Leader Transitions
- 18 Courses | 7h 15m 52s
- 9 Books | 27h 26m
- 6 Audiobooks | 39h 39m 58s
Leadership transitions are challenging for both new and experienced leaders. Master strategies to successfully transition into new leadership roles.
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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Navigating New Manager Challenges
Are you moving from an individual contributor to a manager? Do you find yourself grappling with self-doubt and the weight of new responsibilities? Transitioning to a managerial role can be daunting, and for many it can be a crucial step for career growth. New managers often struggle with self-doubt and new responsibilities, even if they were successful in their previous roles. By navigating changing workplace dynamics and addressing internal obstacles like self-doubt and fear of failure, you can ensure a smooth transition. Identifying these challenges early can help you grow into an effective manager. In this course, you will learn about the internal obstacles that can hinder the leadership effectiveness of new managers and effective strategies for navigating the shift from an individual contributor to a leader. You will also learn about the diverse working and communication styles of a team and ways to build trust and navigate power dynamics to create an inclusive and open team culture.
6 videos |
30m
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Finding Your Leadership Style
Transitioning from an individual contributor to a manager can be challenging. It's crucial to understand and develop your leadership style for your team's success. In this course, you will explore different leadership styles, understand their strengths and potential challenges, and learn about the importance of adaptability in leadership. By identifying your innate style and learning to be flexible, you can lead with confidence, ensure your team's success, and drive your career growth.
6 videos |
25m
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Creating a Personal Leadership Development Plan
Continuous leadership development is not just about staying relevant; it's about leveraging new skills and insights to drive innovation, inspire teams, and achieve sustained success. By mastering the art of creating a personal leadership development plan, leaders can navigate complexities, foster a culture of growth, and ensure their organizations thrive in the face of change. In this course, you will learn the importance of leadership development in today's workplace and conduct a comprehensive self-assessment to identify your strengths and areas for improvement. You will also work on a personalized leadership development plan tailored to your unique goals and circumstances and explore strategies for seamlessly integrating leadership development into your daily routine. This course will empower you with the tools and knowledge to create a dynamic, growth-oriented approach, positioning yourself and your team for ongoing success.
6 videos |
28m
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New Leadership Transitions
Employees enter leadership roles earlier and via different paths than in the past. In this course, you'll learn about common challenges that new leaders face, and some techniques for setting goals, building teams, and getting early wins.
8 videos |
57m
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PMI PDU
New Leader Transitions, powered by MIT SMR
Through a collection of multiple articles, the authors share approaches or strategies that help you to understand how to transition into an effective leader and overcome the struggles that come with change.
7 videos |
19m
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Leadercamp on-demand: The On-ramp to Leadership
The road to leadership can be rocky-changing customer demands, generative AI disruption, and new workplace rules can cause careers to careen. What are the new road rules to earning a seat in the C-Suite? In this Leadercamp, CMO Executive Coach and Marketing Growth Leaders.com Founder, Lisa Nirell shows you the essential "on-ramp" to career confidence and growth. Derived from insights she's gathered from over 1,800 CMOs and CEOs, Nirell will share the daily habits of top market leaders. It doesn't matter where you are in your career stage.
1 video |
59m
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Leadercamp on-demand: The Transformational Shift
Transitioning from an Individual Contributor (IC) to a Management role marks a significant transformation. It demands a shift from excelling through technical skills to thriving as a strategic leader by managing and influencing others. This change is challenging, as it requires a fundamental shift in both behavior and approach. This Leadercamp will focus on three crucial shifts that new managers must navigate to realign their expectations and behaviors with their new reality to succeed in their vital leadership role. Join us in this Leadercamp, as Dr. Tolonda Tolbert explains how to a adopt a leadership mindset, shape team culture and empower members, and define success through team achievements.
