Being a Likeable Boss

Name: Being a Likeable Boss
Rating: 4.4 (20 reviews)

Improve leadership and increase team motivation, performance & productivity

Created bySerge Gravelle

Last updated 1/2026

English

What you'll learn

Understand how to develop leadership qualities
Know how to delegate effectively
Learn how to trust others and earn their trust
Understanding Motivation
Effectively use Constructive Criticism
The Why and How to earn the trust of Your Team
Building and Reinforcing Your Team

Course content

15 sections • 39 lectures • 3h 58m total length

What this course is about2:35
This course is part of my Personal Development Series which may be referred to later on.
This is a very straightforward course providing key information and guidelines on the subject. Its only purpose is to help you, so it is concise and very much to the point.
Becoming a more likeable boss can sometimes be a difficult process to describe. It can be one characteristic that facilitates great communication and great employee relationships. It can be the special way that you show confidence among your team. These and other events can become more easily managed with this course on the subject.
My wish for you with this course is that as the end-result, you will gain respect, motivation, performance and results from every one of your team members or person you manage.
Objectives1:38
With this Being a Likeable Boss course, you will begin to see how important it is to develop better managerial skills. By managing and looking at the way people interact, and seeing things in a new light, you will improve on almost every aspect of your career as a leader at any level.
The objectives of this course are:
·Better Understand how to develop your own leadership qualities
·Know how to delegate effectively
·Choose inspirational and engaging tasks for yourself and others
·Using wisdom and better understanding how to lead others
·Identify the different roles of your whole team
·Learn how to trust others and earn their trust at the same time
Content5:44
This lectures goes over the content of the course: 12 modules + 2 bonus segments
Module One: Getting Started
Module Two: Is it Better to be Loved or Feared?
Module Three: Leadership as Service
Module Four: Leadership by Design
Module Five: Understanding Motivation
Module Six: Constructive Criticism
Module Seven: The Importance of Tone
Module Eight: Trusting Your Team
Module Nine: Earning the Trust of Your Team
Module Ten: Building and Reinforcing Your Team
Module Eleven: You are the Boss of You
Module Twelve: Wrapping Up
Bonus segments:
Powerful Leadership Through Communication
7 Toxic Workplace Environment Factors

Understanding the different options6:44
It is better to be Loved or to be Feared?
This famous question comes down to us from Niccolò Machiavelli, a political theorist who lived in Italy during the Renaissance. He contended that a leader who is feared is preferable to a leader who is loved. However, he also lived during a time of great political instability when city governments changed in a flash, usually violently, and usually involving executions of the previous leadership. Since we no longer live in an age when stepping down from a leadership position or being removed would involve the loss of one’s head, do we really need to adopt the route that proved so disastrous for ruthless dictators our society has historically witnessed?
Review of this module5:38
10 simple questions to help you retain the knowledge you acquired in this module.

Meeting the needs of employees and of the company or team9:52
Whether you prefer a dominant leadership style, a lenient one, or something in between, one factor that can truly enhance your effectiveness in leadership is to see yourself as serving the needs of your employees even as you serve the needs of your company or organization. Often these two sets of needs will coincide. The needs of your employees are the needs of a well-run organization as well. When they do contradict, seeing yourself as a kind of servant to your employees can help you to better weigh your priorities in both the long and short terms.
Review of this module4:47
10 simple questions to help you retain the knowledge you acquired in this module.

The key aspects of Motivation13:54
You can’t always get into the head of another person. Even if this was possible, understanding what motivates another person can be so complex that even that person is often unaware of his or her own motivations. However, to a certain degree, the essence of leadership is getting others to do what you need them to do, as if it was their original plan. While you may not be able to specifically identify another person’s motives, there is a good rule of thumb that was developed by a man by the name of Kenneth Burke, who called it dramatism.
Review of this module4:28
10 simple questions to help you retain the knowledge you acquired in this module.

Effective Constructive Criticism8:13
Understanding what motivates the people you are leading is a great way to better assist them, but you also have other pressures upon you as a leader, which can include your ultimate goal for your company as well as pressure from higher ups in your own hierarchy. What’s more, even when you are an understanding and compassionate leader, some may seek to test this. The difference between an understanding but effective leader versus a weak leader is how well you respond when people attempt, either consciously or unintentionally, to cross boundaries. When someone engages in behavior that’s detrimental to your overall leadership vision, you occasionally have to intervene.
What’s important in this case is that you intervene in an effective way that makes the situation better for everyone involved.
Review of this module5:10
10 simple questions to help you retain the knowledge you acquired in this module.

Managing your Tone10:43
In your role as leader, manager or even as a company owner, you will often find yourself in situations where you have to perform well even when you are not at your best.
One truth about effective leadership is that when things go right, you will want to deflect the praise to your team members or employees, but when things go wrong, it’s all your fault.
This can put you under constant pressure, and some of your more socially conscious and astute employees might recognize this fact, but most won’t.
Nevertheless, employees and supervisors can forgive much when you approach them with the right tone.
Review of this module4:47
10 simple questions to help you retain the knowledge you acquired in this module.

How to earn the trust of your team10:19
Avoiding micromanagement, delegating tasks properly, and celebrating successes are all ways to increase your high regard and trust for your team, but trust is a two-way street. An effective leader is one whom the followers will trust implicitly.
Trust, like respect, does not come automatically. Some people may be naturally inclined to trust people, but the degree of trust you need to lead effectively must be earned.
Review of this module4:38
10 simple questions to help you retain the knowledge you acquired in this module.

Requirements

Your willingness to learn, and the desire to becoming a likeable boss.

Description

Becoming a more likeable boss can sometimes be a difficult process to describe. It can be one characteristic that facilitates great communication and great employee relationships. It can be the special way that you show confidence among your team. These and other events can become more easily managed with this course on the subject.

This course was created with the following end-result in mind: you will gain respect, motivation, performance and results from every one of your team members or person you manage.

While many who enter into management and leadership roles want to be genuinely liked by the workers they supervise, seeking popularity for its own sake can be a dead-end path. Many have tried to lead while seeking popularity only to find that, indeed, they are loved but not respected. Becoming a more likeable boss however does not mean you have to sacrifice respect. Being a likeable boss and a respected boss does mean you have to learn to be more effective. This course helps you take the first steps of what will be a continuous journey towards becoming a more effective boss, the side effects of which are both likeability and respect.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

At the end of this workshop, participants should be able to:

Understand how to develop leadership qualities
Know how to delegate effectively
Choose inspirational and engaging tasks for yourself and others
Use wisdom and understanding to lead others
Identify the roles of your team
Learn how to trust others and earn their trust

Who this course is for:

Managers, Supervisors, Team Leaders
Business/Company owners
Anyone already managing people, or who will be managing others
Trainers & Educators
Python trainers
Entrepreneurs

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Course content

Introduction3 lectures • 10min

It is better to be Loved or to be Feared?2 lectures • 12min

Leadership as Service2 lectures • 15min

Leadership by Design2 lectures • 16min

Understanding Motivation2 lectures • 18min

Constructive Criticism2 lectures • 13min

The Importance of Tone2 lectures • 16min

Trusting Your Team2 lectures • 14min

Earning the Trust of Your Team2 lectures • 15min

Building and Reinforcing Your Team2 lectures • 17min

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