Description
Successful managers have skills across a wide range of leadership and management areas. This comprehensive selection covers many of those skill areas such as, crafting and executing business strategy, managing a diverse team, business law and the managers responsibilities, and effective leadership communication strategies
This 10 pack is designed to provide you with the broad range of skills to develop effective leadership and management capacity.
Pack inclusions:
- Crafting a business strategy that executes
- Linking strategy to people and operations
- Engaging top performers
- Management essentials: Managing a diverse team
- Business law and the manager's responsibilities
- Monitoring and evaluating initiatives
- Developing a high-performance organisation
- Effective leadership communication strategies
- Establishing team goals and responsibilities
- Building your influence as a leader
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You will have 365 days to access to this course.
Audience
Any professional looking to advance their career to become an effective manager and leader.
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Business Execution: Crafting a Business Strategy that Executes
Description
Good planning gives your company a competitive advantage. However, a large proportion of the planned strategy often fails to materialize. This isn't because of unforeseeable events but because the plans lack reality, failing to fully assess the implementation capabilities of the organization and its position within the environment. Executable strategy begins with a clearly-defined strategic direction that considers existing strategy, as well as internal and external influences. Strategic themes then enable an organization to develop a workable strategy that aligns with its goals. This course covers the criteria for creating an executable strategy. It helps you to develop a strategy by demonstrating how to evaluate strategic initiatives and then prioritize, assign accountability, and translate those initiatives into short-term actionable targets. The course also shows you how to direct your organization's strategy by appropriately allocating resources to make those actions a reality. And it focuses on how to create a strategy that's planned, integrated, measurable, and supportable.Learning objectives
- Apply the steps to define executable strategy in a given scenario
- Assess whether the steps for strategically selecting executable initiatives have been followed in a given scenario
- Apply the steps for creating strategic targets and assigning resources in a given scenario
Audience
Anyone who wants to initiate the conditions, implement the strategies, and provide support for business execution in their organization
Offerings
There are no Offerings available for this course.
Business Execution: Monitoring and Evaluating Initiatives
Description
Execution isn't over once strategies have been implemented. Ongoing monitoring and evaluation of strategic implementation are needed to ensure the strategy continues to create value and that changes in circumstances are taken into account. Strategy is useless if it's static. Good execution requires a dynamic approach that scrutinizes the strategy's effectiveness at junctures and reacts by revising it if necessary. This course considers the importance of continually monitoring and evaluating strategy to ensure good execution. It looks at methods of monitoring the execution of strategy, such as actions plans, dashboards, strategic review meetings, and measuring employee engagement. And it demonstrates a four-step process for evaluating executed strategy and examines the methods of effectively revising strategy.Learning objectives
- Recognise the ways to effectively monitor execution of strategy
- Determine if the correct steps for evaluating strategy were taken in a given scenario
- Recognise reasons why strategy ceases to work
- Recognise how to revise strategy for good execution
Audience
Anyone who wants to initiate the conditions, implement the strategies, and provide support for business execution in their organization
Offerings
There are no Offerings available for this course.
Developing a High-performance Organization
Description
Helping your organization to reach its full potential is among your most important responsibilities as a leader. In a modern competitive business environment, tapping an organization's potential for high performance not only helps it to be more competitive but also helps it to better respond to and manage the influence of external factors. In short, high-performance organizations are those with a competitive edge. Facilitating a high-performance environment requires the right skillset. This course helps you assess your organization's potential for high performance in terms of its mission statement, strategy, performance measurement strategies, customer orientation, leadership, and culture.Learning objectives
- Identify organisational factors that need to be coordinated for success
- Determine if a mission statement supports a high-performance organisation
- Assess whether an organisation's performance measurement strategy is conducive to high performance
- Recognise actions to make an organisation more customer focused
- Recognise typical actions of a leader of a high-performance organisation in a scenario
- Determine if an organisation's culture supports high performance
Audience
Managers looking to improve their organization’s performance by developing their advanced management skills.
Offerings
There are no Offerings available for this course.
Establishing Team Goals and Responsibilities
Description
All individuals have strengths that allow them to achieve goals consistently and successfully. In a team setting, those individual strengths can combine to lead the whole team to success, or they can create conflict and tension. To harness individual strengths and personalities, you need solid ground rules for the team. You also need to allocate roles and responsibilities for maximum efficiency. This course outlines initial steps that should be performed when building a team, including establishing the team goal and assigning roles to individual team members in a way that ensures the team will collectively meet its goal. The course also discusses the importance of fully understanding one's responsibilities and how the various roles work together to achieve the goal.Learning objectives
- Analyse given team goals and recommend any necessary improvements
- Identify examples of team goals that are in alignment with a given corporate goal
- Recognise team goals that are clear and measurable
- Assign responsibilities to given team members
- Identify areas related to expectations that team members need to understand
Audience
All levels of employees; anyone who participates on any type of team
Offerings
There are no Offerings available for this course.
Leadership Essentials: Building Your Influence as a Leader
Description
Why is it so hard to get people to agree to a good idea? Why are some leaders constantly faced with challenges and objections? Reaching agreement as a leader does not mean you should manipulate or force people to accept your ideas and accomplish your objectives; there are ethical ways for leaders to successfully build influence. Leaders attempting to influence and persuade others are faced with the challenges of navigating through organizational politics. An effective leader recognizes that organizational politics can provide positive ways to influence others in order to accomplish goals. In this course, you will be guided through numerous methods and strategies for effectively influencing a team to accept your ideas. You'll be introduced to the importance of political awareness and the essential skills involved in using positive politics and avoiding negative politics when persuading others. You'll also have an opportunity to practice methods for influencing effectively and ethically. Materials designed to support blended learning activities aligned with this course are available from the Resources Page.Learning objectives
- Recognise and classify examples of techniques for influencing people
- Recognise actions that use politics to influence others in a positive way
- Use influence techniques to persuade others while avoiding the negative use of politics, in a given scenario
Audience
Supervisors, managers, directors, and individuals wanting to develop their leadership skills
Offerings
There are no Offerings available for this course.
