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.

Driving culture is about translating vision into daily work practices through the way leaders act and get things done. A leader's action or inaction has an impact on culture. Leaders learn how to intentionally drive a positive work culture among their teams and in their organization by focusing on five actionable tasks: modeling, communicating, implementing, reinforcing, and revisiting culture.

Helps leaders:

• Understand how culture is determined by how leaders act and get things done.
• Analyze how to drive the culture on their team.
• Practice leading with the heart to promote an inclusive and psychologically safe work environment.

Competencies developed:

• Leading Teams
• Energizing the Organization

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

Conflict and change are often connected. Change causes misalignment, and misalignment causes conflict. This microcourse will help your leaders better empathize with their team during conflict, ensure their teams are aligned, and empower them with clarity and direction to resolve team conflicts.

Helps leaders:

• Better understand and empathize with employees.
• Coach and empower team members to take ownership of resolving conflict.
• Ensure teams are aligned to prevent conflict.

Competencies developed:

• Resolving Conflict

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

Uncover hidden mental traps, understand cognitive biases affecting your judgment, and build rock-solid decision-making habits that will allow you to become a more confident leader. 

Helps leaders:

• Understand the challenges that may lead them to take mental shortcuts.
• Recognize the most common cognitive biases that cause mental shortcuts.
• Implement new decision-making habits to manage their mental shortcuts. 

Competencies developed:

• Operational Decision Making

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

As a leader moves up in their career, they may be more likely to struggle with imposter syndrome, even if they have been successful in the past. When imposter syndrome is not managed, it can not only be damaging to a leader's mental health and wellbeing, but it can have an impact on job performance and team culture. This microcourse will define the concept, discuss why and how it manifests for transitioning mid-level leaders, and provide some best practices and reflections for taking control of the impulse.

Helps leaders:

• Understand impacts of imposter syndrome for middle managers.
• Identify why leaders may deal with imposter syndrome as they move into middle management.
• Recognize how middle managers can overcome imposter syndrome.

Competencies developed:

• Building Self-Insight

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

Organizational politics can be complex and multifaceted. But for leaders that need to get things done, they cannot be avoided. Those who excel at navigating politics recognize it as a prerequisite for influencing others and leverage their political landscape to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes.

Helps leaders:

• Identify the four landscapes of influence.
• Employ the leadership behaviors that thrive in each landscape.
• Apply strategies to navigate their landscape while both maintaining integrity and achieving business goals.

Competencies developed:

• Strategic Influence

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

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 course will help you better understand and empathize with your employees and give you some key actions to sustain and repair lost trust during these disruptive changes. You’ll gain some new ideas for how to handle the trust crisis and successfully guide your team through these 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

Imposter syndrome is the belief that one is not qualified enough, not smart enough, not experienced enough, not...enough. It can be particularly prevalent in new leaders. When imposter syndrome is left to run free, it can not only be damaging to a leader's mental health and well-being, but it can have an impact on job performance and team culture. This microcourse will define the concept, discuss why and how it manifests for new leaders, and provide some best practices and reflections for taking control of the impulse.

Helps leaders:

• Build an awareness of the causes and characteristics of imposter syndrome as it manifests in new leaders.
• Reflect on the ways in which imposter syndrome has or may personally manifest.
• Learn how to take control of new leader imposter syndrome to harness the mindset's potential power.

Competencies developed:

• Stress Tolerance

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

Learn simple problem-solving steps to handle poor work habits on your team. Then, dive into realistic scenarios for practice. Expert coaches provide advice on how to make positive habits stick.

Helps individuals:

• Strengthen their approach to handling employees with poor work habits. 
• Avoid common pitfalls.
• Gain practical advice on how to problem-solve with employees to turn poor habits around.
• Prepare for their next challenge using the Work Habits Planner.

Competencies developed:

• Coaching
• Influencing

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

The velocity of work, the diversity of ideas and people, and the rapid flow of information make it increasingly difficult to get groups to agree and commit to action. Leveraging a structured, systematic approach that involves each person will help bring people to consensus and make high-quality decisions that everyone is committed to carrying out.

Helps individuals:

• Use a set of tools and techniques for reaching agreement that will help them make decisions with their group that everyone is committed to supporting and carrying out.
• Select the best consensus-building techniques based on the situation and the type of decision their group needs to make.
• Lead groups to more effective decisions—more efficiently and effectively.

A healthy work environment is built on trust. Leaders who appropriately disclose feelings and share information are at the core of this trust. This course focuses on the ways to build an atmosphere of trust based on authenticity and transparency.

Helps leaders: 

• Build trust by creating an environment of authenticity and transparency.
• Strike a balance when sharing information or revealing their authentic self.
• Recognize how the brain reacts to lack of information and uncertainty in contrast to authenticity and transparency.

