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Developing Your Leadership Strategy Series

Learn how to pivot, build buy-in, and retain your talent
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Course: On-Demand
Advanced Provider Diana Rangaves  23 Lessons ·  43m  in Arabic, German, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese 

Course Description

This Developing Your Leadership Strategy course emphasizes that business strategy is the core of any organization, but leadership strategy is essential to success of the business. This course is designed to help you develop your leadership skills. You will learn the tools and skills needed to work well as a team. Leadership is fluid and not necessarily defined by an organizational chart. Instead, leadership is based on important skills and behaviors that encourage authenticity in your company culture. This course will provide you with the necessary tools to define your company culture and implement effective strategies that both reflect mindful leadership and encourage employee motivation and development.

A large part of developing your leadership strategy is knowing how to be an effective leader. Leaders understand how to keep employees motivated, stimulated, and know how to work as a team, using everyone’s strengths and weaknesses accordingly. It is the leaders’ role modeling that gets the team to the finish line and executes the final vision. By watching this course, you will discover methods for controlling your impulse and for practicing mindful leadership. You will also be able to identify big picture goals and strategize the appropriate small steps to reach your company’s bigger goals. In addition, you will understand how each of your valuable teammates plays a role in accomplishing those goals by working through those steps. Finally, you will learn to create purposeful and meaningful creations that target your end goals and cater to the team you have chosen to lead the way.

What You'll Learn

  • Build authenticity in your company culture and use collective actions to dictate it
  • Identify and fix existing hiring gaps while finding talented long-term employees
  • Develop your vision to create effective leadership and succession planning
  • Practice mindful leadership and control your impulses as a leader
  • Identify big-picture goals and strategize the small steps needed to reach them
  • Motivate, develop, and retain your team by knowing their strengths and weaknesses

Key Takeaways

  • Business strategy is the core of an organization, but leadership strategy is essential to the success of the business.
  • Leadership is fluid and not necessarily defined by an organizational chart; it is based on important skills and behaviors that encourage authenticity in company culture.
  • Effective leaders keep employees motivated and stimulated and work as a team by using everyone's strengths and weaknesses accordingly.
  • A leader's role modeling gets the team to the finish line and executes the final vision.
  • Developing a leadership strategy involves identifying big-picture goals and strategizing the appropriate small steps to reach them.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is this course about?

This Developing Your Leadership Strategy course helps you develop your leadership skills, providing the tools and skills needed to work well as a team, define your company culture, and implement effective strategies that reflect mindful leadership and encourage employee motivation and development.

What skills will I gain from this course?

The course covers Leadership Development, Leadership Studies, Leadership Analysis, Onboarding Strategies, Organizational Strategy, and Strategic Fit.

What topics does the course cover?

Lessons include Organizational Fit, Authenticity in Company Culture, Mindful Leadership, Controlling Your Impulses, The Internal Talent Pipeline, Identifying Hiring Gaps, Employee Motivation and Development, Retaining Your Talent, Vision Execution, and a case study on John the Grocery Manager.

How will this course help me as a leader?

You will discover methods for controlling your impulses and practicing mindful leadership, learn to identify big-picture goals and strategize the small steps to reach them, and understand how each teammate plays a role in accomplishing those goals.