Developing People
- 17 Courses | 6h 55m 51s
- 30 Books | 23h 12m
- 4 Audiobooks | 12h 7m 52s
Leaders are only as good as the people they lead. Learn how to use tailored techniques and strategies to optimize performance.
COURSES INCLUDED
Welcome to the Skillsoft Leadership Development Program
Whether you are an aspiring, new, or experienced leader who leads people or projects, we've designed this curriculum to meet you where you are in your own leadership journey.
1 video |
4m
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Facilitating Career Conversations
As a leader today, nurturing and retaining top talent stands out as the critical factor for driving both personal and team success. In this course, you'll learn about effective strategies for facilitating impactful career conversations that align with organizational goals and personal aspirations. You will learn to understand the strategic importance of career conversations and how they drive employee engagement and retention. You will also explore the skills and qualities needed to conduct effective career conversations, learn how to apply the GROW model to support professional development, and learn to navigate difficult career conversations with confidence and empathy. By the end of this course, you will be well-equipped with the tools to conduct effective career conversations that foster meaningful growth, enhance engagement, and build a high-performance culture.
6 videos |
30m
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Unleashing Potential through People Development
Have you ever considered the potential of a workforce that's not just proficient, but truly empowered? Imagine harnessing that potential to drive team success and shape the very trajectory of your organization. The key to achieving this lies in effective people development, which begins with self-development. In this course, we'll explore the tangible benefits of leading from the inside out. You'll uncover effective methods to enhance your team members' capabilities, fostering an environment of continuous learning and growth. Finally, you'll explore coaching and facilitation skills you can apply in formal career conversations, and in the moment in any situation, to not only benefit your team members' professional journeys but also contribute to the overall success of your organization.
6 videos |
26m
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Managing Your Team after a Failure
Why is it crucial for leaders to handle challenges after a failure? Managing after setbacks isn't just about overcoming obstacles; it's about leveraging those experiences to grow and improve. Effective leaders turn failures into opportunities for learning and innovation. By mastering this skill, they inspire confidence and create a culture of continuous improvement, ensuring their teams thrive through adversity. In this course, you will learn strategies for analyzing what contributed to a failure and leading the emotional recovery of your team after a failure. You will also learn to develop a resilient culture of learning and identify steps to implement a clear, forward-thinking strategy for recovery, avoidance, and future success.
6 videos |
29m
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Leading by Developing People
Any leader is only as good as the people they lead, and it is the very rare leader whose team is comprised only of skilled experts at every position. For everyone else, employee development is key for effective leadership. Individual and team development must be a priority for you and your organization when seeking a competitive edge in the marketplace. In this course, you'll learn how to use motivational factors and actions for developing your team. You'll explore strategies for performance improvement, as well as how to set and maintain high standards. You'll also learn how to overcome common myths about development, and how to mitigate the challenges leaders face in developing people.
7 videos |
43m
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Developing Future-Ready Skills With Peer Coaching, powered by MIT SMR
The authors share details pertaining to the importance of peer coaching in developing soft skills of employees, importance of exploring the knowledge within, what a positive flywheel effect is, importance of boosting unlearning, and measuring the development of peer coaches through feedback.
5 videos |
12m
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Why Companies Should Help Employees Chart a Career Path, powered by MIT SMR
In this course, the authors explain how organizations can help each employee develop their career path and implement a coherent career development system that works at scale.
4 videos |
15m
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Leadership Insights on Developing People
Developing people is critical to success, and yet many organizations go about it the wrong way. Bringing out people's best performance and potential starts with why, not how. Treat talent development as a culture, not a program.
14 videos |
41m
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Providing Feedback to Support Neurodiverse Employees, powered by MIT SMR
Through a collection of multiple articles, the authors share details pertaining to giving performance feedback to neurodiverse employees and ensuring that it benefits them in their day-to-day work.
