Leadership Toolkits

  • 4 Courses | 1h 11m 33s
  • 5 Books | 13h 15m
  • 1 Audiobook | 18m 53s
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Every leader needs pragmatic approaches and a toolkit for conducting effective team-based leadership activities.

COURSES INCLUDED

Welcome to the Skillsoft Leadership Development Program
Whether you are an aspiring, new, or experienced leader who leads people or projects, we've designed this curriculum to meet you where you are in your own leadership journey.
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Leadership Toolkit: Facilitating a Brainstorming Session
Successful leadership in today's business world requires a multitude of skills and competencies. Among them is the ability to manager diverse teams of individuals with different backgrounds, experiences and expertise. Facilitating effective brainstorming sessions allows leaders to harness their teams' creativity to generate a greater quantity and quality of ideas and strategies to spark innovation and provide a wide range of possible solutions to specific business problems. Successful brainstorming sessions provide creative grist for the strategic mill. In this course, you will learn specific techniques and strategies for facilitating a successful brainstorming session. You'll also learn about leading your team through productive activities, handling diverse personalities and priorities, and keeping your business team focused and on-task without limiting ideas and innovation.
2 videos | 28m has Assessment available Badge
Leadership Toolkit: Facilitating a Workshop
Successful leadership in today's business world requires a multitude of skills and competencies. Among them is the ability to manage diverse teams of individuals with different backgrounds, experiences and expertise. Facilitating effective workshops requires a delicate mix of didactic, proactive leadership and structured interaction that helps teams generate and debate creative, innovative ideas and build strategies for applying them to solve business problems and explore new business opportunities. Effective workshops allow the team to benefit from its members sharing their experiences and expertise. In this course, you will learn specific techniques and strategies for facilitating a successful workshop, mitigating the challenges of diverse personalities and priorities, and keeping your business team focused and on-task through the use of guidance and structured activities.
2 videos | 20m has Assessment available Badge
Leadership Toolkit: Running a Team Debrief
Successful leadership in today's business world requires a multitude of skills and competencies. Among them is the ability to manage diverse teams of individuals with different backgrounds, experiences and expertise. Running an effective team debrief helps business teams more fully understand both the positive outcomes and shortcomings of team events and what needs to be done to rectify missteps and make similar future events even more successful. In this course, you will learn specific techniques and strategies for running a successful team debriefing while handling the challenges of diverse personalities and perspectives. You'll also learn how to keep your business team focused on improving processes, mitigating potential future risks, and finding solutions while avoiding the temptation of assigning blame or abdicating responsibility.
2 videos | 19m has Assessment available Badge
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BOOKS INCLUDED

Book

MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Leadership Toolkits
This collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review shows how leaders have tools for helping teams function better, from giving employees license to experiment to using effective brainstorming processes.
book Duration 36m book Authors By MIT Sloan Management Review

Book

Big Book of Brainstorming Games: Quick, Effective Activities that Encourage Out-of-the-Box Thinking, Improve Collaboration, and Spark Great Ideas!
Packed with physical and verbal exercises to help you organize and run a brainstorming session, this book gives you the tools and knowledge to build a solid, structured foundation for free-form interaction and fearless conceptualizing.
book Duration 1h 56m book Authors By Mary Scannell, Mike Mulvihill

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Quick Brainstorming Activities for Busy Managers: 50 Exercises to Spark Your Team's Creativity and Get Results Fast
Filled with clear, concise guidance and quick, easily implemented techniques, this book provides supervisors, managers, and team leaders the fun, proven activities they need to get idea-packed brainstorming sessions started, and keep them going.
book Duration 2h 9m book Authors By Brian Cole Miller

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How to Run Seminars & Workshops: Presentation Skills for Consultants, Trainers, Teachers, and Salespeople, Fourth Edition
Packed with clear advice and real-world practicality, this trainer's resource covers all aspects including planning, setup, delivery, coaching, and more-as well as valuable guidance on selling your services.
book Duration 6h 21m book Authors By Robert L. Jolles

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10 Steps to Successful Facilitation, 2nd Edition
Including a wealth of methods, strategies, and tips, this book takes the guesswork out of this essential skill and gives you a step-by-step process for becoming an accomplished and successful facilitator.
book Duration 2h 13m book Authors By Association for Talent Development
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AUDIOBOOKS INCLUDED

AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY

Facilitation Skills Training
Facilitation Skills Training explores all the tools you need to run a workshop that fits the needs of your learners. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
audiobook Duration 18m 53s audiobook Authors By Kimberly Devlin

SKILL BENCHMARKS INCLUDED

Leading Your Team
Great teams don't come together by accident. Successful leaders know that putting together an efficient and effective team requires planning, forethought, honest assessment, and a little trial and error. And once you've put the team together, then comes the work of coaching, motivating, and managing them. In this Leading Your Team Unit benchmark, you'll have the opportunity to see where your team building, and team leading skills currently stand and learn where you can further develop and refine your abilities to lead your team to success. 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.
6m    |   6 questions