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Storytelling for Leaders
Paul Andrew Smith
Storytelling is one of the most sought-after skills in the business world today. Whether you’re trying to set a vision, lead change, encourage creativity, or inspire the organization, storytelling can help you and your message be more memorable, engaging, and effective. In this course, bestselling author and corporate storytelling coach Paul Smith walks you through the elements of a compelling leadership story. Learn the ten most important leadership stories to tell, the eight questions your story needs to answer, how to create the right emotional engagement, and even how to create a surprise...
Run Brilliant Brainstorms
Paul Sloane
Unlock the creativity in you and your team by learning how to run really effective brainstorms. This course gives you ten powerful methods that displace people out of their comfort zones and enable them to generate many radical ideas. You learn how to facilitate the event, produce creative proposals, and select the winners.
10 Essential Traits for Today's Leaders
Frank McKinley
Leadership isn't easy. You've got to find good people, make the most of their talents, and get them excited about working for you. In the next 10 audio lessons, you'll learn the essential traits you need to become a great leader. You'll discover the most common leadership challenges and how to overcome them. And you can use this course as a compass to keep your growth on the right track, day after day, month after month, and year after year.
How to Build Racial Inclusivity in Your Workplace
Andrew Sivanesan
During the course, we'll establish a clear framework for increasing racial inclusivity in your organisation. We'll get familiar with unconscious bias and structural racism. We'll explore the role of allies, affinity groups, managers, leaders, and organisational culture in racial inclusivity. We'll look at ways to deal with potential resistance to inclusivity initiatives. And finally, we'll explore ways to measure racial inclusivity. By the end of this course, you'll have a broad base of knowledge that you can use to help make your workplace more racially inclusive.
Coaching Skills for Managers
Karina Margole
In this course on coaching skills for managers, you will learn how to use coaching to supercharge the growth of your reports and the results that you, your team, and your business achieve. You will learn what coaching is, when to use coaching, and when not to use coaching. We will go over the basic coaching skills and what makes a conversation a coaching conversation. We will also look at the question of ethics in coaching. So let's get straight to it.
Leadership in an Age of Wolves
Scott F. Paradis
"Leadership in an Age of Wolves" is a parable about a college senior, Jeff, who struggles with his friend's characterization of society operating by two dictums: might makes right, and, the many serve the few. Home for winter break, Jeff looks for evidence as to his friend's assertions. Jeff's search culminates during a cribbage match with his grandfather. Jeff's grandfather shares the creation story of God's great experiment "Sheep, Herders, Wolves" as the two discuss what motivates people, who holds the power, what leadership is truly about, and why leadership matters so much.
Leadership Lessons from Your Followers
Andy Edwards
Many leadership courses are written BY leaders FOR leaders. However, according to the respected hrnews.co.uk, 95% of senior leaders believe their followers trust them... yet only 16% of followers trust their senior leaders. That's almost delusional! What's going wrong in leadership/follower relationships? Created around conversations with thousands of followers, Andy Edwards has identified SEVEN leadership mistakes that account for nearly ALL the symptoms of poor leadership (including that lack of trust!). Learn how to eradicate these leadership 'sins' and become a world-class leader in the...
Practicing DEI Can Improve Organizational Culture
Vanessa Womack
The course should help leadership understand why investing in DEI education, training, and follow-up can improve interrelationships in the organization. Instituting certain DEI concepts can reveal barriers that cause stress in the workplace; help people to be more informed and aware of negative and biased behaviors, and address them appropriately. Companies should practice a culture of inclusivity that is not false or forced and build a pathway for long term success and trust. Your goal should be to implement a few good practices within your organization that lead to positive, progressive...
Remote Work for Professionals and Managers: Work From Home or Anywhere
Gregory Root and Mary Daphne
Working from home can offer a huge boost to our productivity. But it isn't always as easy and convenient as we'd like to think. Fortunately, with the appropriate skills and systems in place, we can mitigate (or even eliminate) many of the challenges of remote work, while retaining all the upside! In this course, we draw from our research in the fields of behavioral psychology, interactional linguistics, and work-life management, to identify some of the most significant challenges of working remotely. We offer strategies for addressing these remote work challenges through a careful selection...
Leadership: How to Be a Great Boss
Chris Croft
This course is designed to help you be a great boss, whether you are new to management or have been doing it for a while but want to get some new ideas on how to be better. It’s full of practical tips that you can use immediately. You’ll find out what empowerment really means, how to avoid abdication, what being a Seagull Manager is, and what SPVEG objectives are. We’ll cover the difference between thanking and praise, the two dimensions of coaching, how to do a motivation review, and much more.