7 videos |
21m
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Effectively Directing and Delegating as a Manager
Understanding the essential responsibilities you have when directing and delegating to others, and the practices you should employ in order to meet those responsibilities, will lead to you fulfilling your duties and realizing the potential of your entire team. This course provides information on the key proficiencies of managing people, such as setting direction and establishing clear objectives and goals for your direct reports. It discusses the importance of organizing, as well as communicating for clarity and direction. It also covers the best practices for planning delegation and the techniques you need to carry through with delegation. Finally, the course details the importance of monitoring delegated tasks to ensure employees are on the right track.
7 videos |
21m
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Delivering Feedback That Encourages Growth
The process of giving and receiving feedback is inevitable and indispensable in a work environment. When feedback is effective, it can foster a growth mind set in the workforce and contribute to organizational success. In this course, you will learn how to plan a feedback session and give feedback in a constructive manner. You will also learn about some proven models to construct the feedback objectively and effectively. Techniques for handling less-than-ideal reactions to feedback and overcoming potential anxiety will also be discussed to support performance improvement, employee motivation, and workplace relationships.
7 videos |
26m
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Detecting and Dealing with Performance Problems
When valuable top performers choose to terminate their contracts to take up more challenging positions elsewhere, it can be a consequence of poor performance management. Identifying a performance problem early and diagnosing it accurately is key to managing performance effectively. You've got to involve employees in what might be difficult conversations to discover actual root causes and come up with the best possible solutions. In this course, you'll learn how to detect, identify, and question problems in your workplace, determine the scope, frequency, and impact when they occur, and diagnose root causes - both external and internal - to help find the best solution and avoid a contract termination of a valuable employee.
8 videos |
20m
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Engaging and Challenging Your Top Performers
Research shows that a top performer can be 400% more productive than an average performer. Such top-performing employees play a significant role in your organization's success and are critical to its future. Replacing them is not only hard, but also expensive. However, retaining such top performers is not easy; they are usually ambitious and are often sought after by other organizations. If they are not happy or engaged in your organization, they may easily find another job. In this course, you'll learn to identify the typical characteristics of such top performers. You will also learn what motivates them and what you can do to keep them engaged and challenged.
6 videos |
22m
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Job, Career, or Purpose?, powered by MIT SMR
In this course, the authors explain how to leverage each employee's strength and align individual goals with organizational purpose. They also explain how managers can successfully lead different types of employees, including those who may never identify with their company's purpose.
3 videos |
11m
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MIT SMR: A Skills-First Talent Strategy
Skills dominate current conversations about how to spot, foster, and grow talent. A skills-first talent strategy sets your workforce up for long-term resilience in a world where jobs keep changing and artificial intelligence increasingly impacts work. Successful companies have aligned their skills-first practices to the entire employee journey.
1 video |
58m
Take a Skills-Based Approach to Culture Change, powered by MIT SMR
Organizations globally are trying new ways to build creative workplace cultures that can handle changes in their business environments. However, many well-intentioned programs aimed at cultural change fail to affect employees in a meaningful way. As a result, even after spending lots of time and effort, these organizations are not ready for change. Unlike most types of culture initiatives, focusing on building specific skills can more successfully introduce new cultural elements into both growing startups and established global organizations.
4 videos |
15m
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Empower Your Team, Empower Yourself, powered by MIT SMR
In today's rapidly changing work environment, professional development has become an essential requirement. With tightening financial constraints and workforce disruptions like layoffs impacting many industries, it is crucial for organizations to maintain their commitment to employee training and development. Similarly, employees should keep learning new skills, even if their organization's resources are limited. When employees negotiate for professional development opportunities - and managers enable their success - individuals unlock career growth and organizations gain a competitive edge.
3 videos |
12m
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Skillsoft is providing you the opportunity to earn a digital badge upon successful completion on some of our courses, which can be shared on any social network or business platform.
Digital badges are yours to keep, forever.BOOKS INCLUDED
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Learning for a LivingThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review discusses how learning at work is work, and we must make space for it.
15m
By Gianpiero Petriglieri
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Developing PeopleIn this collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review, you'll learn the best ways to develop the population of your workplace, and how executives recruit and retain the best employees.
