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10 Essential Traits for Today's Leaders

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 Leaders Make Workplace Accountability Cool

You have to be creative and innovative when it comes to affecting human behavior. Even in the toughest of economic times, there are endless possibilities. In this course, we'll stimulate the most effective ways of ensuring and supporting individuals' accountability, reveal the many measurable benefits to the company and its impact on competitive advantage. You'll discover a creative and unique method to design collaborative accountability strategies for teams at your workplace.

Run Brilliant Brainstorms

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.

Leadership Skills for Women

Around 60% of women never ask for a salary raise. This comes down to confidence as well as other factors. In this course, you will learn techniques to overcome your limiting believes, assert yourself, and unlock your full potential at work to break the glass ceiling.

10 Stories Great Leaders Tell

This course covers the 10 most important stories every leader should be able to tell at a moment's notice. Based on the bestselling book by Paul Smith, the author shares one example of each of the ten stories along with tips to help you find your own. Learn to tell stories to lead change, set a vision, drive strategy, sell or market your product, recruit to talent, and define your own leadership philosophy story, among others.

Leadership Lessons from Your Followers

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...

Leadership: How to Be a Great Boss

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.

Storytelling for Leaders

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...

Coaching Skills for Managers

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.

Remote Work for Professionals and Managers: Work From Home or Anywhere

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...