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12 modules • 68 video lessons
The Curriculum
Intensive leadership development training with clear goals and action items to keep managers accountable.
WEEK 1
Fundamentals
A full overview of the program and education on the leadership development program taught in the course.
Kick off the course by understanding the future of work and leadership and orienting yourself around different mindsets to set yourself up for success. Start getting acquainted with our Unicorn Leadership philosophy - the model that is core to our leadership management course and how it fits into the question of why team-building should be a manager’s main focus.

Finish the week by feeling ready to tackle deeper the improvement of team dynamics, engagement, and performance as it relates to high performing teams.
Modules
1.1 The Future of Leadership: How the Modern Workplace Has Shifted Management Practices
1.2 The Unicorn Leadership Mindset & Philosophy
1.3 Why Teamwork Is Your Leadership Advantage How These Six Levels Help You Create High-Performing Teams
Skills & Topics
Team dynamics
growth mindset
high-performing team management
WEEK 2
Create Psychological Safety
Improve team dynamics, engagement, and work performance by instilling a team culture of psychological safety.
In this week of manager development training, learn how to make small behavioural shifts to improve manager-employee and employee-employee relationships on the team.

Unpack how Google discovered the power of psychological safety and how to foster it in your leadership. Dig deep into the intricacies and influence of organizational culture and how to take back the reigns to set up the correct foundations that set up your teams for success. As part of a modern managers development training, receive practical tools like the DISC assessment to further understand and personalize your leadership while gaining insights into others.
Modules
2.1 Learn to Redefine Leadership with Small Actions that Create Community
2.2 What is Psychological Safety and How it Sets the Foundation for High-Performance
2.3 How to Create Belonging Cues for a Sense of Connection
2.4 How to Lead with Vulnerability and Foster Team Trust
2.5 Connecting The Six Levels of High Performing Teams: Personalized Leadership, Emotional Intelligence and a Learning Culture Constants
2.6 Personalized Leadership Approach: Uncover Workplace Behaviours and Personalities work to Understand Your Team through DISC
2.7 Reading and Understanding Your DISC Report
Skills & Topics
Fostering Psychological Safety
DISC Mastery
Personalizing Leadership
Communication & Conflict-Management
WEEK 3
Develop Emotional Intelligence
Make small behavioural shifts to improve manager-employee and employee-employee relationships on the team.
Week 3 of the leadership management course you’ll continue to work on developing your emotional intelligence and how it relates to managing relationships with others. Learn about the neuroscience of emotions and why they need to be understood in the modern workplace. Receive a 360 Emotional Intelligence Assessment to not only self-reflect but gather real impressions from your team to be able to instantaneously gather feedback and form a learning plan moving forward. This week is core to addressing the often intangible matters of emotional intelligence in a practical format that will allow you to tackle practical matters of the workplace such as conflict management.
Modules
3.1 Primal Leadership: Learn to Drive Emotions and Ignite Passion in Your Team
3.2 How Mastering Emotional Intelligence Influences Professional Success
3.3 Breaking Down the Pillars of Emotional Intelligence: Self-Awareness
3.4 Breaking Down the Pillars of Emotional Intelligence: Self Management
3.5 Breaking Down the Pillars of Emotional Intelligence: Social Awareness
3.6 Breaking Down the Pillars of Emotional Intelligence: Social Management
Skills & Topics
Emotional intelligence
self-awareness
self-management
social awareness
social management
empathy
communication and conflict management
WEEK 4
Empower Your Team Through Role Structure and Clarity
Empower decision-making by selecting the right people for the right roles on the team.
Our enterprise leadership training goes beyond focusing on the manager or leader being trained. In week 4 we teach leaders how to empower their team and by consequence power the entire organization. Become nimble in your decision-making, foster innovation, push the development of your team all through the objective and goal setting process that we offer for empowerment. Learn to clarify roles and responsibilities to help team members own their processes and help you delegate more effectively, liberating you from the constant managerial trap of being a time-starved oversized individual contributor. Learn and appreciate the intricacies and fallacies of decision-making to become smarter in making them yourself and empowering your team to make them on their own too. Expect to walk away with a better understanding of management vs. leadership.
Modules
4.1 Why You Should Be Igniting Empowerment In Your Team
4.2 How to Create an Empowered Team to Become More Agile
4.3 How to Set Effective Objectives and Goal-Setting
4.4 Avoid Being the Bottleneck with Role Clarity and Delegation
4.5 How to Become More Effective at Decision Making
4.6 Understand How to Strike the Balance of Management vs. Leadership
Skills & Topics
Objective and goal setting
clarifying roles and responsibilities
delegation
decision-making
team empowerment
WEEK 5
Uncover How to Effectively Communicate
Improve communication channels and processes within the team.
A leadership management course would be incomplete without diving into the depths of effective communication. Learn about the pitfalls and issues of communication and how to address them as a leader in your team and organization. Receive frameworks, tactics, and tools to help foster better conversations between you and your team members, practice more effective listening, and even refine your persuasion skills.

