Leadership Courses

Stakeholders whose buy-in and energy for your change initiative dip when they encounter challenges or have unrealistic perceptions can slow the pace of change. You can prevent this slowdown and even accelerate your change by identifying and managing key stakeholders and using strategies to move through the Change Arc.

Helps leaders:

• Understand how my personal tendencies can help or hinder change.
• Identify ways to effectively engage stakeholders through change.
• Choose strategies to move through the change faster for a future change initiative.

Competencies developed:

• Leading Change

This Impact Session is designed to develop leaders of leaders with focused skills, deep insights, and peer learning—in 2 hours or less. Personalized with Leadership Personality Insights, this course integrates data from a comprehensive personality inventory to boost self-awareness and provide actionable next steps. This course is only available with a MultiLevel Subscription.

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For critical talent to stay with an organization, they need ongoing career development opportunities. This course focuses on how leaders can connect with employees to help them explore their aspirations and plan concrete steps to achieve growth in their careers.

Helps leaders:

• Recognize the importance of helping individuals grow in their careers.
• Understand the role of conversations in connecting with people as they explore and develop in their career.
• Use questions to help people understand, explore, and act on their career aspirations and align them with business goals.

Competencies developed:

• Leading Change

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When coaching team members, is your focus on helping them accomplish the immediate task, or do you have their future capabilities in mind? With the hectic pace of business, it might not seem there’s time, but you can do both. Your coaching can move people to their own solutions and grow their skills for the long term. In this session, you’ll add deep listening and provocative questioning techniques to your skills as a coach and build your team’s bench strength for today and for the future.

Helps leaders:

• Use deep listening to understand the person and the coaching need.
• Ask provocative questions to inspire a person's own solutions.
• Gain self-awareness about how their personal tendencies affect their ability to coach for growth.

Competencies developed:

• Coaching and Developing Others

This Impact Session is designed to develop leaders of leaders with focused skills, deep insights, and peer learning—in 2 hours or less. Personalized with Leadership Personality Insights, this course integrates data from a comprehensive personality inventory to boost self-awareness and provide actionable next steps. This course is only available with a MultiLevel Subscription.

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Leaders of other managers develop multi-directional coaching skills and learn the proactive inquiry method for more effective interactions with their teams. This course is designed for mid- to senior-level leaders. 

Helps leaders:

• Clearly differentiate and seek higher-level coaching opportunities that provide significant payoff to the individual, team, and organization.
• Apply advanced skills to conduct more compelling, collaborative, and rewarding coaching discussions.
• Seek and offer feedback that people can accept and act on to ensure achievement of business goals.
• Monitor and measure the continuous improvement of coaching skills in themselves and those they coach.
• Build and sustain a coaching culture within their team.

Competencies developed:

• Coaching & Developing Others
• Coaching

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Are your leaders feeling caught between keeping their focus on long-term organizational goals and dealing with everyday demands? Not sure what their teams need to successfully achieve strategic goals? Build a solid strategy that fills talent gaps for the long term while still meeting short-term objectives.

Helps leaders:

• Focus on where their organization is headed and the role of their team in getting there.
• Assess their team's capabilities in light of achieving both long-term and short-term goals.
• Create a talent strategy that ensures their team is well-positioned for the future.

Competencies developed:

• Building Organizational Talent

This Impact Session is designed to develop leaders of leaders with focused skills, deep insights, and peer learning—in 2 hours or less.

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Having conversations can be difficult, and as a leader there are many to be had. Learning how to initiate conversations with courage and to speak with candor will inspire a leader's team to follow their example, opening the path to act courageously and have those difficult conversations. 

Helps leaders:

• Initiate difficult conversations with courage.
• Speak with candor.
• Inspire their team to follow their example.

Competencies developed:

• Communication
• Decision Making

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In this course, mid- to senior level leaders learn to evaluate their current network and take steps to close gaps. They identify personal and organizational barriers that hamper efforts to negotiate, collaborate, and communicate as they build partnerships.

Helps leaders:

• Navigate complexity in your role and accomplish critical business objectives by using strategic networking and partnership tools and skills.
• Advance your organization’s objectives; build effective networks and strong partnerships.
• Evaluate your active network to close gaps and enhance the network’s strategic value.
• Identify critical checkpoints to plan, execute, monitor, and maintain partnerships.

