Establishing Effective Virtual Teams
Building and managing teams is enough of a challenge when everyone is in the same location. Collaboration when working on a team that’s virtual requires even more commitment.
In this course, you’ll learn about teamwork and team leadership when working on a virtual team. You’ll cover remote management and tactics for communication, assessment, and meetings for virtual teams.
50 Minutes
- Describe the main areas of concern for a remote manager
- Recall guidelines for establishing relationships with team members
- List communication areas in which virtual managers need to establish team standards
- Categorize communication tools as synchronous or asynchronous
- Recall strategies for supporting and encouraging virtual team members
- Recognize guidelines for managing performance among virtual team members
- Recall guidelines for managing remote team meetings
- Recognize strategies for establishing and managing a virtual team that can work effectively together
Facing Virtual Team Challenges
Virtual teams can face the same difficulties as other teams, but also have unique challenges.
In this course, you’ll learn how to handle challenges facing your team, and how to evaluate your own style.
40 Minuets
- Recall tactics for ensuring equal management of onsite and offsite team members
- List tactics for managing teamwork spread across multiple time zones
- Identify strategies for ensuring respectful treatment of all members of a diverse team
- Name approaches for avoiding and handling conflict among remote team members
- Apply strategies for overcoming communication difficulties faced by a geographically diverse team
- Recognize the importance of reflecting on your management approach
- Recognize strategies for working around typical challenges facing remote or blended teams
Developing Your Business Acumen
Business acumen is a difficult to define combination of forethought, creativity, and agility that is a key factor in setting successful business professionals apart from their less accomplished peers. But it doesn’t just come from experience. It has to be cultivated and nurtured.
In this course, you’ll learn how developing professional acumen enhances your leadership, communication, and decision-making skills. And further, you’ll learn that influences your company’s competitive advantage and explore methods for developing an operational perspective to uncover opportunities for change or innovation.
30 Minutes
- Recognize the key characteristics of people with strong business acumen
- Identify factors influencing your company’s competitive advantage
- Identify examples of cost and revenue drivers
- Identify methods to develop an operational perspective that can help uncover opportunities for change or innovation
- Identify key techniques for improving your tactical thinking skills
- Knowledge Check: Enhancing Your Business Accumen
Gaining Insight through Organizational Awareness
The best leaders have a clear picture of their organizations’ people and systems, and what drives them in their chosen career. Effective leaders are also aware of each employee’s career plan, their motivations, how they interact with one another, as well as the power dynamics between staff members.
In this course, you’ll learn about organizational awareness and how it relates to career management. You’ll also explore how you can develop organizational awareness when managing your career to advance your professional goals.
30 Minutes
- Recognize areas of consideration when developing organizational awareness
- Recognize how organizational awareness can help you work more effectively
- Identify the areas to examine when developing your organizational awareness
- Identify the decisions associated with six dimensions for assessing organizational and group culture
- Identify best practices for using organizational awareness to influence others and drive change
- Knowledge Check: Developing and Using Organizational Awareness
Measuring Outcomes and Using KPIs
To achieve business goals, you need to boost performance and growth in critical areas. Identifying these areas requires instituting the most suitable performance measurement systems.
In this course, you’ll learn how managing performance can be aided by identifying a performance problem using performance measurement systems. You’ll also learn how to work with a key performance indicator (KPI).
30 Minutes
- Identify the advantages of using a performance measurement system
- Identify the attributes of good key performance indicators
- Identify what factors should be considered when choosing a performance measure
- Identify the steps for selecting appropriate key performance indicators
- Identify methods of defining the characteristics and criteria for a performance measure
- Knowledge Check: Using Performance Measurement
Leading through Inspiration
People are inspired when they trust their leaders and are mobilized by common goals. When you strive for inspirational leadership, you demonstrate credibility and create a community with a shared vision.
In this course, you’ll learn about the characteristics that inspire people. You’ll also learn about traits and behaviors that inspirational leaders exemplify. Finally, you’ll learn about the role of clear, credible, and persuasive messages in providing inspiration.
40 Minutes
- Identify the qualities of inspiring leaders
- Identify the behavioral traits of inspiring leaders
- Recognize how leaders can inspire others by showing integrity and credibility
- Recognize how inspirational leaders show character and hope
- Recognize the attributes of clear and credible leadership messages
- Recognize strategies for utilizing influence and persuasion
- Knowledge Check: Inspiring Others as Leader
Gauging Your Leadership Performance
Monitoring and assessing your own progress as you develop is vital to ensure growth and overall success as a leader.
In this course, you’ll learn about techniques leaders can use to carry out a self-assessment, such as reflective journaling, surveys and checklists, and 360-degree feedback. You’ll also learn ways to increase your motivation and manage your own learning by creating a leadership development plan.
40 Minutes
- List the steps in using reflective journaling for self-assessment
- Recognize the process for using surveys and checklists for self-assessment
- Identify the benefits of self-assessment via 360-degree feedback
- Recognize the techniques for leading and listening
- Identify ways to challenge and empower yourself
- Recognize the techniques for rewarding yourself for achieving your goals
- Take appropriate actions to prepare a leadership development plan
- Knowledge Check: Gauge Your Leadership Performance
Leading By Motivation
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 flouMotivation drives people to take action.
Without proper motivational leadership, things simply would not get done. As a leader, your capacity for motivating plays a key element in the success of your team and your organization.
