50 Lessons and Leadership Development Channel
SkillSoft is pleased to offer two video-based solutions to build or round out your leadership development program. Both collections include downloadable video formats suitable for mobile devices, meeting starters and classroom integration. Both collections also offer live events. Our annual series of live, interactive satellite and webcast events provide executives with cutting-edge thinking in business and leadership through live and interactive presentations featuring the most recognized and sought-after thought leaders including Ram Charan, Tom Peters, Lynda Gratton, Patrick Lencioni and more. Up to seven live events are produced annually.
50 Lessons
The 50 Lessons collection features over 1,200 interview presentations from some of the world's most respected and recognized business leaders sharing personal experiences of today's most pressing business issues. The 50 Lessons storytelling format captures these lessons in consistent, short, compelling video lessons which engage business audiences.
50 Lessons Content Focus
Every business lesson we create is crafted around a real-life experience re-told by a renowned business leader as a story. Each story leads into a reflection by the leader on what he/she personally learned from the experience. Finally, in each lesson the leader extracts "take aways" from the experience, the central learning points that can be beneficial to any business person. Our storytelling approach to sharing business knowledge has several distinct advantages:
- Stories are memorable
- Stories capture complex ideas succinctly
- Stories engage audiences
- Stories inspire people to act
Leadership Development Channel
The Leadership Development Channel™ (LDC) collection is more diverse in both learning design and presentation format and features over 2,000 on-demand video programs featuring best-selling business authors, experts and Executives. The LDC includes content of varying lengths from 2-60 minutes long. The LDC's instructional design is application-based to drive immediate results.
Leadership Development Channel Content Focus
- LDC Business Author QuickTalks - Best-selling business authors and leaders such as Stephen Covey, Gary Hamel, Linda Hill and more provide concise, just-in-time, application-based learning
- LDC Executive QuickTalks - The best thinking from leading executives such as Jeff Immelt, Anne Mulcahy, Sir Howard Stringer, Bill Ford, Jr, Ron Meyer and more of today's top business leaders and practitioners
- LDC Consultant QuickTalks - Leading change consultants such as Mercer, BCG and Deloitte provide actionable insight from real world perspectives
Live Events
Our annual series of live, interactive satellite and webcast events provide executives with cutting-edge thinking in business and leadership through live and interactive presentations featuring the most recognized and sought-after thought leaders.
Live Events are available to Leadership Development Channel customers, 50 Lessons customers who access assets through our platform and SkillSoft Leadership Advantage customers.
To see a list of upcoming live events, please visit our events page.
