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Leadership and Supervising Others
Develops and Empowers
The world needs leaders who can create a compelling vision and engage others around it. Visionary leaders are able to communicate what lies beyond the horizon and inspire confidence. They attract talent to the organization and motivate team members to make more effective decisions. In this course, CEO Bonnie Hagemann shows corporate and community leaders how to lead with vision, breaking visionary leadership down into steps that anyone can follow. Discover why it's needed, why it's lacking, and how you can fill the gap. Then find out how to build your personal vision and gain the skills and tools to build a vision for your organization, division, department, team, community cause, or nonprofit.
LinkedIn Learning E-course, 1 hour 17 minutes
Up to 70 percent of today's workforce is disengaged. Perks, promotions, or pay can temporarily re-engage employees, but it's meaning that does it on a consistent basis. Meaning is proven to unlock the deepest level of engagement, as well as the peak performance that goes with it. This course teaches leaders how to motivate their teams by creating meaning. Best-selling author and speaker Scott Mautz describes the six markers of meaning—the conditions leaders can foster to create meaning in and at work—and practical ways to implement them. Learn how to define a shared purpose, provide opportunities for growth, create a learning environment, grant autonomy, and more. These actionable techniques are key to making work matter and enhancing the personal growth and fulfillment of all your staff.
LinkedIn Learning E-course, 35 minutes
Start E-course: How Leaders Can Motivate Others by Creating Meaning
Outcome Focused
As a leader, developing a growth mindset is key to your success. The way you overcome challenges, build relationships, and cultivate a positive culture all stems from your mental agility. In this course, instructor Karen Allen shows you how to strengthen your greatest asset: your mindset. As she explains, your mindset is how you see life and forms the basis for how you live and treat others. Karen illustrates how leaders who operate with a growth mindset create a thriving work environment that fosters more innovation, collaboration, and compassion. Throughout the course, she shows how to focus your mindset to make your brain stronger, and gives you the skills and techniques to help you build a growth mindset to improve your communication, develop other members of your team, and build a culture of trust.
LinkedIn Learning E-course, 39 minutes
The theory behind change management is that you're going from one state to another. But constant change is the new normal. In this new world of work, organizational leaders need agile strategies to keep up with the pace of change and ensure that they're focused on the right things. In this course, eParachute co-founder Gary Bolles outlines what it means to become an adaptive organization, including decisions made about who to hire, what the company values as important, how to align processes, how to think about risk, and what behavior senior leaders need to model for the rest of the organization.
LinkedIn Learning E-course, 1 hour
Train, Develop, Coach
Harness the power of coaching in the workplace. Learn how to shift from a command-and-control style of management to a manager-as-coach style of leadership to transform employee engagement and bottom-line results. Join leadership coach Lisa Gates, as she explains how to establish a coaching relationship with your reports. Lisa shows how skills like open-ended question asking, listening, challenging for growth, and accountability can increase your employees' autonomy and problem-solving capacities. Learn how to overcome bias and coach inclusively, how to coach remotely, and how to implement simple, repeatable coaching frameworks. The course includes assessments, exercises, and tools to help your team capture goals, map a career trajectory, and accelerate growth, along with sample coaching conversations to help you see these tips in practice and understand their potential impact on your people, productivity, and results.
LinkedIn Learning E-course, 1 hour 25 minutes
Of all the changes, promotions, and advancements you may receive at work, few are as impactful as the change from individual contributor to manager. Besides a whole host of new responsibilities, being a manager requires an entirely new way of approaching your job, and some may make that transition easier than others. In this course, Jenny Blake helps those whose job it is to support this role—manager of managers, HR—by offering a plan of action to help new managers make the big leap into their new role. She covers the importance of helping new managers form a mindset that prioritizes outcomes over individual contributions, how to help new managers build confidence, and how to foster experimentation so that they can find what works best for them. This course gives you the tools to help acclimate new managers and shift their focus from working in the team, to working on the team.
LinkedIn Learning E-course, 30 minutes
As remote and hybrid workers express concerns about feeling disconnected and business challenges become more complex, peer-to-peer coaching has emerged as an exceptional solution to bolster the employee experience. Providing added support, boosting engagement, and enabling skills development are critical to the success of your business, especially during challenging times.
