Become a Leader

Overview

Learn to become a leader others will want to follow. By first developing yourself as a leader, you can take on the most challenging leadership responsibilities: establishing and executing your strategic vision, executing against that vision, and harnessing your most powerful competitive advantage, your people.

Learn the mindset, perspective, and skills required to move from management to a formal leadership role.
Build the next generation of leaders.
Establish and execute on your strategic vision.

Syllabus

Course 1: Transitioning from Manager to Leader

Shift your mindset from manager to leader, enhancing personal growth. Learn how to increase self-awareness and emotional intelligence, expand strategic scope, and identify talent.

Course 2: Emerging Leader Foundations

Grow your career as a leader by learning how to manage yourself, hire and coach employees, and create a diverse and collaborative workplace.

Course 3: Developing Your Leadership Philosophy

Define and share your own authentic leadership philosophy in this hands-on course.

Course 4: Leading Effectively

Become a more effective leader using the concept of "leadership capital": a deliberate approach to investing your time and energy in your team members.

Course 5: Leading with Emotional Intelligence

Get concrete techniques for boosting your emotional quotient (EQ) to better lead teams, work with peers, and manage up.

Course 6: Leading through Relationships

Make a positive impact on your company—and your own career—by learning how to lead through relationships. Get techniques for managing the human side of your work as a leader.

Course 7: Prioritizing Effectively as a Leader

Learn how to set priorities as a leader. See how to understand what priorities matter for your organization, and how you and your team can take action accordingly.

Course 8: Developing Credibility as a Leader

Learn how to establish and demonstrate credibility as a leader. Get tips for boosting your credibility with your team and bouncing back if your credibility has been damaged.

Course 9: Developing Executive Presence

Explains how the "elusive" quality of executive presence actually can be developed to help you stand out from the crowd, gain leadership opportunities, and be successful as a leader.

Course 10: Leading with Purpose

Learn how to lead with purpose. Use purpose to connect employees to your company, inspire innovation, increase revenue, and emerge as a highly regarded leader.

Taught by

Sara Canaday, Dan Schawbel, Mike Figliuolo, Mike Figliuolo, Britt Andreatta, PhD, Dr. Simon T. Bailey, DBA, CSP, CPAE, Dorie Clark, Dorie Clark, John Ullmen, PhD and Lisa Earle McLeod