Leadership Clarity, Stability, and Rhythm

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The Three Commitments of Leadership explains how to be a leader who inspires positive change, builds lasting relationships, attracts and retains the best talent, and creates a culture where people are motivated to do their best. The book’s author, Jon Wortmann, shares his perspectives and insights from the book in this video-based course.

Duration: 18 minutes of video lessons

The course covers:

  • Defining the Leader You Want to Be
  • Committing to Clarity
  • Providing Stability
  • Establishing Rhythm
  • Managing Doubt
  • Committing to be a Great Leader

The target audience for this course is leaders and future leaders who want to strengthen their leadership skills. The value of this course to participants and the organization are:

  • More stable and predictable leadership which enables people to be empowered
  • More inspiring leadership that brings out great performance and attracts and retains great talent
  • A stronger, more positive culture which makes the work environment more productive and enjoyable

Jon Wortmann is a principal at thoughtLEADERS. He is an executive coach, trainer, and best-selling author of five books including Hijacked by Your Brain and Mindfulness is Sublime. He has delivered over 3,000 public workshops and trainings across a variety of industry sectors. In addition to corporate teams, he is the leadership trainer in multiple towns and school districts in New England. His writing has been featured in Fast Company, Psychology Today, O Magazine, and Elle. A graduate of Carleton College and Harvard University, he also coaches golfers in the NCAA and on the PGA Tour.

 

 

Building Self-Reliant Leadership

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The Littlest Green Beret explores the skills and attributes leaders need to develop to be self-reliant so they can overcome adversity when it strikes. The book’s author, Jan Rutherford, shares his perspectives and insights from the book in this video-based course.

Duration: 20 minutes of video lessons

The course covers:

  • Dealing with Adversity
  • Conducting Self-Discovery Work
  • Being a Good Coach
  • Learned Optimism
  • Building Teams
  • Instigating Change

The target audience for this course is leaders and future leaders who want to strengthen their leadership skills. The value of this course to participants and the organization are:

  • A better sense of self and increased confidence as a leader
  • Improved abilities to recognize and deal with adversity as it arises
  • Better individual and team performance because of stronger leadership

Jan Rutherford is a principal at thoughtLEADERS. Prior to his business career, Jan joined the U.S. Army at age 17 (weighing 114 pounds) where he spent six years in Special Forces as a medic and “A” team executive officer, and three years as a military intelligence officer. Jan is the founder of Self-Reliant Leadership, and co-host of The Leadership Podcast. He holds an MBA from the University of Phoenix, where his research focused on the effects of long-distance learning on job performance. He earned his undergraduate degree in Political Science from the University of South Florida, and was a Distinguished Military Graduate.

 

Strengthening Your Leadership Skills

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Leadership Vertigo bridges the gap between what leaders should be doing to improve their organization and its people and what they’re actually getting done. The book’s author, Tanveer Naseer, shares his perspectives and insights from the book in this video-based course.

Duration: 21 minutes of video lessons

The course covers:

  • Understanding Leadership Vertigo
  • Building Community
  • Developing Competence
  • Earning Credibility
  • Cultivating Compassion

The target audience for this course is leaders and future leaders who want to strengthen their leadership skills. The value of this course to participants and the organization are:

  • More confident leaders who are better connected to their teams
  • Increased confidence in leaders and a willingness to follow them
  • Better relationships between leaders and their team members

Tanveer Naseer is a principal at thoughtLEADERS. He is an award-winning and internationally-acclaimed leadership writer and keynote speaker. He works with executives and managers to help them develop practical leadership and team-building competencies to guide organizational growth and development. He’s the author of Leadership Vertigo. Tanveer is also the CEO of BnextR Technologies, a start-up technology company behind the professional development program, MasteryPractice, a science-based online program designed to help people develop new habits and behaviors that are critical to career success and growth. He holds a Master of Science degree in Pathology from McGill University.

 

Being an Innovative Leader

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The Innovative Leadership Fieldbook explains how leaders can influence others by engaging equally across four key dimensions: intention, behavior, culture, and systems. Mike Figliuolo shares his perspectives and insights from the book in this video-based course.