Understand the importance of the free flow of information and what systems you can set up to set yourself up for success as well as how to avoid the costs of unproductive meetings.
Modules
5.1 What is Effective Team Communication?
5.2 Why Conversations Are Your Most Important Leadership Tool
5.3 Master the Fundamentals of Effective Listening to Be More In-Sync With Your Team
5.4 Storytelling with Purpose and How to Harness the Power of Persuasion
5.5 How to Create A Free Flow of Information for Effective Communication
5.6 Reclaim Your Time: How to Facilitate Productive and Engaging Meetings
Skills & Topics
Communication
effective listening
productive conversation
persuasion
information systems
meeting management
WEEK 6
Embrace Positive Conflict and Feedback
Embrace open communication and productive conflict so everyone feels heard.
Elevate your mastery of communication by facing the less comfortable side of it: conflict management. Challenge and reframe your vision of conflict by learning how to set up your team for productive conflict management through open communication systems.

You can achieve having everyone feel heard, embracing candor, and understanding the different conflict styles to help adapt your leadership. Revisit DISC for a more in-depth appreciation of how DISC shows up in conflict and how you can manage that within yourself and your team members of varying personalities.
Modules
6.1 The Secret Ingredient to Effective Communication: Productive Conflict Management
6.2 How to Embrace Candour as a Manager for Effective Feedback Cultures
6.3 How to Foster a Culture of Candour Using the Braintrust Framework
6.4 Understand and Navigate the Five Conflict Styles
6.5 How to Apply DISC Communication with Conflict
Skills & Topics
Productive conflict management
culture of candour
understanding conflict styles
conflict styles and DISC
WEEK 7
Build a Culture of Leadership
Empower all team members to act as leaders and hold each other accountable.
In week 7 of our enterprise leadership training learn about the characteristics of effective leaders as it relates to an overall culture of leadership. Understand how to influence this culture of leadership throughout your team by utilizing all previous tools learned and how they come to interplay to foster this greater leadership impact.

Continue to foster your own self-awareness by learning about the different leadership styles and how to oscilate between them all. Receive another assessment tool to reflect and gather feedback from your team on your own leadership from which you can set another learning and action plan to better yourself in this area.
Modules
7.1 Build a Culture of Leadership to Create More Leaders on Your Team
7.2 The Characteristics of Effective Leaders and How to Practice Them
7.3 Recognize and Leverage the Six Leadership Styles
7.4 Understand How to Read your Leadership Report to Improve your Leadership Effectiveness
Skills & Topics
Culture of leadership
team development
emotional intelligence
leadership fluidity
WEEK 8
Become a Coach, Develop Your Team
Invest in the personal development of team members with coaching.
Learn how to extend your development through this manager's development training to shift your leadership to the coaching of your members. Extending development throughout the organization will help you take on leadership fluidity in your organization and inspire others to step into leadership regardless of their titles. This culture of leadership increases company agility and allows you to respond to modern business challenges quicker.

We provide you tools, questions, and conversations to set your coaching up for success and even provide development and progress review frameworks with coaching in mind.
Modules
8.1 How to Create a Culture of Development to Uncap Your Team’s Potential
8.2 The Coach Approach to Shift from Boss to Coach
8.3 Coaching and Leadership with DISC: How to Adapt Your Leadership and Coaching with Different Personalities
8.4 Coaching Questions for Effective One-on-Ones
8.5 Reinvigorate Development and Progress Reviews: Learn How to Reframe Performance Reviews into Improvement
Skills & Topics
Team development
coaching
leadership fluidity
organizational agility
performance evaluations
WEEK 9
Create a Sense of Purpose, Impact & Contribution
Train team members to understand how their individual contributions lead to the success of the business.
Uncover the proper roots of purpose by exploring motivation, personal meaning, and a sense of impact and contribution relates to your employees. Learn how to help facilitate better motivation in the workplace and how to connect meaning to work. Receive tools to help revamp your recognition and rewards systems as well as how to implement a greater culture of learning to contribute to a continuous growth mindset and foster innovation.

