Leadership Training

Give Your Leaders the Skills to Build a Respectful Workplace

Reduce conflict escalations, improve team cohesion, build psychological safety, and give your leaders the tools to build performance through accountability and trust.

When hard conversations get avoided and turn into HR escalations, your leaders are the ones standing in front of it without the tools to act. This session gives them the skills they need.

Who It's For

Built for Organizations Investing in Leadership Accountability

This session is designed for HR leaders and executive teams investing in leadership capability.

This is the right fit if your organization is dealing with:

  • Leaders avoiding conflict because they don't know how to address it without making it worse
  • Teams where unspoken tensions are slowing decisions and collaboration
  • Teams where employee behavior hasn't changed despite a respectful workplace policy that exists on paper
  • HR swamped with recurring complaints, escalations, or interpersonal friction
  • Leaders ready to move past awareness training and build skills to foster psychological safety they can use under pressure
  • HR teams that need to demonstrate ROI from a leadership investment

The Outcome

Your leaders leave this day with a structured process for building shared team standards and the conversation tools to hold people to them.

The Problem

Conflict and Accountability Are Leadership Performance Problems

The standard response to workplace respect issues is policy, training compliance, or culture statements.

The result is predictable:

  • Complaints that could have been resolved at the team level escalate to HR or formal processes
  • High performers disengage or leave rather than navigate a dysfunctional team dynamic
  • Leaders accumulate small problems that become big ones because they avoid hard conversations
  • Accountability disappears because leaders don't have a structured way to address underperformance without conflict
  • Team trust erodes when people see inconsistency between stated values and actual behavior

Respectful workplace culture is built by leaders who have the skills to model it, address it when it breaks down, and build shared standards teams actually commit to.

The Cost of Inaction

What Doing Nothing Costs You

$20k–$60k

in recruitment, onboarding, and lost productivity for a single voluntary departure at the leader or high-performer level.

Society for Human Resource Management, 2022

70%

of the variance in team engagement is attributable to the leader. Disengaged teams cost organizations roughly $3,400 per $10,000 in salary in lost productivity.

Gallup, State of the Global Workplace

Up to 50%

of time at work is lost to navigating interpersonal conflict and dysfunction.

CPP Inc., Workplace Conflict and How Business Can Harness It to Thrive

76%

of employees who experience poor management behavior consider taking action to leave their organization.

Gallup, State of the Global Workplace

The Gap

Respectful Workplace Training Wasn't Built for This

Most respectful workplace programs are built around information delivery: definitions, policy reviews, scenario videos, and awareness of what respectful behavior looks like. It produces awareness. It doesn't produce behavior change.

The reason standard approaches don't hold is that respectful behavior under pressure is a skill problem, and most leaders were never trained for it. That gap is execution when conditions are hard: when they are frustrated, when the team dynamic is tense, when someone pushes back during a feedback conversation.

Closing that gap requires understanding the psychology of behavior change under pressure:

  • 1
    Why leaders revert to avoidance or defensiveness when conflict surfaces, even when they know better
  • 2
    Why teams develop dysfunctional norms that no leader feels empowered to address
  • 3
    What it takes to build shared accountability standards that the team commits to, rather than complies with
The Approach

Evidence-Based Psychology for Your Leadership Challenges

This session draws on Dr. Dayna Lee-Baggley's 20 years of expertise in clinical and organizational psychology to address three behavioral realities standard respectful workplace training ignores: why leaders default to avoidance or defensiveness, why teams develop dysfunctional norms, and how to build real commitment to accountability standards.

This session builds four core competencies:

1

Understanding What Drives Behavior in Conflict

Leaders develop a practical model for recognizing when pressure is narrowing their judgment, and a personal early-warning system for the specific conditions that most frequently derail their conflict conversations.

2

Building Shared Standards Through the Team Communication Tool

Leaders practice guiding their teams through a structured facilitation tool that defines shared purpose, identifies the behaviors that move toward it, and names the internal barriers that pull people away. Leaders leave with a facilitated process they can run with their own team.

3

Navigating Accountability and Difficult Conversations

Leaders practice addressing underperformance, conflict, and interpersonal friction in ways that build psychological safety rather than erode it. They leave with a structured approach for the accountability conversations they have been avoiding.

4

Converting the Framework Into an Immediate Action Plan

Leaders leave with an implementation plan for the specific team challenge they are managing, built from real scenarios drawn from your organization's context. Every participant builds a concrete plan they can execute immediately.

Every session is tailored. Dr. Dayna will consult with you before the event to understand the specific dynamics your organization is navigating and build case studies and role plays from that context.

The Transformation

What Changes After the Day

Before the Session

  • Leaders are avoiding conflict because they don't know how to address it
  • Team agreements aren't reflected in daily behavior
  • HR is managing interpersonal issues that should have been resolved at the team level
  • Accountability conversations are inconsistent or avoided entirely
  • Policy training has produced compliance, not culture change

During the Day Your Leaders Will

  • Identify the specific conditions and pressure patterns that most frequently undermine their own conflict conversations
  • Work through a team challenge from their own organization, with peer feedback
  • Practice structured accountability and feedback conversations with realistic scenarios
  • Build a facilitation plan they can use with their own team

Your leaders leave having done the work, not having heard about it.