Competencies developed:

• Creating a Culture of Trust
• Building Self-Insight
• Emotional Intelligence Essentials
• Managing Relationships
• Influencing

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

Business savvy leaders use economic, financial, market, and industry insights to improve their own, their team’s, and their organization’s results. But few people are born with this ability. It’s the result of experience and knowledge—and you can build both.

Helps leaders:

• Recognize the importance of being business savvy.
• Understand basic business functions.
• Practice using a tool to identify, organize, and leverage business-related data.
• Get tips for building business savvy.

Competencies developed:

• Business Acumen

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

Learn how to manage customer interactions, raise customer satisfaction, and take the HEAT. 

• Be introduced to a model to help them respond to dissatisfied customers in a way that addresses needs and builds loyalty.
• Learn to diffuse situations so they can address the problem and stop the frustration from gaining momentum.

Competencies developed:

• Building Customer Relationships
• Customer Focus

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development 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.

Strong business partnerships – both inside and outside the organization – help leaders to forge alliances. They help leaders accomplish goals that they couldn’t accomplish alone. This course guides leaders on how to identify, build, maintain, and evaluate partnerships.

Helps leaders:

• Discover what information is needed from a partner and who can provide it.
• Learn methods to initiate and build partnerships.
• Receive tips on how to ask for help.
• Learn how to provide partners with ongoing, mutual support.
• Get advice on how to monitor and evaluate partnerships over time.

Competencies developed:

• Building Networks
• Building Partnerships

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

Attracting and landing the best candidates is a competitive advantage for an organization. When interviewers establish a human connection, candidates have a more positive impression of the job and organization. To make that connection in a virtual setting, interviewers must be especially aware of their words and actions and make an extra effort to build rapport.

Helps individuals: 

• Understand how helping candidates feel at ease can land top job seekers and benefit the organization.
• Learn ways to create a welcoming virtual environment.
• Use interaction skills to build a human connection with candidates.

Competencies developed:

• Building Partnerships
• Earning Trust
• Selecting Talent

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

Your effectiveness as a leader depends on the relationships you build with the people who report to you. Watch a leader discover her misconceptions about what makes others feel valued. The story unfolds to explain the brain's alert system for detecting a lack of acceptance and how you can apply the most important skill for demonstrating respect.

Helps leaders:

• Understand the neuroscience behind our personal need to feel valued.
• Describe common misconceptions about valuing and respecting others.
• Apply the best skill for meeting our need to feel valued.

Competencies developed:

• Building Networks
• Building Partnerships

Although you can see how others' behavior affects trust in the organization, you might not recognize how your own behavior influences trust. Building trust is a gradual process, one interaction at a time. But it takes only a single action to break trust.

Helps individuals:

• Foster a work environment that encourages people to act with integrity.
• Create and protect a high-trust environment by setting an example.
• Reward others for demonstrating behaviors that cultivate trust.

Competencies developed:

• Creating a Culture of Trust
• Managing Relationships
• Emotional Intelligence Essentials

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

Successful, productive partnerships don't just happen. They require planning and ongoing maintenance. Having a well-thought-out partnership plan enables partners to communicate openly, relay important information, and identify and address areas that need improvement. This course focuses on the concepts of partnership and allyship as well as the strategies you can use to uplift your relationships at work.

Helps individuals:

• Recognize what constitutes a true partnership.
• Build mentorship and allyship relationships to empower and uplift others.
• Address challenges that can cause your partnerships to veer off course.
• Accomplish what you set out to do with your partners.
• Form lasting partnerships with people inside and outside the organization.

Competencies developed:

• Building Partnerships
• Managing Relationships
• Positive Approach

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

Leaders are introduced to the Identify, Engage, Advocate framework for inclusive action. Through a series of activities they learn the behaviors leader allies need to create an environment of psychological safety and an equitable workplace.

Helps leaders:

• Recognize the exclusionary behaviors happening around you and within your team and take action to counter them. 
• Develop everyday inclusive leadership habits using a memorable framework of three inclusive practices—Identify, Engage, and Advocate. 
• Model inclusive behaviors in a way that encourages your team members to embrace and practice these behaviors with others.  
• Build and nurture a psychologically safe environment where each person can participate freely, be themselves, and experience success. 

Competencies developed:

• Creating a Culture of Trust
• Creating an Inclusive Environment

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

Creating, maintaining, and retaining a high-performing workforce helps organizations remain competitive. This course focuses on the ways career coaching can develop employees by exploring the options and opportunities available to them.

Helps individuals:

• Recognize the importance of following the Key Principles to meet personal needs during a career conversation.
• Recognize the role of understanding goals, aspirations, and motivations in creating a career plan.
• Follow a career coaching conversation model to ensure effective career coaching.

Competencies developed:

• Coaching
• Developing Others
• Inspiring Others
• Emotional Intelligence Essentials

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

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

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

No matter where you are in the world, women outnumber men in the workplace, or soon will. Gender research indicates that it's not a skills issue; it’s a confidence issue. And confidence is tightly connected to the perception of competence, often determined by what you say and how you say it, and the impression that leaves.

