Leadership Foundations
- 11 Courses | 4h 8m 29s
- 18 Books | 46h 26m
- 19 Audiobooks | 91h 43m
Learn the foundational principles of the leadership role, from strategic business planning and implementation through managing teams and people. Effective leadership is crucial to achieving business goals. Learn the leadership principles that leaders need to succeed.
COURSES INCLUDED
Business Execution: How Things Get Done
Business execution is the "how" of getting things done. As a leader, you can use business execution to drive performance and strategies in the right direction, to solve problems, and to inspire others. In this course, you'll learn about the characteristics that define effective business execution culture. You'll also become familiar with the three elements needed to execute a business plan: practice, planning, and people. Finally, you'll learn actionable strategies for fostering a business execution culture.
7 videos |
23m
Assessment
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Leading an Innovation Culture to Future-proof Your Organization
Are you ready for the next big change? For over a century, changes in the business landscape have forced organizations to react quickly. Some were able to pivot and remain successful, while others could not adapt to the change and failed. Does your organization have what it takes to respond successfully to the next big change? In this course, you will learn how a culture of innovation prepares an organization for whatever may be around the corner. You will learn what a culture of innovation looks like before delving into details around how to lead for such a culture. From attracting and nurturing talent to building innovative teams, this course will help you get future-ready with a culture of innovation.
7 videos |
22m
Assessment
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Navigating Your Team through Strategic Change
Today's business leaders face a dynamic business environment that requires continual transformation of products, processes, and people. As former U.S. Army Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki put it, "If you dislike change, you're going to dislike irrelevance even more." Advances in technology and the evolution of customers' and investors' values drive enterprises toward strategic change in order to remain relevant and profitable. Because the success of strategic change management largely depends on the behavior of the people within an organization, team leaders play a critical role. In this course, you will discover effective strategies for communicating about change with your team. You will learn how to adjust your team's activities to achieve broad company-wide goals for change. Organizational change is difficult, both to initiate and to maintain. This course will help you to overcome obstacles, including various types of employee resistance to change. You'll learn tools for sustaining change. Throughout, the emphasis is on honest, targeted communication, dialogue, and listening.
7 videos |
23m
Assessment
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Planning Your Growth as a Leader
Managers and executives, and people who expect to become managers and executives, need to know the businesses they're in. But to be effective, they also need skills common to all leaders. They need a plan for developing and continuing to develop those skills throughout their careers. Leadership isn't a state you achieve and then you're done - it's a process of growth and experience that requires continuous training and development. In this course, you'll learn to create a personal leadership development plan. You'll learn what to expect from a self-assessment process, and helpful strategies for formulating a personal leadership vision. After identifying key characteristics of an effective leadership development plan, you'll explore the kinds of actions you'll plan and execute in order grow as leader. Finally, you'll learn strategies for continuing that growth throughout your career.
7 videos |
23m
Assessment
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Synchronize Goals to Optimize Your Team
Most organizations have strategic plans that articulate their goals, but frequently, those goals are unknown to everyone except the executive team. This lack of transparency clouds the organization's ability to synchronize their goals and hobbles their ability to work successfully. In this course, you will learn how to synchronize organizational, team, and individual goals to maximize opportunities for success. You'll also explore how to get everyone on your team pulling in the same direction, reducing employee dissatisfaction and increasing productivity.
7 videos |
25m
Assessment
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Leading by Motivating
Motivation drives people to take action. Without proper motivational leadership, things simply would not get done. As a leader, your capacity for motivating plays a key element in the success of your team and your organization. This course provides you with an understanding of why motivating leadership strategies are important and offers practical techniques for encouraging team motivation.
6 videos |
18m
Assessment
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PMI PDU
Sharing a Vision
"Successful leaders strive to communicate a sense of vision with integrity, building trust as both an individual and as a visionary leader. This course provides a general introduction to visionary leadership, including its nature and its purpose. You will be guided through numerous techniques and methods for a leader to successfully communicate vision, such as personalizing and multiplying a clear message, communicating enthusiasm in an authentic way, and making the organization's vision the employees' own vision. "
6 videos |
16m
Assessment
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PMI PDU
Influencing through Positive Leadership
An organization's social and political landscape can provide opportunities for positive leadership, influencing others in order to accomplish team and company goals. In this course, you will discover methods and strategies for effectively influencing a team to accept your ideas. You'll be introduced to the importance of political awareness and the essential skills involved in utilizing positive influence, while avoiding the negative, when persuading others. You'll also have an opportunity to practice methods for influencing effectively and ethically.