The Voice of Leadership: Effective Leadership Communication Strategies
Description
How effectively leaders accomplish the objectives of sharing vision and plans, delegating, coaching, and motivating people depends on how well they can adapt their leadership communication style to suit the situation. Leaders who adopt a complementary style that helps communicate their objective increase productivity, company morale, and the overall success of the organization. This course covers the role of communication in leadership and how leaders can effectively communicate their objectives to their teams. It considers the appropriate leadership communication styles that can be implemented for various leadership objectives and the communication skills needed to achieve these objectives.Learning objectives
- Match leadership objectives with examples of how they are communicated
- Match each leadership style to examples of its effective and ineffective applications
- Match leadership communications styles to examples
- Use an appropriate leadership communication style for the leadership objective you are attempting to accomplish
Audience
Managers, team leaders, or professionals who want to increase their understanding of developing the leadership attributes of self-assessment, motivation, messaging, effective communication, and inspiration
Offerings
There are no Offerings available for this course.
Business Execution: Linking Strategy to People and Operations
Description
Creating exceptional strategy doesn't on its own guarantee it'll be executed successfully. Your people must develop an understanding of the strategy, and your work processes must be tightly aligned to maximize organizational performance. So how do you communicate strategy and secure alignment? Strategy needs to be translated from high-level themes into individual strategic goals. Otherwise, the strategy will be difficult to execute. Operational processes must work together to achieve goals because strategic progress is faster when business units are aligned, rather than working in isolation. This course offers techniques for effectively communicating a common understanding of the mission, values, and vision that drives your strategy. You'll learn how to cascade balanced scorecard objectives to help employees understand how department strategy and their personal work connect to organizational goals. The course also explains the importance of incentives to achieve objectives and of evaluating organizational competencies to develop employees who can execute your organizational strategy.Learning objectives
- Recognise how to effectively communicate business strategy
- Recognise best practices for cascading balanced scorecards
- Recognise how to help employees' link personal objectives with strategic objectives
- Analyse the process used to assess employee competencies in a given scenario
Audience
Anyone who wants to initiate the conditions, implement the strategies, and provide support for business execution in an organization
Offerings
There are no Offerings available for this course.
Description
How do you move your company to drive results and take a prominent place in the market? By engaging your top performers – those employees who consistently bring high levels of performance and positively influence the culture of your organization. Managers and leaders need to recognize who their top performers are, how they're different from other employees, and how to ensure they maintain a deep connection with their work. You can keep your top performers committed and engaged by providing challenging work and development opportunities. This course helps you recognize the characteristics of top performers and the benefits they bring to an organization. You'll learn how to improve your workplace so that it both attracts and meets the needs of top performers. Finally, the course discusses four communication styles, including the one typically used by top performers, so that you'll be able to recognize and adjust your own style to effectively communicate with top performers.Learning objectives
- Recognise the characteristics of a top performer
- Recognise the importance of keeping top performers engaged
- Recommend improvements to a workplace that will keep top performers engaged
- Recognise leadership practices that attract top performers
- Communicate effectively with a top performer
Audience
Managers and other individuals who are responsible for managing employee performance
Offerings
There are no Offerings available for this course.
Management Essentials: Managing a Diverse Team
Description
The population as a whole is becoming ever more diverse. Naturally, these societal changes are mirrored in the workplace. The most forward-looking organizations recognize the importance of managing a diverse workforce effectively. In turn, those managers who have the skills to lead a diverse team successfully are highly valued. This course describes what diversity is, including its benefits. It also covers how to prepare to manage a diverse team by understanding key diversity issues and setting ground rules. Finally, it delineates techniques for managing a diverse team. Materials designed to support blended learning activities aligned with this course are available from the Resources Page.Learning objectives
- Identify the benefits of being able to manage a diverse team effectively
- Recognise strategies for preparing to manage a diverse team
- Identify techniques for managing a diverse team
Audience
Individuals in a management role at any level, including supervisors, team leaders, professionals, departmental heads, directors, top management, and executives
Offerings
There are no Offerings available for this course.
Business Law and the Manager's Responsibilities
Description
Do you know what your legal responsibilities are as a manager? Do you know that in certain circumstances you may be held personally responsible for the actions of others? How can you protect your organization and yourself when dealing with legal issues? As a manager, knowing the answers to these questions can help you make decisions that are better for you and your organization. It is essential that managers understand the principles of business law as they fulfill their responsibilities. This course will explore the impact and legal implications of your decisions at work. It will also outline your responsibility for the actions of your subordinates and familiarize you with basic legal issues, such as liability and whistleblowing. Finally, it will provide you with strategies you can use in your day-to-day responsibilities to help ensure that you're managing legally and safely.Learning objectives
- Recognise which elements of a corporate scenario justify piercing the corporate veil
- Recognise the importance of the corporate veil concept for the actions of individual managers and employees
- Recognise how to handle concerns and warnings appropriately
- Recognise the sensitivities in a communication scenario that could potentially lead to legal consequences
- Determine the manager's responsibilities in terms of the implications of vicarious liability in a scenario
Audience
Management-level learners who want to develop a better understanding of the legal obligations they have as employees of their organizations
Offerings
There are no Offerings available for this course.
