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.

 

Dealing with a Difficult Subordinate

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Whether it’s a skill issue or a will issue, all leaders have to deal with a difficult subordinate at some point. Learn how to properly diagnose the situation and take appropriate action.

Duration: 32 minutes of video lessons

Whether it’s a skill or a will issue, all leaders have to deal with a difficult subordinate at some point. Learn how to properly diagnose the situation and take appropriate action.

The course covers:

  • Defining the Performance Gap
  • Understanding Why They’re Difficult
  • Delivering Feedback
  • Dealing with Skill Issues
  • Dealing with Will Issues
  • Dealing with Behavior Issues
  • Taking Difficult Actions

The target audience for this course is leaders and future leaders who want to be prepared to handle poor performance. The value of this course to participants and the organization are:

  • Faster and more accurate diagnosis of performance issues
  • More effective corrective actions being taken
  • Improved performance and more satisfied employees

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.

 

How to Delegate Effectively

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You can’t do it all yourself. Effective delegation helps you get more work done, focus on critical tasks, and build the skills and capabilities of your team members at the same time.

Duration: 14 minutes of video lessons

The course covers:

  • Why You Need to Delegate
  • Determining What to Delegate
  • Helping Delegates Succeed
  • Delegated Projects Won’t Always Go Perfectly
  • Building a Team You Can Delegate To

The target audience for this course consists of leaders who have to step up to the next level, allocate work across team members, and build the skills of those around them. The value of this course to participants and the organization are:

  • More work gets done more efficiently
  • Increased bandwidth for leaders to step up to the next level of responsibility
  • Improved skills of team members who take on new tasks

David McNeill is a principal at thoughtLEADERS. His approach to development is built on 30 years of experience managing a diversified mix of businesses and serving in a wide range of leadership and managerial roles. His broad spectrum of experience includes CEO/President for mid-market private and public companies, consultant, Managing Director and Operating Partner for private equity funds, start-up CEO, coach and trainer. He’s worked for leading organizations including IBM, Coca-Cola, Bain & Company, and TPG Capital. He is a graduate of Auburn University and has an MBA from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at UNC-Chapel Hill.

 

Coaching for Impact: Foundations

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Coach employees for performance and development more effectively by helping them identify and pursue their own solutions. Create the right environment and conditions to help them grow.

Duration: 2.25 hours (Approximately 70 minutes of video lessons and 65 minutes of exercises)

This course demonstrates how to coach employees for performance and development more effectively. Whether you want your employees to execute with higher quality and efficiency or you want to build talent within your team, coaching skills are critical. Leaders who become adept at coaching achieve sustainable, long-term positive results for themselves and their organizations. The course shares how to do this through the application of simple yet effective coaching skills and tools.

You’ll learn:

  • A clear definition of coaching and what coaches do
  • How to deliver feedback that is precise and actionable
  • How to set the stage for an effective coaching conversation
  • The key coaching skills of active listening and asking powerful questions
  • A coaching model to get to core issues and create practical action plans

The course consists of instructor-introduced concepts, practical application exercises, and supporting materials. The course includes:

  • Extensive instructor videos to guide you through the content
  • A downloadable course guide of slides to help you follow the instruction
  • A downloadable workbook to apply the method as you take the course
  • Exercises, quizzes, and case examples to help you apply these methods as you learn them

The target audience for this course is any leader who has responsibility to deliver results through others and develop organizational talent. The value of this course to participants and to the organization as a whole are:

  • Higher engagement and productivity of individuals and teams
  • Improved business results
  • Deeper trust-based relationships with your team
  • Stronger depth and capacity on your team for succession planning
  • Increased time to focus on more strategic leadership responsibilities

Sabrina Smith is a principal at thoughtLEADERS. She is an executive coach and trainer with deep experience in leading teams and coaching to high performance. She has led teams at U.S. Cellular, Xerox, and DIRECTV/AT&T. At each of these organizations she built and led training and coaching interventions for large groups of associates in addition to leading her own teams. Her experiences and her education in organizational leadership have helped her grow the next generation of leaders at every organization she’s worked for.