This session opens with the Leadership Radius, a simple model for understanding where a leader’s influence starts (with themselves) before it radiates out to others, their team, the organization and the community.

From there, we’ll discuss why the conversation is the relationship. A relationship isn’t something that sits off to the side, protected from whatever you do or don’t say to someone. It’s not built in one big defining moment; it’s built conversation by conversation, out of exactly these small moments. The relationship you have with any person right now is made of every conversation you’ve had with them, and everyone you’ve avoided. There’s no neutral ground to retreat to, because the conversation isn’t separate from the relationship. It is the relationship.

The session closes with the Painless Performance Framework, a structured, practical script leaders can use immediately to keep performance conversations factual, calm, and solution-focused — along with a simple approach to documentation that turns a single conversation into a pattern a leader can act on.

 

What you’ll take away:

✔ A pre-session Leadership Success Scorecard.

✔ A simple model (the Leadership Radius) for diagnosing where your influence as a leader starts and stops.

✔ A structured, practical framework (the Painless Performance Framework) for keeping performance conversations factual and solution focused.

✔ A simple approach to performance logging that turns one conversation into a pattern you can act on.

 

Key Topics:

•      Your Leadership Radius

◦       The five layers of influence: Self, Others, Team, Organization, Community.

◦       Why leadership feels like pushing instead of pulling when the inner ring gets skipped.

•      The Conversation Is the Relationship

◦       What’s kept you from having the conversation you know you need to have.

◦       Why every skipped conversation is a small culture decision, intended or not.

•      The Painless Performance Conversation Framework

◦       A simple, structured script for factual, calm in-the-moment performance conversations.

◦       The performance log: why documenting these moments matters, and how to do it in under two minutes.

 

Who Should Attend:

This session is designed for law firm administrators, people managers, supervisors, HR professionals, and firm leaders responsible for performance and culture.

 

About the Facilitator:

Veronica (Vee) Lyver, CPHR
Vee is the founder of Estelle HR Solutions, bringing 25+ years of experience in HR and leadership development to organizations across Canada — from law firms and hospitality groups to nonprofits and Indigenous organizations. As a Life & Leadership Alignment Coach and Mental Fitness practitioner, she combines deep HR expertise with lived experience navigating stress, overachieving, and self-leadership to help leaders build workplaces that align with their values, not just their processes. She’s known for a mix of warmth, wisdom, and candid, real-world advice.

 

In-person attendance is strongly encouraged but the event will be made available by webinar as well.

 

For more information contact Tim Wurtz, Fraser Valley Subsection Co-Chair, [email protected].