Duration: 23 minutes of video lessons

The course covers:

  • The Innovative Leadership Model
  • Leader Personality Types
  • Developmental Perspective
  • Building Resilience
  • Situational Analysis
  • Building Leadership Capacity

The target audience for this course is leaders and future leaders who want to strengthen their leadership skills. The value of this course to participants and the organization are:

  • A better sense of self which makes you more confident as a leader
  • A more authentic leadership style which builds trust with the members of your team
  • A stronger base of followers who are inspired by your leadership

Mike Figliuolo is the founder and managing director of thoughtLEADERS. He is an internationally recognized author, trainer, speaker, and blogger on the topics of leadership, communications, strategy, decision-making, problem solving, and other critical business skills. An honor graduate from West Point, Mike served in the US Army as a combat arms officer. Before founding thoughtLEADERS, he was an assistant professor at Duke University, a consultant at McKinsey & Company, and an executive at Capital One and Scotts Miracle-Gro. He is the author of three books: One Piece of Paper: The Simple Approach to Powerful, Personal Leadership, Lead Inside the Box: How Smart Leaders Guide Their Teams to Exceptional Results, and The Elegant Pitch: Create a Compelling Recommendation, Build Broad Support, and Get it Approved. Mike is also one of the most popular authors on LinkedIn Learning where he has published 30 courses that have been viewed millions of times by learners from around the world.

 

Leading Change and Transformation

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The Innovative Leaders Guide to Transforming Organizations shares the successful tactics used to implement change and highlights the impact of leadership on implementation success. Mike Figliuolo shares his perspectives and insights from the book in this video-based course.

Duration: 22 minutes of video lessons

The course covers:

  • The Innovative Leadership Model
  • Leader Personality Types
  • Developmental Perspective
  • Building Resilience
  • Situational Awareness
  • Building Leadership Competency

The target audience for this course is leaders and future leaders who want to strengthen their leadership skills. The value of this course to participants and the organization are:

  • Leaders who are better able to lead and manage change
  • More resilient leaders who, in turn, help teams be more resilient
  • Better communication and processes to support driving change

Mike Figliuolo is the founder and managing director of thoughtLEADERS. He is an internationally recognized author, trainer, speaker, and blogger on the topics of leadership, communications, strategy, decision-making, problem solving, and other critical business skills. An honor graduate from West Point, Mike served in the US Army as a combat arms officer. Before founding thoughtLEADERS, he was an assistant professor at Duke University, a consultant at McKinsey & Company, and an executive at Capital One and Scotts Miracle-Gro. He is the author of three books: One Piece of Paper: The Simple Approach to Powerful, Personal Leadership, Lead Inside the Box: How Smart Leaders Guide Their Teams to Exceptional Results, and The Elegant Pitch: Create a Compelling Recommendation, Build Broad Support, and Get it Approved. Mike is also one of the most popular authors on LinkedIn Learning where he has published 30 courses that have been viewed millions of times by learners from around the world.

 

Defining Your Leadership Philosophy

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One Piece of Paper provides a straightforward model that helps you define your personal approach to leading others and shows how to do so with clarity, authenticity, and simplicity. The book’s author, Mike Figliuolo, shares his perspectives and insights from the book in this video-based course.

Duration: 20 minutes of video lessons

The course covers:

  • Understanding the Four Aspects of Leadership
  • Defining Leadership Maxims
  • Leading Yourself
  • Leading the Thinking
  • Leading Your People
  • Leading a Balanced Life

The target audience for this course is leaders and future leaders who want to strengthen their leadership skills. The value of this course to participants and the organization are:

  • A better sense of self which makes you more confident as a leader
  • A more authentic leadership style which builds trust with the members of your team
  • A stronger base of followers who are inspired by your leadership

Mike Figliuolo is the founder and managing director of thoughtLEADERS. He is an internationally recognized author, trainer, speaker, and blogger on the topics of leadership, communications, strategy, decision-making, problem solving, and other critical business skills. An honor graduate from West Point, Mike served in the US Army as a combat arms officer. Before founding thoughtLEADERS, he was an assistant professor at Duke University, a consultant at McKinsey & Company, and an executive at Capital One and Scotts Miracle-Gro. He is the author of three books: One Piece of Paper: The Simple Approach to Powerful, Personal Leadership, Lead Inside the Box: How Smart Leaders Guide Their Teams to Exceptional Results, and The Elegant Pitch: Create a Compelling Recommendation, Build Broad Support, and Get it Approved. Mike is also one of the most popular authors on LinkedIn Learning where he has published 30 courses that have been viewed millions of times by learners from around the world.

