Leadership Courses

Your ability to execute strategy has enabled your success as a leader. But as you move up, achieving success depends on how well you involve others in shaping strategy. This course introduces a process for successfully advancing your strategic plans through intentional stakeholder relationships built on reciprocal value, collaboration, and shared ownership.

Helps emerging or early executives:

• Understand the importance of stakeholder involvement for their strategic initiatives.
• Identify key stakeholders and employ a five-step process to involve and engage them.
• Plan a tailored approach to gain a critical stakeholder's buy-in.
• Leverage stakeholder feedback to make their strategy more likely to succeed.

Competency developed:

• Cultivating Networks and Partnerships

This course is only available with a MultiLevel Subscription.

Discover how your leadership traits influence delegation decisions, and gain practical strategies to empower others while maintaining accountability. This experience dives into the art of delegating high-impact responsibilities effectively across organizational levels.

Helps emerging or early executives:

• Recognize delegation as a strategic leadership act.
• Challenge their mindset and assumptions when making delegation decisions.
• Manage the personality traits that can influence their ability to trust and let go.
• Apply practices that empower and build team ownership and bench strength.

Competency developed:

• Sharing Responsibility

This course is only available with a MultiLevel Subscription.

How leaders show up at work matters. Consider how executives can lead authentically and confidently while aligning with the organization's goals. Personalized with Leadership Personality Insights, this course integrates data from a comprehensive personality inventory to boost self-awareness and provide actionable next steps.

Helps emerging or early executives:

• Gain a deep understanding of executive presence and why it is important.
• Examine how personality traits impact executive presence.
• Develop a personal version of executive presence that suits their authentic style and organization's need.

Competency developed:

• Executive Presence

Personalized with Leadership Personality Insights, this course integrates data from a comprehensive personality inventory to boost self-awareness and provide actionable next steps. This course is only available with a MultiLevel Subscription.

To be effective at translating long-term strategies into team actions, mid-level leaders must seek diverse perspectives, evaluate payoffs and risks for their potential goals, then select their priorities and consider how to mitigate risks.

Helps leaders:

• Translate strategic business goals to team-level priorities.
• Identify strategies to mitigate risk.

Competencies developed:

• Establishing Strategic Direction

This Impact Session is designed to develop leaders of leaders with focused skills, deep insights, and peer learning—in 2 hours or less.

Interested in delivering this course? Ask us about our facilitator certification options.

Making good judgments becomes increasingly complex as you ascend the organization. Stakes are higher, pressure is tighter, and pitfalls are deeper as you become responsible for more enterprise-level judgments. This course helps you develop your personal strategies to address those challenges and broaden your thinking in a way that grounds sound business judgments.

Helps early or emerging executives:

• Explore the key elements that drive effective business judgment.
• Learn about common pressures and "pitfalls" facing leaders making enterprise business judgments.
• Develop their personal strategies for avoiding or addressing these "pitfalls" when they land in their path.

Competencies developed:

• Business Savvy

This course is only available with a MultiLevel Subscription.

In order to commit to becoming a more inclusive leader, they must first personally understand the problem of exclusion. Leaders experience an immersive simulation, either in VR or a computer-based format, to experience firsthand what it's like to be excluded. Following the simulation, leaders engage in a candid and open discussion where they share personal experiences with inclusion and exclusion. With a shared understanding of the problem and why it's important, leaders learn more about what a culture of inclusion looks like, why it's important, and what they can do to help create one.

Helps leaders:

• Experience firsthand what it feels like to be excluded at work through an immersive simulation.
• Recognize the impact an inclusive workplace can have on an organization’s ability to achieve goals.
• Embrace the role of a leader in creating an inclusive work environment.
• Increase commitment to model and support behaviors that create a more inclusive workplace.

Competencies developed:

• Creating an Inclusive Environment

Diversity, equity, and inclusion enable organizations to innovate better, make smarter decisions, retain talent, and achieve greater performance. Three inclusive practices give leaders a framework for taking action when exclusion happens and build and nurture an inclusive culture for their team. Five interaction skills give leaders a voice they can use to conduct everyday inclusive conversations.

Helps leaders:

• Recognize the exclusionary behaviors happening around you and within your team and take action to counter them. 
• Develop everyday inclusive leadership habits using a memorable framework of three inclusive practices—Identify, Engage, and Advocate.
• Model inclusive behaviors in a way that encourages your team members to embrace and practice these behaviors with others.
• Build and nurture a psychologically safe environment where each person can participate freely, be themselves, and experience success.

Competencies developed:

• Creating an Inclusive Environment

This course teaches hiring managers and interview team members how to conduct interviews that are objective, fair, and provide the candidate the opportunity to shine. Learners leave the class knowing how to build rapport, manage an interview, and ask pertinent questions to gather data that are predictive of future on-the-job success.

Helps interviewers:

• Create a positive experience for the candidate by building rapport and managing the interview.
• Ask behavioral questions that uncover job-related skills and actions and minimize bias during the interview.
• Gather specific examples of a candidate's past behavior to predict future workplace behavior.
• Determine the candidate's motivation for the job and organization.   

Competencies developed:

• Selecting Talent

Interested in delivering this course? Ask us about our Targeted Selection certification options for facilitators.

This course teaches interviewers how to make the best hiring decisions by collecting high-quality behavioral data around job-related criteria for success. Interviewers build their skills in using an objective, consistent, and unbiased process for evaluating candidate data, and learn how sharing their data and considering the data that other interviewers have collected leads to hiring the best candidate every time.

Helps interviewers:

• Measure candidates against well-defined job criteria (knowledge, experience, competencies, and motivations).
• Focus interview questions on job-related behaviors.
• Avoid bias by focusing hiring decisions and promotions on the job requirements and data instead of on feelings or impressions.
• Follow a consistent and methodical process to evaluate data for every candidate.
• Integrate candidate information from multiple interviewers to make the best hiring decision.

Competencies developed:

• Selecting Talent

Interested in delivering this course? Ask us about our Targeted Selection certification options for facilitators.