Leadership
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This leadership collection helps you develop strong leaders across your organization, covering the characteristics that set great leaders apart.
What this course covers:
- Creating followership and motivating employees
- Succession planning for the future
- Transformational leadership in practice
- Common mistakes leaders make and how to avoid them
Explore the range of leadership topics and build the skills your team needs.
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Turnover happens at every company, but losing your highest performers is the kind you most want to prevent. When your best people keep leaving, it is a leader's job to find out why.
What this course covers:
- Why holding onto high-performing employees matters most
- Common reasons top employees leave for other opportunities
- Where employee dissatisfaction often comes from
- How leaders can get to the bottom of turnover
Built for leaders and managers who want to understand and reduce the loss of their best team members.
As a leader, one of the most challenging tasks you have to face is reducing employee turnover. How do you keep your company strong, and retain your best employees? That's what this program is all about. In this course, we'll discuss how to properly screen candidates and how to survey existing staff. We'll also talk about pay, perks, and promotions, as well as some non monetary ways to keep your employees engaged and connected.
Listening well is how leaders earn respect, understand needs, and tap their team's knowledge.
What this course covers:
- Why active listening matters in leadership
- Techniques to truly absorb and understand what others say
- How to develop strong, consistent listening habits
- How better listening helps you lead through wins and losses
Part of the Leadership Fundamentals series.
For leaders, continuous self-development is what keeps you adapting to new expectations and technology.
What this course covers:
- Why self-development matters for leaders
- Building a growth mindset
- Core qualities: integrity, responsibility, courage, and empathy
- Setting SMART goals and using feedback to grow
You will learn to set a positive example for your team.
What qualities inspire others to follow? This course explores the essential characteristics that define great leaders and how to cultivate them in yourself.
What this course covers:
- Traits such as authenticity, curiosity, adaptability, and empathy
- How to develop these qualities within yourself
- How to build trust and foster innovation
You'll leave able to lead with confidence and integrity.
Your ability to inspire and empower your team drives organizational success. This course explores the habits that help you do both.
What this course covers:
- Balance autonomy with clear direction
- Encourage productive disagreement
- Recognize individual contributions
- Give your team the tools they need to excel
Build a culture where your team takes ownership of its work.
Being a great leader is not just about who you are; it is about how you spend your day and what you are good at.
What this course covers:
- The skills great leaders have in common
- The abilities that set effective leaders apart
- The everyday behaviors strong leaders share
Reflect on the actions that shape the kind of leader you want to be.
How should you approach managing a team? This course explores the theories and styles that turn a group of individuals into a cohesive, high-performing team.
What this course covers:
- Understand the theories behind successful management
- Explore leadership styles and when to use them
- Learn to inspire and motivate your team
- Align your approach with organizational goals
Equip yourself to lead a team that achieves its goals.
Your style of leadership isn't set in stone. Developing authentic leadership is possible and highly beneficial to you and your team. In this course, we'll go over how you can develop authenticity. We'll discuss how to represent your core values. We'll talk about how your communication skills affect your authentic presentation, and we'll explore ways to improve those skills. Lastly, we'll talk about developing the traits of authentic leaders.
Authentic leadership is a style of leadership that focuses on transparent and ethical behavior, while encouraging open collaboration with your team. It's about being you, and making room for others, too. In this course, we'll talk about what today's workers are looking for in a leader, and how authentic leadership fits into current workplaces. We'll also discuss the characteristics of an authentic leader, which includes showing integrity, empathy, and humility
Great leaders share a few common traits and follow a repeatable process you can learn and adapt.
What this course covers:
- The three traits excellent leaders share
- The core skills every good leader needs
- A leader's process for success
- A general guideline you can apply to any situation
- Developing and fine-tuning your own leadership style
For new and aspiring leaders building a leadership approach that works for them.
As companies grow, the matrix structure is built to embrace the complexity that follows.
What this course covers:
- What matrix management means and where it fits
- The roles of functional and project managers
- The authority each manager holds
- Introducing the structure to your teams
- Implementing it to benefit your business
For leaders weighing whether a matrix structure is right for their growing organization.
Intentional leadership starts with knowing what you stand for. This course guides leaders through identifying, defining, and actively living their core values.
What this course covers:
- Introspectively determining your fundamental principles
- Defining the core values that drive you
- Communicating your values effectively to your team
- Making intentional decisions that reflect your core drivers
You will finish able to lead intentionally in line with your core values.
What employees want most from their managers is a genuine connection and honesty, in other words, an authentic leader.
What this course covers:
- What authentic leadership looks like at work
- Embodying authenticity alongside strong performance
- Showing your authentic self to your team
- Why authenticity benefits you and your people
Ideal for managers who want to build trust and lead with genuine connection.
