Leadership & Management Skills: 23 Leadership Courses In 1

A warm welcome from award-winning HR leader, consultant, speaker and author Debra Corey, who introduces this course on leadership. She shares her background and expertise and provides an overview of the eight proven traits it takes to be not just a good leader, but a great leader.

In this lecture, Debra focuses on the first of the eight traits that will help you become a great leader, which is to role model your company values.

You'll be covering three key questions:

• What are company values?

• Why are they important to companies and to you as a leader?

• And finally, how can you role model and live your company values?

Exercise: List some ideas and actions for using your company's values to lead your team.

In this lecture, Debra discusses the second of the eight traits that will help you be a great leader, which is about communicating openly and honestly.

You'll be covering two key questions:

• Why is it important for leaders to communicate openly and honestly?

• And how can you communicate as a leader in an open and honest way?

Debra looks at the third of the eight traits that will help you become a great leader, which is about inspiring your people, helping them to be their best, to reach higher and to succeed.

You'll be covering two key questions:

• Why is it important for leaders to inspire their employees?

• And how can you inspire your people?

Exercise: Develop a plan of how you will inspire members of your team.

In lecture five, Debra introduces the fourth of the eight traits that will help you become a great leader, which is about how leaders need to own their mistakes.

You'll be covering two key questions:

• Why is it important for leaders to own their mistakes?

• And how can you own your mistakes?

Debra's focus for Lecture 6 is on the fifth of the eight traits that will help you become a great leader, which is about recognising your people, showing them that you appreciate and value them.

You'll be covering two key questions:

• Why is it important for leaders to recognise their employees?

• And how can you recognise your people effectively?

Exercise: Schedule time in your calendar to recognise your people so that it can become a habit.

In Lecture 7, Debra introduces the sixth of the eight traits that will help you become a great leader, which is about making the right decisions and not necessarily the easiest or most popular decisions.

You'll be covering two key questions:

• Why is it important for leaders to make the right decisions?

• And how can you as a leader make the right decisions?

Debra explores the seventh of the eight traits that will help you be a great leader in Lecture 8, which is about trusting your people.

You'll be covering two key questions:

• Why is it important for leaders to trust their employees?

• And how can you as a leader trust your people?

In Lecture 9, Debra reaches the final of the eight traits that will help you become a great leader, which is about showing care and empathy for your people.

You'll be covering two key questions:

• Why is it important for leaders to care for their people?

• How can you show care and empathy for your people?

In this third and final section, Debra builds on the practical tools shared throughout the course by adding four more tips for being a great leader. She then guides you through an action plan that you can complete to bring all of your learnings from the course to life and into practice.

Download - There are 3 parts to the Action Plan document:

1. The first is to assess how well you do and live the trait now.

2. The second part is to rank them from high to low so that you can identify your development areas.

3. Finally, you’ll need to select the 2-4 areas where you need to develop and improve the most, putting them into your development plan.

A warm introduction from Andy, who explains what the course is all about and how it's going to work best for you.

In this lecture, Andy helps you to understand exactly what culture really is and why it's so important to get it right, regardless of the size of your business.

Andy highlights the key things that influence your culture, both positively and negatively, and helps you identify them in your business.

Download the 'What's Influencing Your Culture Assessment Tool'.

Identifying exactly what your culture is is a crucial starting point. In this lecture, Andy provides you with some practical tools and techniques to help you get a clear, objective understanding of what yours is.

Andy introduces the principles of 'UBER Culture' and how successful businesses use them to build a culture that creates real competitive advantage. You'll look at how your business measures up in the areas that count and identify the steps required to make that happen.

Download the 'Create An UBER Culture 3D Assessment Tool' and the 'Create An UBER Culture eBook' supporting documents.

Re-establishing your core values is a great starting point for creating an 'UBER Culture'. In this lecture, Andy shares how successful businesses do that, the benefits of the practice and how to avoid the common mistakes that so many businesses make.

Download the '40 Lessons From Zappos', the 'Who's Values Are These Quiz' and the 'Who's Values Are These Answers' supporting documents.

Using real examples of successful '3D Businesses', Andy takes you through a step-by-step guide to help you reshape your values. Using the proven toolkits and templates provided, you will begin to create the company culture you really want.

Download the 'Value Your Values 3D Toolkit'.

Values are important, but what is crucial is making them meaningful for people so they actually 'live' them. In this lecture, Andy teaches you how to do just that. It's not about putting up 'nice' posters but about establishing the 'behaviours' you want to see in your people.

Using real-world examples, Andy takes you through a proven process to help create the behaviours you want your people to demonstrate and live by.

Successful '3D Businesses' build and establish effective systems and processes to support and reinforce their culture. In this lecture, Andy highlights with real-world examples how this is done in areas including recruitment, induction, communication and people management.

Download the 'Review Your Systems And Processes' supporting document.

This lecture shows you how to review your systems and processes. You'll identify the key steps needed to develop and improve them to ensure they support and deliver what you require in your business.

Having a team of engaged, empowered and enabled people is the goal of so many businesses. In this lecture, as well as introducing the key ingredients for making it work, Andy shares some real-world winning businesses who are shining examples of doing just that.

Download the 'How Engaged, Empowered And Enabled Are Your People 3D Assessment' supporting document.

This lecture helps you transfer the lessons learned and identify the steps you need to take next to make it work for your business and people.

Andy shares innovative examples of 'reward and recognition' processes from forward-thinking businesses that use them to help shape and reinforce the behaviours they want from their people.

Download the 'How Are Your People Rewarded And Recognised 3D Assessment Tool'.

Here's a chance to see how you 'measure up' and to identify the steps required to develop a 'reward and recognition' plan that works for you and your people.

Andy recaps the lessons learned throughout this course and takes you through the principles for 'Creating An UBER Culture'.

He shares a template to download that allows you to develop your own personalised 'Create An UBER Culture 3D Action Plan'.

Andy concludes by highlighting other resources you might find useful.