Helps leaders:

• Reveal immediate actions they can take to raise confidence to a higher level.

Not all coaching situations are easy to navigate, especially when you’re a new leader. Read a challenging scenario and think about how you might handle the situation. Then, hear advice from a DDI coach who has been there about how to handle the challenge and avoid common mistakes.

Helps leaders:

• Think through a challenging coaching scenario.
• Get tips from a coach and how they would handle that situation.
• Learn how to avoid common first-time mistakes.
• See examples of how coaches plan for the coaching conversation.

Competencies developed:

• Coaching
• Coaching & Developing Others

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

Coaching is not only focused on career or performance. There are aspects in team members that leaders may not see. Using whole person coaching helps leaders meet the needs beyond the surface. Leaders will learn how to use the ACE coaching model and how it aligns with the Interaction Essentials^SM to meet the needs of a whole person.

Helps leaders:

• Understand whole person coaching and the importance of incorporating it at work.
• Analyze how to meet the needs of the whole person.  
• Practice applying coaching behaviors to meet the needs of team members.

Competencies developed:

• Coaching
• Coaching & Developing Others

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

You inspire, motivate, and influence team members every day to reach business goals. Learn three tips on making the most of your communications to maintain your consistent and authentic brand.

Helps leaders:

• Recognize how they communicate is as important as what they communicate.
• Adapt their communication style to connect more effectively.
• Craft communications to positively impact individuals, teams, organizations, and their own leadership brand.

Competencies developed:

• Building Partnerships
• Communication
• Emotional Intelligence Essentials
• Managing Relationships

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

Many conversations occur through email, conference call, team collaboration apps, instant messaging, or other digitally-enabled formats. We communicate with greater speed and efficiency than ever before, but it’s easy to be misunderstood, or for messages to have unintended, negative consequences. This course provides tips and tools to make sure virtual communications are clear and effective.

Helps leaders:

• Be reminded of the fundamental elements of communication.
• Evaluate their understanding of effective communications practices.  
• Discover methods for improving the clarity and receptivity of messages delivered virtually.
• Receive a wealth of actionable tips for improving communications across a variety of modalities (email, conference calls, etc.).

Competencies developed:

• Building Partnerships
• Communication
• Emotional Intelligence Essentials
• Managing Relationships

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

Each of us has a role to play in creating an environment where our colleagues can thrive, not in spite of what makes them unique, but because of it. This course focuses on how you can mitigate the effects of unconscious bias and nurture the culture of inclusivity.

Helps individuals:

• Identify the impact of unconscious bias.
• Recognize the value of inclusion.
• Gain awareness of unconscious bias, disrupt it, and act in ways that ensure fairness.
• Apply the Key Principles to meet people's need to feel valued and respected.

Competencies developed:

• Creating an Inclusive Environment
• Emotional Intelligence Essentials

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

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

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

Imagine a workplace culture where team members play to their strengths, help one another to be their best selves, and push forward awesome solutions. A coaching culture creates a safe space for these moments to blossom. In such a culture, learning can come from a variety of sources: peers, managers, direct reports, and external coaches. When everyone in a company can be a coach, everyone benefits.

Helps leaders:

• Evaluate the current coaching mindset of themselves in comparison with their work group.
• Discover actions they can take to foster a safe working environment.
• Receive actionable tips for modeling and promoting effective coaching behaviors.

Competencies developed:

• Coaching
• Coaching & Developing Others

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

Do you know everything you need to know to succeed in your job? Is your work becoming more complex? Are you struggling to keep up with technology? Your job probably demands more of you than ever before. Maybe you're working cross-functionally or in settings that require a broader skill set than was required in a more traditional role. Even though you have more information than people doing similar jobs did 5 or 10 years ago, you probably have a smaller portion of the information you need to be successful.

Helps individuals:

• Identify the information or expertise they need and where to get it.
• Establish and maintain their network contacts and relationships.
• Secure the help they need now and in the future.
• Expand and reshape their business network.

Digital technology and data are helping organizations transform into more responsive, nimble, and inclusive cultures. Information is abundant, yet leaders are making more and more decisions in the midst of uncertainty. To lead through transformation effectively, leaders must get the right information and form accurate insights.  Then, they can accelerate actions.  

Helps individuals:

• Learn about decision making in transformation-orientated organizational cultures. 
• Discover methods to effectively collect and analyze information.
• Learn how to propose, vet, and select alternative courses of action. 
• Prepare to confidently decide and accelerate action.

Competencies developed:

• Decision Making

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

Some people on your team need development to meet minimum job requirements. Others need to prepare for future opportunities such as new job responsibilities, upcoming assignments, or a promotion. Address both types of development needs with some help from a Development Action Planner, a handy tool that both you and team members can use to plan a development effort.