Competencies developed:

• Cultivating Networks & Partnerships
• Building Partnerships

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To be effective at translating long-term strategies into team actions, mid-level leaders must seek diverse perspectives, evaluate payoffs and risks for their potential goals, then select their priorities and consider how to mitigate risks.

Helps leaders:

• Translate strategic business goals to team-level priorities.
• Identify strategies to mitigate risk.

Competencies developed:

• Establishing Strategic Direction

This Impact Session is designed to develop leaders of leaders with focused skills, deep insights, and peer learning—in 2 hours or less.

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In this course, mid- to senior level leaders learn to define the current state of team development as well as the ideal future state, pinpointing team and individual strengths and growth needs. Also, identify and develop high potentials for future leadership roles, assess the impact and effectiveness of development efforts, and provide feedback.

Helps leaders:

• Identify their team’s development needs as they relate to achieving current and future business priorities.
• Describe the experienced leader’s role in developing direct reports.
• Recognize how to achieve the highest pay-off for their efforts in developing others.
• Use a three-phase process—Assess, Acquire, Apply—to help individuals identify strengths and growth areas, plan development strategies, and acquire and apply new or enhanced knowledge, skills, and experience.
• Measure and provide feedback on the effectiveness and impact of development efforts on the individual, team, and organization.

Competencies developed:

• Building Organizational Talent
• Building Talent

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Transformation is a strategic shift inside the organization. As leaders focus on the operational changes that need to happen, they can lose sight of the cultural transformation necessary to keep people engaged and energized over the long haul. In this course, leaders learn a framework for driving transformation through culture change.

Helps leaders:

• Understand the difference between transformation and change.
• Engage their team or partners in committing to a transformation (even amid resistance).
• Use a framework to lead and navigate transformation.

Competencies developed:

• Energizing the Organization
• Leading Change

This Impact Session is designed to develop leaders of leaders with focused skills, deep insights, and peer learning—in 2 hours or less.

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In every workplace interaction, how leaders respond can determine whether they're viewed as an irresistible leader who seeks to understand people and inspire positive outcomes. That means having a healthy level of emotional intelligence (EQ). Leaders can learn deep listening techniques and interaction skills to improve EQ and rally their teams toward extraordinary results. 

Helps leaders:

• Use deep listening to help them read and understand others' emotions and reactions.
• Adapt their words and behaviors to better respond to people during interactions.
• Leverage EQ in workplace situations in which demonstrating empathy and expressing vulnerability are key.
• Understand how their personality traits help or hinder their EQ skills.

Competencies developed:

• Emotional Intelligence Essentials

This Impact Session is designed to develop leaders of leaders with focused skills, deep insights, and peer learning—in 2 hours or less. Personalized with Leadership Personality Insights, this course integrates data from a comprehensive personality inventory to boost self-awareness and provide actionable next steps. This course is only available with a MultiLevel Subscription.

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Stress, pressure, and other external factors can hijack your ability to successfully lead others with intention. You can counteract the impact of these factors by cultivating self-awareness of your feelings and how they affect your actions. In this course, mid-level leaders will learn strategies for managing their emotions and actions to have a positive impact.

Helps leaders:

• Cultivate self-awareness of their feelings and the consequences of their actions.
• Recognize the ways they can be hijacked and prevented from leading with intention.
• Adopt strategies to manage their emotions and actions for positive impact.

Competencies developed:

• Emotional Intelligence Essentials

This Impact Session is designed to develop leaders of leaders with focused skills, deep insights, and peer learning—in 2 hours or less. Personalized with Leadership Personality Insights, this course integrates data from a comprehensive personality inventory to boost self-awareness and provide actionable next steps. This course is only available with a MultiLevel Subscription.

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Building trusting and constructive working relationships is hard enough under the simplest of circumstances. But when partners come from diverse backgrounds and follow different cultural norms, an unpredictable layer of complexity and nuance comes into play. Leaders of such teams will be tested and triggered in unique ways. But with the right balance of leadership behaviors, they and their teams can thrive.

Helps leaders:

• Heighten awareness of common challenges and triggers that can derail leaders of multicultural teams from fostering valuable working relationships.
• Challenge their own assumptions and biases.
• Discover the right balance of leadership behaviors to effectively lead a multicultural team.

