Leader Essentials

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The following 8 courses are quick one hour essentials covering some aspect of leadership. They enable you to quickly think about a leadership concept and provide tools for improving your leadership skills in that area, and are designed to facilitate you immediately putting into practice what you have learned.

Course Bundle: Leadership Essentials - 8.0 hours/PDUs (Category A)This course includes:

"Leadership Essentials: Motivating Employees" - 1.0 hour/PDU
"Leadership Essentials: Communicating Vision" - 1.0 hour/PDU
"Leadership Essentials: Building Your Influence as a Leader" - 1.0 hour/PDU"
"Leadership Essentials: Leading with Emotional Intelligence" - 1.0 hour/PDU
"Leadership Essentials: Leading Business Execution" - 1.0 hour/PDU
"Leadership Essentials: Leading Innovation" - 1.0 hour/PDU
"Leadership Essentials: Leading Change" - 1.0 hour/PDU
"Leadership Essentials: Creating Your Own Leadership Development Plan" - 1.0 hour/PDU

Leadership Essentials: Motivating Employees - 1 hour/PDU (Category A)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.

Leadership Essentials: Communicating Vision - 1 hour/PDUThis 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 organization's vision the employees' own vision.

Leadership Essentials: Building Your Influence as a Leader - 1 hour/PDU (Category A)In this course, you will be guided through numerous 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 using positive politics and avoiding negative politics when persuading others. You'll also have an opportunity to practice methods for influencing effectively and ethically.

Leadership Essentials: Leading with Emotional Intelligence - 1 hour/PDU (Category A)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.

Leadership Essentials: Leading Business Execution - 1 hour/PDU (Category A)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 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.

Leadership Essentials: Leading Innovation - 1 hour/PDU (Category A)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.

Leadership Essentials: Leading Change - 1 hour/PDU (Category A)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.

Leadership Essentials: Creating Your Own Leadership Development Plan - 1 hour/PDU (Category A)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.