In this course, Sara Canaday offers practical tips and step-by-step guidance for effective peer-to-peer coaching. Get a comprehensive overview of this unique practice that allows employees to share challenges, observations, feedback, and problem-solving techniques with same-level colleagues in a structured format based on coaching best practices. As you progress through the course, Sara shows you how to apply proven strategies and insights to leverage this collaborative approach to promote professional growth, all the while preparing you to become a leader-coach yourself and take steps to advance your career.
LinkedIn Learning E-course, 39 minutes
Start E-course: Peer Coaching for Leaders, Managers and Teams
Learning from a mentor is an invaluable professional experience. Your mentor guides you, shares perspective, and serves as an important member of your network. But how do you become the type of mentor who can do all of these things? A mentor who’s always there for others often seems like an impossible ideal. In this course, Dr. Ruth Gotian explores what it means to truly become a mentor who inspires others. Ruth leverages her many years as a tenured executive and professional coach to highlight the important role that mentors can play in success.
Learn about the specific roles of a mentor and the steps you can take to be effective in those roles. Get tips on how to give your mentor exactly what they need—long before they even need it. Discover the rewards of high-level sponsorship and what a good sponsor looks like in practice. Upon completing this course, you'll have the skills you need to get ready and start mentoring others for success in their professional lives.
LinkedIn Learning E-course, 47 minutes
Recognition
If you’re a manager, paying attention to employee engagement is crucial. The ways in which you recognize and value the contributions of your employees can make or break the success of your team. But how do you build new practices for sincerity and recognition when traditional approaches no longer seem to work? In this course, instructor Christopher Littlefield shows you a practical, evidence-based approach to recognition that can help your employees feel valued and respected as individuals, so they’re committed to your team and organization long term.
Explore skills fit for modern-day managers to cultivate lasting forms of engagement, promote employee retention, and create a healthy, sustainable work culture. Christopher gives you tips leading diverse, multicultural teams, regardless of your background or level of leadership experience. By the end of this course, you’ll be equipped with a more effective management mindset, replete with new methods and tools for daily action.
LinkedIn Learning E-course, 32 minutes
Start E-course: How to Build a Culture of Appreciation as a Manager
Gone are the days when rewards and recognition could be centered around tangible goods like how many widgets a worker assembled. The knowledge, gig, and global economies require major changes to how leaders recognize and reward workers in ways to drive performance. In this course, behavioral science expert Beck Saltzman shows you how to employ recognition and reward strategies for motivating workers in the modern economy. Learn how to measure the real impact of recognition and rewards, optimize the right kind and avoid the wrong kind of recognition, make rewards personally and culturally relevant, finesse the timing of recognition, and step up your efforts when times are tough. Use these techniques to celebrate your team’s wins and create a culture of recognition—complete with performance dividends—for your entire organization.
LinkedIn Learning E-course, 37 minutes
It’s no secret that high achievers are more productive, but how do you get them, unlock their productivity, and keep them satisfied and challenged by their work? In this course, instructor Dr. Ruth Gotian shows you why high achievers are crucial for business success, how your organization can avoid common blind spots, and how to identify what your high performers want so you can give it to them and raise the bar.
Explore the importance of high achievers as problem-solvers, puzzlers, and innovators. Get tips on where most organizations fail their highest achievers by focusing on the wrong people, avoiding change, flatlining company culture, and not promoting advancement. Discover the secret to retaining high performers and giving them exactly what they want: from metrics and engagement to praise, recognition, mentorship, and values-based development.
LinkedIn Learning E-course, 39 minutes
Other Must-Have Skills for Managers
Great leaders focus on the most important priorities. But in a busy work environment, we have to learn to choose wisely. In this course, Dorie Clark equips leaders with tips for managing this balancing act with confidence. Learn how to understand what matters in your organization—and how you and your team can take action accordingly. See how to make your priorities real by explaining the context behind these priorities to your team, crafting detailed implementation plans, and helping employees think through their own workflow.
