Roadmap To Leadership

Your step-by-step guide to become a leader your team, your peers and your mentors admire and respect.

What you'll learn
Identify 7 leadership styles
Determine your leadership style(s)
Assess your team's level of readiness for achieving goals and how to adjust your leadership style
How to manage expectations and conflict
How to be a lateral leader
Requirements
There are no formal prerequisites for this course. However, we do recommend that you take our Top 5 Leadership Behaviors course for additional background. You must be open to examining your own beliefs and behaviors around leadership and you must be willing to complete the exercises thoughtfully and completely to gain maximum benefit.
Description
Leadership skills and behaviors have been studied and written about for many years. And it’s intense! But, you’re in luck!  You don’t have to read all that research because we’ve sifted it down to the most important elements that truly elevate your leadership abilities.


Transform your behavior, your thinking and your actions.  All of which will help you to better serve your team when facing leadership challenges that require courage, empathy and decisiveness.

In this course, you will learn to recognize several different leadership styles and which leadership approach is best to use with your team, based on the team’s level of competency and commitment, not just yours. 

There is a huge difference between being a manager and being a leader and BOTH are important to an organization.  Do you know the difference?  You will after completing this course!  Most people tend to manage rather than lead and you need a balance for both.

What happens when there is conflict among team members under your leadership?  Learn how to recognize the stages of conflict and how to resolve issues quickly and easily.

Lateral leadership is often overlooked in leadership development, but this is the prep stage for future formal leaders and you need to become adept at it yourself, then be able to coach others to become good lateral leaders.

Be deliberate in your leadership, not accidental.  Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.  Do something different. Earn the credibility and level of respect you deserve!


Throughout the course you will complete exercises that will help you strengthen your own skills.  Some of the exercises will be for the business owner or top leader and some will be for the leader/manager. But even if you don’t fit into ANY of those categories, you can complete the exercises using your colleagues as your team.


So Who Am I and why should you take this course?

I’m Donna Galatas, CEO of The Galatas Group.  We are a Human Resources coaching company and we specialize in working with start-up and small businesses who need help building a strong culture.


Together with my business partner, Jackie Torres, we have over 40 years of experience as corporate and field HR leaders working with organizations of all sizes, including Fortune 500 companies.


Now, as business owners ourselves, we are excited to bring our expertise to you. This course is designed to help you master your role as leader.


Let’s get started—sign up now!  



Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Welcome

Lecture 2 Who Am I?

Lecture 3 Exercise: Leadership Assessment

Section 2: What Makes An Effective Leader?

Lecture 4 Leadership and the Organization

Lecture 5 Leadership Traits Approach

Lecture 6 Leadership Behavioral Approach

Lecture 7 Leadership Situational Approach

Lecture 8 What makes an Effective Leader

Lecture 9 Exercise

Section 3: Leadership vs Management

Lecture 10 Leadership vs Management

Lecture 11 Contributions of Leaders vs Managers

Lecture 12 Case Study

Lecture 13 Leadership Exercise

Section 4: Leadership Styles

Lecture 14 Defining Leadership Styles

Lecture 15 Transactional vs. Transformational Leadership

Lecture 16 7 Leadership Styles

Lecture 17 Leadership Exercise

Section 5: Leading a Team

Lecture 18 Leadership styles and teamwork

Lecture 19 Comparison of McGregor's Theory X & Y

Lecture 20 Exercise

Lecture 21 Team Readiness

Lecture 22 Individual Readiness

Lecture 23 Leadership Exercise

Section 6: Expectations and Conflict

Lecture 24 Managing Expectations

Lecture 25 Leadership and Conflict

Lecture 26 Leadership Exercise

Section 7: Lateral Leadership

Lecture 27 What is Lateral Leadership?

Lecture 28 Case Study: Lateral Leadership Fail

Lecture 29 Lateral Leadership Done Right

Lecture 30 Lateral Leadership Components

Lecture 31 Leadership Exercise

Section 8: When Leadership Goes Wrong

Lecture 32 Fallen From Grace

Lecture 33 Failed Leadership From 3 Perspectives

Lecture 34 Leadership Exercise

Lecture 35 Consistent Leaders

Lecture 36 Leadership Exercise

Lecture 37 Course Review

Section 9: Bonus Lecture

Lecture 38 Additional resources

Are you a new team leader, face many difficult situations with your direct reports, or are you a leader who is doing well, but you’re looking to further develop yourself and kick things up a notch? If so, this course will help you build and sustain leadership excellence.