What you'll learn

  • Know the difference between leadership and management

  • Become an effective leader of yourself and others

  • Identify which people will be ideal to groom into leaders who can lead beside you

  • Know when to lead and when to manage

  • Get the most and best work from the people you lead like your employees or co-workers

  • Have a better functioning organization that gets more done

Requirements

Be excited about learning how to lead

Description

Become an effective leader of yourself first, and learn how to lead and manage others! When do you lead and when do you manage? What's the difference? And how do you actually lead? These are all questions you will have answered by the end of this course. You will also begin your own journey as a leader, both of yourself and of others. If you are currently a manager or a founder of your own business, instead of randomly doing your job, you must assume the leadership role and lead. But how do you lead if you aren't sure how to exactly do it and when to do it? That's when this course comes in. You will learn to get more out of yourself and the people you lead. Sign up today and learn the necessary skills and tactics to become a leader.

Who this course is for:

Management & Leadership Skills: Know When To Manage Or Lead

  • Entrepreneurs

  • Managers

  • Business leaders and stakeholders

Course curriculum

  1. 1
  2. 2

    • What is leadership?

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    • From Brian Tracy, what is leadership

    • Management styles

    • What is the difference between leadership and management

    • When to lead and when to manage

    • Growth of yourself as a leader

    • Traits of strong leaders
  3. 3

    • Management and leadership for a company of one

    • Partnering and business partners
  4. 4
  5. 5

    • Pitfalls in hiring, especially your first employee

    • Extra competencies and skills to look for when hiring
  6. 6

    • Most important work relationship is of employee to boss

    • Team building - five (plus a bonus one) factors to employee happiness

    • Team building of getting employees to work better together

    • Common rewards and employee recognition

    • Don't do's
  7. 7

    • Ideas for resources where you can improve various skills
  8. 8

    • Big priorities for your mid to long-term company direction

    • Covey's time management matrix from 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

    • Biology of decision making, moods, and impulsiveness
  9. 9

    • What exactly is correct feedback

    • Giving employee feedback

    • Situation Behavior Impact (S.B.I Model)

    • How to take feedback

    • If you have to give negative feedback

    • Four box feedback model that bosses use with their employees
  10. 10

    • Proofread your communications

    • Grammarly

    • Instant message and chat etiquette

    • If you have a client who abuses text communication
  11. 11

    • Doing calls vs. written communication

    • Phone communication basics

    • Skype or video call communication

    • Mistakes when doing calls on your smartphone

    • Video call preparation
  12. 12

    • Conflict management introduction

    • Conflict handling or conflict resolution styles

    • After conflict

    • Avoiding conflict during frustration from expectations or deadlines not met

    • Mindset and lesson to avoid conflict
  13. 13

    • What is I.Q

    • Free IQ test - see if you can beat me

    • What is Mensa and how to join

    • What is EQ (Emotional Intelligence)

    • Five-step formula for controlling your own emotions

    • Empathy

    • Empathy in sales
  14. 14

    • Introduction to meetings section

    • How to open the meeting

    • Reasons now to take meetings and getting out of bad meetings

    • Managing the time/flow of the meeting during the meeting

    • Different seating arrangements

    • Status meeting: is your team on the same page? And other types of meetings
  15. 15

    • Assertive communication at work - section introduction

    • Assertiveness definition

    • Situations when it's difficult to know when and how much to be assertive

    • Not an option - you need it so you are not passive aggressive later

    • Example - being assertive working from home and getting others to be quiet

    • Create limiting beliefs in others

    • Example of saying no with courtesy and reinforcing it with a limiting belie