Key Elements of Business Execution
Business execution is the “how” of getting things done. As a leader, you must be skilled in driving performance and strategy in the right direction through business execution.
In this course, you’ll learn about the characteristics of business execution cultures. You’ll also learn techniques for fostering a business execution culture. Finally, you’ll learn about the three elements needed to execute your business strategy: planning, people, and practice.
0.5 Hours
- Recognize strategies for fostering business execution through actions
- Match business execution culture characteristics to the corresponding types of culture
- Identify the three main elements of business execution
- Identify questions to ask when evaluating a business plan
- Recognize techniques for empowering people in business execution processes
- Identify leadership approaches in the practice element of business execution
- Recognize examples of appropriate follow-up techniques for business leaders
- Recognize the key elements and characteristics of a business execution culture
Building Innovation Cultures and Leaders
Innovating is the only way to adapt and keep speed with the pace of change in today’s business world. Building and supporting an innovative culture is the responsibility of leaders and employees across organizational hierarchies and is aided by an effective change management process.
In this course, you’ll learn about business innovation cultures and types of innovation leadership. You’ll also learn about the importance of experimenting, managing change, and executing a project. Finally, you’ll learn how to attract and nurture innovation in your organization.
0.5 Hours
- Match innovation models to their descriptions
- Recall characteristics of committed and passionate innovation cultures and leaders
- Identify characteristics of how business cultures and leaders can support innovation through experimentation
- Describe ways to manage risk in an innovation culture
- Specify ways of ensuring quick project implementation in an innovation culture
- Recognize actions that are likely to nurture innovators
- Identify examples of how to commit to innovation
- Recognize characteristics of an innovation culture and innovation leader
Leading Your Team Through Change
Change is always happening. Effective team leadership means managing teams through the ongoing transition processes that facilitate change. Removing obstacles that can hinder the productive teamwork required to make these transition processes smooth is essential.
In this course, you’ll learn about types of resistance and obstacles to change and how to overcome them in a collaboration. You’ll also learn about how to overcome barriers to introducing change at your organization. Finally, you’ll learn effective approaches for communicating change when working on a team.
0.5 Hours
- Match sources of employee resistance to change to examples
- Match types of change resistance to actions for dealing with them
- Recognize various change obstacles in an organization
- Identify tactics for overcoming obstacles to change
- Match information-based roots of inertia with examples of how to overcome them
- Identify examples of ways to overcome action-related employee inertia
- Recognize appropriate ways to communicate change
- Recognize tactics for effectively leading change in your organization
Building a Leadership Development Plan
Creating your own leadership development plan is a significant part of any successful and valuable leadership development strategy. This plan will help ensure you remain focused on what is required to continually grow and develop as a leader.
In this course, you’ll learn about how to assess yourself as a leader, establish a vision for the future, and identify obstacles to that vision. You’ll also learn about practical approaches for setting objectives, identifying appropriate actions, and sustaining your leadership development plan. Finally, you’ll learn how to evaluate your plan.
0.5 Hours
- Identify the key results of a leader’s self-assessment process
- Recognize strategies for formulating your leadership vision
- Identify strategies for approaching potential obstacles to your leadership vision
- Recognize characteristics of appropriate goals and objectives for a leadership development plan
- Recall common development actions used to meet objectives
- Recognize strategies designed to help sustain leadership development
- Identify key characteristics of an effective leadership development plan
- Recognize key considerations and strategies for crafting a leadership development plan
Aligning Unit Goals and Imperatives
Getting your priorities straight, no matter what your role is in your organization, is about keeping a focus on your goals. It requires you to think about the bigger picture, to ensure your department’s work effectively supports the vision and strategic objectives of your organization.
In this course, you’ll learn about the importance of setting strategic, tactical, and operational goals to meet an organizational vision. You’ll also learn how to create effective unit goals and align them with your company’s goals and strategy. Finally, you’ll learn how to identify imperatives for action that keep you focused on meeting your objectives.
0.4 Hours
- Recognize the benefits of setting goals
- Distinguish between different kinds of business goals
- Recognize how to set effective goals for organizational units
- Identify consequences of failing to align unit goals with company goals
- Sequence the steps in cascading company-wide goals to unit-level goals
- Recall the steps in determining business imperatives
Positive Atmosphere: Establishing an Engaged Workforce
An engaged workforce creates a positive work environment that boosts productivity, encourages creativity, and helps you engage and retain talented employees. This in turn will make your organization more profitable and innovative, and will strengthen your employees’ work ethic.
In this course, you’ll learn about the benefits of engaging your workforce and of establishing a positive work culture. You’ll learn how to recognize common qualities of engaged employees, understand what drives employee motivation, and recognize commitment challenges. You’ll also learn how employee engagement links to the bottom line by reducing turnover.
0.4 Hours
- Identify key interpersonal characteristics of an engaged workforce
- Recognize the advantages to an organization of an engaged workforce
- Recognize the effects of low staff turnover
- Identify elements of a strong work ethic
- Recall key traits of engaged employees
- Identify common challenges of engagement in the workplace
- Recognize tactics for creating an engaged workforce
Positive Atmosphere: Establishing a Positive Work Environment
A positive workplace is paramount to your organization’s long-term success. As a manager, you play a key role in establishing a positive work culture, and noticing when negativity takes the place of positivity. As a leader, you can foster a positive work environment by communicating honestly, respecting, supporting, and engaging others, and maintaining a good attitude.
This course will introduce you to best practices for creating a positive work environment. You’ll learn the benefits of establishing a positive and engaged workforce, its characteristics, and concrete steps to create one. You’ll also explore how to recognize the signs and impacts of negativity, and how to take corrective action if necessary to engage employees.
0.4 Hours
- Identify the characteristics of a positive workplace
- Identify management techniques you can apply to create a positive work environment
- Select techniques of interacting personally with employees to foster a positive work environment
- Recognize the signs of a negative work environment
- Identify the impacts of a negative work environment
- Choose managerial behaviors that can improve a negative environment
- Recognize tactics that create a positive workplace
Positive Atmosphere: How Organizational Learning Drives Positive Change
If your organization creates a positive learning culture that focuses on developing people, it will not only weather difficult times better than most, but will flourish in an ultra-competitive global market.
In this course, you’ll be introduced to organizational learning and its benefits to your organization. You’ll examine the role of training, knowledge management, and technology in developing employees, and learn about the pivotal role of the continuous learning.
By exploring the essential elements and indicators of a self-development culture, the course prepares you to assess your current workplace and determine how conducive it is to learning.
Developing talent will increase your competitiveness and create more satisfied, goal-oriented employees – which leads to a more profitable organization.
0.4 Hours
- Recognize the levels of organizational learning
- Differentiate between training and learning in an organization
- List the activities involved in effective knowledge management
- Identify aspects of holistic thinking and integrated learning opportunities
- Identify examples that show capacity for change and focus on collaboration
- Identify elements of personal commitment in a learning culture
- Identify necessary factors to create a positive learning atmosphere