Helps leaders:

• Assess development needs of their team members.
• Examine the ways team members can acquire knowledge, skills, or competencies.
• Recognize the importance of applying newly acquired competencies to job.
• Create a plan for development of team members.

Competencies developed:

• Coaching
• Developing Others
• Guiding Team Success

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

Understand how your coach qualities (motivations, style, and personal attributes) affect your ability to coach effectively. Everyone is different and it’s important to understand how to leverage your unique qualities.

Helps leaders:

• Discover how their coach qualities influence their coaching impact.
• Learn tips to make the most of their unique strengths and avoid risks.
• Prepare for their next coaching opportunity using new self-insights learned.

Competencies developed:

• Coaching

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

Unlock the secret to high performance! When your team members’ personal goals and career aspirations complement and support the organization's goals, they are more driven to stay focused and put their best foot forward. Continuous performance management keeps that drive in high gear, while your leaders (and the organization) enjoy the benefits of an engaged, high-performing team.

Helps leaders:

• Understand the value in performance discussions.
• Discover the roles and responsibilities of leaders and direct reports in effective performance discussions.
• Create development goals that are aligned to both individual goals and the goals of the organization.
• Uncover tips for fostering a psychologically safe environment.
• Learn how to provide meaningful feedback.

Competencies developed:

• Aligning Performance for Success
• Building Talent
• Coaching

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

Achieving the goals of an organization requires the coordinated efforts of many people. Results are produced when priorities are set and tracked, and team members are committed to achieving results. This course focuses on the ways a business or an organization can drive for its desired results.

Helps individuals:

• Recognize the importance of the performance plan in achieving results.
• Align a personal or team performance plan effectively with the goals of the organization.
• Identify methods to track individual or team performance.

Competencies developed:

• Driving for Results
• Aligning Performance for Success
• Building Talent

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

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.

Quiet quitting is the new hot topic; however, it’s not new in the workplace. Also known as employee disengagement, leaders will learn to recognize the causes and symptoms of quiet quitting and learn strategies to re-engage and prevent this from happening on their teams.

Helps leaders:

• Understand the meaning of quiet quitting and its causes.
• Recognize signs of quiet quitting.
• Examine purpose, respect, and growth opportunities to prevent quiet quitting.

Competencies developed:

• Building Organizational Talent
• Developing Others
• Energizing the Organization

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

The speed of work and ever-increasing demands on employees' talents and time can leave them burned out and, possibly, on their way out. Leaders can pivot to prevent team burnout, but they often won't know what to look for or how to address it before it escalates. 

Helps leaders:

• Learn the signs of burnout and where it's coming from.
• How to take action to protect their team.  

Competencies developed:

• Creating a Culture of Trust
• Inspiring Others

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

Would your team members say they are highly satisfied with their jobs? If they're not truly engaged, inspired, or appreciated, they might not perform at their best, or worse, they might begin to check out and leave. Evaluate your current engagement efforts, then learn simple but powerful ways you can motivate and engage your team, and yourself, every day.

Helps leaders:

• Evaluate themselves on how they're currently doing with engaging their team members.
• Understand their critical role as a leader in engaging talent.
• Review actionable tips for motivating their people as well as themselves every day.

Competencies developed:

• Inspiring Others

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

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

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.

Transitioning from being an individual contributor to a leader can be exhilarating, overwhelming, and intimidating all at once. Many leaders confront some common challenges while establishing themselves as a leader. This course focuses on how you can set out on your leadership journey with credibility and confidence.

Helps individuals:

• Accelerate their transition into their new role as a leader.
• Focus their time and efforts on high-priority tasks and activities.
• Effectively lead their team to contribute to organizational goals and objectives.

Competencies developed:

• Leadership Disposition
• Leveraging Feedback
• Guiding Team Success
• Coaching
• Inspiring Others

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

As a new leader, you've been identified as having the potential for achieving great things. You're probably excited and perhaps a little concerned. That's to be expected. You'll learn about how to address those concerns and, in the process, start performing your new leadership role with confidence and credibility.

Helps leaders:

• Create a strategy to accelerate their transition into the new role as a leader.
• Apply three leadership accelerators to quickly accomplish results by building successful working relationships with their team members.
• Align their team's efforts to ensure that they support the organization's business strategies.
• Use a tool and other resources to help determine priorities.
• Assess strengths and growth areas for each of their team members.

Providing a direct report with feedback for improvement can be one of your most challenging, least favorite interactions. This structured approach can make such discussions much more comfortable and collegial. Neuroscience explains how using this approach can help you avoid common pitfalls and achieve your intended results.

Helps leaders:

• Understand the neuroscience behind the reaction to feedback for improvement.
• Identify common mistakes to avoid.
• Apply a feedback model that sparks better performance and maintains a positive relationship.