1h 35m
By MIT Sloan Management Review
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Preparing for the Coming Skill ShiftsThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review talks about how in the age of AI, companies should focus on retraining the people they already have.
2m
By Jacques Bughin
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Continuous LearningIn this collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review, you'll learn why learning is important in the business world, how continuous learning supports innovation and growth, how learning is influenced by the demands of a digital world, and more.
35m
By MIT Sloan Management Review
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Career Management Isn't Just the Employee's JobIn this article from MIT Sloan Management Review, learn how organizations benefit when they help people identify internal paths for growth and advancement.
4m
By Federica De Stefano, Matthew Bidwell
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Betting Big on Employee DevelopmentArdine Williams, interviewed by MIT Sloan Management Review talks about how technology will affect the workforce of the future.
7m
By Ardine Williams
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Don't Set Your Next CEO Up to FailThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review talks about how shocked and appalled boards are when their CEO choices fail - sometimes repeatedly.
4m
By Marianna Zangrillo, Thomas Keil
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Reskilling Talent to Shrink Technology GapsThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review reveals why leaders must focus on managing the gaps in AI skills and processes within the organization.
4m
By Sam Ransbotham
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Rethinking the East Asian Leadership GapThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review discusses how the difficulty Western companies have identifying managers with leadership potential in East Asia says more about prevailing Western views of leadership than it does about available talent.
4m
By Daphne Xiao, Jean-Louis Barsoux, Winter Nie
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on How Tech CEOs Are Redefining the Top JobThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review talks about how pioneering leaders roll up their sleeves, create, and stay relevant.
10m
By Boris Groysberg, Tricia Gregg
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Rethinking LeadershipThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review talks about how businesses need a new approach to the practice of leadership - and to leadership development.
3m
By Joseph A. Raelin
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Do You Know Who Your Best Interviewers Are?This article from MIT Sloan Management Review reveals that some people do indeed make better interviewers than others and offers a simple methodology for identifying them.
8m
By Kate Gautier, Lalith Munasinghe
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Self-Reports Spur Self-ReflectionThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review talks about how the act of answering survey questions can increase awareness, which opens the door to development.
6m
By Angela Duckworth
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Five Strategies for Investing in Your CareerThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review provides five strategies that offer practical steps for motivated employees looking to stay ahead of the pack.
2m
By Ally MacDonald
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Leader as MotivatorIn this collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review, you'll learn how to keep your company going and the best ways to motivate employees.
51m
By MIT Sloan Management Review
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on New Frontiers in Re-skilling and UpskillingThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review on the new world of work reveals how we may not know for sure which jobs will be destroyed and what will be created, but one thing is clear: Everyone, whatever their age, will at some point have to spend time either re-skilling or upskilling.
4m
By Lynda Gratton
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on The Downstream Damage of the Leadership Skills GapThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review reveals that until leaders can get serious about their own development as managers, the skills gaps throughout their organizations will only continue to grow.
2m
By Marc Zao-Sanders
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Who's Building the Infrastructure for Lifelong Learning?This article from MIT Sloan Management Review discusses how it's clear that much will have to change-both in how people understand and anticipate the evolving nature of work, and how they respond.
4m
By Lynda Gratton
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Work Groups Encourage Productivity and Continuous LearningThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review provides an interview with Deloitte's John Hagel on why the best collaborative teams are diverse and built from the bottom up.
15m
By Gerald C. Kane
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Developing Tomorrow's Global LeadersIn this article from MIT Sloan Management Review, you'll learn how HR executives should be preparing for the diverse leadership of the future.
2m
By MIT Sloan Management Review
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Education, DisruptedThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review is about employers confronting sizable skill gaps in all parts of their operations, at all levels, and how they can't seem to fill them by simply hiring new people.
8m
By Michael B. Horn
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on What Employees Tell Us About Automation and Re-skillingThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review is about employers confronting sizable skill gaps in all parts of their operations, at all levels, and how they can't seem to fill them by simply hiring new people.
