Leadership & Management Skills: 15 Leadership Courses In 1

This introductory lecture sets the foundation for the course and discusses what it means to be a good leader, as well as what skills should be adopted to ensure success. Additionally, we'll cover numerous real-life examples from successful business leaders.

Here, we will be looking at some traits or qualities of a good, well-rounded leader.

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Here, we'll talk about different types of leadership styles, as well as their advantages. You should be able to recognise the features you possess as a leader and determine the ideal style for you.

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In this lecture, we'll explore the effects of effective leadership and how it might advance a company. We'll also talk about how poor leadership undermines the success of businesses.

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This lecture will cover the distinction between positive and negative rooted statements, how to identify and play to one's talents in the workplace, and other soft skills necessary for team development.

Download and complete the How To Build A Strong Team Part 1 Worksheet.

Lecture 5 is the second part of our topic on how to create a great team. Here, we'll talk about various abilities and some useful tasks for developing trust.

Download and complete the How To Build A Strong Team Part 2 Worksheet.

In the concluding lecture, we will reflect on the knowledge and skills you have acquired during the course and how you can utilise them in real-life scenarios

A warm welcome from award-winning HR leader, consultant, speaker and author Debra Corey, who introduces this course on leadership. She shares her background and expertise and provides an overview of the eight proven traits it takes to be not just a good leader, but a great leader.

In this lecture, Debra focuses on the first of the eight traits that will help you become a great leader, which is to role model your company values.

You'll be covering three key questions:

• What are company values?

• Why are they important to companies and to you as a leader?

• And finally, how can you role model and live your company values?

Exercise: List some ideas and actions for using your company's values to lead your team.

In this lecture, Debra discusses the second of the eight traits that will help you be a great leader, which is about communicating openly and honestly.

You'll be covering two key questions:

• Why is it important for leaders to communicate openly and honestly?

• And how can you communicate as a leader in an open and honest way?

Debra looks at the third of the eight traits that will help you become a great leader, which is about inspiring your people, helping them to be their best, to reach higher and to succeed.

You'll be covering two key questions:

• Why is it important for leaders to inspire their employees?

• And how can you inspire your people?

Exercise: Develop a plan of how you will inspire members of your team.

In lecture five, Debra introduces the fourth of the eight traits that will help you become a great leader, which is about how leaders need to own their mistakes.

You'll be covering two key questions:

• Why is it important for leaders to own their mistakes?

• And how can you own your mistakes?

Debra's focus for Lecture 6 is on the fifth of the eight traits that will help you become a great leader, which is about recognising your people, showing them that you appreciate and value them.

You'll be covering two key questions:

• Why is it important for leaders to recognise their employees?

• And how can you recognise your people effectively?

Exercise: Schedule time in your calendar to recognise your people so that it can become a habit.

In Lecture 7, Debra introduces the sixth of the eight traits that will help you become a great leader, which is about making the right decisions and not necessarily the easiest or most popular decisions.

You'll be covering two key questions:

• Why is it important for leaders to make the right decisions?

• And how can you as a leader make the right decisions?

Debra explores the seventh of the eight traits that will help you be a great leader in Lecture 8, which is about trusting your people.

You'll be covering two key questions:

• Why is it important for leaders to trust their employees?

• And how can you as a leader trust your people?

In Lecture 9, Debra reaches the final of the eight traits that will help you become a great leader, which is about showing care and empathy for your people.

You'll be covering two key questions:

• Why is it important for leaders to care for their people?

• How can you show care and empathy for your people?

In this third and final section, Debra builds on the practical tools shared throughout the course by adding four more tips for being a great leader. She then guides you through an action plan that you can complete to bring all of your learnings from the course to life and into practice.

Download - There are 3 parts to the Action Plan document:

1. The first is to assess how well you do and live the trait now.

2. The second part is to rank them from high to low so that you can identify your development areas.

3. Finally, you’ll need to select the 2-4 areas where you need to develop and improve the most, putting them into your development plan.

