Leadership Essentials Curriculum Outline
Leadership Essentials: Motivating Employees
Overview/DescriptionImagine what your organization would be like if you and your colleagues were not motivated. Motivation is what drives people to accomplish things, whether it be small tasks or large undertakings. Without motivation, things simply would not get done. The ability to create an environment that encourages motivation takes both practice and skill as its not a quality inherent in most people. As a leader, your capacity for motivating plays a key element in the success of your organization. This course provides you with an understanding of why motivating strategies are important as a leader. It also provides you with practical techniques for encouraging motivation among employees in your organization. Materials designed to support blended learning activities aligned with this course are available from the Resources Page.
Target AudienceSupervisors, managers, directors, and individuals who want to develop their leadership skills
Expected Duration (hours)1.0
Lesson Objectives Leadership Essentials: Motivating Employees
Recognize the definition of motivation Recognize tactics that encourage intrinsic motivation by addressing higher-order needs in the workplace Recognize how to involve, validate, and develop employees Recognize actions that encourage motivation by enlisting the support of workplace systems Take steps to encourage motivation in an individual employee, in a given scenario Course Number:
lead_05_a01_bs_enus Back to ListLeadership Essentials: Communicating Vision
Overview/DescriptionTodays leaders must be able to communicate vision in such a way that the audience is engaged and everyone understands and internalizes the message. Effective leadership communication gives purpose and meaning to the work that people do. Leaders should strive to communicate vision with a sense of integrity, building trust as an individual and as a leader. This course provides a general introduction to vision communication, 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 organizations vision the employees own vision. Materials designed to support blended learning activities aligned with this course are available from the Resources Page.
Target AudienceSupervisors, managers, directors, and individuals wanting to develop their leadership skills
Expected Duration (hours)1.0
Lesson Objectives Leadership Essentials: Communicating Vision
Identify approaches to communication that are likely to be important to employees Match techniques for communicating vision to examples of how to execute them Communicate vision to employees, as a leader in a given scenario Course Number:
lead_05_a02_bs_enus Back to ListLeadership Essentials: Building Your Influence as a Leader
Overview/DescriptionWhy 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. Youll be introduced to the importance of political awareness and the essential skills involved in using positive politics and avoiding negative politics when persuading others. Youll 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.
Target AudienceSupervisors, managers, directors, and individuals wanting to develop their leadership skills
Expected Duration (hours)1.0
Lesson Objectives Leadership Essentials: Building Your Influence as a Leader
Recognize and classify examples of techniques for influencing people Recognize 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 Course Number:
lead_05_a03_bs_enus Back to ListLeadership Essentials: Leading with Emotional Intelligence
Overview/DescriptionPoised, outgoing, cheerful, having empathy for others, being able to express feelings directly but appropriately, and having the capacity for developing relationships. All of these abilities distinguish individuals with high emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence is a more reliable predictor of success than intellect! Leaders with a strong mixture of emotional awareness, self-management, and social skills navigate relationships more effectively and are more likely to be successful in their personal and professional lives. This course provides you with an understanding of why emotional intelligence abilities are important as a leader. It also provides you with practical, positive techniques for promoting and improving emotional intelligence as a leader within your business environment. Materials designed to support blended learning activities aligned with this course are available from the Resources Page.
Target AudienceIndividuals, supervisors, managers, and directors. The course would also be suitable for those executives wishing to refresh their leadership skills.
Expected Duration (hours)1.0
Lesson Objectives Leadership Essentials: Leading with Emotional Intelligence
Recognize why emotional intelligence is important in the workplace Match emotional intelligence competencies to their associated domains Recognize which perception competencies need improvement and recommend techniques for cultivating them, in a given scenario Choose actions that demonstrate emotional intelligence in controlling emotions Recognize actions that demonstrate emotional intelligence in facilitating Course Number:
lead_05_a04_bs_enus Back to ListLeadership Essentials: Leading Business Execution
Overview/DescriptionHow many times have you and your team decided on new plans to make day-to-day processes more efficient, only to watch months slip by with those plans unexecuted? Why dont certain tasks get executed? Why do things stay the same, even when the change is critical to your team? This course provides you with techniques and strategies for executing business strategy, and more importantly, ideas on how to cultivate a culture that supports the active business execution needed to keep pace with todays fast-changing world. Specifically, the course will explore techniques for fostering a culture of business execution, one that leverages planning, people, and practice in an integrated approach to business execution. Materials designed to support blended learning activities aligned with this course are available from the Resources Page.
