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Leadership and management

Explore a curated selection of courses designed to enhance your strategic thinking, decision-making, and communication abilities. Whether you're a seasoned leader or aspiring to climb the management ladder, these courses offer actionable insights and real-world strategies to elevate your skills and empower your team.

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Leadership foundations: Styles and models

This course offers a frame of reference for what leadership is, how it is practiced, and the most prevalent styles and approaches, to help you become the leader you want to be. Professor Alexander Lyon covers styles of authority, from autocratic to laissez-faire; approaches to action and communication; and models of responsibility, including servant leadership. He also explains why you should prioritise the qualities that can have the biggest impact on your success as a leader: authenticity, purpose, and empathy. 

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Leading your team through change

Great leaders help their organisation overcome challenges and change course. But change is hard, and anyone managing a team needs a proven playbook to help them rally their employees as they acclimate to new ideas and initiatives. In this course, Mike Derezin highlights frameworks and strategies he employed as a VP at LinkedIn for guiding teams through actionable change. 

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How to effectively deliver criticism

Aimee Bateman, founder of Careercake, shows you how to deliver constructive feedback to your colleagues, build rapport, and, most importantly, ensure criticism is well received. She provides you with tips and tricks to conduct meetings, communicate the problem, and leave a conversation with a productive outcome. 

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Leading your team through change

Great leaders help their organisation overcome challenges and change course. But change is hard, and anyone managing a team needs a proven playbook to help them rally their employees as they acclimate to new ideas and initiatives. In this course, Mike Derezin highlights frameworks and strategies he employed as a VP at LinkedIn for guiding teams through actionable change. 

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How to support your employees' wellbeing

Managers face sometimes-daunting tasks. When your employees are struggling with burnout, stress, work-life imbalance, and other life challenges that may impact their performance and productivity, how can you support them? In this course, UK-based instructor Amy Brann provides specific tools based on brain science to help you be a source of strength and support for your employees. She discusses your role in your employees’ well-being and how you can positively impact your employees’ experience at work. 

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Become a trauma-informed leader

So much of your success as a leader depends on your ability to learn from personal trials, errors, and resolved or unresolved trauma. Your resilience in the wake of a challenge influences your leadership style and how you respond to stress and pain points in the workplace. In this course, instructor Dawn Emerick shows you how to identify the three E’s of trauma, respond to trauma without causing secondary or vicarious trauma, and create a space of emotional safety for the whole team.

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Managing misconduct in the workplace

Confronting misconduct in the workplace is challenging enough. Ensuring that the process for managing misconduct and disciplinary actions adheres to CIPD guidelines and UK employment law adds another level of complexity. In this course, instructor Andrea Vogel equips HR professionals with the skills they need to support line managers and their organization in addressing misconduct in a non-emotional, fair, and objective fashion.

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Creating psychological safety for diverse teams

Today's workforce comprises multiple generations, cultures, and ways of working. By creating a culture of psychological safety—in which team members feel comfortable taking risks—you can lead these diverse teams to greater success. Get strategies for communicating with people who think differently than you, managing across cultures, and helping your direct reports form habits that actually stick. Plus, learn how to find balance among the skill sets in your organisation by embracing the unique talents that each person brings to the team.

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Delegating tasks

These days, we're all overwhelmed. We can't make more time and our professional obligations aren't going away. The only answer is delegation. Delegation is key for managers as you ascend in your organisation. But even if you're just starting out and don't have any direct reports, there will be times you'll need to delegate to colleagues, which can feel awkward. Learn the right way to get help and still maintain your high-quality standards. Dorie Clark explains how to build the right mindset to delegate work without micromanaging it. 

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Leveraging virtual and hybrid teams for improved effectiveness

In the fast-paced world of remote work, traditional practices won't lead to success. Teams—whether fully virtual or hybrid (remote and on location) are being reinvented—and the good news is physical distance doesn't mean lower performance. Discover how to recontract and reboot your teams in our new world of remote work. Learn how to help virtual teams connect emotionally and mentally, as well as feel empowered to share their experiences and perspectives. Plus, get tips for restoring your team's energy through recognition and shared goal achievement, boosting your team's agility, and more.

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