Competencies developed:

• Coaching and Developing Others
• Communication
• Leveraging Feedback

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

Research makes a compelling case for praise as a driver of employee performance. Yet giving praise can be harder than you might think, thanks to some common hidden biases. In an example a leader who intends to deliver praise finds that his approach is falling flat. You'll learn why. Also, you'll discover how to make your positive feedback sincere and meaningful.

Helps leaders:

• Understand the research and neuroscience that explains why praise is important.
• Recognize hidden biases that trip up leaders.
• Use the best, most authentic way to provide positive feedback. 

Competencies developed:

• Coaching and Developing Others
• Communication
• Leveraging Feedback

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

What do working on challenging assignments, learning new skills, improving performance, repeating successful performance, or finding new solutions to old problems have in common? All these situations could benefit from the advice and counsel of a good coach. In the short term, your coaching can help someone accomplish a task or solve a problem; in the long term, it can help people develop to their fullest potential.

Helps leaders:

• Involve people and motivate them to do their best.
• Respond when people resist feedback.
• Help someone with a personal problem without getting in over their head.

Some of the most difficult interactions are with employees who suddenly become emotional. Participants learn about the neuroscience behind emotions and three common approaches that make negative feelings worse. They’ll also learn about how to use empathy to help an upset employee return to a calm, productive state.

Helps leaders:

• Understand the neuroscience of handling the emotional response.
• Identify three approaches that make responding to emotion and upset worse.
• Use the number-one skill to effectively handle and defuse emotion.

Competencies developed:

• Coaching
• Courage
• Emotional Intelligence Essentials

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

Being a human-centered leader involves meeting the personal and practical needs of team members. Learn how you can be a human-centered leader in your organization.

Helps leaders:

• Ensure team members' practical and personal needs are met.
• Support team members' needs.
• Model Human-Centered Leadership.

Competencies developed:

• Emotional Intelligence Essentials
• Communication

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

In today's ever-evolving organizations, leaders need to get things done through people who don't report to them and, in some cases, even outrank them. Welcome to the new age of influence, where, to be effective, you must know the techniques that will help you earn people's commitment to make things happen.

Helps individuals:

• Capture people's attention, change their perspective, and make things happen.
• Clearly link ideas, suggestions, and recommendations to changes that will have a positive impact on individual, team, and organizational performance.
• Express themselves with enthusiasm and conviction.
• Understand people's motivations, needs, and concerns, and gain their commitment.

Competencies developed:

• Influencing

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

The Interaction Essentials are powerful skills for having meaningful and productive conversations with others. But there are times when we miss opportunities to use these skills or even misapply them. Participants challenge themselves to determine how these skills are used in four scenarios.

Helps individuals:

• Identify Key Principles used in a short conversation segment.
• Identify Interaction Guidelines used in a short conversation segment.

Competencies developed:

• Building Partnerships
• Communication
• Emotional Intelligence Essentials
• Managing Relationships

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

Retaining the people in your group means more than cultivating harmony and productivity in the workplace. It also translates directly to the organization's bottom line: Turnover is costly—hiring and then training people consumes money, time, and resources. It leads to lost sales and productivity. If you think that most people leave a job simply for more money, you're wrong. Most people leave a job because of a poor relationship with their leader. In fact, the immediate leader is the one person with the greatest impact on a person's decision to stay with or leave an organization.

Helps leaders:

• Understand the business impact of turnover on the organization, the work group, and the leader.
• Recognize the leader's critical role in retaining organizational talent.
• Identify the interests and expectations that have the strongest effect on a person's desire to stay in or leave a position.
• Use probing skills, Key Principles, Interaction Guidelines, and process skills to identify and address sources of dissatisfaction.
• Develop solutions to address retention issues for individuals and the work group.

Are you constantly busy with too many top priorities to juggle? Are you expected to get something done by a certain date or time, but you're not even sure how to get started? In today's fast-paced business world, almost everyone faces these kinds of pressures. Successful people are able to sort through them and adapt while maintaining high levels of performance. They succeed in part by using some proven tips and tools. You can use them, too, to avoid productivity pitfalls and improve your performance and on-time record.

Helps individuals:

• Keep track of time and tasks.
• Organize their work area.
• Establish step-by-step plans, complete with contingency actions.

The hybrid workplace is the hottest trend all over the world right now, and by all indications, it is here to stay. Employees are demanding flexible work. And if they don’t get it, they’re ready to walk out the door. This course focuses on the skills to effectively lead hybrid teams.

Helps leaders:

• Deal with the challenges and pitfalls related to leading a hybrid team.
• Build the five key leadership skills to succeed in the hybrid workplace.
• Engage hybrid teams and deliver results.

Competencies developed:

• Leading Teams
• Creating a Culture of Trust
• Emotional Intelligence Essentials

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

Imagine leading team members whom you’ve never or rarely met in person and who might never have met one another. Do they feel isolated, confused, or insecure? Do you? Even with the challenges of working remotely, you can enable your team to achieve optimal performance.