Target AudienceSupervisors, managers, directors, and individuals wanting to develop their leadership skills
Expected Duration (hours)1.0
Lesson Objectives Leadership Essentials: Leading Business Execution
Recognize the meaning of business execution Recognize how to leverage your business planning to support business execution Classify examples of strategies for leveraging the people component of business execution Support business execution through people and practice, in a given scenario Course Number:
lead_05_a05_bs_enus Back to ListLeadership Essentials: Leading Innovation
Overview/DescriptionCreativity and innovation are critical components of just about every organization. But innovation doesnt pertain only to new inventions, products, or reworked designs. It also involves incremental improvements to the way things are done. Knowing how to build and support an innovative culture is an important skill for any leader to master. The impetus for innovation can come from the top of the organization, and it can come from the people engaged in day-to-day production. Building an innovative culture is a responsibility for leaders and employees across organizational hierarchies. This course provides you with an understanding of what an innovative culture is and what qualities a leader needs to best foster innovation. It also provides you with practical techniques for cultivating and leading innovation. Materials designed to support blended learning activities aligned with this course are available from the Resources Page.
Target AudienceSupervisors, managers, directors, and individuals wanting to develop their leadership skills
Expected Duration (hours)1.0
Lesson Objectives Leadership Essentials: Leading Innovation
Classify examples of questions that can be used to assess characteristics of a business innovation culture Associate the characteristics of an innovation leader with the actions that reflect them Assess an organizations innovation culture and plan leadership actions to strengthen it in a given scenario Recognize actions that are likely to attract and nurture innovators Course Number:
lead_05_a06_bs_enus Back to ListLeadership Essentials: Leading Change
Overview/DescriptionChange is not an event; it is a process. Change can happen quickly and, in some situations, can be urgent! However, it can take time for individuals to make the transition from one way of working to another. The change process isnt simply about introducing new systems – its about leading people from an old way of working to a new way of working, and its vital that you lead the change through to completion! Its important to recognize that your role is to support individuals through the transition and remove obstacles that can hinder a smooth transition from one process to another. This course provides you with strategies for leading changes within an organization, including effective approaches to introducing and communicating change. It also provides practical strategies for dealing with sources of employee resistance to change, and for removing organizational obstacles to ensure the transition is followed through. Materials designed to support blended learning activities aligned with this course are available from the Resources Page.
Target AudienceSupervisors, managers, directors, and individuals wanting to develop their leadership skills
Expected Duration (hours)1.0
Lesson Objectives Leadership Essentials: Leading Change
Recognize various types of change obstacles in an organization Match roots of inertia with actions that help combat and replace them with imperatives Recognize appropriate ways to communicate change Use appropriate techniques as a leader to introduce and follow through with change, in a given scenario Course Number:
lead_05_a07_bs_enus Back to ListLeadership Essentials: Creating Your Own Leadership Development Plan
Overview/DescriptionCreating your own leadership development plan is a significant part of any successful and valuable leadership-development strategy. Leadership development plans help to ensure that you remain focused on what is required to continually grow and develop as a leader. This includes assessing your own style, values, and requirements, as well as identifying development goals, objectives, and actions. This course explores ways to assess yourself as a leader, establish a vision for the future, and identify obstacles to that vision. It also teaches practical approaches for setting development goals, objectives, and actions designed to move you toward your vision. Lastly, it provides useful criteria for evaluating a personal leadership development plan. Materials designed to support blended learning activities aligned with this course are available from the Resources Page.