1 video |
56m
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Leadership Transitions: Becoming a Frontline Manager
Making the transition from individual contributor to frontline leader can be a daunting adjustment. Moving into a leadership role involves more than just getting a new title. It means adopting a leadership mind-set, developing new skills and leadership competencies, and understanding your new relationships with those above and below you on the organizational chart. In this course, you'll learn how to adjust your mindset, develop your delegation skills, and build relationships to succeed in your new leadership role.
7 videos |
18m
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Leadership Transitions: Moving into Middle Management
The transition from frontline manager to middle manager can be difficult for many people. The added leadership responsibilities and new relationships, and their inherent challenges, can prove daunting. However, the necessary leadership skills for mastering them can be learned and developed. In this course, you'll learn the role, duties, and responsibilities that come with a middle management position. You'll also learn about the challenges of mid-level management and methods and leadership mindsets for mitigating and overcoming them.
7 videos |
19m
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Leadership Transitions: Moving into Senior Leadership
Transitioning into senior leadership can be challenging. The approach, the attitudes, or the mindset that worked well in a mid-level management role might not be sufficient in a more senior role. A successful transition is often about discarding the old way of doing things and developing a new approach and mindset. It's about acquiring new skills, new perspectives, and leadership maturity. In this course, you'll learn the necessary attributes of leadership maturity, the qualities needed for successful functional area management, and strategies and best practices for upper-level delegation and transition into the leadership of leaders.
7 videos |
20m
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Leadership Insights on Leader Transitions
When taking on a new position, leaders face myriad challenges like building teams that deliver, developing networks to stay informed of key events, and inspiring others on an entirely new level. Get ready to make the most of your new role.
10 videos |
34m
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Leadership Insights on Transitioning from Frontline Manager to Mid-Level Manager
Transitioning from a frontline manager to a mid-level manager requires strategies for settling into middle management. Learn what you can do to ease the transition all the while imparting change, accountability, and developing others along the way.
8 videos |
24m
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Leadership Insights on Transitioning to Senior Leadership
Transitioning to senior leadership requires one to recognize the key competencies that reflect leadership maturity. Discover the tools, considerations, and challenges when moving into a senior leadership role.
7 videos |
15m
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MIT SMR: Ask Sanyin: How to Win at Career Transitions
In this short video, learn how to understand and maximize five types of personal capital when making a career change.
3m
MIT SMR: Ask Sanyin: Are You Haunted by the Old Boss?
In this short video, new leaders will learn how to step out of their predecessor's shadow and confidently pursue their own agenda.
1 video |
4m
MIT SMR: Be a Manager, Not a Mouthpiece
In this short video, learn how to own your words and build leadership autonomy, credibility, and team trust.
1 video |
8m
MIT SMR: Ask Sanyin: How Can I Minimize Impostor Syndrome?
In this short video, leaders can learn how to ease their own impostor syndrome by building confidence among their team members.
1 video |
5m
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EARN A DIGITAL BADGE WHEN YOU COMPLETE THESE COURSES
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
Book
MIT Sloan Management Review Article on New Leader TransitionsIn this collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review, you'll learn how to transition into an effective leader, and how to overcome the struggles that come with change.
40m
By MIT Sloan Management Review
Book
Succession for Change: Strategic Transitions in Family and Founder-Led BusinessesShowing how competitive advantage has evolved over the last twenty-five years, this book examines the approaches being adopted by current business leaders, succession service providers and the next generation to address the change imperative in succession.
2h 40m
By Harry Korine
Book
Becoming a Successful Manager: Powerful Tools for Making a Smooth Transition to Managing a Team, Second EditionPresenting numerous exercises throughout, this book aims to help you, as a new manager, quickly assimilate some of the basic knowledge you must have and actions you must put into practice in order to succeed.
2h 45m
By Gary Grossman, J. Robert Parkinson
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Transitions at the Top: What Organizations Must Do to Make Sure New Leaders SucceedProviding the specific principles, guidelines, and actions that boards, C-suite executives, and HR leaders need to guarantee a successful CEO transition, this insightful, informative guide spans the steps and events that take place from when the candidate accepts the offer, all the way through the point where a critical mass of followers have accepted him or her as the established leader.