 

Building Leadership Effectiveness

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Lead Inside the Box presents a practical new framework to help leaders spend their limited time and energy or ‘leadership capital’- more efficiently and effectively. The book’s author, Mike Figliuolo, shares his perspectives and insights from the book in this video-based course.

Duration: 20 minutes of video lessons

The course covers:

  • Using your Leadership Capital Judiciously
  • Investing Leadership Capital and Measuring Results
  • Using the Leadership Matrix
  • Leading Exemplars
  • Managing Passengers
  • Managing Detractors
  • Managing High-Cost Producers

The target audience for this course is leaders and future leaders who want to strengthen their leadership skills. The value of this course to participants and the organization are:

  • A better sense of where you’re investing your time and energy and the results you’re getting for those investments
  • An expanded toolkit for managing all kinds of team member performance
  • More effective leadership and better team member results

Mike Figliuolo is the founder and managing director of thoughtLEADERS. He is an internationally recognized author, trainer, speaker, and blogger on the topics of leadership, communications, strategy, decision-making, problem solving, and other critical business skills. An honor graduate from West Point, Mike served in the US Army as a combat arms officer. Before founding thoughtLEADERS, he was an assistant professor at Duke University, a consultant at McKinsey & Company, and an executive at Capital One and Scotts Miracle-Gro. He is the author of three books: One Piece of Paper: The Simple Approach to Powerful, Personal Leadership, Lead Inside the Box: How Smart Leaders Guide Their Teams to Exceptional Results, and The Elegant Pitch: Create a Compelling Recommendation, Build Broad Support, and Get it Approved. Mike is also one of the most popular authors on LinkedIn Learning where he has published 30 courses that have been viewed millions of times by learners from around the world.

 

Overcoming Decision Making Ambiguity

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There’s uncertainty surrounding every decision. Once you understand the sources of ambiguity you’re facing, you can focus on reducing your biggest risks to accelerate your decisions.

Duration: 17 minutes of video lessons

The course covers:

  • The Four Types of Ambiguity
  • Highly Predictable Outcomes
  • Distinct Possible Outcomes
  • Spectrum of Outcomes
  • Complete Unpredictability
  • Reducing the Risk of Ambiguity

The target audience for this course is anyone who has to deal with uncertainty and still make decisions in the face of it. The value of this course to participants and the organization are:

  • Reduced risk in decision making
  • Faster decision making processes
  • Reduced information gathering and analysis effort

Mike Figliuolo is the founder and managing director of thoughtLEADERS. He is an internationally recognized author, trainer, speaker, and blogger on the topics of leadership, communications, strategy, decision-making, problem solving, and other critical business skills. An honor graduate from West Point, Mike served in the US Army as a combat arms officer. Before founding thoughtLEADERS, he was an assistant professor at Duke University, a consultant at McKinsey & Company, and an executive at Capital One and Scotts Miracle-Gro. He is the author of three books: One Piece of Paper: The Simple Approach to Powerful, Personal Leadership, Lead Inside the Box: How Smart Leaders Guide Their Teams to Exceptional Results, and The Elegant Pitch: Create a Compelling Recommendation, Build Broad Support, and Get it Approved. Mike is also one of the most popular authors on LinkedIn Learning where he has published 30 courses that have been viewed millions of times by learners from around the world.

 

Making Complex Problems Simple

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It’s easy to get overwhelmed by complex problems. By breaking the problem down, defining success, and focusing on meaningful issues, you’ll solve complex problems faster and more effectively.

Duration: 23 minutes of video lessons

The course covers:

  • Understand the Question, Success, and Decision to Make
  • Determine the Issues Causing the Problem
  • Ask Yourself “Does it change the answer?”
  • Focus on Meaningful Issues and Ideas
  • Solve the Issue and Reassess the Problem

The target audience for this course is anyone who faces complex problems and is tasked with generating solutions for them. The value of this course to participants and the organization are:

  • Faster problem solving with more focus on meaningful solutions
  • Less time wasted on low-value ideas and solving symptoms instead of causes