By the end of week 9 you will have the tools to continue harnessing the power of culture as it relates to purpose to create change and introduce a new purposeful vision for the team.
Modules
9.1 Understanding What Motivates People for Personal Impact
9.1 [BONUS] The Twelve Elements of Team Success to Engage Your Team
9.2 Understanding Motivation in the Workplace and Individual Motivational Styles
9.3 Connecting Meaning to Work: Practical Ways to Enhance Motivation on Your Team
9.4 Tailoring Recognition and Rewards for High-Performance
9.5 Keep a Competitive Advantage by Creating a Culture of Learning
Skills & Topics
Uncovering purpose
understanding impact
employee engagement
employee motivation
WEEK 10
Create a Culture & All-Encompassing Vision
Harness the power of culture to create change and introduce a new vision for the team.
Many leadership training for managers often can leave out topics surrounding culture and all-encompassing vision to C-Suite leadership. At Unicorn Labs, we believe that everyone must be involved and contribute to the all-encompassing vision. This week we take you through the deep unpacking of what a vision actually is and what it is not. We provide tangible steps, exercises and pointer questions to help you uncover your vision and propel it forward through grounded goal-setting. Learn to communicate that vision internally in a way that fosters alignment and shifts from the typical dry corporate language with strategies void of heart and commitment. Participate in strategic planning to help conceptualize road maps that bring your vision to life.
Modules
10.1 Understanding and Creating an All-Encompassing Vision for a Shared Future
10.2 How to Uncover Your Vision for a United Team
10.3 Alignment and Attunement of your Team to Actualize your Vision
10.4 Strategic Planning and Building Your Own Strategic Roadmap
Skills & Topics
All-encompassing vision
organizational alignment
strategic planning
WEEK 11
Team Building Cycle & Team Composition
A full overview of the program and education on the leadership development program taught in the course.
Many leadership training for managers often can leave out topics surrounding culture and all-encompassing vision to C-Suite leadership. At Unicorn Labs, we believe that everyone must be involved and contribute to the all-encompassing vision. This week we take you through the deep unpacking of what a vision actually is and what it is not. We provide tangible steps, exercises and pointer questions to help you uncover your vision and propel it forward through grounded goal-setting. Learn to communicate that vision internally in a way that fosters alignment and shifts from the typical dry corporate language with strategies void of heart and commitment. Participate in strategic planning to help conceptualize road maps that bring your vision to life.
Modules
11.1 The Team Building Cycle for a Unicorn Team
11.2 Team Composition: How to Attract and Hire Stars
11.3 Team Composition: How to Onboard and Offboard Effectively
11.4 Protect the Team and Eliminate Bad Apples
Skills & Topics
All-encompassing vision
organizational alignment
strategic planning
WEEK 12
The Unicorn Leader
Understand management's role in the success of the organization.
At the end of our leadership management course you’ll have a chance to revisit all of the highlights of the course and understand how it all fits together as part of the Unicorn Leadership philosophy.

Review and build your leadership toolbox with the most important concepts that will serve your leadership practice.

Spend time reflecting on your journey and look ahead to understand how to best move forward with momentum in a way that is productive both for you and the success of your team and organization.
Modules
12.1 Final Words & Reflecting on Your Unicorn Leadership Journey
12.2 Unicorn Leadership Review: Revisiting Your Unicorn Leadership Toolbox [Part 1]
12.3 Unicorn Leadership Review: Revisiting Your Unicorn Leadership Toolbox [Part 2]
Skills & Topics
Holistic leadership
6 Levels of Unicorn Leadership
leadership toolbox
energy management
About Fahd
Fahd Alhattab is a workplace and leadership development expert specializing in training startup managers, teams, and executives on Unicorn Leadership. He’s now focused on bringing his client-based experience and the most current, relevant research to Unicorn Lab’s comprehensive enterprise leadership training.

Based on this foundation of all of the best practices, Fahd helps organizations build high-performing, unstoppable teams by transforming their managers into leaders. His focus is to bring his experience now working with clients and pulling on the latest organizational research to present all of the best practices of how to build high-performing teams in comprehensive enterprise leadership training.
Fahd’s path to leadership began with philanthropy. Compelled by his background as an at-risk immigrant from a low-income family, he raised over $1M for local charities, founded a camp for underprivileged children, and was awarded Canada’s Top 20 Under 20 Award for his dedication to the community.

On the pursuit of entrepreneurship, Fahd served two terms as President of Carleton University Students’ Association where he represented more than 25K students, managed a team of 150 staff, and oversaw the allocation of a $9M budget.

During his Presidency, Fahd launched a student entrepreneurship center that has since founded +50 student startups and help them raise more than +$300K in seed capital. This catapulted him to develop a mobile tech startup.