4h 37m
By Dan Ciampa, David L. Dotlich
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From Techie to Boss: Transitioning to LeadershipTeaching you a whole new set of interpersonal, organizational, and metrical skills you never needed before, this easy-to-read guide shows you how to translate and adapt the analytic skills that made you an outstanding techie to your new responsibilities as a technical manager.
4h 5m
By Scott Cromar
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The Leadership Pipeline: How to Build the Leadership Powered Company, Second EditionDrawing on their experiences at many Fortune 500 companies, the authors of this book show how organizations can develop leadership at every level by identifying future leaders, assessing their corporate confidence, planning their development, and measuring their results.
4h 42m
By Jim Noel, Ram Charan, Stephen Drotter
BOOK SUMMARY
Serve Up, Coach Down: Mastering the Middle and Both Sides of LeadershipIn Serve Up, Coach Down, Jamail explores how to take the stigma out of middle management by devising innovative strategies to leverage the advantages middle managers have. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
9m
By Nathan Jamail
Book
Living a Leadership Lifestyle: A Guide for New and Aspiring LeadersLiving a Leadership Lifestyle is a different type of leadership book that approaches leadership from a unique perspective.
3h 10m
By Ross Emerson
Book
From Bud to Boss: Secrets to a Successful Transition to Remarkable LeadershipFocusing on the difficulties that new leaders experience, this much-needed book will help them get beyond the stress and fear to focus on becoming the most effective leader they can be-starting right now.
4h 38m
By Guy Harris, Kevin Eikenberry
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AUDIOBOOKS INCLUDED
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
The Leadership Pipeline: How to Build the Leadership-Powered CompanyFor managers and human resource professionals, The Leadership Pipeline is a proven method of leadership development a corporation can use to develop a pool of talent from which to build strong, effective management. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
10m 24s
By James Noel, Ram Charan, Stephen Drotter
Audiobook
The Leadership Pipeline: How to Build the Leadership Powered Company, Second EditionThis audio edition shows how organizations can develop leadership at every level by identifying future leaders, assessing their corporate confidence, planning their development, and measuring their results.
9h 49m 28s
By James Noel, Ram Charan, Stephen Drotter
Audiobook
Your Next Move: The Leader's Guide to Navigating Major Career TransitionsThis audio edition provides the insights, strategies, and tools - including relationship reengineering, business systems analysis, and "organizational immunology" - leaders need to accelerate through crucial turning points and continue moving up in their careers.
6h 10m 23s
By Michael D. Watkins
Audiobook
From Bud to Boss: Secrets to a Successful Transition to Remarkable LeadershipThis audio edition can help new leaders get beyond the stress and fear to focus on becoming the most effective leader they can be--starting right now.
9h 52m 27s
By Guy Harris, Kevin Eikenberry
Audiobook
Succession: Mastering the Make-or-Break Process of Leadership TransitionThis audio edition highlights the common mistakes that can generate embarrassing headlines and may even call an organization's survival into question, and reveals the best practices of those who got it right.
13h 17m 26s
By Noel M. Tichy
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
The New Manager's Tool Kit: 21 Things You Need to Know to Hit the Ground RunningThe New Manager's Toolkit is packed with unconventional advice for current and aspiring managers. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
19m 50s
By Don Grimme, Sheryl Grimme
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SKILL BENCHMARKS INCLUDED
Leading Yourself
Landing that management role is quite an accomplishment and you should be proud of yourself. But it's just the beginning your leadership journey. Successfully maintaining and growing a leadership career means developing yourself as well as your team. It's a career-long path of learning and self-discovery. In this Leading Yourself Unit benchmark, you'll be able to assess your current learning and growth mindset, and get a glimpse of areas in which you can develop further self-awareness and self-improvement. 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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