7 videos |
25m
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PMI PDU
Developing Emotional Intelligence
Developing emotional intelligence is a key to successful leadership. Leaders with a strong mixture of emotional awareness, self-management, and social skills are able to relate better to those around them. Emotionally intelligent leaders navigate relationships more effectively and are more likely to be successful in their personal and professional lives. This course provides an understanding of why emotionally intelligent leadership is important. It also provides practical, positive techniques for promoting and improving emotional intelligence as a leader within your business environment.
6 videos |
23m
Assessment
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Building Innovation Cultures and Leaders
Innovating is the only way to adapt and keep speed with the pace of change in today's business world. Building and supporting an innovative culture is the responsibility of leaders and employees across organizational hierarchies and is aided by an effective change management process. In this course, you'll learn about business innovation cultures and types of innovation leadership. You'll also learn about the importance of experimenting, managing change, and executing a project. Finally, you'll learn how to attract and nurture innovation in your organization.
8 videos |
22m
Assessment
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PMI PDU
Leading Your Team through Change
Change is always happening. Effective team leadership means managing teams through the ongoing transition processes that facilitate change. Removing obstacles that can hinder the productive teamwork required to make these transition processes smooth is essential. In this course, you'll learn about types of resistance and obstacles to change and how to overcome them in a collaboration. You'll also learn about how to overcome barriers to introducing change at your organization. Finally, you'll learn effective approaches for communicating change when working on a team.
8 videos |
22m
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PMI PDU
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Book
Why Humans Matter More Than Ever: MIT Sloan Management ReviewShowing why we should step back, take stock, and seize just a bit more control over how our world is evolving, this book offers strategies from management experts from both industry and academia for managing people in our brave new digital world.
2h 21m
By MIT Sloan Management Review
BOOK SUMMARY
Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.In Dare to Lead, author Brené Brown effortlessly outlines the skills that underpin courageous leadership and shows how being vulnerable can actually help you on your way to leadership excellence. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
8m
By Brené Brown
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Co-Active Leadership: Five Ways to LeadProviding a model that harnesses the possibility of many rather than relying on the power of one, this visionary book will prove to be both a practical guide and an inspiring journey for leaders that will support them in generating an experience of wholeness and success in their work and world.
1h 38m
By Henry Kimsey-House, Karen Kimsey-House
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Leadership Basics for Frontline Managers: Tips for Raising Your Level of Effectiveness and CommunicationIllustrating key concepts with realistic scenarios drawn from actual work situations, this practical guide is focused on interpersonal management skills and explains what it takes to improve how you communicate and relate to your employees, customers, and bosses.
1h 48m
By Bill Templeman
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The Leadership Skills Handbook: 50 Essential Skills You Need to be a Leader, 3rd EditionBased on research that identifies the five different groups of skills that leaders must have, this book is filled with tips, exercises and advice that explains how to become a leader that people want to follow.
2h 42m
By Jo Owen
Book
Your Leadership Story: Use Your Story to Energize, Inspire, and MotivateUsing story as both a metaphor and a process for self-development, this book offers activities and questions that will help you better understand your own leadership and how others perceive it.
2h 19m
By Timothy J. Tobin
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Leadership Training, Association for Talent Development (c) 2015Complete with effective training methodologies, this book helps you accelerate learning and leverage technology for maximum efficiency, and presents a step-by-step blueprint for developing and delivering dynamic, powerful leadership training.
2h 24m
By Lou Russell
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The Introverted Leader: Building on Your Quiet Strength, Second EditionPointing to Mark Zuckerberg, Arianna Huffington, and Warren Buffett as prime examples of self-identified introverts who have done quite well for themselves, this book lays out a well-tested strategy introverts can use to build on their quiet strength and make it a source of great power.