Every leader has power, but few stop to think about where it actually comes from.
What this course covers:
- What it means to have power as a leader
- The six different bases of power
- How each base gives you the ability to influence others
- Why understanding the source of your power matters
For leaders who want to understand and use their influence wisely.
Corporate social responsibility, or CSR, is the idea that a business owes something to the society around it.
What this course covers:
- What CSR is and how it works as self-regulation
- The long-term business benefits of CSR
- Four basic approaches to enacting CSR programs
- How to put these methods into action
You will see why CSR can pay off for an organization over time.
Your organization's reputation for ethics and environmental responsibility can shape its long-term success. This program shows you what social responsibility really looks like.
What this course covers:
- What it means to be a socially responsible organization
- Corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategies other companies are adopting
- How to make your social responsibility efforts last
You'll leave ready to help your company build a reputation worth being proud of.
With great power comes great responsibility. As a leader you can influence others, so it matters that you harness that power for good.
What this course covers:
- Identify the values that guide how you lead
- Build referent power that earns genuine influence
- Find a mentor to support your growth
- Empower the people around you
- Seek feedback to keep improving
Learn to use your leadership power responsibly.
As a leader, you may become one of the recognizable faces of your organization, and people take notice of your actions.
What this course covers:
- How a leader's recognition builds influence inside and outside the company
- Why people watch what leaders do
- Ways to use your power to help your community
- Making change for people beyond your organization
Explore how your leadership power can create positive change in your community.
The information that could solve your company's biggest problems is often trapped in the minds of individual workers. Knowledge transfer sets it free.
What this course covers:
- Why an organized system of knowledge transfer matters
- The pitfalls of information overload
- The risks of too little data or working in silos
- Where knowledge is gained or lost in a business
For leaders who want to move knowledge across their organization.
We know that transferring knowledge is essential in any organization, but it's not always an
easy process to put into place. In this course, we'll talk about some of the barriers that
businesses run into, how to identify these issues, and how to overcome them, so you can
share information effectively and efficiently.
Servant-leaders put others' needs first, prioritizing their people's growth and success. This approach has proven highly effective at lifting productivity.
What this course covers:
- Understand what service-based leadership looks like in practice
- Show gratitude and empower the people you lead
- Prioritize talent development on your team
- Recognize the many benefits of servant-based leadership
Lead in a way that helps your whole organization thrive.
VUCA sounds like an acronym from a sci-fi film, but it is a useful way to approach challenges. First used by the U.S. Army in the early 1990s, it works best as a checklist that helps organizations stay ready for whatever comes their way.
What this course covers:
- What VUCA is and where it came from
- How the VUCA framework works
- Using VUCA as a readiness checklist
- What VUCA can do for your organization
You will finish able to put the VUCA framework into action for your team.
Your mission, vision, and values statements guide the direction of your company, and everyone should work to embody them. This first program focuses on the mission statement.
What this course covers:
- The differences between mission, vision, and values statements
- Why your company needs all three and how they guide its future
- How to write a mission statement, with examples from larger companies
Start building the statements that shape your company's direction.
A vision statement is an aspirational statement that articulates what your organization wants to achieve.
What this course covers:
- What a vision statement is
- How it guides the direction of your efforts
- The research behind a strong vision, including why your organization exists
- How to craft a meaningful vision statement
Use these steps to write a vision statement that gives your organization clear direction.
A value statement is a description of what you believe in and a promise of value to deliver. In just a few words, it articulates what your organization holds true.
What this course covers:
- What a value statement, or value proposition, really is
- How it lists the core principles that guide your organization
- The role it plays in shaping your culture
- How to create one that genuinely reflects your company's values
Leave able to write a value statement your organization can stand behind.
Dysfunction can quietly seep into any company's culture, processes, and management until systems start to fail. This course helps you catch it early.
What this course covers:
- How dysfunction spreads without warning
- The impact on culture, processes, and management
- Why employees and customers start to leave
- The eight signs of a dysfunctional organization
Use these signs to check the health of your own organization.
After identifying the eight red flags of organizational dysfunction, this course focuses on the fixes, walking through practical ways to solve each problem and put new solutions in place.
What this course covers:
- Addressing each of the eight red flags of dysfunction
- Building a clear plan to resolve them
- Altering processes where change is needed
- Implementing lasting solutions across the organization
You will leave with a practical roadmap to rid your organization of dysfunction.
Most leaders know a mentoring program matters, but building one from scratch is the hard part. This course walks through developing and running a program for any organization.