Competencies developed:

• Global Perspective

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In this course, mid- to senior level leaders learn how to create an influence strategy that clearly links their ideas and recommendations to changes that will have a positive impact on individual, team, and organizational performance.

Helps leaders:

• Identify and assess influence opportunities and choose strategies to achieve business results.
• Evaluate their business network and build supportive and reciprocal long-term working relationships at all levels of the organization.
• Leverage their personal power to move people to take action on those ideas, opportunities, and recommendations that will have the greatest impact on organizational priorities.
• Use techniques that allow them to engage people both emotionally and rationally.
• Assess the people they need to influence—understanding their motivations, needs, and concerns—so they can change or reinforce their perceptions and gain their commitment.
• Capture people’s attention and make things happen.

Competencies developed:

• Influencing
• Strategic Influence

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Have you ever struggled to get something done, because the people you need to propel an initiative forward all have their own priorities or concerns? Influencing others can be one of the most challenging—yet pervasive—aspects of leadership. When you’re able to make your case from the perspective of others, you’re more likely to reach a mutually beneficial outcome that moves stakeholders to support you or act on your behalf.

Helps leaders:

• Anticipate future influence opportunities.
• Identify a broad network of stakeholders that can help them accomplish future goals and objectives.
• Dig deeper to determine stakeholders' perspectives.
• understand how their personal tendencies impact the three phases of strategic influence.

Competencies developed:

• Influencing

This Impact Session is designed to develop leaders of leaders with focused skills, deep insights, and peer learning—in 2 hours or less. Personalized with Leadership Personality Insights, this course integrates data from a comprehensive personality inventory to boost self-awareness and provide actionable next steps. This course is only available with a MultiLevel Subscription.

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Times of significant stress and crisis are times when our leadership behaviors and actions may not always align with our intentions or our priorities. Leaders often know what to do, but act in ways that are very different. Learn how to manage the impact of personal tendencies and derailers on leadership brand and behaviors in times of stress and crisis.

Helps leaders: 

• Understand the importance of their leadership brand and behaviors in times of crisis.
• Identify the personal tendencies and derailing tendencies that might influence their behavior under pressure.
• Develop a plan to manage the impact of personal tendencies and fulfill their leadership brand.

Competencies developed:

• Building Self-Insight
• Executive Presence

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Have you ever listened to a vision speech from a leader that left you feeling unmotivated and even confused? Don't be that leader! When conveying your own vision for the future, take the time first to craft a clear message and practice presenting it in a way that will inspire your audience to break the status quo.

Helps leaders:

• Understand the elements to include when communicating a vision in order to make it compelling.
• Know how to frame a vision in a way that energizes, inspires, and motivates.
• Receive feedback on their vision to enhance how it is communicated.

Competencies developed:

• Energizing the Organization

This Impact Session is designed to develop leaders of leaders with focused skills, deep insights, and peer learning—in 2 hours or less.

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Keeping up with the rapid advancement of technology can be difficult on a normal day. Leading others in this fast-paced digital era, let alone thriving, can seem impossible. Discover the drivers and methods that play into a leader's strengths while growing the skills that will distinguish them as a successful digital leader.

Helps leaders:

• Adopt the mindset of a digital pioneer who is comfortable with ambiguity, taking risks, and making unprecedented decisions.
• Face evolving technology with confidence instead of fear.
• Guide teams to stay positive in today's ever-changing digital environment.

Competencies developed:

• Business Savvy
• Entrepreneurship

This Impact Session is designed to develop leaders of leaders with focused skills, deep insights, and peer learning—in 2 hours or less.

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In this course designed for mid- to senior leaders, leaders learn the ability to drive change by understanding the importance of stakeholders, multiple viewpoints, communication, and buy-in.

Helps leaders:

• Develop their ability to drive change by understanding the importance of involving stakeholders, dealing with resistance, communicating, and building buy-in.
• Improve their understanding and ability to leverage insights from the Change Style Indicator^® (CSI).
• Enhance their skills in leading and motivating others through organizational change initiatives.

Competencies developed:

• Leading Change
• Facilitating Change

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As a leader, it’s important to understand that workplace bullying goes far beyond aggressive behavior. There are psychological power imbalances that cause bullying behaviors to manifest and wreak havoc in the workplace. For this reason, it is important to enact a zero tolerance policy for bullying by encouraging an inclusive work environment.