LinkedIn Learning E-course, 36 minutes
Organizations often add complexity for employees, which can lead to frustration and decreased productivity. In this course, Lisa Bodell equips leaders with proven techniques for prioritizing valuable work when everything feels like an emergency.
Beginning with a quick diagnostic exercise, she helps you determine if you’re unwittingly creating complexity for your teams. From here, Lisa lays out the formula for simplification: from a time-audit and identification of pointless rules to a simplification mantra and framework for productive meetings. Finally, she provides actionable steps for simplifying everything from decision-making to performance reviews.
LinkedIn Learning E-Course, 47 minutes
One thing is for certain: Your organization will constantly be changing. It's inevitable. Individuals and teams that adapt to change can position themselves to act on opportunities. In this course, you can learn how to build more adaptable teams. First, learn about complexity and ambiguity—and see just how easy it is to give in to chaos and being overwhelmed. However, instructor Timothy Smith offers solutions, showing how to build flexibility, growth, and courage mindset. Finally, find out how to improve your critical thinking skills and become a better conflict manager.
LinkedIn Learning E-course, 40 minutes
LinkedIn Learning E-course, 37 minutes
Leaders must model accountability to the rest of the organization to create trust and establish their own credibility. Employees must be held accountable for their work, both as individuals and within teams. When leaders and employees are accountable, this creates a culture of accountability, which becomes part of the organization's brand promise. In this course, leadership consultant and executive coach Mike Figliuolo reveals how to create a culture of accountability by developing accountability at the individual level, team level, and brand level. Along the way, he shows how to set employee expectations, create incentives, and align the practice of accountability with the values of your organization.
LinkedIn Learning E-course, 29 minutes
Get ready for DEI success with this practical, straightforward course from DEI expert, Dr. Nika White. Find out how to drive meaningful change in DEI initiatives. Learn about the consequences of a lack of accountability in DEI efforts and the benefits of holding leaders accountable for DEI outcomes. Explore ways to build an accountability framework for DEI and learn the key components of an effective DEI accountability. Go over how to tailor accountability frameworks to organizational goals, as well as strategies for setting and tracking measurable DEI goals. Plus, discover how you can use data to assess outcomes and drive improvement.
LinkedIn Learning E-course, 47 minutes
Start E-course: Accountability for Leaders: Navigating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
In the modern workplace, emotional intelligence drives successful leadership. In this course, leadership speaker, bestselling author, and executive coach Christopher Connors presents practical, actionable guidance on building self-awareness, and the skills to lead effectively in a workplace that has been transformed. Learn how to apply emotional intelligence in a skills-first organization, blend emotional intelligence with psychological safety, inspire your people, lead change, and more. Plus, go through six scenarios that demonstrate emotional intelligence in action.
LinkedIn Learning E-course, 1 hour 15 minutes
Leaders often have misconceptions about what empathy at work looks like in practice, yet it is an essential skill for anyone looking to successfully lead today. In today's world where rapid change comes at us every single day, leaders must quickly build strong relationships with people, whether they're employees or customers, in order to better collaborate and engage. In this course, Maria Ross helps you identify the key behaviors that make up empathy, like practicing presence, actively listening, cultivating confidence, and finding common ground. Finding empathy is one of the most desired leadership strengths, so join Maria in this course as she shares straightforward and simple tips for implementing and practicing empathy.
LinkedIn Learning E-course, 37 minutes
Leading with empathy has been identified as a top skill for the modern leader, but leaders must move beyond simply understanding empathy to intentionally developing it to help their team achieve their goals. In this focused course, leadership expert Scott Mautz offers specific practices that can help leaders express empathy and connect it to the bigger picture of driving desired results in a humane and ethical way. Scott starts with the basics—what empathy is (and what it isn’t) and why it’s important. He then teaches leaders how to employ empathy to earn employee loyalty, build bonds, handle difficult co-workers, address employee burnout, give feedback, and more. Scott concludes the course with the LEAP (Leading with Empathy Action Plan) and explains methods for tailoring your own plan for leading with empathy in a way that drives results.
LinkedIn Learning E-course, 27 minutes