Bridge the Leadership Gap - eLearning Bundle Course

New Leader: Change Management: Preparing for Change

Course Duration - 5 min

Learners are taught how to show employees the need for the change and how they'll benefit from the change. This will allow you to integrate the changed behavior or process into your team's culture, which is essential to having the change succeed.

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Leading Change: McKinsey’s 7-S Change Model

Course Duration - 14 min

Every organization has to change in order to maintain a competitive edge in the corporate world. Failing to change constitutes to failure. A leader ensures that the organization functions well while adapting to change. McKinsey’s 7-S model is based on the premise that organizations perform properly when seven key elements are aligned. The model is most often used as an organizational analysis tool to assess and monitor changes in the internal situation of an organization. In this course, we will examine McKinsey's 7-S model for mid-term organizational change.

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Change Management (Global)

Course Duration - 10 min

Remember how you used to spend your weekends? Heading over to Blockbuster to rent the latest movie on tape, and cuddling up on the sofa with overpriced popcorn and snacks? Sure, we’re nostalgic about it, but it was all a bit rubbish really, having to rewind those cassettes and rushing back to the store to try and avoid those late fees.

Times change. It’s something that we can’t stop, even if we wanted to. The rapid advances in technology and changes in attitudes and behaviours mean that you have to adapt to survive, or sink. Many businesses fall by the wayside because they weren’t able to manage their change effectively.

This short course has been designed to boost your ability to handle change effectively. Spend a few minutes with us and see how you can help your company change with the times.

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Leveraging Feedback to Strengthen Employee Commitment

Course Duration - 20 min

Receiving feedback has a negative connotation associated with anxiety and fear. But feedback can be a powerful way to strengthen commitment, improve performance, and resolve problems with difficult employees.

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Identify and Address Team Disengagement

Course Duration - 20 min

When teams are engaged, not just in their work but in the team’s mission and in supporting each other, team success and productivity increase, so, it goes without saying that managers and leaders need to be able to identify disengagement and know how to rebuild engagement in order to secure team success. But how can you do that? Well, research from Ashridge Executive Education at Hult International Business School has the answer. They have created a way to quickly and effectively pinpoint levels of engagement and the effect they have on team dynamics. In this course, we’ll be looking at that research to help you identify the level of engagement within your teams and form specific steps to build engagement, trust, and productive teamwork.

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Culture and Oneness

Course Duration - 20 min

Culture and Oneness is a course designed to help create a unified culture in your organization. A positive, facilitative culture is integral to all organizations’ success. In this course, Maria Deveson-Crabbe explains to Eve Ash how this can be achieved through the concept of “oneness”. A failure to take advantage of opportunities to lead prevents your people from becoming united in their work. Once this course is completed, you will have learned the importance of building and enabling environments that foster strong leaders, developing a strong leadership team, and uniting people to resolve problems. You will recognize value in measuring engagement and being an employer of choice.

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Employee Engagement Essentials

Course Duration - 1 hr

There’s no shortage of leadership education available today, which means we should all theoretically be amazing leaders. Yet survey after survey shows that most of us are disengaged at work, which means there must be something missing. Employee Engagement Essentials has been designed to supply that missing piece, approaching leadership in a new way that will make creating an engaged workforce easier than ever before. And it will do so with far more humor and entertainment than your typical leadership course. So if you want to learn how to become a better leader, create a more productive workforce, and laugh the whole way through, then you’ve come to the right place!

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You Can Learn to Lead

Course Duration - 5 min

Being a leader is everyone's opportunity. It can be learned if you are open to new ideas and ways of working with people. This may mean accepting occasional failure and letting go of "what worked before." After completing this course, you will be better able to adopt new ideas and practices associated with leadership. You will recognize the value and potential of being open, adaptive, and a bridge for networking.

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Leading Teams: Leading and Managing Effective Virtual Teams

Course Duration - 12 min

Organizations are changing, and so are our offices. The new age millennials are shifting toward the virtual world. More and more organizations use virtual teams to meet corporate goals. This has created the need to determine how best to manage and lead these virtual groups. Traditional methods of managing on-site groups don’t work with remote workers, because virtual teams are most often composed of workers who are spread over a varied geographic and cultural expanse and communicate, for the most part, electronically. Future Workforce Report states that 63 percent of companies utilize virtual workers, but only 57 percent have standards in place to manage the process. In this lesson, you will learn to effectively guide teams that they rarely see face-to-face.