Helps leaders:

• Know what workplace bullying is and how to promote an inclusive work environment.
• Understand how to cultivate zero tolerance for workplace bullying.

Competencies developed:

• Creating a Culture of Trust
• Emotional Intelligence Essentials
• Resolving Conflict

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In this course, mid to senior level leaders learn a decision-making discipline that will help them manage various dynamics and overcome the forces both within themselves and across their organization that can compromise their decision-making ability.

Helps leaders:

• Recognize the presence of complex dynamics that can negatively impact the ability to make objective, informed business decisions.
• Identify specific decision-making biases to which the organization and leaders are most susceptible.
• Apply a decision-making discipline to manage these biases and other decision dynamics.
• Apply this same discipline to diagnose past decisions and coach others in making decisions.

Competencies developed:

• Operational Decision Making
• Decision Making

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In this course, mid- to senior level leaders assess their own emotional intelligence (EQ) and learn to prevent the emotional hijacking that can interfere with personal intentions and organizational outcomes.

Helps leaders:

• Realize how EQ affects business results.
• Understand how emotional hijacking interferes with values and outcomes.
• Recognize the five elements of EQ and learn skills to strengthen each one.
• Analyze their own EQ and the impact of their skill level on those around them.
• Identify their emotional triggers and apply techniques so they can respond effectively rather than react inappropriately.

Competencies developed:

• Earning Trust
• Emotional Intelligence Essentials

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Interactions have a significant impact on the performance and productivity of people and organizations. To make this impact a positive one, executives can consistently apply essential interaction skills, leverage the strengths of their leadership interaction style, and employ an emotional intelligence approach to improve the quality of each interaction, meeting, and discussion they conduct.

Helps senior leaders:

• Recognize the relationship between the quality of interactions and the job satisfaction, productivity, and well-being of leaders and teams. 
• Review seven interaction mistakes to avoid that commonly occur at the executive level. 
• Examine how to balance personal and practical needs despite a tendency to focus on the practical. 
• Review essential interaction skills that provide a framework for effective discussions. 
• Explore the role emotional intelligence plays in understanding their approach to an interaction. 
• Identify their dominant leadership interaction style and how to leverage the strengths and manage the potential risks of that style.

Competencies developed:

• Compelling Communication
• Communication

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You may have wondered what power skills are and how they relate to your leadership. “Power skills” is a new term to describe interpersonal or soft skills—the human skills that help you really connect with your team members. There are many ways to enhance your leadership by exercising power skills.

Helps leaders:

• Understand the meaning of power skills and how leaders can support their team while using them.
• Understand how to lead teams with empathy.
• Understand how to lead teams with empowerment.
• Recognize how to lead from curiosity.
• Recognize talent risk within a power skills economy.

Competencies developed:

• Building Teams
• Delegation and Empowerment
• Emotional Intelligence Essentials

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Peer coaching is anchored on meaningful and productive conversations. Give your mid-level leaders powerful skills to create a solid foundation for successful peer coaching.

Helps leaders:

• Develop powerful skills to have meaningful and productive conversations.
• Build authentic and active listening skills.
• Learn the Interaction Essentials^SM and STAR method for feedback.

Competencies developed:

• Coaching
• Developing Others

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Peer coaching is incredibly valuable to become a “learning organization” and helps your company become more agile and effective. Peer coaching facilitates networking, builds a community of coaches, and drives a culture of feedback. This course is designed for mid-level leaders.

Helps leaders:

• Prepare for a peer coaching initiative with the right skills and approaches.
• Understand key concepts of Interaction Essentials^SM and STAR method for feedback.
• Build authentic and active listening skills for peer coaching discussions.

Competencies developed:

• Coaching and Developing Others

This Impact Session is designed to develop leaders of leaders with focused skills, deep insights, and peer learning—in 2 hours or less.

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When it comes to networking, quantity does not always equal quality. Today’s fast-paced and complex business landscape necessitates that leaders be deliberate and strategic in how they invest their networking energy to get the highest returns.

Helps leaders:

• Discover the three types of connections essential to cultivating a valuable network.
• Follow a three-step process for building and maintaining a strategic network that meets their needs and future goals.
• Learn how to be a reciprocal network leader and bring equal value to their network connections.