Built on thirteen years of experience building successful teams, Fahd identified the tried and true ingredient that set high performing teams apart from competitors — they had leaders who prioritized team performance over individual success. He named them Unicorn Leaders.

Delivered through captivating and actionable keynotes, Fahd now retrains managers to become architects of effective teams through his principle of Unicorn Leadership.

Fahd has spoken to +50K people across North America on leadership and been named Rising Star Speaker and Most Entertaining Speaker by the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers.

Working alongside his team at Unicorn Labs, Fahd is committed to giving start-up founders the leadership skills to build Unicorn companies. He delivers team-building retreats and customized training programs that upgrade staff and start-up managers into self-driven leaders.
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Course Info
What to Expect
Skill level
All Skill Levels
Time to complete
12 Weeks
Certification
Upon Completion
Prerequisites
None Needed

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We hired Unicorn Labs to train first time managers on our team. They were instrumental in giving us education and tactics for conflict management, project management processes, and gave us strategies on how to improve our communication skills as a team.
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Unicorn Labs gave the team exactly the type of experience they needed to develop skills and rapport with one another to provide a noticeable impact on team performance. Fahd turned even the most skeptical participants into engaged participants with his energy, charisma, and relatability. The exercises and lessons learned were perfect to not only make the team better but also to positively influence engagements with stakeholders, partners, and customers.
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Previous Head of Revenue Automation, Tooling, & Enablement - Global Revenue Technology & Operations, Shopify
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Unicorn Labs has been fantastic for our organization for nearly three years now. I work with Fahd monthly, and he and his team are phenomenal. He’s helped us grow our company and dramatically improve our company culture. I’ve worked with other training organizations before and none come even close. I can’t recommend them enough.
Samuel Witherspoon
Co-Founder and CEO, IMRSV
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Frequently Asked Questions
What does it include?

Our Unicorn Leadership Training Program is a virtual 12-week program that catapults your managers from good to great! Program participants are asked to complete assessments, take in the videos from each module, and complete the relevant weekly action items. We recommend bringing any pressing leadership challenges and questions to our weekly live group coaching sessions to enhance learning, strengthen their peer-to-peer bonds, and take an active role in their learning journey! And of course, it includes all of the leadership frameworks and resources for them to use their role to create a tangible positive impact on your team.

Why is this better than using open source content?

While there are pre-set elements to this training along with a structured curriculum, we have the unique capacity to use the assessment results to customize our programming to suit the identified needs of your organization and the leaders in the cohort. This creates a scalable system to create long-term transformation that is shared by your leadership team, where once a week, there is an opportunity to speak to your coach in real time, bring up questions, and learn from within a group setting.

How is this better than one-on-one coaching?

The fundamental difference between one-on-one coaching and our programming is that in this setting, your managers have the opportunity and time to learn from each other and the content itself. Leadership development doesn’t happen in a vacuum. We give your team the exact steps to advance their leadership skills and teach them how to apply it in real time. Learning together as a cohort creates stronger relationships and improved camaraderie. With us, you’re getting a personalized program rather than open-source and significant long-term transformational learning.

What makes Fahd qualified to teach the program?

Fahd has over a decade of experience leading teams. He has led an organization with over 150 staff, built multiple startups, and combined his first-person experience with literature and up-to-date research to create Unicorn Labs’ proprietary Six Levels of High-Performing Teams Framework on which our whole program is based.

This framework takes managers on a learning journey through these six levels and elevates their skill set, tool set and mindset to achieve next-level success and make a lasting change in their behaviour.

How can I be confident this program works for different learning styles?

Part of the inclusive nature of the program is that our asynchronous content can be absorbed by watching the videos, listening to the audio, or reading the transcript, and all at the pace that suits their learning style within the week of the corresponding module. In addition, we wrap every module with a live coaching session where we use miro boards to inform our discussions so people can participate at their comfort level. We have found that keeping the cohorts smaller encourages even the quietest of managers to participate.

How much administrative work is required?

Every enterprise client is assigned an Account Manager who will handle your onboarding experience. Our job is to make it as seamless as possible for your organization. All we ask of you is to ensure that your teams complete the required assessments so we can make the program as impactful as possible. After that, the cohort members are responsible for keeping up with their modules and assigned tasks, and we take it from there!

How do I ensure that the managers stay engaged throughout the program?

Our Unicorn Leadership programming is designed to be an immersive learning experience that keeps managers engaged. With new content released weekly and assessments and action items to ensure the material is being implemented, we hold our cohorts accountable by wrapping up every module with live coaching calls with their peers to discuss the previous week’s material.