What this course covers:
- Establishing clear goals for your mentoring program
- Finding sponsors to support the initiative
- Creating a mentoring committee
- Finding and properly matching participants
- Monitoring progress over time
Designed for HR professionals and leaders who want to launch a successful mentoring program.
A mentoring program only works when mentors and mentees are matched with real care.
What this course covers:
- Why thoughtful matching drives success
- Matching on experience, expectations and compatibility
- Creating a mentoring profile form
- Pairing participants effectively
- Supporting the relationships as they develop
For program leaders and HR teams building strong mentoring partnerships.
You have been paired in a mentoring program, so what does it take to make the relationship truly work?
What this course covers:
- Establishing trust between mentor and mentee
- Setting clear expectations
- Being prepared for mentoring sessions
- Giving and receiving feedback
- Key dos and don'ts for mentors and mentees
Ideal for anyone stepping into a mentor or mentee role who wants the partnership to bear fruit.
Once a mentoring program is set up, the meetings themselves make or break its success.
What this course covers:
- Setting clear meeting guidelines in advance
- Transitioning smoothly into each meeting
- Reviewing open issues and taking notes
- Answering questions effectively
- Key do's and don'ts of mentoring meetings
For mentors who want cohesive, productive, and genuinely successful mentorships.
When leaders leave, organizations either transition smoothly or scramble to pick up the pieces.
What this course covers:
- What succession planning is and why it matters
- How it helps identify and develop new leaders
- How it impacts companies when leadership changes
- What you can do to prepare for vacant leadership positions
For anyone responsible for keeping an organization moving forward.
A strong succession plan needs a clear HiPo policy for identifying and developing high-potential employees.
What this course covers:
- What a HiPo policy is and why your succession plan needs one
- Rules for deciding who counts as a HiPo
- Connecting the policy to business planning and strategic thinking
- Finding progression opportunities for top talent
You will be ready to find and develop your best high-potential employees.
Identifying high-potential employees means judging who is most likely to become a future leader in your organization. This course shows you how to spot them.
What this course covers:
- Common characteristics organizations look for in HiPos
- Measurable criteria you can use to find the right candidates
- The difference between high-potential and high-performing employees, and why it matters
You'll finish able to identify the people most likely to grow into leadership.
High-potential employees are in high demand, which means keeping them takes real effort. This program shows you how to retain and develop your HiPos.
What this course covers:
- Understand why HiPos are so sought after
- Personalize each high-potential employee's development
- Keep HiPos motivated and engaged
- Build commitment that keeps them in your organization
Give your best people reasons to stay and grow with you.
Once you have a good understanding of what knowledge transfer is, why it's important to
your business, and what barriers you'll need to work around, the next step is implementing it.
This means developing systems for transferring knowledge throughout your organization. It
also means incentivizing and rewarding employees who share their knowledge. In this course,
we'll discuss what your role is in all of this. We'll talk about determining how knowledge is
currently being transferred. We'll demonstrate examples of how organizations efficiently
spread pertinent knowledge, and ways to reward employees who are willing to take part in
the process. Lastly, we'll provide a framework for knowledge transfer.
Managing a High D personality calls for adapting your own approach. This course explains the core D characteristics and how to lead High D team members so you get their best work.
What this course covers:
- The basic D characteristics and what to expect when managing a High D
- How to lead High D team members to get the most from them
- Why leading a High D means modifying your own style, not theirs
Adapt your leadership style to bring out the best in High D people.
Leading a High I personality well starts with understanding what to expect and adapting your own approach.
What this course covers:
- The basic characteristics of a High I
- What to expect when managing a High I
- How to lead High I team members and get the most from them
- Modifying your own style to lead them successfully
Learn to change your approach so you can bring out the best in High I team members.
Leading a High S person starts with understanding their characteristics, then modifying your own style to get the most out of them. You adapt, not them.
What this course covers:
- The basic characteristics of a High S personality
- What to expect when managing a High S team member
- How to lead a High S so they perform at their best
- Modifying your style to lead them successfully
Come away ready to bring out the best in your High S team members.
Leading a High C personality takes a different approach. This course explains their core characteristics and how to get the most from High C team members.
What this course covers:
- The basic characteristics of a High C personality
- What to expect when managing a High C
- How to adapt your own style to lead them effectively
Learn to modify your style so you can lead High C people successfully.
Do you know what it costs your company when someone quits their job? There are monetary and non-monetary costs involved, and we can assume they aren't pretty. In this course, we'll talk through these specific costs and how they affect your bottom line. This includes calculating quit rates, the costs of hiring and onboarding, and the price of lost productivity. We'll also go over how employee turnover can impact your company's morale and reputation.