A warm introduction from Andy, who explains what the course is all about and how it's going to work best for you.

In this lecture, Andy helps you to understand exactly what culture really is and why it's so important to get it right, regardless of the size of your business.

Andy highlights the key things that influence your culture, both positively and negatively, and helps you identify them in your business.

Download the 'What's Influencing Your Culture Assessment Tool'.

Identifying exactly what your culture is is a crucial starting point. In this lecture, Andy provides you with some practical tools and techniques to help you get a clear, objective understanding of what yours is.

Andy introduces the principles of 'UBER Culture' and how successful businesses use them to build a culture that creates real competitive advantage. You'll look at how your business measures up in the areas that count and identify the steps required to make that happen.

Download the 'Create An UBER Culture 3D Assessment Tool' and the 'Create An UBER Culture eBook' supporting documents.

Re-establishing your core values is a great starting point for creating an 'UBER Culture'. In this lecture, Andy shares how successful businesses do that, the benefits of the practice and how to avoid the common mistakes that so many businesses make.

Download the '40 Lessons From Zappos', the 'Who's Values Are These Quiz' and the 'Who's Values Are These Answers' supporting documents.

Using real examples of successful '3D Businesses', Andy takes you through a step-by-step guide to help you reshape your values. Using the proven toolkits and templates provided, you will begin to create the company culture you really want.

Download the 'Value Your Values 3D Toolkit'.

Values are important, but what is crucial is making them meaningful for people so they actually 'live' them. In this lecture, Andy teaches you how to do just that. It's not about putting up 'nice' posters but about establishing the 'behaviours' you want to see in your people.

Using real-world examples, Andy takes you through a proven process to help create the behaviours you want your people to demonstrate and live by.

Successful '3D Businesses' build and establish effective systems and processes to support and reinforce their culture. In this lecture, Andy highlights with real-world examples how this is done in areas including recruitment, induction, communication and people management.

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This lecture shows you how to review your systems and processes. You'll identify the key steps needed to develop and improve them to ensure they support and deliver what you require in your business.

Having a team of engaged, empowered and enabled people is the goal of so many businesses. In this lecture, as well as introducing the key ingredients for making it work, Andy shares some real-world winning businesses who are shining examples of doing just that.

Download the 'How Engaged, Empowered And Enabled Are Your People 3D Assessment' supporting document.

This lecture helps you transfer the lessons learned and identify the steps you need to take next to make it work for your business and people.

Andy shares innovative examples of 'reward and recognition' processes from forward-thinking businesses that use them to help shape and reinforce the behaviours they want from their people.

Download the 'How Are Your People Rewarded And Recognised 3D Assessment Tool'.

Here's a chance to see how you 'measure up' and to identify the steps required to develop a 'reward and recognition' plan that works for you and your people.

Andy recaps the lessons learned throughout this course and takes you through the principles for 'Creating An UBER Culture'.

He shares a template to download that allows you to develop your own personalised 'Create An UBER Culture 3D Action Plan'.

Andy concludes by highlighting other resources you might find useful.

A warm introduction from Andy, who explains what the course is all about. He highlights the challenges facing the leaders in today's fast-moving, interconnected world.

In this lecture, Andy introduces the principle of how winning leaders drive things forward by maintaining a balance of creating both devoted customers and committed, motivated and effective people, as well as maximising financial returns. He gives you the opportunity to see how you measure up and what you may need to work on. Download the 'What Does Success Look Like Toolkit' and 'Toolkit Template' supporting documents.

Andy introduces his definition of leadership and explodes the myths about what it is and what it is not. He highlights the key differences between management and leadership and will help you to understand the 5 key things people really want from their leaders.

An introduction to the qualities winning '3D Leaders' have and what they do, and the '8 Characteristics Of 3D Leadership' model. As well as gaining insights into how winning leaders perform, you will learn how you 'measure up' against those characteristics and also identify the areas you may need to work on to become a '3D Leader'. Download the '3D Leadership Assessment Tool' and 'The 8 Characteristics Of 3D Leaders e-Book' supporting documents.

