Organizations achieve an average of 147% higher earnings per share when their number of talented managers increases and the rate of engaged employees doubles. However, with only 40% of leaders rating their organization’s leadership quality as “very good” or “excellent”, the need for leadership development training becomes even more serious.
The question, thus, becomes, ‘what skills do we need to help leaders develop?’, and, with the 2024 LEADx Leadership Development Benchmark Report highlighting insufficient time as the top challenge behind leadership development training failure, the question also becomes, ‘and how can we do it?’.
With our micro digital leadership development courses, leaders in your organizations can develop their skills at their own pace and convenience. With regards to what courses they can take, we have compiled for you a list of some of the top-rated leadership courses we offer.
1. Business Execution: How Things Get Done
Business execution is the “how” of getting things done. Leaders can use business execution to drive performance and strategies in the right direction, to solve problems, and to inspire others. In this course, your leaders will learn about the characteristics that define effective business execution culture and the three elements needed to execute a business plan: practice, planning, and people. They’ll also learn actionable strategies for fostering a business execution culture.
The Course Objectives
- Identify characteristics of a business execution culture
- Recognize effective leadership practices for business execution
- Identify how to guide the execution of a business plan
- Choose business execution techniques that motivate people to get things done
- Select actionable strategies to benefit from business execution
Effectively Directing & Delegating as a Manager
Understanding the essential responsibilities leaders have when directing and delegating to others and the practices they should employ in order to meet those responsibilities will help them fulfill their duties and realize the potential of their entire teams.
This course provides information on the key proficiencies of managing people, such as setting direction and establishing clear objectives and goals for direct reports. It discusses the importance of organizing, as well as communicating for clarity and direction. It also covers the best practices for planning delegation and the techniques leaders need to carry through with delegation. The course also details the importance of monitoring delegated tasks to ensure employees are on the right track.
The Course Objectives
- Sequence the steps in setting the direction and pace of work as a manager
- Identify organizing actions a manager should typically take
- Recognize aspects of communicating for clarity and direction when directing employees
- Identify essential elements of planning to delegate
- Recall strategies for delegating tasks
- Identify examples of ways to follow up after delegating tasks
Engaging & Challenging Your Top Performers
Research shows that a top performer can be 400% more productive than an average performer. Such top-performing employees play a significant role in your organization’s success and are critical to its future. Replacing them is not only hard, but also expensive. However, retaining such top performers is not easy; they are usually ambitious and are often sought after by other organizations. If they are not happy or engaged in your organization, they may easily find another job.
In this course, we help your leaders identify the typical characteristics of top performers, learn what motivates them, and know what to do to keep them engaged and challenged.
The Course Objectives
- Identify key traits common to top performing individuals
- Identify techniques for attracting and retaining top performers
- Identify best practices for keeping top performers motivated
- Identify strategies to effectively manage the top performers of your organization
Gauging Your Leadership Performance
Leaders’ ability to monitor and assess their own progress as they develop is vital to ensure their growth and overall success as leaders. In this course, leaders in your organization will learn about techniques they can use to carry out a self-assessment, such as reflective journaling, surveys and checklists, and 360-degree feedback. They’ll also learn ways to increase their motivation and manage their own learning by creating a leadership development plan.
The Course Objectives
- List the steps in using reflective journaling for self-assessment
- Recognize the process for using surveys and checklists for self-assessment
- Identify the benefits of self-assessment via 360-degree feedback
- Recognize the techniques for leading and listening
- Identify ways to challenge and empower yourself
- Recognize the techniques for rewarding yourself for achieving your goals
- Take appropriate actions to prepare a leadership development plan
Learning from Failure & Success
Failure is trendy. Every day you can read about failure being celebrated for lessons learned. People are encouraged to fail as fast as they can, with buzzwords exhorting “Fail Fast,” “Fail Big,” and “Fail Often.” But while you certainly can learn from failures, you can also learn powerfully from successes. The key is to take advantage of all your experiences to learn essential lessons that will help you prosper in the future.
In this course, your leaders will learn methods to glean growth and learning from any experience, and to identify each stage of the success cycle to make that happen. They’ll also examine actions that allow them to learn from setbacks or even mistakes, and how to use their successes to inspire and guide themselves to future triumphs.
The Course Objectives
- Identify key actions to enable you to learn from any experience
- Recognize the key stages of the success cycle
- Identify key actions that foster an attitude of learning from failure
- Choose techniques to help you use successes to inspire and guide you
Kickstart Your Leadership Development Today
These were the top leadership courses we offer that every leader must take to excel in their roles. If you’re interested in learning more about our leadership development courses, visit https://xpertlearning.com/leadership-2/ or contact us at enquiries@xpertlearning.com for a free, quick demo.