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Leading People: Leading, Not Managing People

Course Duration - 15 min

A leader is a person who can influence people to follow them without exercising authority. Leaders, who spend more time managing their employees than leading them are less likely to achieve the top performance they seek because they focus on controlling employees and their tasks to accomplish a goal. In this course, you will learn to support and coach, making your employees feel empowered to innovate and contribute to greater organizational success.

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Stop Being Afraid of Getting Fired

Course Duration - 5 min

Avoiding job insecurity often means avoiding risk at work by accepting unprofessional treatment, following weak leadership, and suppressing your individuality and strengths. In reality, you’re not likely to be fired for taking initiative and creating value, even if you take a risk and fail. Companies that don’t value that type of bravery don’t have the longevity for job security anyway.

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Taking Initiative

Course Duration - 6 min

Businesses appreciate employees who can think on their feet without being told what to do. This elearning course, Taking Initiative, is designed to help you recognize opportunities to step forward at your organization. The course will begin by reviewing what it means to take initiative, and how you can look for opportunities to practice this yourself. It also covers some of the reasons that hold people back from taking initiative such as fear, self-doubt or laziness. This elearning course, Taking Initiative, includes a video lesson, downloadable student materials and a short online course to check your comprehension of the subject.

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Better Business Behavior: How to Take Initiative

Course Duration - 10 min

This course underscores the distinction between asking intelligent questions and being too dependent on the advice of others, and it also illustrates the right way to make decisions without any outside input. This is a challenging skill to master, which is why this is probably the most important career development course you’ll ever watch. Another training course from The Jeff Havens Company, where we provide serious solutions in a seriously funny way.

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Contribute to the Team

Course Duration - 30 min

Contribute to the Team is part of the Cutting Edge Success at Work Series. Two new interns arrive at Cutting Edge, but not everything goes smoothly. Tatiana speaks five languages but must change her negative thinking. Dion is the overconfident, smart-talking nephew of the boss. Participants will watch as these former students learn from their mistakes while gaining an edge to succeed along the way.

Lessons are engineered for viewers to see a clear picture of success and to maximize effectiveness in communication, prioritization, and organization. In Contribute to the Team, it’s ‘Blue Moon’ day at Cutting Edge. Marcus tells his team it’s about pulling ideas out of the blue and working on them collaboratively. Dion has trouble staying awake but learns that his body language shows he is not interested. He discovers the importance of contributing to meetings, not just giving smart remarks. When Michael and Sam argue about the mess, Sam is quick to point out that Michael needs to complain less and actually share the workload to resolve it. The interns are encouraged to be resourceful, solve problems, and show initiative. When Serena reports a breach of office security, Dion volunteers to do something about it. His disguise to test security doesn’t fool Carlos, but he is praised for his willingness to help solve the problem. Marcus is proud when Dion suggests ‘Do your best every time’ at the team training session on service.

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Interpersonal Effectiveness: Networking and Building Relationships

Course Duration - 14 min

Your success as a businessperson will be greatly affected by the professional relationships you cultivate. Interpersonal skills are the cornerstone of developing these associations, so it is important to assess your abilities to communicate clearly and empathetically and to listen well. The most effective and satisfying relationships are based on a genuine and mutual desire to get to know and help others. When you focus on adding value to your business connections, you will build a network that is both personally satisfying and professionally beneficial.

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Making Connections in Collaborative Work

Course Duration - 13 min

There are two collaborative habits that are essential for effective collaborative work: humility and connectivity. In order to connect with others, you need to show humility. This course is part of the Collaborative Work Pocketbook series, a series that provides tips and techniques to make connections, combine talent and skills, and optimize outcomes during collaboration. In this course, you'll learn the important aspects of these two collaborative habits by first examining how to manage your ego by identifying your ego barriers. You'll also learn ways to break from your silos and the benefits in doing so. Finally, you'll identify specific roles and methods for connecting with others. By the end of this course, you’ll be able to identify how you can foster humility and connectivity in your collaborative work.

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Building Better Work Relationships

Course Duration - 20 min

Working with people requires building relationships based on trust. In this lesson, you’ll learn how to control your assumptions and understand people’s behaviors in order to build a trusting working relationship.