After the Session Your Leaders Will

  • Recognize when a stress response is driving their behavior in conflict and have a structured approach to interrupt it
  • Know how to build shared standards for respectful behavior by facilitating a team conversation
  • Have a structured approach for addressing underperformance and interpersonal conflict that improves working relationships
  • Know how to identify and address performance issues caused by dysfunction in team dynamics
  • Have concrete applicable skills to build psychological safety in their teams
  • Return to their teams with a concrete facilitation plan and the tools to follow through on it

Your organization gets fewer conflict escalations to HR, improved team cohesion among leaders who previously avoided hard conversations, and a shared framework across the leadership layer for building and maintaining team standards.

Client Success

Impact That Speaks for Itself

"One of the best programs I have ever taken"

"The team training workshops were a revelation. Our executive team communicates with unprecedented clarity and empathy. Truly exceptional work."

"Dr. Dayna provides a rare combination of deep clinical expertise and sharp business acumen. She is the ultimate partner for high achievers."

The Details

What the Session Includes

  • Pre-event consultation call to tailor content to your specific team dynamics and current workplace challenges
  • Full-day session (6–7 hours) delivered in person or virtually, for leadership teams of 15–50 participants
  • Custom case studies and role-play scenarios built from your organization's actual situation
  • Practical conflict and accountability frameworks and leader reference tools participants take with them
  • 30-day post-session debrief call to review implementation progress, address challenges, and sustain momentum
  • Digital resource toolkit for participants to reference after the session

Why Dr. Dayna

Dr. Dayna Lee-Baggley holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology and is a Registered Psychologist with 20 years of applied experience spanning clinical, health, and organizational settings. She is a recognized international expert and spent nearly 15 years working inside complex, high-stakes institutions.

Director of the Psychological Health and Safety Lab at Saint Mary's University and former Director of the Behaviour Change Institute at Dalhousie University. 60 peer-reviewed publications, 155+ scholarly presentations, and faculty positions at Dalhousie University and Saint Mary's University.

She is the author of Healthy Habits Suck and co-founder of the Dr. Dayna app. Featured in the Globe and Mail, Psychology Today, CTV, CBC, and Real Simple.

She has worked with national organizations including the Mental Health Commission of Canada, Health Canada, the Canadian Medical Association, the Canadian Standards Association, and the Canadian Armed Forces. She is the director of a 3 year funded project on Bill C65 to reduce workplace violence and harassment.

Investment

Full-Day Leadership Workshop

$9,997

Starting price, plus travel expenses for in-person delivery

One voluntary departure at the leader or high-performer level costs your organization an estimated $20,000–$60,000 in recruitment and onboarding alone. One day invested in giving your leaders the tools to address conflict and hold their teams together is a hedge against a cost you're already paying.

Personalized executive coaching to reach 20 leaders individually would exceed $25,000. This session delivers the same evidence-based behavior change at scale, in a single day.

Custom pricing is available for multi-day engagements, recurring programs, virtual delivery, and large-audience formats. Request a proposal for specifics.

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Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

Is the content customized to our organization?

Yes, always. The pre-event consultation is where Dr. Dayna learns the specific dynamics your leaders are navigating, the seniority mix of your audience, and the outcomes you need. Case studies and role-play scenarios are built from your context.

Is this a keynote or a workshop?

It's a full-day workshop where participants spend meaningful time practicing skills.

Can it be adapted for different seniority levels?

Yes. The session works well for senior leadership teams, middle management cohorts, and mixed-level audiences. The pre-event consultation determines the right frame and case study scenarios for your group.

What industries is it best suited for?

Dr. Dayna has delivered to healthcare, government, professional services, finance, education, non-profit, and manufacturing organizations. The behavioral dynamics that drive conflict and erode accountability are human, not sector-specific. The customization makes it specific to your context.

What does the planning process look like?

You'll have a pre-event call with Dr. Dayna to brief her on your organization's situation, audience, and goals. She handles content development from there. You can expect a professional planning process that doesn't create extra work for your team.

What is the cancellation and rescheduling policy?

Policies are confirmed in the service agreement. In general, cancellations with sufficient notice can be rescheduled without penalty. Full details are provided during the proposal stage.

Can I get a session for my team?

Yes. Once your leaders have completed the full-day session, there is a parallel offering designed for front-line teams covering the same core themes from the employee perspective. It is a natural next step for organizations that want the leadership and team layers working from the same framework.

Internal Approval

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Building the internal business case? Download the one-page summary of this workshop, including objectives, format, outcomes, and pricing, to share with your leadership team or procurement process.

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Book a consultation call with Dr. Dayna.

During this call Dr. Dayna will learn your current challenges, the seniority mix of your audience, and the outcomes you need.

After the call Dr. Dayna will provide you a proposal tailored to your specific organizational context and current challenges.

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