Mike Figliuolo is the founder and managing director of thoughtLEADERS. He is an internationally recognized author, trainer, speaker, and blogger on the topics of leadership, communications, strategy, decision-making, problem solving, and other critical business skills. An honor graduate from West Point, Mike served in the US Army as a combat arms officer. Before founding thoughtLEADERS, he was an assistant professor at Duke University, a consultant at McKinsey & Company, and an executive at Capital One and Scotts Miracle-Gro. He is the author of three books: One Piece of Paper: The Simple Approach to Powerful, Personal Leadership, Lead Inside the Box: How Smart Leaders Guide Their Teams to Exceptional Results, and The Elegant Pitch: Create a Compelling Recommendation, Build Broad Support, and Get it Approved. Mike is also one of the most popular authors on LinkedIn Learning where he has published 30 courses that have been viewed millions of times by learners from around the world.

 

Managing in the Gig Economy

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Distributed teams of “gig workers” present unique challenges in terms of managing and leading them. Learn how to unite and align these teams of disparate workers to achieve a common goal.

Duration: 18 minutes of video lessons

The course covers:

  • The Case for Gig Workers
  • Onboarding Gig Workers
  • Creating a One Team Culture
  • Aligning a Dispersed Team
  • Ongoing Strategies for Inclusion

The target audience for this course is leaders who have to build, manage, and lead teams of “gig workers” either in one or multiple locations. The value of this course to participants and the organization are:

  • Faster time to productivity
  • Improved efficiency and work quality
  • A better sense of belonging for all team members

Jan Rutherford is a principal at thoughtLEADERS. He has over 25 years of business experience and has held executive roles in business development, marketing, sales, training, product management, and as a CEO. Prior to his business career, Jan joined the U.S. Army at age 17 and spent six years in Special Forces as a medic and “A” team executive officer, and three years as a military intelligence officer. He’s one of the founders of The Leadership Podcast and is the author of The Littlest Green Beret.

 

Stretch Your Team Without Breaking It

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Leaders need to push their teams and stretch their abilities but exercise caution that they don’t stretch them to the point of breaking. Learn how to strike this delicate performance balance.

Duration: 18 minutes of video lessons

The course covers:

  • Showing the Direction
  • Establishing the Tone
  • Setting the Pace
  • Embracing Adversity
  • Evaluating Progress

The target audience for this course is leaders who want to drive performance but also take care of their team members at the same time. The value of this course to participants and the organization are:

  • Higher levels of performance
  • Increased skills and capacity to perform at the next level
  • Improved resilience, morale, and motivation

Jan Rutherford is a principal at thoughtLEADERS. He has over 25 years of business experience and has held executive roles in business development, marketing, sales, training, product management, and as a CEO. Prior to his business career, Jan joined the U.S. Army at age 17 and spent six years in Special Forces as a medic and “A” team executive officer, and three years as a military intelligence officer. He’s one of the founders of The Leadership Podcast and is the author of The Littlest Green Beret.

 

5-Minute Leadership Lessons

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There are always opportunities to be a better leader. These quick tips will serve as useful reminders and new techniques for leading your people more effectively.

Duration: 25 minutes of video lessons

The course covers:

  • Taking Time to Say Thanks
  • Making Decisions, being Consistent, and Sticking to Them
  • Setting a Direction and Communicating it Often
  • Not Underestimating How Much People Listen to You
  • Taking Risks on People to Help Them Grow

The target audience for this course is any leader who wants to find those small ways to be even better at what they do. The value of this course to participants and the organization are:

  • Higher morale and performance because people feel valued and are given room to grow
  • More clarity around direction which leads to greater focus and improved results

Mike Figliuolo is the founder and managing director of thoughtLEADERS. He is an internationally recognized author, trainer, speaker, and blogger on the topics of leadership, communications, strategy, decision-making, problem solving, and other critical business skills. An honor graduate from West Point, Mike served in the US Army as a combat arms officer. Before founding thoughtLEADERS, he was an assistant professor at Duke University, a consultant at McKinsey & Company, and an executive at Capital One and Scotts Miracle-Gro. He is the author of three books: One Piece of Paper: The Simple Approach to Powerful, Personal Leadership, Lead Inside the Box: How Smart Leaders Guide Their Teams to Exceptional Results, and The Elegant Pitch: Create a Compelling Recommendation, Build Broad Support, and Get it Approved. Mike is also one of the most popular authors on LinkedIn Learning where he has published 30 courses that have been viewed millions of times by learners from around the world.