This course provides you with an understanding of why motivating leadership strategies are important and offers practical techniques for encouraging team motivation.ish in an ultracompetitive 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.
30 Minutes
- Discover the subject areas that will be covered in this course
- Identify common misconceptions about motivation
- Recognize methods that encourage intrinsic motivation
- Recognize ways of inspiring team members through involvement, validation, and development
- Identify existing workplace processes that can be used to foster motivation
- Identify methods of encouraging motivation in individual employees
- Knowledge Check: Motivating Your Team
Sharing a Vision
“Successful leaders strive to communicate a sense of vision with integrity, building trust as both an individual and as a visionary leader.
This course provides a general introduction to visionary leadership, including its nature and its purpose. You will be guided through numerous techniques and methods for a leader to successfully communicate vision, such as personalizing and multiplying a clear message, communicating enthusiasm in an authentic way, and making the organization’s vision the employees’ own vision. “
30 Minutes
- Identify key concepts of a vision statement
- Recognize characteristics of effective vision communication
- Identify approaches to communication that resonate with employees
- Identify techniques for creating a message to communicate vision
- Recognize methods for effectively presenting a vision
- Knowledge Check: Effectively Sharing a Vision
Influencing through Positive Leadership
An organization’s social and political landscape can provide opportunities for positive leadership, influencing others in order to accomplish team and company goals.
In this course, you will discover 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 utilizing positive influence, while avoiding the negative, when persuading others. You’ll also have an opportunity to practice methods for influencing effectively and ethically.
40 Minutes
- Recognize key concepts related to the use of influence
- Identify techniques for influencing people
- Recognize the importance of utilizing positive organizational politics
- Recognize the importance of avoiding negative organizational politics
- Recognize positive political actions that create strong relationships
- Identify actions that use positive politics to promote unifying goals
- Knowledge Check: Utilizing Positive Influence
Developing Emotional Intelligence
Developing emotional intelligence is a key to successful leadership. Leaders with a strong mixture of emotional awareness, self-management, and social skills are able to relate better to those around them. Emotionally intelligent leaders navigate relationships more effectively and are more likely to be successful in their personal and professional lives.
This course provides an understanding of why emotionally intelligent leadership is important. It also provides practical, positive techniques for promoting and improving emotional intelligence as a leader within your business environment.
40 Minutes
- Recognize reasons why emotional intelligence is important in the workplace
- Identify examples of behaviors that match the domains associated with emotional intelligence
- Recognize techniques for developing self-perception
- Recognize examples of methods for developing social perception
- Identify techniques that help control emotional responses
- Knowledge Check: Using Emotional Intelligence at Work
Leading through Inspiration
In this course, you will learn techniques for developing a team of “creative gurus” – team members who excel at generating innovative ideas. You will learn ways to assemble your team, generate creative ideas, overcome barriers to team creativity, and foster a creative workplace.
40 Minutes
- Discover the subject areas that will be covered in this course
- Identify techniques for assembling a team that generates highly creative ideas
- Recognize techniques for generating creative ideas
- Recognize actions for overcoming barriers to team creativity
- Recognize techniques for implementing extreme creativity
- Identify techniques for fostering a creative workplace
- Knowledge Check: Fostering a Creative Team
Women in Leadership: Moving Beyond Gender Roles as a Leader
Companies that support women as business leaders are more successful. Yet women leaders are often held back by gender-based expectations of their roles and behaviors. Organizations and individuals need to take steps to break out of the gendered mindset to help women become competent, focused, and passionate professionals.
In this course, you will learn how to challenge your gender mindset, navigate gender-related differences in the workplace, uncover unconscious bias, and address behaviors that marginalize women.
40 Minutes
- Recognize key statements about the power of gender mindsets
- Recognize how to navigate gender-related differences in the workplace
- Identify actions that help uncover and address unconscious bias
- Recognize behaviors that marginalize women in the workplace
- Knowledge Check: Overcoming Gender-based Expectations of Leadership
Women in Leadership: Mastering Key Leadership Competencies
All leaders need to possess certain competencies that help them to be good leaders. Women leaders still face challenges in the workplace, when it comes to being viewed as equally competent to men. By developing key leadership competencies, women can make the best use of both the traditionally feminine qualities as well as those that are traditionally seen as masculine.
In this course, you will learn how to build confidence through competence, develop your leadership presence, communicate like a leader, demonstrate your emotional intelligence, and network and connect with other women leaders.
50 Minutes
- Recognize what constitutes the kind of competency that builds confidence
- Identify statements that describe the key elements of leadership presence
- Identify behaviors that enhance effective leadership communication
- Recognize behaviors that demonstrate emotional intelligence
- Identify best practices for developing a network that works for women
- Knowledge Check: Cultivating Your Leadership Qualities
Women in Leadership: Building Your Infrastructure for Leadership
Women face unique challenges in the workplace, including the difficulty in balancing work and family. Their experience in running both a family and a career also provides them with unique value and perspective.
In this course, you’ll learn how to conquer some of the challenges of career and family, including building a support system, overcoming the perfection mindset, and reframing your limiting beliefs.
0.6 Hours
- Identify negative mind-sets that result when you don’t challenge the myths about women in the workplace
- Identify the key elements of a personal brand
- Identify best practices for building a support system
- Identify ways to avoid adopting a perfection mindset
- Identify techniques to reframe limiting beliefs
- Knowledge Check: Creating Your Leadership Infrastructure