Helps leaders:

• Recognize challenges of leading virtual teams.
• Learn about six factors that indicate a team’s performance level.
• Observe signs that a factor needs to be strengthened.
• Plan to strengthen a factor on their virtual team.

Competencies developed:

• Guiding Team Success 
• Creating a Culture of Trust 

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

In today’s global economy, virtual meetings are more frequent than ever. Whether you need to find an alternative for a face-to-face meeting or you must regularly communicate with distributed or remote employees, leading your meetings effectively – using process and personal techniques – is critical for team collaboration and decision making. 

Helps individuals:

• Learn more about virtual meeting pitfalls. 
• Evaluate individual process and personal orientations.  
• Discover methods for improving meeting productivity and audience engagement.

Competencies developed:

• Communication
• Driving for Results
• Planning and Organizing

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

When team members have skill and experience, they're likely to produce acceptable results. In today's business environment, however, teams often are under pressure to produce more than just acceptable results. As the leader, you can proactively create conditions that allow your team to reach peak performance quickly and without undue strain on any individuals.

Helps leaders:

• Fulfill their role as a leader of guiding their team to reach high performance.
• Focus their team's efforts on high-priority actions that are aligned to organization goals and strategies.
• Create an environment where team members strive harder to realize the team's potential

Competencies developed:

• Guiding Team Success
• Creating a Culture of Trust

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

Knowing what to delegate and when can be a challenge, particularly with new leaders. How can leaders become more comfortable with the shift from ‘doing’ to ‘letting go'?

Helps leaders:

• Overcome their hesitation to delegate by exploring the benefits of letting go.
• Determine the best ways to allocate work to promote growth and achieve key business results.
• Give team members more responsibility for and more authority over tasks they've delegated to them.

Competencies developed:

• Delegation and Empowerment
• Building Talent

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

Do you value the unique qualities you and your coworkers bring to the workplace? Did you know that people expressing their differences actually enhances an organization's growth? Valuing differences is the right thing to do from both an interpersonal and a business perspective. By leveraging diverse styles, abilities, and motivations (SAMs), you encourage creative solutions and unique approaches that enable your organization to achieve improved results.

Helps individuals:

• Determine their own styles, abilities, and motivations.
• Work more collaboratively and productively with people who have a variety of styles, abilities, and motivations.
• Use Key Principles to support differences and encourage others to share their unique contributions.

Competencies developed:

• Creating a Culture of Trust
• Creating an Inclusive Environment

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

Making decisions in today’s business environment allows little time to think about an opportunity when it presents itself. Decisions must be made quickly, or the opportunities can disappear while you’re still thinking. But making rapid decisions is not about being hurried or thoughtless. It comes from having methods in place that help you handle decisions effectively.

Helps leaders:

• Make quality decisions even when pressed for time.
• Cut through ambiguity and complexity to identify the best decision in the time available.
• Rely on experience, good judgment, and leadership intuition to make decisions.
• Make speedy decisions they can adjust or reverse later, if necessary.

Competencies developed:

• Operational Decision Making

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

Your meetings have many uses: relaying information, solving problems, developing ideas, updating people, building commitment, or making decisions. Meetings exist to meet these practical needs in the first place. But to be truly effective, a meeting also must address participants' personal needs. When people leave a meeting believing their time was well spent and their participation was useful, then you know your meeting was a success.

Helps individuals:

• Plan a meeting they are about to lead.
• Create a meeting planner that prepares them to lead a productive meeting.
• Facilitate effective meetings.
• Follow up after a meeting to ensure that desired outcomes are achieved.

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

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

There are currently five generations in the workplace—the most ever. Longevity trends indicate this will remain the case, with half of children under age 13 predicted to live to 104. Experts agree that people will both need and want to work longer than the traditional retirement age. How do you ensure everyone’s needs are met, regardless of age?

Helps leaders:

• Challenge common assumptions about how people are based on their generation.
• Highlight real, data-based obstacles that affect multigenerational teams.
• Provide actionable tips/best practices for managing an age diverse team.

Competencies developed:

• Creating an Inclusive Environment

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

Risk taking is necessary for a business or organization to grow and realize its full potential. Managing the risks that can have a negative impact ensures the stability and continued growth of the organization. This course focuses on elements of risk management and the practices used to build an effective risk culture.

Helps individuals:

• Recognize the importance of managing risks effectively.
• Collaborate and share information to manage risks.
• Use best practices to build a powerful risk culture.

Competencies developed:

• Entrepreneurship
• Monitoring Information

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

Are you ready for a change in your role, but not sure how to know if a particular position will be right for you? Or maybe you know exactly what you want but don’t know how to land the job. This course will help participants think through goals and motivations, and then gather robust examples of strengths based on experience. They’ll also get tips for navigating the interview, from starting the conversation in a positive manner, to providing complete examples of skills and abilities, to closing in a way that conveys interest in the position.

