Leading Organizational Vision
- 7 Courses | 3h 8m 57s
- 29 Books | 29h 28m
- 6 Audiobooks | 20h 11m 19s
Every leader needs to create a vision for their teams to ensure alignment. Learn how to lead with vision to get results.
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.
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4m
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Inspiring through Shared Vision
In any organization, employees are inspired to go the extra mile when they feel that their roles are important. They develop a sense of purpose when they are able to connect their work with the organization's culture and purpose. To develop an organization driven by a shared purpose, you need to inspire through a shared vision. You can do this by crafting a compelling vision for the future and aligning it with the aspirations of your employees. In this course, you will learn the qualities of a visionary leader and the markers of a compelling vision. You will also learn how to create a shared vision, as well as ways to make the shared vision a reality.
6 videos |
26m
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Leading through Shared Vision
A powerful vision, clearly articulated, motivates people to take action and drives business results. In this course, you'll learn how to create and communicate a realistic and actionable vision that inspires commitment from people.
6 videos |
38m
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Leadership Insights on Leading Vision
Vision starts with purpose. By modeling that vision and communicating it in a way that everyone can envision, leaders can inspire, energize, and engage others in way that goes beyond just getting the job done. What's your purpose?
12 videos |
29m
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MIT SMR: Coming Back From the Coronavirus as a Stronger Organization
Embracing digital transformation is critical for post-pandemic success. Through all of the change we've seen during the COVID-19 pandemic, and all of the uncertainty to come, one thing is certain: The mandate for continuous learning has never been stronger - learning that helps the organization thrive and learning that helps your employees embrace and drive change.
1 video |
59m
Why We Don't Talk About Meaning at Work, powered by MIT SMR
The recent pandemic has caused many of us to pause and reevaluate the role work plays in our lives and what truly matters to us. Employers who can't offer meaningful work risk demotivating or losing valued employees. In this course, the authors share details pertaining to the meaning-making process and the role of meaningful conversation.
5 videos |
17m
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Unlock the Power of Purpose, powered by MIT SMR
In this course, the authors explain how the Purpose Strength Framework helps companies derive business value from a clear, consistent corporate purpose that drives collaboration, innovation, and growth.
4 videos |
12m
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Digital badges are yours to keep, forever.BOOKS INCLUDED
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Leading Organizational VisionIn this collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review learn how successful leaders articulate a credible, optimal future state for their organizations - and use it build a sense of shared responsibility.
1h 27m
By MIT Sloan Management Review
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on The Challenge of Scaling Soft SkillsThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review explains how understanding the obstacles to developing soft skills and then addressing them is crucial for our schools, our homes, and our workplaces.
4m
By Lynda Gratton
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on The Truth About HierarchyThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review shows that the right kind of hierarchy can help teams become better innovators and learners.
8m
By Bret Sanner, J. Stuart Bunderson
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Decentralizing Your Operating and Talent Models the Right WayThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review discusses how leaders need to rethink how and where work gets done in order to operate their organizations effectively across the globe.
8m
By Alec Levenson
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Solving the Advanced Analytics Talent ProblemThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review reveals that building strong advanced analytics capabilities is a strategic imperative for companies.
3m
By Chris Brahm
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Do Workplace Wellness Programs Really Work?This article from MIT Sloan Management Review discusses the practical steps managers can take to motivate their employees to participate and reap the value of workplace wellness programs.
3m
By David Hauser
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Take a Wrecking Ball to Your Company's Iconic PracticesThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review talks about what today's leaders need to do to knock down obstacles to cultural change.
8m
By Herminia Ibarra
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on When Employees Speak Up, Companies WinThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review discusses why and how you should encourage employees to speak out about issues beyond their own jobs.
8m
By Dawn Klinghoffer, Elizabeth McCune, Ethan Burris
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on How to Not Waste a Crisis: Mindfully Manage ‘In-Betweenness'This article from MIT Sloan Management Review discusses how learning to harness the benefits of transitional periods is helpful for coping with the challenges of COVID-19 and also important for planning future strategies.
5m
By Shameen Prashantham
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Redefining Work for New Value: The Next OpportunityThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review talks about how redesigning jobs should be viewed not as an end goal, but as a process that enables work itself to be redefined so that the workforce creates new value.
9m
By Jeff Schwartz, John Hagel, Maggie Wooll
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on How Companies Are Winning on Culture During COVID-19This article from MIT Sloan Management Review reveals that employees give leadership high marks for communication and integrity in the first six months of the pandemic.
8m
By Charles Sull, Donald Sull
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on This Is Not (Digital) Business as UsualThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review discusses how the universality of having to operate with limited in-person experiences is reducing the stigma often associated with online interactions.
4m
By Ali Aslan Gümüsay, Leonhard Dobusch
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on How Managers Can Support Business UnityIn this article from MIT Sloan Management Review, learn the three key steps that can go a long way toward building collaborative relationships and a cooperative culture in your organization.
3m
By Max Altschuler
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Disrupted and Stronger: Looking In and Looking OutThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review discusses how organizations can emerge from crises stronger than ever by seizing opportunities for introspection, focusing on deeper relationships and learning, and finding ways to give back.
5m
By Eliana Crosina
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Boomerang CEOs: What Happens When the CEO Comes Back?This article from MIT Sloan Management Review discusses how many companies have turned to their former CEOs in times of need, but little was known until now about the implications of this practice.