Andy explains how '3D Leaders' create "a picture of the future that stimulates, excites and inspires". He highlights how they do this and why they ‘Get That Vision Thing’. By providing examples of how this looks in the 'real world', from leaders such as Steve Bartlett of Social Chain, Jeff Bezos of Amazon and Steve Jobs of Apple, Andy will discuss the proven benefits of this approach then help you identify the key factors for success and how to make them work for you.

Introducing the key ingredients for a great 'vision'. In this lecture, Andy takes you through the first 5 steps of 7 in making these 'ingredients' work for you and shows you how to use the specially prepared toolkit to help you do so successfully. Download the 'Get That Vision Thing Toolkit' supporting document.

In this lecture, Andy will take you through steps 6 and 7 and helps you fulfil your role as a '3D Leader'. You'll learn how to get others on board and use your own vision to drive performance.

In this lecture, Andy highlights his definition of culture as "the way we do things around here". He shares how 3D Leaders work hard to proactively develop the culture they want and explains how you can too. You'll learn how businesses like Zappos, Netflix, Hubspot and Southwest Airlines establish a set of guiding principles that shape what their people do and how that creates real competitive advantage. You'll discover the tools and techniques you need to help you do this too. Download the 'Create An UBER Culture e-Book' supporting document.

Andy takes you through some practical steps for establishing your values. He shows you how to make them meaningful so that they become a powerful tool in maximising people performance in your team. You will also learn how to use the 'Value Your Values' toolkit to help you do this. Download the 'Value Your Values Toolkit' supporting document.

In this lecture, Andy shows you how to embed your values and establish "the way we do things around here" for you and your business.

In this lecture, you will learn how 3D Leaders create time to work ‘on’ their business as well as ‘in’ it, how they think and work ‘strategically’ and, importantly, how they build it into the way they lead their people. Andy shares his experience working with busy business leaders who too often get "caught up in the day to day" and spend too much time working on "tactical issues". As well as highlighting the key barriers to 'Thinking Strategically', Andy shares how 3D Leaders overcome those barriers and how you can too with his '4 key factors for success'.

Andy introduces you to some practical tools and techniques to help you make 'Strategic Thinking' work for you. These simple, effective processes such as the commonly known 'Prioritise And Plan', 'SWOT', 'PEST Analysis', plus the intriguingly named 'A View From Your Room', 'Go For Walks' and 'Fish In Different Ponds', are geared to helping you make strategies work now and in the long term so that you can become a better 'Strategic Thinker' and a better '3D Leader'.

Andy highlights how 3D Leaders embrace change, create disruption and use it to create real competitive advantage by spotting and maximising the opportunities, and minimising the threats. It's all about 'innovation' and how these leaders involve their people in doing it too. Not necessarily with lots of world-changing new products, but by using "the successful exploitation of new ideas" to improve things in the areas that count.

Introducing the 'Leadership Plan' template and a step-by-step process to make it work for you. Andy shares his concluding thoughts and suggested next steps, plus details of his additional courses. Download the '3D Leadership Plan' supporting document.

A warm introduction from Andy, who explains what the course is all about. He highlights the challenges facing leaders when it comes to maximising people performance.

Andy discusses the fundamental role of leaders in creating 'committed, motivated, effective people' at every level and why it's not easy. He highlights how '3D Leaders' make it work and introduces 'The 8 Characteristics' model. There's also a chance to see how you measure up against the 8 Characteristics. Download the '3D Leadership Assessment Tool' and the '3D Leadership E-book' supporting documents.

In this lecture, Andy provides a definition for 'employee engagement' and introduces the key elements of making it work for you. By using examples of real businesses that have high levels of employee engagement, Andy explains the key ingredients that maximise people performance, as well as the 'proven' benefits of maintaining high employee-engagement levels: productivity, retention, customer satisfaction and profitability. He also introduces the 'Gallup Q12 Questions' to help you measure engagement levels in your team. Download the 'Maximising People Performance - 12 Questions' supporting document.

