Leader Transitions
- 8 Courses | 3h 20m 2s
- 7 Books | 19h 26m
- 6 Audiobooks | 39h 39m 58s
Leadership transitions are challenging for both new and experienced leaders. Master strategies to successfully transition into new leadership roles.
COURSES INCLUDED
Welcome to the Leadership Development Program
Whether you're new to a leadership role or a battle-tested veteran, there is always more to learn about leading people, leading teams, or leading your business. Learning is a life-long journey, and leadership development is an ongoing process. In this course, you'll be introduced to Skillsoft's Leadership Development Program. Comprised of thirty modern competency-based leadership channels, this program will help expand your knowledge about what it takes to be a leader and the necessary mindsets and behaviors that enable successful leaders to face and overcome the challenges they encounter every day. This course provides an introductory overview to the program and the rich array of courses, resources, tools, and expert advice available to help you grow your leadership career.
1 video |
9m
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New Leadership Transitions
Employees enter leadership roles earlier and via different paths than in the past. In this course, you'll learn about common challenges that new leaders face, and some techniques for setting goals, building teams, and getting early wins.
8 videos |
57m
Assessment
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PMI PDU
Leadership Transitions: Becoming a Frontline Manager
Making the transition from individual contributor to frontline leader can be a daunting adjustment. Moving into a leadership role involves more than just getting a new title. It means adopting a leadership mind-set, developing new skills and leadership competencies, and understanding your new relationships with those above and below you on the organizational chart. In this course, you'll learn how to adjust your mindset, develop your delegation skills, and build relationships to succeed in your new leadership role.
7 videos |
18m
Assessment
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Leadership Transitions: Moving into Middle Management
The transition from frontline manager to middle manager can be difficult for many people. The added leadership responsibilities and new relationships, and their inherent challenges, can prove daunting. However, the necessary leadership skills for mastering them can be learned and developed. In this course, you'll learn the role, duties, and responsibilities that come with a middle management position. You'll also learn about the challenges of mid-level management and methods and leadership mindsets for mitigating and overcoming them.
7 videos |
19m
Assessment
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Leadership Transitions: Moving into Senior Leadership
Transitioning into senior leadership can be challenging. The approach, the attitudes, or the mindset that worked well in a mid-level management role might not be sufficient in a more senior role. A successful transition is often about discarding the old way of doing things and developing a new approach and mindset. It's about acquiring new skills, new perspectives, and leadership maturity. In this course, you'll learn the necessary attributes of leadership maturity, the qualities needed for successful functional area management, and strategies and best practices for upper-level delegation and transition into the leadership of leaders.
7 videos |
20m
Assessment
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Leadership Insights on Leader Transitions
When taking on a new position, leaders face myriad challenges like building teams that deliver, developing networks to stay informed of key events, and inspiring others on an entirely new level. Get ready to make the most of your new role.
10 videos |
34m
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Leadership Insights on Transitioning from Frontline Manager to Mid-Level Manager
Transitioning from a frontline manager to a mid-level manager requires strategies for settling into middle management. Learn what you can do to ease the transition all the while imparting change, accountability, and developing others along the way.
8 videos |
24m
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Leadership Insights on Transitioning to Senior Leadership
Transitioning to senior leadership requires one to recognize the key competencies that reflect leadership maturity. Discover the tools, considerations, and challenges when moving into a senior leadership role.
7 videos |
15m
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Skillsoft is providing you the opportunity to earn a digital badge upon successful completion on some of our courses, which can be shared on any social network or business platform.
Digital badges are yours to keep, forever.BOOKS INCLUDED
Book
MIT Sloan Management Review on New Leader TransitionsIn this collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review, you'll learn how to transition into an effective leader, and how to overcome the struggles that come with change.
40m
By MIT Sloan Management Review
Book
Succession for Change: Strategic Transitions in Family and Founder-Led BusinessesShowing how competitive advantage has evolved over the last twenty-five years, this book examines the approaches being adopted by current business leaders, succession service providers and the next generation to address the change imperative in succession.
