Leadership Courses

Change can be daunting and unexpected. Learn to anticipate that change will happen and react with agility when it does. This proactive approach to change will boost your momentum and propel you to even further heights.

Helps leaders:

• Understand how uncertainty can manifest differently and impact our reaction towards change.
• Learn how to apply characteristics of agility to adapt and accelerate in times of change.
• Commit to first steps in shifting their mindset and behaviors to anticipate change.

Competencies developed:

• Adaptability

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

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.

Adversity, change, turbulence, and uncertainty can be part of any given day. While we successfully navigate most challenges, others require greater resilience—the ability to cope with stress and adversity. Resilience keeps us from feeling stuck. Key personality traits and skills can raise our resilience, and power us through even the most challenging times. 

Helps individuals:

• Learn how individual traits and skills affect resilience. 
• Discover methods to manage tendencies and strengthen skills.
• Consider which mindset obstacles and personal biases are interfering with resilience.
• Create a 60-day plan for boosting resilience.

Competencies developed:

• Building Partnerships
• Decision Making
• Driving Innovation

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

This course provides the skills and resources leaders need to accelerate the process of implementing change with their team members and to create an agile work environment where people are more open to change.

Helps leaders:

• Prepare to effectively communicate the business strategies and rationale that are driving the need for change.
• Utilize three actions to accelerate the implementation of workplace change.
• Recognize the nature of resistance and use a set of skills to uncover and respond to that resistance.
• Determine aspects of the change that can be controlled or influenced.
• Use essential interaction skills to conduct effective discussions that help your team members move closer to embracing change.

Competencies developed:

• Facilitating Change

Interested in delivering this course? Ask us about our facilitator certification options.

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.

Interested in delivering this course? Ask us about our facilitator certification options.

This course for individual contributors focuses on their role in implementing change in the workplace. Participants discover their Change IQ, learn about the phases of change that many people experience, and are introduced to best practices that will enable them to tackle and overcome the new business challenges of today and tomorrow.

Helps individuals:

• Commit to and take ownership of change.
• Effectively recognize change, explore change, and overcome personal resistance to change.
• Minimize the negative impact on individuals, work groups, and the organization of not adapting to change.
• Demonstrate an embracing change mind-set that influences others to embrace workplace change.

Competencies developed:

• Adaptability

Interested in delivering this course? Ask us about our facilitator certification options.

Change is universal. However, it manifests itself in very different ways, depending on the situation, the environment, the people, and the timing. Understanding the recent past, the present, and the near future will prepare you to address important issues connected with a change. And it will surface the fears, concerns, challenges, and opportunities that you need to discuss and confront.

Helps individuals:

• Understand how people typically react when change occurs.
• Demonstrate an embracing change mind-set that will enable you to remain open to workplace change.
• Determine how you can influence changes when, at first glance, it appears you have no control.

Competencies developed:

• Positive Approach
• Stress Tolerance

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

Change can be many things—energizing, confusing, exciting, daunting. One thing is for sure—the element of the unknown that can leave you feeling disoriented, even lost. When the situation seems out of your hands, you can make traction—and successfully move yourself and others through change—by identifying areas you can control as well as areas you can influence.

Helps leaders:

• Examine their own change situation, the reason it’s happening, and what it means for them.
• Identify areas of the change they can control, or at least influence.
• Explore ways they can take initiative to exert their influence over the change.
• Review tips for taking care of themselves and others during change.

Competencies developed:

• Facilitating Change
• Positive Approach

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

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

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

Interested in delivering this course? Ask us about our facilitator certification options.

You know that a major change is coming to your organization, and you might be struggling with how to handle it. Or a major disruptive change has just occurred, and you’re dealing with the fallout. Layoffs, company restructuring, job role changes, return-to-office mandates, and other disruptions are causing major upheaval in organizations across the globe. Although these shifts might be necessary, employee understanding and trust take a major hit. While you might not be the one making these tough decisions, you are often the one who must implement them. 

This microcourse will help leaders better understand and empathize with their employees and give them key actions to sustain and repair lost trust during these disruptive changes. They will gain new ideas for how to handle the trust crisis and successfully guide their team through challenging times. 

Helps leaders:

• Better understand and empathize with employees.
• Apply key actions to sustain and repair lost trust during disruptive changes.
• Gain new ideas for how to handle the trust crisis and successfully guide teams through these challenging times.

Competencies developed:

• Emotional Intelligence Essentials

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.