Helps individuals:

• Identify strengths and gaps in knowledge, skills, experience, and motivations.
• Decide whether they’re a good match for a job and an organization and whether the job and organization are right for them.
• Prepare behavioral examples for use in an interview that demonstrate how they’ve effectively used their skills in the past.
• Anticipate and be prepared to face a variety of interview challenges.

Competencies developed:

• Continuous Learning

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

Change can be disorienting. When people must give up old ways of thinking and working while adapting to something new and unfamiliar, they can feel unsure, confused, or even afraid. It's only natural that some people will resist change—especially when they can't control it. You can overcome that resistance by encouraging people's understanding, ownership, and trust.

Helps individuals:

• Use the Interaction Guidelines to discuss the change and involve people in developing their own ideas for adapting to it.
• Use the Key Principles to address people's feelings and concerns about the change and build trust.

Workplace burnout is much more than bad stress, and the symptoms are much greater. The external and internal factors that cause burnout are unique to each person. Leaders learn what factors can trigger personal burnout, how to protect themselves, and techniques for recovering if they’re already headed there. 

Helps leaders:

• Discover what workplace burnout is and the symptoms it manifests.
• Conduct a personal inventory to self-diagnose possible burnout within themselves.
• Explore external and internal factors that can trigger their own journey into burnout.
• Review interventions for heading off burnout as well as individual techniques for recovery.

Competencies developed:

• Stress Tolerance
• Adaptability
• Energy
• Positive Approach

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

Attracting, hiring, and retaining the best and diverse talent is a key challenge organizations face today. An inefficient or subjective hiring process can be one of the reasons. This course focuses on the panel interviewing technique which can reduce the risk of making a biased hiring decision by gaining perspective from more than one person.

Helps individuals:

• Identify the advantages of a panel interview.
• Recognize the common risks and pitfalls involved in a panel interview.
• Conduct an efficient panel interview that will have a positive impact on the candidate.

Competencies developed:

• Selecting Talent

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

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

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

Difficult conversations are usually something we want to avoid, mostly because of the negative feelings associated with them. How do you adapt your approach to be more effective and stay focused on a harmonious solution? Within this course, participants will discover techniques and tools to navigate these conversations.

Helps leaders: 

• Identify pitfalls when having difficult conversations.
• Understand your personal approach and how to adapt it to be more effective.

Competencies developed:

• Coaching
• Coaching & Developing Others
• Courage
• Initiating Action

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

There's one motto almost everyone can relate to: "Make it fast and make it good." In today's competitive marketplace, people are pressed to achieve higher quality, faster results, and lower costs. But balancing these requirements can be difficult. Pay too much attention to quality, and time and costs can swell. Focus too much on speed, and quality might drop. Misdirect your focus, and these demands can start to hamper your productivity in a big way.

Helps individuals:

• Recognize challenges to productivity. 
• Gain tips for prioritizing work, leveraging resources, and staying focused on results. 
• Test their ability to stay productive. ​

Competencies developed:

• Planning and Organizing

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

Do you wish your meetings or interactions could be more productive? Five easy steps will help make sure that all important information is covered, people are engaged and committed, and discussion goals are achieved. No longer will you and your team members wonder who is supposed to do what, by when. 

Helps individuals:

• Improve the efficiency of communications.
• Achieve discussion goals and objectives.

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

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

The differences people bring to the workplace can promote remarkable creativity, innovation, and solutions. However, those same differences can lead to a lack of agreement (discord) and, if left unresolved, to a full-blown argument (dispute). You can feel the effects of conflict on yourself as well as those around you—tension, stress, lower morale. If the situation continues, it can damage relationships, productivity, quality, and service.

Helps individuals:

• Use the Interaction Guidelines to uncover the causes of a conflict and develop a solution that everyone can support.
• Use the Key Principles to show that they value the other person's ideas, build trust, and encourage the person toward resolution.

Competencies developed:

• Emotional Intelligence Essentials
• Resolving Conflict

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

One of the biggest risks organizations face is losing high-performing employees in a competitive talent market. Leaders have a direct role in influencing the common drivers of employee satisfaction. Discover how you can proactively retain talented and motivated employees, regardless of external forces in the market.

Helps leaders:

• Identify the impact of employee turnover on the organization.
• Recognize the leader's critical role in retaining organizational talent.
• Identify the drivers that have the strongest effect on a person's desire to stay in or leave a position.
• Identify and address sources of employee dissatisfaction.
• Recognize strategies to address retention issues.

Competencies developed:

• Building Organizational Talent

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

Setting goals is critical for managing performance. When the goals you set are SMART, you, your team, or your manager know exactly what to expect and can better manage changes.

Helps individuals:

• Recognize the importance of creating SMART goals.
• Create performance goals that are specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time bound.
• Recognize the importance of sharing responsibility when creating performance goals.