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How Neuroscience Can Aid Collaborative Leadership

Course Duration - 20 min

When we understand ourselves, we find it easier to understand and lead others. Neuroscience is an important field of study, focusing on the brain and its impact on our behavior and cognitive functions. David Rock, a neuroscientist and expert in leadership development, created a model to provide a framework of how the brain processes our interactions and collaborations with others. It’s called the SCARF model. Insight from this research enables managers and leaders to exhibit more adaptive behaviors based on how mental experiences occur over time. Understanding these experiences leads to improved capacity to understand your own behavior and that of others too.

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Being an Agile Critical Thinker

Course Duration - 5 min

Practicing agile critical thinking can improve your relationships and the outcomes of your decisions. Learn the steps of critical thinking and become more aware of your current thinking patterns that could be improved by this method. With an open mind and a curiosity to learn, you can advance your teamwork and performance.

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Decision Making: 06. Strategic Thinking

Course Duration - 6 min

Designed for managers, the Decision Making: 06. Strategic Thinking course explores big-picture thinking and how you can develop this skill to make better decisions. To start, we will define strategic thinking and identify why it's so important when making business decisions and developing a company mandate. We'll also go over how to communicate your objectives and goals to your team and present the five steps you can take to think more strategically. This course also explains how to develop a strategic thinking approach at your organization. Part of the Decision Making series, included in this course is a video presentation, downloadable student material and a short quiz to review what you've learned.

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3 Steps to Critical Thinking

Course Duration - 30 min

Critical thinking is in hot demand, but unfortunately in short supply. Some people are critical thinkers but most people tend to think uncritically. Eve Ash asks Peter Quarry to explain how critical thinking is learned and developed. Peter explains that recognizing and switching off emotions is the first step. This entails understanding how we feel and considering alternative responses. Also, it’s important not to jump to conclusions. Focus on the facts and seek more evidence before responding. Peter recommends rising above the usual ‘win/lose’ approaches to a problem. Other solutions might emerge if everyone calms down before examining a broader range of possibilities. Be willing to look beyond the ideas and information that merely confirm the view you already have.

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Business Planning: Vision, Strategies, and Plans

Course Duration - 11 min

Planning takes place in all organizations and at all levels, from simple plans, to detailed, formal plans. Most planning is carried out by middle management in larger organizations, and by people who run their own businesses. In this course, part of the Business Planning Series, you’ll learn how to guide the development of a plan by aligning it with business strategies and focusing on the vision of your organization. While vision, strategy and planning are distinct parts of effectively steering an organization to success, you need to understand the differences in purpose, timeline, and implementation of these three important concepts.

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Strategy Execution: Elements of a Sound Strategy

Course Duration - 20 min

Just as it’s important to identify the key elements of a strategy, it’s also important to get the feedback and buy-in from key stakeholders. This lesson explores ways to identify key stakeholders, gather their inputs, manage data collected from them, and eventually modify the initial strategy to reflect their input.

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Create a Winning Product or Service Strategy

Course Duration - 40 min

It may seem counter intuitive, but perfection is your enemy when it comes to shaping your product or service strategy. You may want everything to be perfect before you launch, but if you ever hope to start ringing up sales, you need to ruthlessly focus instead on just those elements of your offering that address the core customer need, and build a vision and a plan for development that tests your concept in the marketplace sooner rather than later. This course offers guidance on how to shape a product or service vision and create strategies to be very customer focused while doing so. This course is part of a larger series on creating a winning product strategy. To learn more, you can watch the following courses in this series. - Define Your Product and MVP (Minimal Viable Product) - Create a Compelling Product Roadmap

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Strategic Planning 101

Course Duration - 45 min

Organizations of all types and sizes use strategic plans to become more successful and competitive. Strategic plans help to focus energy and resources on activities that align with the organization’s mission and vision. They help to increase efficiency and reduce costs; improve marketing efforts and organizational development; and manage risk and uncertainty by making the organization more responsive to a changing environment. Learning to write a strategic plan provides you with a crucial management tool for focusing your team’s efforts on getting the right things done. By increasing your ability to help the organization achieve its goals, improving your strategic planning skills will also make you more valuable to your organization and improve your career prospects.

