Business Execution: How Things Get Done
Business Execution: How Things Get Done
- discover the key concepts covered in this course
- identify characteristics of a business execution culture
- recognize effective leadership practices for business execution
- Knowledge Check: Reviewing Your Business Execution Leadership Skills
- identify how to guide the execution of a business plan
- choose business execution techniques that motivate people to get things done
- select actionable strategies to benefit from business execution
- Knowledge Check: Assessing your Skills in Executing Business Strategies
- reflect on what you've learned
Business execution is the “how” of getting things done. As a leader, you can use business execution to drive performance and strategies in the right direction, to solve problems, and to inspire others. In this course, you’ll learn about the characteristics that define effective business execution culture. You’ll also become familiar with the three elements needed to execute a business plan: practice, planning, and people. Finally, you’ll learn actionable strategies for fostering a business execution culture.
Leading an Innovation Culture to Future-proof Your Organization
Leading an Innovation Culture to Future-proof Your Organization
- discover the key concepts covered in this course
- recognize the elements of a culture that supports innovation
- identify characteristics of leaders who support a culture of innovation
- identify actions that will attract and nurture innovative teams
- Knowledge Check: Reviewing Your Skills in Building a Culture of Innovation
- identify the steps to turn innovation into lasting change
- identify ways to maintain a culture of innovation during crises and times of change
- Knowledge Check: Assessing Your Skills in Sustaining an Innovation Culture
- reflect on what you've learned
Are you ready for the next big change? For over a century, changes in the business landscape have forced organizations to react quickly. Some were able to pivot and remain successful, while others could not adapt to the change and failed. Does your organization have what it takes to respond successfully to the next big change? In this course, you will learn how a culture of innovation prepares an organization for whatever may be around the corner. You will learn what a culture of innovation looks like before delving into details around how to lead for such a culture. From attracting and nurturing talent to building innovative teams, this course will help you get future-ready with a culture of innovation.
Navigating Your Team through Strategic Change
Navigating Your Team through Strategic Change
- discover the key concepts covered in this course
- identify practical steps for implementing a change program with your team
- identify effective responses to employee attitudes and traits that hinder change
- recognize appropriate responses to internal and external barriers to strategic change
- Knowledge Check: Assessing Your Skills at Recognizing Obstacles to Change
- identify the features of an effective change communication plan for your team
- recognize leadership practices that foster ongoing commitment to a program of change
- Knowledge Check: Applying Your Skills at Navigating a Team through Change
- reflect on what you've learned
Today’s business leaders face a dynamic business environment that requires continual transformation of products, processes, and people. As former U.S. Army Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki put it, “If you dislike change, you’re going to dislike irrelevance even more.” Advances in technology and the evolution of customers’ and investors’ values drive enterprises toward strategic change in order to remain relevant and profitable. Because the success of strategic change management largely depends on the behavior of the people within an organization, team leaders play a critical role. In this course, you will discover effective strategies for communicating about change with your team. You will learn how to adjust your team’s activities to achieve broad company-wide goals for change. Organizational change is difficult, both to initiate and to maintain. This course will help you to overcome obstacles, including various types of employee resistance to change. You’ll learn tools for sustaining change. Throughout, the emphasis is on honest, targeted communication, dialogue, and listening.
Planning Your Growth as a Leader
Planning Your Growth as a Leader
- discover the key concepts covered in this course
- identify the key results of a leader's self-assessment process
- recognize strategies for formulating a personal leadership vision
- Knowledge Check: Applying Your Self-assessment Skills
- identify key characteristics of an effective leadership development plan
- recognize actions common to effective leadership development plans
- recognize strategies for ongoing leadership development
- Knowledge Check: Reviewing Your Skills for Identifying Development Plan Actions
- reflect on what you've learned
Managers and executives, and people who expect to become managers and executives, need to know the businesses they’re in. But to be effective, they also need skills common to all leaders. They need a plan for developing and continuing to develop those skills throughout their careers. Leadership isn’t a state you achieve and then you’re done – it’s a process of growth and experience that requires continuous training and development.
In this course, you’ll learn to create a personal leadership development plan. You’ll learn what to expect from a self-assessment process, and helpful strategies for formulating a personal leadership vision. After identifying key characteristics of an effective leadership development plan, you’ll explore the kinds of actions you’ll plan and execute in order grow as leader. Finally, you’ll learn strategies for continuing that growth throughout your career.
Synchronize Goals to Optimize Your Team
Synchronize Goals to Optimize Your Team
- discover the key concepts covered in this course
- identify the types of goals that support an organization’s strategic plan
- recognize the benefits of aligning goals
- recognize the steps to align organizational, team, and individual goals
- recognize the actions needed to execute goals
- identify actions leaders can take to manage challenges to goal alignment
- reflect on what you've learned
Most organizations have strategic plans that articulate their goals, but frequently, those goals are unknown to everyone except the executive team. This lack of transparency clouds the organization’s ability to synchronize their goals and hobbles their ability to work successfully. In this course, you will learn how to synchronize organizational, team, and individual goals to maximize opportunities for success. You'll also explore how to get everyone on your team pulling in the same direction, reducing employee dissatisfaction and increasing productivity.