Target AudienceSupervisors, managers, directors, and individuals wanting to develop their leadership skills
Expected Duration (hours)1.0
Lesson Objectives Leadership Essentials: Creating Your Own Leadership Development Plan
Identify the key results of a leaders self-assessment process Recognize strategies for formulating your leadership vision and approaching potential obstacles to that vision Choose appropriate objectives and actions for a leadership development plan, in a given scenario Recognize strategies designed to help sustain leadership development Determine whether a leadership development plan exhibits key characteristics Course Number:
lead_05_a08_bs_enus Back to ListMotivating Employees and Leading Change Simulation
Overview/DescriptionYou were recently hired as sales director for a pharmaceutical company, Loffland Laboratories. Two sales managers oversee a staff of roughly 200 representatives and report directly to you. You, in turn, answer to the VP of sales. Although well established as an organization, Loffland has seen its earnings momentum stall over the last year and a half. And the previous director, burned out and frustrated, left behind a department badly in need of motivation and direction. You bring with you fresh ideas and a plan to revitalize Lofflands sales force, but theres resistance and a pervading sense of status quo. This simulation is based on the SkillSoft series Leadership Essentials and contains links to the following courses: lead_05_a01_bs_enus, lead_05_a03_bs_enus, and lead_05_a07_bs_enus.
Target AudienceSupervisors, managers, directors, and individuals who want to develop their leadership skills
Expected Duration (hours)0.5
Lesson Objectives Motivating Employees and Leading Change Simulation
Motivating employees. Employing influence techniques. Coping with resistance to change. Replacing inertia with imperatives. Course Number:
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Leadership Essentials
This self-paced online training course introduces individuals to the essential concepts of Leadership. Imagine what your
organization would be like if no one was motivated. Motivation is what drives people to accomplish things, whether it's a
small tasks or large undertakings. Without motivation, things simply would not get done. The ability to create an environment
that encourages motivation takes both practice and skill, as it's not a quality inherent in most people. As a leader, your
capacity for motivating plays a key element in the success of your organization. Today's leaders must be able to communicate
vision in such a way that the audience remains engaged and everyone understands and internalizes the message. Effective
leadership communication gives purpose and meaning to the work that people do. Leaders should strive to communicate vision
with a sense of integrity, building trust as an individual and as a leader.
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, to
accomplish your objectives; there are ethical ways for leaders to 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 to accomplish goals.
CBT Direct’s Online Leadership Essentials Training will provide the basic knowledge for creating your own leadership
development plan. A leadership development plan helps to ensure that you remain focused on what is required to continually
grow and develop as a leader. After taking our online course, the learner should have a better understanding of how to assess
your own style, values, and requirements, as well as identifying development goals, objectives, and actions.
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CBT Direct’s online Leadership Essentials course would be beneficial for supervisors, managers, directors, and individuals
wanting to develop their leadership skills.
What Will Professionals Learn from CBT Direct’s Leadership Essentials Training
This self-paced online course examines why motivating strategies are important as a leader. Our training program will identify
practical techniques for encouraging motivation among employees in your organization.
This training course will introduce students to vision communication, including its nature and its purpose. This course
examines numerous techniques and methods for communicating vision, such as personalizing a clear message, communicating
enthusiasm in an authentic way, and making the organization's vision the employees' own vision.
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In this online course, you will be guided through numerous methods and strategies for effectively influencing a team to
accept your ideas. Our course explores the importance of political awareness and the essential skills involved in using
positive politics and avoiding negative politics when persuading others.
This course provides you with an understanding of why emotional intelligence abilities are important as a leader. It
also provides you with practical, positive techniques for promoting and improving emotional intelligence as a leader within
your business environment.
CBT Direct’s online training course introduces you to techniques and strategies for executing business strategy,
and more importantly, ideas on how to cultivate a culture that supports the active business execution needed to keep pace
with today's fast-changing world. Specifically, the course will explore techniques for fostering a culture of business
execution, one that leverages planning, people, and practice in an integrated approach to business execution.
Professionals will identify what an innovative culture is and what qualities a leader needs to best foster innovation.
This training course will introduce students to practical techniques for cultivating and leading innovation.
Students will learn strategies for leading changes within an organization, including effective approaches to introducing
and communicating change. This course provides practical strategies for dealing with sources of employee resistance to change,
and for removing organizational obstacles to ensure the transition is followed through.
This course explores ways to assess yourself as a leader, establish a vision for the future, and identify obstacles to
that vision. Our training course teaches practical approaches for setting development goals, objectives, and actions designed
to move you toward your vision. Lastly, it provides useful criteria for evaluating a personal leadership development plan.
Leadership Essentials