2h 16m
By Jennifer B. Kahnweiler
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"Leadership Matters?" Finding Voice, Connection and Meaning in the 21st CenturyBased on the premise that true and influential leadership comes from the inside, this thought-provoking book presents what it means to lead respectfully, critically, responsibly and humbly in the gritty reality of the twenty first century workplace.
4h 18m
By Chris Mabey, David Knights (eds)
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Leadership in a Time of Continuous Technological Change: Align, Strengthen, And Mobilize Your TeamAn unmatched resource fit for our new decade, this book analyzes detailed case studies so you will see how understanding your identity paves the way to achieving emancipation, capability, and autonomy.
2h 36m
By Bar Schwartz
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The Phoenix Encounter Method: Lead Like Your Business is on Fire!Whatever your sector or industry, if you're responsible for your organization's ability to use change as a transformative opportunity, you'll appreciate the dramatic impact this book will have on you, your leadership, and your organization.
6h 1m
By Ian C. Woodward, Ram Charan, Sameer Hasija, V. Paddy Padmanabhan
BOOK SUMMARY
Rule Breaker: Rebellious Leadership for the Future of WorkIn Rule Breaker, author Jackie Fast encourages leaders to break the traditional "rules" and go against industry standards in order to become successful. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
10m
By Jackie Fast
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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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Collective Skill Formation in the Knowledge EconomyThe book argues that collective skill formation systems remain attractive for firms and governments. However, continuous and profound adjustments will be needed if they are to fulfil their objectives in terms of equity and efficiency.
7h 43m
By Giuliano Bonoli, Patrick Emmenegger
BOOK SUMMARY
Fundamentals of Level Three Leadership: How to Become an Effective ExecutiveIn Fundamentals of Level Three Leadership, author James G.S. Clawson explores myriad questions you can ask yourself as you take on the role of business executive. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
12m
By James G. S. Clawson
BOOK SUMMARY
Work Here Now: Think Like a Human and Build a Powerhouse WorkplaceWork Here Now explores ways in which leaders can embrace a new world of work, while meeting the needs of employees and organizations alike. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
7m
By Melissa Swift
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Power to the Middle: Why Managers Hold the Keys to the Future of WorkIn Power to the Middle, authors Schaninger, Hancock, and Field contend that mid-level managers are instrumental in unlocking an organization's true potential. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
7m
By Bill Schaninger, Bryan Hancock, Emily Field
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Care to Dare: Unleashing Astonishing Potential Through Secure Base LeadershipFrom extensive interviews with executives from all over the world, as well as from surveys with more than a thousand executives, the book reveals the nine characteristics that Secure Base Leaders display on a daily basis.
4h 43m
By Duncan Coombe, George Kohlrieser, Susan Goldsworthy
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AUDIOBOOKS INCLUDED
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.In Dare to Lead, author Brené Brown effortlessly outlines the skills that underpin courageous leadership and shows how being vulnerable can actually help you on your way to leadership excellence. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
14m 51s
By Brené Brown
Audiobook
HBR's 10 Must Reads for Executive TeamsIf you read (or listen to) nothing else on working effectively as a member of an executive team, listen to these ten articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you understand what's required of you as a senior leader so you can set your team and organization up for success.
6h 59m 9s
By Harvard Business Review
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
Leadership Blindspots: How Successful Leaders Identify and Overcome the Weaknesses That MatterLeadership Blindspots takes a direct and honest look at the flaws and foibles that are hardest to see in ourselves, and provides a template for how those looking to lead can limit the impact that these weaknesses have in their professional lives. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
9m 13s
By Robert Bruce Shaw
Audiobook
Nothing but the Truth: Secrets from Top Intelligence Experts to Control Conversations and Get the Information You NeedIn this audio edition, top intelligence experts from the worlds of espionage, business, and law enforcement reveal how they get the information they need and give you the key tools to get the information you need.
6h 52m 1s
By Maryann Karinch
Audiobook
Shaping the Game: The New Leader's Guide to Effective NegotiatingThis audio edition zeroes in on the most critical skill leaders must master in order to secure new roles and accelerate their transitions: negotiation.
4h 41m 3s
By Michael Watkins
Audiobook
The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations, Fifth EditionThis audio edition reveals practices leaders use to transform values into actions, visions into realities, obstacles into innovations, separateness into solidarity, and more.
