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Leadership Fundamentals With Neil Jurd

Leadership Fundamentals With Neil Jurd

In Leadership Fundamentals, Neil Jurd OBE teaches the basic leadership lessons that apply in any environment
Created byNeil Jurd
Last updated 2/2025
English

What you'll learn

  • The three aspects of leadership; increasing your impact, engaging with others and setting a clear and compelling purpose
  • The difference between Leadership and Management; lead people, manage stuff - and how to balance the two concepts.
  • How to instill a vibrant leadership culture - where leadership resonates throughout, with energy, creativity and trust.
  • How to "Serve To Lead" - leading with compassion and connection rather than through positional power

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Course content

9 sections • 8 lectures • 58m total length

  • Leadership Defined8:36

    Leadership is about achieving more by engaging people. Neil Jurd OBE explains what leadership is, using the definition he explains in his best-selling ‘The Leadership Book’.

Requirements

  • No experience required but you might want to buy a copy of The Leadership Book by Neil Jurd

Description

In Leadership Fundamentals, Neil Jurd OBE, the founder of Leader-Connect and the author of the best selling “The Leadership Book“ gives you the leadership skills you need to increase your positve impact at work and beyond.  Good leaders create happy and productive teams, but most people have had little or no leadership training.   


Broken down into 8 short videos containing practical advice and guidance, Neil shows that everyone is able to lead.  Almost every task requires some form of leadership and everyone is capable of leading.  This course will improve your leadership.  It is ideal for technical experts, managers, partners and other people who hold responsible positions but have had little or no leadership training. 


In the videos, Neil explains:


  • What leadership is - with a simple definition you can follow step by step.


  • The basics of leadership - in a 6 minute video that gives you and overview that will stick in your mind (it's about Direction and Connection).


  • The difference between Leadership and Management - lead people, manage 'stuff' and get the balance right.


  • Serve to Lead - how to lead without arrogance; a caring but robust approach to leadership.


  • How to build a vibrant leadership culture - where leadership exists throughout the team and wider organisation - allowing creativity, initiative and innovation.


  • How to move your Team from "Stagnation" to "Excellence".


  • Neil uses the John Powell communication pyramid to show you how to build honest and meaningful relationships.


  • Neil explains the four stages of the OODA loop process: Observation, Orientation, Decision, and Action.


Throughout the course, Neil who has spent more than 15 years in leadership development and before that was an army officer and instructor at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst draws on his practical experience leading others and working with leaders and teams and on the ideas in his best-selling and highly rated book 'The Leadership Book'. 


This course will have a positive impact on your leadership.

Who this course is for:

  • Managers and supervisors who have had technical training but no leadership training
  • Leaders in education such as headteachers, department and subject heads who would like to get the best our of their staff.
  • Partners of practices, including doctors, accountants and lawyers who are technical experts but would like to develop their leadership to improve performance.
  • HR and Learning and Development professionals who wish to devleop their own leadership knowledge and develop the leadership of others
  • Leaders and Managers in the police, fire and ambulance services who may have large numbers or people under their command
  • Leaders in the military: Army, Navy, Air Force who will realte to the ideas in this course as it draws up Neil Jurd's time in the army and instructing at Sandhurst
  • Founders of small businesses and entrepeneurs whose businesses are expanding and who have growing members of staff
  • Students of leadership and management
  • Senior Leaders and teams who can benchmark their own leadership against the simple ideas in this course
  • Leaders in the charity and voluntary sector who need to lead volunteers - where leadership and purpose often matter more than renumeration
  • Leaders in the Prison Service or correctional facilities where staf work in a demanding environment and good leadership makes a huge difference to morale and behaviour
  • Leaders in the Cadet Forces, Scouts or other youth clubs where leadership of young people and other adults is essential, but often challenging.

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