Competencies developed:

• Cultivating Networks and Partnerships
• Building Networks

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Some leaders are more operationally focused; they're in the moment. Other leaders are always thinking ahead; they're more strategically focused. It can be challenging when daily demands and crises are so compelling, but by knowing more about your personal tendencies and focusing on six simple steps, you can become a more strategic leader.

Helps leaders:

• Identify the impact of their individual traits and tendencies.
• Take six simple steps that will move their actions and outcomes from short-term to long-term.
• Leverage developmental tips to make immediate changes and improvements.

Competencies developed:

• Establishing Strategic Direction
• Strategic Planning

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When different teams work to achieve the same organizational goals, conflict is inevitable. Discover how leaders can identify and address the root cause of a conflict before it impedes their team and others from performing at their best.

Helps leaders:

• Discover four root causes of organizational conflict that can negatively impact goals.
• Better understand the people who need to be involved in resolving a conflict.
• Adopt conflict resolution strategies that leverage their natural tendencies.
• Develop a plan that solves conflict at its source.

Competencies developed:

• Resolving Conflict

This Impact Session is designed to develop leaders of leaders with focused skills, deep insights, and peer learning—in 2 hours or less. Personalized with Leadership Personality Insights, this course integrates data from a comprehensive personality inventory to boost self-awareness and provide actionable next steps. This course is only available with a MultiLevel Subscription.

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What does vulnerability and psychological safety have to do with an innovative team culture? It turns out, more than you might think. Learn vulnerable but courageous leader actions that will empower your team to think outrageously, experiment responsibly, learn from failure, and act on your organization’s next big innovative strategy.

Helps leaders:

• Demonstrate courageous vulnerability to build trust and spark learning from failure.
• Create a psychologically safe environment in which team members are empowered to think big and take risks.
• Apply practical yet powerful actions to cultivate and drive an innovative team culture.

Competencies developed:

• Driving Innovation
• Emotional Intelligence Essentials

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Data can be overwhelming. It can be an amazing asset, or it can be a detriment depending on how it is presented. Learning how to utilize data and weave it into your narrative will ultimately allow you to convey your message to your audience.

Helps leaders:

• Use and present data effectively.
• Help others visualize information.

Competencies developed:

• Compelling Communication

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Coaching is an important tool for developing team members across a range of needs. When you coach your team, do you start by asking a few questions and end up giving directions or advice? Or do you seek more than you tell?

Helps leaders:

• Recognize the three types of advanced coaching skills.
• Describe the four types of provocative questions—context, causal, challenge, and calibration.
• Use each type of provocative question to add value to a coaching discussion.

Competencies developed:

• Coaching and Developing Others
• Coaching
• Communication

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In this course, mid- to senior level leaders learn actions they can take to engage themselves and their team in executing priorities and how to overcome the challenges that interfere with effective strategy realization.

Helps leaders:

• Understand the essential elements required to successfully implement strategy.
• Overcome the challenges that interfere with implementing strategy.
• Keep themselves and their teams engaged in executing strategy.
• Realize how to sustain execution in the long term.

Competencies developed:

• Driving Execution
• Establishing Strategic Direction
• Strategic Planning

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Making tough decisions is a critical part of the job for leaders. But each leader is unique and brings with them personal tendencies that can either propel them forward or hold them back. Take a closer look at how who you are influences how you approach decision making. 

Helps leaders:

• Understand how personal tendencies impact the three phases of decision making.
• Identify the tendencies that help as well as hinder their approach to decision making.
• Plan an approach to leverage and manage their tendencies in an upcoming decision.

Competencies developed:

• Decision Making

This Impact Session is designed to develop leaders of leaders with focused skills, deep insights, and peer learning—in 2 hours or less. Personalized with Leadership Personality Insights, this course integrates data from a comprehensive personality inventory to boost self-awareness and provide actionable next steps. This course is only available with a MultiLevel Subscription.

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With so many tasks and responsibilities coming your way, it can be a struggle to determine where to focus your team’s time and energy to ensure strategic goals are met.

Helps leaders:

• Identify the importance of strategy planning.
• Explain the four essential elements of executing a strategy.
• Identify the nine execution challenges.
• Use a radar chart to assess how time is being spent.

Competencies developed:

• Driving Execution
• Establishing Strategic Direction
• Operational Decision Making

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