10h 51m 50s
By Barry Posner, James Kouzes
Audiobook
The Ten Golden Rules of Leadership: Classical Wisdom for Modern LeadersThis audio edition explores ideas from Aristotle, Heraclitus, Sophocles, Hesiod, and other great thinkers and shows you how to take each idea-along with what you've learned about yourself-and apply it to the challenges of the modern workplace.
2h 43m 34s
By M. A. Soupios, Panos Mourdoukoutas
Audiobook
Moxie: The Secret to Bold and Gutsy LeadershipThis audio edition uses concrete, tried-and-true steps to bring out the inner leader in everyone, and provides a roadmap to inspire innovation and effective leadership.
4h 41m 8s
By John Baldoni
Audiobook
Leaders Open Doors: A Radically Simple Leadership Approach to Lift People, Profits, and PerformanceThis audio edition demonstrates that leadership isn't a complex, abstract concept - but a set of practices and ideals passed from one person to another, across organizations and generations.
2h 46m 23s
By Bill Treasurer
Audiobook
The Leadership Code: Five Rules to Lead ByThis audio edition breaks down great leadership into day-to-day actions, so that you know what to do Monday morning.
4h 14m 11s
By Dave Ulrich, Kate Sweetman, Norm Smallwood
Audiobook
Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the WorldIn this audio edition, Adam Grant addresses the challenge of improving the world from the perspective of becoming an original: choosing to champion novel ideas and values that go against the grain, battle conformity, and buck outdated traditions.
10h 1m 40s
By Adam Grant
Audiobook
Wild Success: 7 Key Lessons Business Leaders Can Learn from Extreme AdventurersThis audio edition combines one-of-a-kind insights from the adventure world with innovative research from the field of neuroscience to provide powerful, proven-effective leadership lessons.
5h 41m 13s
By Amy Posey, Kevin Vallely
Audiobook
Authentic Leadership: HBR Emotional Intelligence SeriesThis book explains the role of authenticity in emotionally intelligent leadership. You'll learn how to discover your authentic self, when emotional responses are appropriate, how conforming to specific standards can hurt you, and when you need to feel like a fake.
1h 59m 21s
By Harvard Business Review
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
Rule Breaker: Rebellious Leadership for the Future of WorkIn Rule Breaker, author Jackie Fast encourages leaders to break the traditional "rules" and go against industry standards in order to become successful. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
18m 56s
By Jackie Fast
Audiobook
Act Like a Leader, Think Like a LeaderIn Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader, she offers advice to help you redefine your job in order to make more strategic contributions; diversify your network so that you connect to, and learn from, a bigger range of stakeholders; and become more playful with your self-concept, allowing your familiar-and possibly outdated-leadership style to evolve.
5h 23m 36s
By Herminia Ibarra
Audiobook
Culture Rules: The Leader's Guide to Creating the Ultimate Competitive AdvantageCulture Rules is a clarion call for leaders around the world. The pandemic has magnified the essential role that culture plays in an organization's health, vitality, and sustainability-some passed the test with flying colors while others are seeing with fresh eyes, deeply rooted issues and challenges within their culture.
7h 37m 24s
By Mark Miller
Audiobook
There Is No Box: A Practical Guide for the Relatable LeaderThe book investigates where leaders start, how they become boxed in upon entering the workforce, and finally how they can break through those boundaries to become a culturally agile leader and a meaningful contributor to our global society.
6h 43m 34s
By Marisa Cleveland, Simon Cleveland
Audiobook
Who Do We Choose to Be: Facing Reality, Claiming Leadership, Restoring Sanity, Second EditionBestselling author Margaret Wheatley has summoned us to be courageous leaders who strengthen community and rely on fully engaged people since her 1992 classic book, Leadership and the New Science, and eight subsequent books.
9h 24m
By Margaret Wheatley
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The Leadership Skills Handbook: 100 Essential Skills You Need to be a Leader, Fifth EditionIn The Leadership Skills Handbook, author Jo Owen explores the characteristics that readers can emulate within the framework of learning experiences, role models, and practical skills to become exceptional leaders. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
19m 53s
By Jo Owen
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