Developing as a Leader
- 2 Courses | 46m 38s
- 9 Books | 24h 32m
- 9 Audiobooks | 51h 40m 56s
Every leader must continuously hone leadership capabilities for optimal personal and team performance. Commit to becoming a better leader. Many studies show leadership qualities such as assertiveness, adaptability, intelligence, and conscientiousness as the most important qualities in a leader. Additionally, effective leaders are positive, empowering, and inspiring. Learn how to become a stronger and more effective leader.
COURSES INCLUDED
Leading through Inspiration
People are inspired when they trust their leaders and are mobilized by common goals. When you strive for inspirational leadership, you demonstrate credibility and create a community with a shared vision. In this course, you'll learn about the characteristics that inspire people. You'll also learn about traits and behaviors that inspirational leaders exemplify. Finally, you'll learn about the role of clear, credible, and persuasive messages in providing inspiration.
7 videos |
22m
Assessment
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Gauging Your Leadership Performance
Monitoring and assessing your own progress as you develop is vital to ensure growth and overall success as a leader. In this course, you'll learn about techniques leaders can use to carry out a self-assessment, such as reflective journaling, surveys and checklists, and 360-degree feedback. You'll also learn ways to increase your motivation and manage your own learning by creating a leadership development plan.
8 videos |
24m
Assessment
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PMI PDU
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BOOK SUMMARY
How to Grow Leaders: The Seven Key Principles of Effective Leadership DevelopmentHow to Grow Leaders provides seven principles that can be applied to ensure the selection and growth of effective leaders within a company. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
9m
By John Adair
Book
The Heart of Leadership: Becoming a Leader People Want to FollowUsing an appealing and accessible fable format, this book identifies five specific leadership character traits required for maximum influence and impact, and also shows how to cultivate them.
1h 25m
By Mark Miller
Book
How Great Leaders Think: The Art of ReframingFeaturing examples from leaders like Jeff Bezos at Amazon, Howard Schultz at Starbucks, Tony Hsieh at Zappos, Ursula Burns at Xerox, and the late Steve Jobs at Apple, this book presents an accessible guide for understanding four major aspects of organizational life: structure, people, politics, and culture.
3h 46m
By Lee G. Bolman, Terrence E. Deal
Book
Hidden Strengths: Unleashing the Crucial Leadership Skills You Already HaveIn today's work environment, not growing and stretching yourself translates into lack of innovation, stagnation, and obsolescence. Using assessments, exercises, and case studies, this book will help you identify your most promising middle skills and create a plan to turn them into strengths.
1h 7m
By Milo Sindell, Thuy Sindell
Book
Peter Drucker's Five Most Important Questions: Enduring Wisdom for Today's LeadersProviding insightful guidance and stirring inspiration for today's leaders and entrepreneurs, this book will show readers how to focus on why they are doing what they're doing, how to do it better, and how to develop a realistic, motivational plan for achieving their goals.
1h 30m
By Peter F. Drucker, et al.
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Chess Not Checkers: Elevate Your Leadership GameBased around a business fable of Blake Brown, newly appointed CEO of a company troubled by poor performance and low morale, this book presents four essential strategies from the game of chess that can transform your leadership and your organization.
1h 18m
By Mark Miller
Book
Who Do We Choose To Be? Facing Reality, Claiming Leadership, Restoring SanityWritten from the author's desire to summon us to be leaders for this time as things fall apart, this book explains the need to reclaim leadership as a noble profession that creates possibility and humaneness in the midst of increasing fear and turmoil.
3h 47m
By Margaret J. Wheatley
Book
True North, Emerging Leader Edition: Leading Authentically in Today's WorkplaceIn True North: Emerging Leaders Edition, renowned leadership expert Bill George and Millennial tech entrepreneur Zach Clayton issue the challenge to emerging leaders-from Gen X to Millennials and Gen Z-to lead their organizations authentically through never-ending crises to make this world a better place for everyone.
4h 53m
By Bill George, Zach Clayton
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Authority, Cooperation, and AccountabilityAuthority, Cooperation, and Accountability develops a novel strategy for addressing this issue. Saba Bazargan-Forward makes the case for thinking that distinct aspects of human agency, normally wrapped up in a single person, can be 'distributed' practically across different people.
6h 37m
By Saba Bazargan-Forward
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AUDIOBOOKS INCLUDED
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
Executive Charisma: Six Steps to Mastering the Art of LeadershipExecutive Charisma teaches you the six qualities that are vital to being an effective and personable leader. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
18m 45s
By D. A. Benton
Audiobook
Leadership and the Art of Struggle: How Great Leaders Grow Through Challenge and AdversityThis audio edition will help you learn how to cultivate the best mindset for confronting challenges, explore multiple tactics for dealing with struggle, and keep your energy high so you can continue to learn and grow.
6h 5m 40s
By Steven Snyder
Audiobook
Out Think: How Innovative Leaders Drive Exceptional OutcomesThis audio edition presents insights, stories, and actionable take-aways based on interviews and collaboration with thought-leaders across industries to drive the change that leaders want and need in their organizations. Read by the author.
7h 49m 58s
By G. Shawn Hunter
Audiobook
MasteryThis audio edition shares the secret path to greatness and shows readers how to unlock the passion within and become masters.
16h 9m 1s
By Robert Greene
Audiobook
Transparency: How Leaders Create a Culture of CandorThis audio edition examines what conspires against "a culture of candor" in organizations to create disastrous results, and suggests ways that leaders can achieve healthy and honest openness.
3h 26m 30s
By Daniel Goleman, James O’Toole, Warren Bennis
Audiobook
Creating Personal Presence: Look, Talk, Think, and Act Like a LeaderIn this audio edition, award-winning speaker and consultant Dianna Booher shows how to master dozens of small and significant things that work together to convey presence.
4h 48m 36s
By Dianna Booher
Audiobook
60 Minute CEO: Mastering Leadership an Hour at a TimeThis audio edition reveals that a mediocre leader can be transformed into an exemplary one simply by refining two key things: thinking and character.
3h 43m 3s
By Dick Cross
Audiobook
The New Leadership Literacies: Thriving in a Future of Extreme Disruption and Distributed EverythingThis audio edition provides a vivid description of the ideal talent profile for future leaders.
4h 52m 34s
By Bob Johansen
Audiobook
The Introverted Leader: Building on Your Quiet StrengthThis audio edition will show introverted professionals how to thrive in an extroverted culture. Read by the author.
4h 26m 49s
By Jennifer Kahnweiler
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