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Decision Making: 02. Making Group Decisions

Course Duration - 6 min

In our Decision Making: 02. Making Group Decisions course, we'll discuss how to make group decisions a smoother, more successful process. We'll start by reviewing the pros and cons of group decision-making. We will then go over how to organize a group to ensure a more positive experience. We'll review the group decision-making process and how to utilize various strategies like defining the problem, setting expectations and goals and gathering information to make it seamless and successful. Finally, we'll talk about the Delphi technique and how you can use it to encourage group members to share their ideas. Included in this course, part of the Decision Making series, is a video presentation, downloadable supplementary material and a short quiz to assess your knowledge.

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Collaborative Problem Solving (Global)

Course Duration - 10 min

What do you think of puzzles? From children, we’re taught to problem solve; up from shape sorters to jigsaws and then the dreaded maths homework. But sometimes you can spend half an hour staring at the same crossword hint before giving up. Then when you come back to the break room for a coffee, someone else has already solved it: 10 across (13): Working with someone to produce something. COLLABORATION Alright, it’s an obvious answer now you know it. In my defence, I left my glasses on my desk. *cough*. See, there are times when coming together to solve a problem can be really beneficial. Hearing other peoples’ opinions and evaluations of a common problem and pooling a wide selection of skill sets can help you come up with a unique solution. This short course is designed to help you make the most of your collaborations.

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Innovate With Your Team's Collective Intelligence

Course Duration - 20 min

New ideas, products, and methods are crucial for businesses to grow, adapt, and thrive in competitive marketplaces. As long as you have your top talent working hard then this should be effortless, right? Innovation is bound to surge. Well, yes, but only up to a point. To really harness originality in the workplace, employees need to be working hard together. Call it “two heads are better than one,” the wisdom of crowds, or swarm intelligence. Groundbreaking ideas or effective solutions are much more likely to arise when workforces are empowered to harness their diversity and work in unison. Research conducted at The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence (CCI) reveals that a decentralized, flatter form of leadership boosts the performance and productivity of organizations. Regardless of the IQ level of one particular individual, the collective mindset of a group often proves smarter. This course will show you how collective intelligence can benefit your business by enabling your workforce to come up with more advanced, innovative ideas.

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Decision Making: Avoid the Ego Barrier

Course Duration - 10 min

Avoid the ego barrier to decision making. Don’t take it all upon yourself. Your ego could be a big obstacle to team thinking.

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Decision Making: One Question, Several Possible Answers

Course Duration - 10 min

When you’re making team decisions, first develop a sharply focussed question. Then give yourself choices. Be flexible, avoiding rigor mentis – a rigid mind.

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Decision Making: Imagine the Best and Worst Case Outcomes

Course Duration - 10 min

Once you have developed a sharply focussed question and given yourself choices, you need to assess your options. Imagine the future and the best, and worst, case outcomes.

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Small Acts of Presence: Choose Learning Goals, Not Performance Goals

Course Duration - 7 min

Learn why it's beneficial to choose learning goals over performance goals and challenge yourself to think differently. This course will discuss how to use your natural talents to acquire new behaviors and skills. The concepts covered will encourage you to think differently about how hard work versus natural talent lead to results.

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Learning Styles: Develop Your Learning

Course Duration - 7 min

Did you know that our learning style influences the way we work? The Learning Styles: Develop Your Learning course explores how to use your learning style to develop skills you can use in the workplace. In this course, we will highlight the different types of learning styles and provide tips on developing skills that complement your style and play to your strengths to help boost your productivity in the office. This elearning course includes a video presentation, downloadable material for future reference, and concludes with a short quiz to test your knowledge.

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• Set your priorities to better manage your time
• Improve your productivity by sharpening your focus and multitasking effectively

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• Recall the essential digital skills framework
• Elaborate on the toolkit of essential digital skills
• Identify how to develop or improve your digital skills

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• Define creativity
• Think outside the box
• Develop the right mental attitude
• Leverage the power of groups
• Ensure managers make it happen

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• Understand how to be a great communicator
• Become a stronger listene
• Appear professional to co-workers and bosses of all ages
• Avoid common career blunders that often end careers
• Manage expectations for bosses and colleagues
• Position yourself for promotions
• Make technology your asset, even if you are afraid of technology
• Avoid the Not My Job Syndrome
• Develop EQ to Match Your IQ
• Develop leadership qualities

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