2h 39m
By Harry Korine
Book
Becoming a Successful Manager: Powerful Tools for Making a Smooth Transition to Managing a Team, Second EditionPresenting numerous exercises throughout, this book aims to help you, as a new manager, quickly assimilate some of the basic knowledge you must have and actions you must put into practice in order to succeed.
2h 45m
By Gary Grossman, J. Robert Parkinson
Book
Transitions at the Top: What Organizations Must Do to Make Sure New Leaders SucceedProviding the specific principles, guidelines, and actions that boards, C-suite executives, and HR leaders need to guarantee a successful CEO transition, this insightful, informative guide spans the steps and events that take place from when the candidate accepts the offer, all the way through the point where a critical mass of followers have accepted him or her as the established leader.
4h 32m
By Dan Ciampa, David L. Dotlich
Book
From Techie to Boss: Transitioning to LeadershipTeaching you a whole new set of interpersonal, organizational, and metrical skills you never needed before, this easy-to-read guide shows you how to translate and adapt the analytic skills that made you an outstanding techie to your new responsibilities as a technical manager.
4h 1m
By Scott Cromar
Book
The Leadership Pipeline: How to Build the Leadership Powered Company, Second EditionDrawing on their experiences at many Fortune 500 companies, the authors of this book show how organizations can develop leadership at every level by identifying future leaders, assessing their corporate confidence, planning their development, and measuring their results.
4h 40m
By Jim Noel, Ram Charan, Stephen Drotter
BOOK SUMMARY
Serve Up, Coach Down: Mastering the Middle and Both Sides of LeadershipIn Serve Up, Coach Down, Jamail explores how to take the stigma out of middle management by devising innovative strategies to leverage the advantages middle managers have. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
9m
By Nathan Jamail
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AUDIOBOOKS INCLUDED
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
The Leadership Pipeline: How to Build the Leadership-Powered CompanyFor managers and human resource professionals, The Leadership Pipeline is a proven method of leadership development a corporation can use to develop a pool of talent from which to build strong, effective management. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
10m 24s
By James Noel, Ram Charan, Stephen Drotter
Audiobook
The Leadership Pipeline: How to Build the Leadership Powered Company, Second EditionThis audio edition shows how organizations can develop leadership at every level by identifying future leaders, assessing their corporate confidence, planning their development, and measuring their results.
9h 49m 28s
By James Noel, Ram Charan, Stephen Drotter
Audiobook
Your Next Move: The Leader's Guide to Navigating Major Career TransitionsThis audio edition provides the insights, strategies, and tools - including relationship reengineering, business systems analysis, and "organizational immunology" - leaders need to accelerate through crucial turning points and continue moving up in their careers.
6h 10m 23s
By Michael D. Watkins
Audiobook
From Bud to Boss: Secrets to a Successful Transition to Remarkable LeadershipThis audio edition can help new leaders get beyond the stress and fear to focus on becoming the most effective leader they can be--starting right now.
9h 52m 27s
By Guy Harris, Kevin Eikenberry
Audiobook
Succession: Mastering the Make-or-Break Process of Leadership TransitionThis audio edition highlights the common mistakes that can generate embarrassing headlines and may even call an organization's survival into question, and reveals the best practices of those who got it right.
13h 17m 26s
By Noel M. Tichy
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
The New Manager's Tool Kit: 21 Things You Need to Know to Hit the Ground RunningThe New Manager's Toolkit is packed with unconventional advice for current and aspiring managers. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
19m 50s
By Don Grimme, Sheryl Grimme
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SKILL BENCHMARKS INCLUDED
Leading Yourself
Landing that management role is quite an accomplishment and you should be proud of yourself. But it's just the beginning your leadership journey. Successfully maintaining and growing a leadership career means developing yourself as well as your team. It's a career-long path of learning and self-discovery. In this Leading Yourself Unit benchmark, you'll be able to assess your current learning and growth mindset, and get a glimpse of areas in which you can develop further self-awareness and self-improvement. This benchmark evaluates your understanding of this topic. Being aware of potential knowledge gaps allows you to better understand your current competency and areas for improvement, so you can find suitable content and curate your own learning path. The courses recommended at the end of this benchmark can help you fill potential gaps in your knowledge.
9m
| 9 questions