3m
By Lynda Gratton
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Leadership Development's Epic FailThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review reveals why most leadership development programs have a critical weakness - they view leaders as sets of competencies, not individuals.
9m
By Eric J. McNulty
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Davos 2020: The Upskilling AgendaThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review discusses the World Economic Forum's meeting at Davos back in 2013 and how it was dominated by deep concerns about the impact of technology on work.
3m
By Lynda Gratton
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The Savvy Manager: 5 Skills That Drive Optimal PerformanceFilled with worksheets, exercises, real time case studies, and reflection sidebars, this book challenges readers to develop five core strengths all great managers possess.
3h 14m
By Jane R. Flagello, Sandra Bernard Dugas
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Leading the Unleadable: How to Manage Mavericks, Cynics, Divas, and Other Difficult PeopleWritten by an insider in the tech industry, where personality issues routinely wreck projects, this book offers simple steps, examples, and scripts that explain how to right even the most hopeless situations.
3h 4m
By Alan Willett
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Measuring the Success of Employee Engagement: A Step-by-Step Guide for Measuring Impact and Calculating ROIHelping you make the business case for an employee engagement initiative, this book presents real case studies you can follow that show the authors' ROI Methodology in action, and explains how to avoid narrowly focusing your efforts on behavioral outcomes alone.
3h 47m
By Jack J. Phillips, Patricia Pulliam Phillips
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Misplaced Talent: A Guide to Making Better People DecisionsDeliberately challenging practitioners to do more, this insightful discussion takes a hard look at the cluttered field of Talent Management, and offers a clear guide to making better people decisions in any organization.
3h 40m
By Joe Ungemah
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5 Critical Conversations to Talent Development: Tips, Tools & Intelligence for Developing TalentWith case studies of conversations in practice and sample questions to promote dialogue, this practical book describes five types of conversations that can help employees, managers, and talent development professionals align their goals and future plans and make better decisions.
25m
By David Clutterbuck, Julie Haddock-Millar
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The Leader's Greatest Return: Attracting, Developing, and Multiplying LeadersSharing important lessons about the leadership development process, this practical book is for anyone who wants to take the next step in their leadership, build their organization or team today, and create their legacy for tomorrow.
4h 2m
By John C. Maxwell
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AUDIOBOOKS INCLUDED
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
Developing Employees Who Love to Learn: Tools, Strategies, and Programs for Promoting Learning at WorkDeveloping Employees Who Love to Learn provides an engaging and thorough look at why continuing education for employees matters, and how to implement it in your business. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
9m 23s
By Linda Honold
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50 Top Tools for Coaching: A Complete Toolkit for Developing and Empowering People, Third Edition50 Top Tools for Coaching provides you with everything you need to know to motivate and guide others towards success. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
21m 34s
By Gillian Jones, Ro Gorell
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The Talent Masters: Why Smart Leaders Put People Before NumbersThis audio edition reveals how companies regarded as world-class base their stellar performance decade after decade on their systems for finding and nurturing leadership talent.
10h 44m 24s
By Bill Conaty, Ram Charan
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Companies Don't Succeed, People Do: 50 Ways to Motivate Your TeamThis audio edition will show you how to create a clear path to success with an efficient and collaborative team. Share your vision and engage with your team members to create an environment that promotes and promises success!
52m 31s
By Bob Nelson
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SKILL BENCHMARKS INCLUDED
Leading Your Team
Great teams don't come together by accident. Successful leaders know that putting together an efficient and effective team requires planning, forethought, honest assessment, and a little trial and error. And once you've put the team together, then comes the work of coaching, motivating, and managing them. In this Leading Your Team Unit benchmark, you'll have the opportunity to see where your team building, and team leading skills currently stand and learn where you can further develop and refine your abilities to lead your team to success. This benchmark evaluates your understanding of this topic. Being aware of potential knowledge gaps allows you to better understand your current competency and areas for improvement, so you can find suitable content and curate your own learning path. The courses recommended at the end of this benchmark can help you fill potential gaps in your knowledge.
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