn to better manage people, resources and self!

Structured in a way that combines contemporary theoretical insights with proven real-world techniques, the Banff Management Course will help you confidently make the shift from managing to leading.

One of the greatest benefits of attending a truly limited enrollment residential program comes from networking and camaraderie outside the formal educational sessions. This is why, unlike other senior-level courses, where participants must find their own accommodations, arrange their meals etc., at the Banff Management Course, everyone is under the same roof. We have found that this facilitates networking and the formation of friendships with fellow participants.

Your course fee includes tuition, accommodation (room & taxes), breakfast each day, luncheon on day two, a hosted reception, refreshments and a comprehensive courseware package.

We have chosen one of Canada's finest hotels to host this event - The Fairmont Banff Springs is the perfect place to expand your management and leadership skills and renew your spirit and organizational commitment. With summer room rates at the 'Springs,' approaching $1,500 per night

this course also provides a unique opportunity to experience one of the world's finest hotels in one

of the most beautiful locations in the world.

Banff, Alberta is 70 miles West of Calgary International Airport putting it a little over an hour's drive on the TransCanada Highway. Besides rental cars and taxis, there is an airport shuttle that can take you to the door of the Banff Springs Hotel.

At the International Management Course: Banff 2025, you will develop two essential sets of skills:

Leading Others

The most frustrating limitations placed upon you as a manager have little to do with your technical abilities; rather, the most trying aspects of your work often involve dealing with people.

To be truly effective in dealing with others, you must perfect your ability to:

Find out what people need and expect from a leader
The five critical traits of a good leader
Recognize your preferred leadership style and appreciate how to adapt and modify your behavior to lead effectively.
Build your brand through effective relationships with people at all levels.
Prepare more efficiently to conduct crucial influencing conversations to expect the unexpected confidently.
Identifying the key motivational needs that drive behavior and influence performance
Cope and influence negative people, excuse-makers and blamers
Cope and positively influence 'Super-Agreeables' who tell you what they think you want to hear
Deal with snipers and those who use innuendo and under-the-breath remarks to hurt
Diffuse volatile situations while influencing others
Get greater results from hard-to-handle staff
Acquire new tips for stopping the "Tough Guy" cold
Achieve greater team synergy and effectiveness
Win cooperation and trust, energizing your staff to excel
Recognize the underlying causes of conflict
Cope with different and sometimes difficult staff and team members
Deal effectively with negativity in the workplace
Implement strategies for effectively responding to conflict
Improve difficult interviews with the nine-step coaching model
Gain recognition by learning how to look and talk like a leader
Conduct crisp, successful interviews
Deal with interpersonal problems that threaten team cohesiveness
Develop a leadership style that adapts to the person and situation
Managing in an environment of change

Managing Yourself

Success in your present and future management responsibilities depends on several self-management skills. By improving your skills at strategic execution - managing projects, priorities and deadlines more effectively while deflecting job-related stress and developing your memory and concentration, you will gain a more profound sense of satisfaction and accomplishment.

Specifically, at this year's Banff Management Course, you will learn how to:

Communicate professionally across the corporate landscape, from impromptu comments to formal speeches – and learning to do so without written notes
Identify your “Primary Time Style” and how to make it work for you.
Learn to handle the three types of events that erode your effectiveness - the unimportant task, the unexpected task and other people’s priorities
Create lasting first impressions: project confidence in any business situation.
Enhance behaviors to expand presence as an impactful leader
Develop critical thinking skills, sharpening your intuition in the face of risk and uncertainty
Learn ways to discover, manage, mitigate and avoid decision-making traps
Solve problems based on credible evidence
Become a more strategic leader and decision-maker by understanding the long-term impact your decisions can have on your organization.
Learning how to recognize and defeat a host of logical fallacies, including The 'Tu Quoque,' 'Straw Man,’ 'False Dilemma,’ 'Poisoning the Well,’ 'Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc,' ‘Confirmation bias,’ 'Equivocation fallacy,' 'Appeal to Authority,' 'Appeal to False Authority,' 'Argumentum ad ignorantiam,' 'Red Herring,' and ' Begging the Question.'
Strengthen your ability to make sound decisions in the most difficult moments
Effectively prioritize your time and activities
Improve concentration and efficiency
Develop behaviors that will help you stay energized and engaged
Improve remarkably your ability to remember names and faces
Learn how to deliver speeches and presentations without the need for notes
Double your productivity without doubling your stress
Lose your fear of “Kineahora” and improve your self-esteem
Effectively prioritize your time and activities

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