6m
By Bradley Hendricks, Christopher Bingham, Kalin Kolev, Travis Howell
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Cooperative Advantage: Rethinking the Company's PurposeThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review reveals that pursuing a people-centered cooperative advantage can garner meaningful benefits for employees, customers, and community.
6m
By Leon C. Prieto, Simone T.A. Phipps
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on The Long Journey to Understanding Intangible AssetsThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review discusses how it makes sense that much of the relationship you have with your employer is mediated by what you are paid to work. Money gives you options and creates choices. But what if money wasn't going to be the most important asset to you?
3m
By Lynda Gratton
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Is Your Brand Purpose at Risk of Being Obsolete?This article from MIT Sloan Management Review reveals why business leaders must understand how the pandemic has altered the emotional imperatives that affect consumers' brand choices.
3m
By George Carey
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Opportunity Marketplaces: Aligning Workforce Investment and ValueIn this article from MIT Sloan Management Review, learn about aligning workforce investment and value creation in the digital enterprise.
36m
By David Kiron, Jeff Schwartz, Michael Schrage, Natasha Buckley, Robin Jones
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on The Myths and Realities of Business EcosystemsThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review reveals that when determining an ecosystem strategy, organizations must first shift to a new perspective and way of thinking.
10m
By Jack Fuller, Martin Reeves, Michael G. Jacobides
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on The Mindful LeaderIn this collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review you'll learn how aware a manager should be of the workplace, as well as alternative ways to look at projects that might offer new insights.
1h 6m
By MIT Sloan Management Review
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Anticipate: The Art of Leading by Looking AheadPacked with stories and practices, this complete guide provides proven techniques for looking ahead and exploring many plausible futures-including the author's trademarked FuturePriming process, which helps distinguish signal from noise.
5h 6m
By Rob-Jan de Jong
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Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and ChallengersIf your organization needs to adapt to harsh new realities, but you don't yet have a strategy that will get you out in front of your competitors, this book explains the most common Business Model patterns used by leading business thinkers, and helps you reinterpret them for your own context.
2h 3m
By Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur
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Full Steam Ahead!: Unleash the Power of Vision in Your Work and Your Life, Second EditionOffering numerous examples of effective visions from real companies, this book shows you how to create an enduring vision that will guide you on a daily basis and willl engage the hearts and minds of everyone on your team.
2h 13m
By Jesse Lyn Stoner, Ken Blanchard
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Communicating Your VisionShowing you how to inspire, clarify and focus the work of your organization, this book will help you communicate a vision to others in ways that will help them understand it, remember it, and then go on to share it themselves.
19m
By David Baldwin, Talula Cartwright
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The Committed Enterprise: How to Make Vision and Values WorkThis guide describes how to build unstoppable organizations, whether businesses or charities, hospitals or orchestras, by managing vision and values scientifically yet creatively.
4h 16m
By Hugh Davidson
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The Positive Organization: Breaking Free from Conventional Cultures, Constraints, and BeliefsUsing dozens of memorable stories, this book helps leaders to see new possibilities that lie within the acknowledged realities of organizational life, and provides five keys for learning to be "bilingual"--speaking the conventional language of business as well as the language of the positive organization.
2h 27m
By Robert E. Quinn
BOOK SUMMARY
Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone SmarterAn essential leadership handbook, Multipliers examines how effective leaders can foster creativity, innovation, and excellence in their teams. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
5m
By Greg McKeown, Liz Wiseman
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Occupational Health and Safety for the 21st CenturyProviding a broad and concise overview of the topics that make up the field of occupational health and safety, this book will increase readers' awareness of the crucial role played by occupational factors in the health of workers and the many connections between occupational and environmental exposures.
8h 6m
By Robert H. Friis
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AUDIOBOOKS INCLUDED
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
The Leader of the Future 2: Visions, Strategies and Practices for the New EraIn The Leader of the Future 2, editors Frances Hesselbein and Marshall Goldsmith have collected a series of essays from insightful visionaries of what future leaders will look like and the challenges they will have to face. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
9m 57s
By Frances Hesselbein, Marshall Goldsmith (eds)
Audiobook
Anticipate: The Art of Leading by Looking AheadThis audio edition is packed with stories and practices, and provides proven techniques for looking ahead and exploring many plausible futures.
9h 9m 45s
By Rob-Jan de Jong
Audiobook
Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and RealityThis audio edition explores how many of us obsess about discovering great new ideas, and explains how to develop the capacity to make ideas happen-a capacity that endures over time.
7h 3m 58s
By Scott Belsky
Audiobook
Good Work: Aligning Skills and ValuesThis audio edition will help us turn our ideals into reality, and connect who we are with what we do. Read by the author.
58m 7s
By Daniel Goleman, Howard Gardner
Audiobook
Leading the Necessary Revolution: Building Alignment in Your Business for SustainabilityThis audio edition demonstrates that no matter where you are in your firm, you can drive the shift to sustainability - if you have the right approach, tools, and vision. Read by the authors.
2h 39m 23s
By Daniel Goleman, Peter Senge
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone SmarterAn essential leadership handbook, Multipliers examines how effective leaders can foster creativity, innovation, and excellence in their teams. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
10m 9s
By Greg McKeown, Liz Wiseman
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SKILL BENCHMARKS INCLUDED
Leading the Business
Becoming a successful business leader means more than just directing and motivating your people. It also requires understanding the business you're in and making sure that you're making decisions that will help your company meet its goals. In this Leading the Business Unit Benchmark, you'll be able to make a frank assessment of your current skills in strategic planning and execution, identifying your strengths and recognizing areas of weaknesses that will benefit from further learning and growth. 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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