Competencies developed:

• Aligning Performance for Success
• Influencing
• Guiding Team Success
• Leading Teams

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

Employees want a supportive leader, but what does that really mean? Participants learn about four types of support they can provide to boost performance while keeping accountability with direct reports. They'll also learn more about how to gauge when to provide proactive support and when to hold off on coming to the rescue.

Helps leaders:

• Recognize the types of “support” to avoid.
• Identify signs that they can improve how to provide support.
• Select and apply methods for providing support.

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

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

Meetings expert Steven Rogelberg challenges leaders to get creative and try new meeting approaches that are efficient and energizing. Find out how standing meetings and short daily huddles can address team needs.

Helps individuals:

• Be prompted to try new ways of meeting.
• Gain insight into the research about quick meetings.
• Understand how different industries have applied huddles to solve problems.
• Plan a huddle for their team.

Competencies developed:

• Communication
• Driving for Results
• Planning and Organizing

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

Organizations need their new hires to become productive quickly, be fully engaged, and committed to stay with the organization. It all begins by providing new hires with a strong start. This course guides leaders on how to execute an effective onboarding process.

Helps leaders:

• Discover the importance of an effective onboarding process.  
• Learn methods to build trust with new employees.
• Receive tips for setting clear performance expectations.
• Learn how to help new employees build a purposeful and courageous business network.
• Prepare to implement a new hire’s 90-day development plan.

Competencies developed:

• Coaching
• Coaching & Developing Others
• Initiating Action 

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

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

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

In today's competitive business environment, each person is responsible for taking his or her own development seriously. Your job as a manager is to support people as they develop their leadership skills. In doing so, you play the role of catalyst, energizing and guiding people toward a common goal and making things happen. For many managers, this role doesn't come easily.

Helps leaders:

• Recognize the importance of their role as a catalyst in developing leaders within the organization.
• Recognize when they need to demonstrate a new skill or coach and reinforce others' use of a new skill and why it's important.
• Develop a personal strategy for having an impact on leaders' development.
• Use a set of tools and techniques that support leadership development.

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.

This course equips learners with an important skill set that is essential to providing high-quality customer service. These essential skills will help service providers turn dissatisfied, upset customers into satisfied, loyal ones.

Helps individuals:

• Recognize the business impact of customer retention on their organization.
• Identify the differences between two types of customers—“walkers” and “talkers”—and explain the importance of encouraging walkers to talk about their dissatisfaction.
• Apply a set of skills (HEAT) that will enable them to identify and respond to dissatisfied customers.
• Use a set of best practices for taking the “heat” to turn difficult customer situations into positive interactions.

Competencies developed:

• Building Customer Loyalty
• Building Customer Relationships
• Communication
• Influencing
• Sustaining Customer Satisfaction

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

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

Hiring a job candidate shouldn't be a guessing game. How well an interview is conducted can mean the difference between hiring the right person from the start and having to dive repeatedly into the candidate pool. This is an important responsibility as choosing the right candidate helps to ensure organizational success and employee satisfaction.

Helps leaders:

• Ensure that the best candidates are attracted to the organization and accept job offers.
• Treat job candidates with respect.
• Manage the pace of interviews.
• Collect information to help predict how candidates will perform in the job.
• Evaluate the information collected in interviews.

Everyone has unconscious biases—they’re the result of the way the brain handles the millions of bits of information bombarding us daily. But our biases can get in the way of our good intentions, limit our own success, and cause us to deny development opportunities to others. This microcourse helps learners become aware of their own biases in order to make better decisions.

Helps individuals:

• Learn how the brain influences reactions to the world around them.
• Review common biases and gain insights into their own behavior.
• Interrupt their biases to make better decisions.

Competencies developed:

• Creating a Culture of Trust
• Creating an Inclusive Environment

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

An engaged, committed group is one of the most powerful assets to have when it comes to achieving  team goals. Watch a leader apply an involvement technique that yields great results with a team that seems to be hanging back. Along with the technique, participants learn about pitfalls to avoid as well as the neuroscience behind encouraging employee initiative.

Helps leaders:

• Identify mistakes and pitfalls to avoid.
• Apply insights from neuroscience to unleash initiative.
• Use a seeking technique to spark greater involvement.

Wellbeing in the workplace is a key element to prevent burnout and decrease high turnover rates. Leaders will learn the four dimensions of wellbeing and how to incorporate them in the workplace. Learn how to promote wellbeing and analyze what your organization needs.

Helps leaders:

• Understand the wellbeing dimensions and the importance of incorporating them at work.
• Analyze missing wellbeing dimensions in your organization.
• Cultivate the four dimensions in your organization.
• Demonstrate wellbeing at work in your organization.

Competencies developed:

• Adaptability
• Stress Tolerance

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.

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

Microcourses are exclusively available with a leadership development subscription.