Andy introduces the key steps to improving employee engagement: share your vision, 'get buy-in' and 'keep it alive'. He shares proven techniques for getting 'buy-in' to the vision and for setting goals and targets. He will introduce a template to help you look forward and identify the steps you need to take to succeed.

Andy discusses the importance of understanding the fundamental principles of people motivation, including Maslow's 'Hierarchy of Needs', and of identifying individual motivators. Download the '6 Questions To Ask Yourself Tool' and '6 Questions To Ask Your Team Members Tool' supporting documents.

Andy introduces 10 common reasons that stop people from maximising their performance.

Andy introduces the 'Human Assets Framework', which can help you to develop an objective view of productivity and the level of unused potential. He discusses how to identify the steps necessary to maximise your team's performance and potential, and shares a step-by-step guide for applying it to your people - and yourself!

Andy discusses how '3D Leaders' stretch, challenge and motivate their people. He explains how best to maximise the performance and potential of your people by getting out of the way and empowering them instead.

Andy demonstrates how '3D Leaders' proactively develop long-term relationships with the people and organisations that count - both inside and outside their business. He explains that in today’s interconnected world, relationship-building and proactive collaboration happens anywhere (and everywhere) - both online and offline.

Andy poses the question, "Who should/could you collaborate with?" and explains that it is about 'Choice, Connectivity, Confidence and Collaboration'. He demonstrates how '3D Leaders' identify the people they need and want to 'Collaborate' with in order to help them achieve their goals - both personally and in business. Andy will help you identify what this means for you, offering a structured approach for developing your own 'Collaboration Plan'. Download the 'Collaborate For Results Toolkit' supporting document.

Andy discusses how 3D Leaders are able to identify what is important to be measured and how to manage performance by maximising information and making it meaningful. He goes on to share how best to establish, embed and maximise KPIs and use them to drive performance in the areas that really count. This lecture will help you to develop a proactive approach and identify the best ways to utilise, communicate and share information in one-to-one conversations, briefings and meetings. Download the 'Use Your Intelligence Toolkit' supporting document.

Andy addresses the key stages that people go through when they are learning - unconscious incompetence, conscious incompetence, conscious competence and unconscious competence - and explains what this means for you as a '3D Leader'.

This lecture introduces some simple practical tools and techniques that you can use to help you identify your steps for improvement in the areas that count for you as a '3D Leader'. Download the '3D Toolkit - Stop Start Continue' supporting document.

Introducing the 'Leadership Plan' template and a step-by-step process for how to make it work for you. Download the 'Your 3D Leadership Plan' supporting document.

Andy's concluding thoughts and suggested next steps, plus details of his additional courses.

In this lecture, we'll set the foundation for the course and discuss some of the key aspects of a strategic partnership.

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Here you will learn the main qualities of a strategic partnership and how you can begin to build a framework to implement in your own business. We will also discuss how you can measure the success of your partnerships.

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In this lecture, we will look at the role of a strategic partnership, as well as the various benefits partnerships carry. You will also learn the ways you can use new relationships to achieve your business goals and objectives.

Download and complete the Role Of A Strategic Partnership Worksheet.

Here we will cover how you can lower the risks of your partnerships. We will discuss common barriers you may hit and offer tips for how to overcome them as you continue on this journey.

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This lecture will focus on methods for identifying the gaps in your business as well as diving into real-life examples demonstrating how the right partnership has the power to transform your business.

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This lecture will discuss digital strategic partnerships in detail. We will look at how digital partnerships can help grow your business and discuss partnering for success in a digital era. We will also examine the rules governing partnerships in a digital world.

Download and complete the Digital Strategic Partnerships Worksheet.

In the concluding lecture, we will reflect on the knowledge and skills you have acquired during the course and how you can utilise them in real-life scenarios.