Overview

Leadership Skills Training from World Education

Our leadership skills training certificate program is perfect for full time students as well as business owners, entrepreneurs, managers, and individuals wanting to learn the basic skills needed to become an effective leader. This course is also ideal for those considering starting a business or pursuing their MBA degree.

Our online leadership skills training program includes a number of valuable teaching modules including:

Successful Business Best Practices

Best practices are the building blocks for achieving success in business. Over the course of this module, students explore a variety of best practice models taken from various industries as they learn how to integrate fundamental management themes into a cohesive plan that enhances their chances for success.

Assertiveness and Interpersonal Communications Training

To be successful in the business world, leaders and managers must know how to assert themselves and have superior interpersonal and communication skills.

In this module you will become familiar with the fundamental principles of good interpersonal communications and discover new techniques designed to enhance your communications skills.

Decision-Making Skills for Managers

Effective leaders know how to set a tone and how to set certain benchmarks for success.

This is one of the most valuable teaching modules in our leadership skills training course and focuses on helping students develop a successful leadership style that encourages teamwork and collaboration, and engenders a corporate culture that encourages individual members to be successful.

Organizational Development & Change

Most businesses are, at their very core, highly social systems. In this learning module we focus on corporate culture and how it influences the way team members interact.

You will learn how to maximize the long-term viability of the business by creating a culture in which every team member has a greater opportunity to be more successful.

Over the course of this module you will also explore the developmental process and how you can be more effective at effectuating change within the organization.

Business Negotiations

In this module, students explore the negotiating process and examine a wide variety of negotiation styles from a broad range of business environments.

They also learn basic negotiation skills needed to be successful in a broad range of business situations.

Leadership and Management Disciplines

In this module, you will learn the seven management disciplines that are essential to being successful in business management in the context of business operation and management.

You will also engage in a round-table evaluation of a variety of real-life business issues.

Leadership and Problem-Solving

This module teaches students the collaborative problem-solving skills leaders need in order to succeed. The module also focuses on the importance of teamwork within an IT environment.

Leadership and Management Operations

This teaching module helps students develop the practical and managerial skills needed to effectively plan for operational success within the organization.

Topics include the basic details of developing an operational plan and how to develop the strategic direction necessary to achieve the business goals.

Leadership and Persuasion

Every effective leader must possess persuasive communication skills. Persuasive skills are essential when selling products and services, when seeking to obtain financing and in the daily operations of any successful business.

This module provides students with the opportunity to build their confidence by improving their persuasive skills.

The leadership skills training program from World Education is 100 percent online and instructor-led to make learning more affordable. This course also makes it more convenient for busy working professionals to pursue their educational goals without sacrificing the time needed to maintain their current work and social commitments. Enrolling in our leadership skills training course is quick, easy and 100% secure.

Get the skills you need to succeed with the online leadership skills training course from World Education.

Languages

English

Course Access Time

All of our programs are self-paced and open enrollment, so you can start them when you want and finish them at your own pace. Most programs allow you 180 days after you register to complete them. If you need more time, extensions are available.

Instructor

Katrina McBride's career reflects extensive experience in organizational leadership, marketing strategies, and market development in multi-national corporate environments and as an independent consultant. Her leadership abilities have been utilized by employers and clients to develop new programs and functional areas and to reorganize resources with aggressive deadlines. She has positively impacted revenue and customer satisfaction for large, global organizations as well as small to mid-sized businesses that are experiencing changes due to rapid growth or restructuring to maintain their competitive position.

In director-level positions for Nortel Networks, Katrina was engaged to develop, define, and implement strategies for competitive intelligence, sales support, emerging markets, lead generation, and customer relationship management. Sought after as a trainer, speaker, and facilitator, Katrina develops and presents pro

Requirements

This program must be taken on a PC. There are no specific computer requirements other than an Internet connection (a high-speed or broadband Internet connection is highly recommended). In addition, you''ll need to have Internet Explorer, Adobe Reader, Flash Plug-in, and a QuickTime plug-in on your computer (all are available through free downloads).

Each student will recive the following required textbook:

• Bargaining for Advantage: Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People

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Lesson 1
• Introduction To Management
• Business Ethics in the 21st Century
• Emotional Intelligence for Managers
• Handling Difficult Employee Behavior
• Managing People
• Time Management
• Introduction to Leadership
• Leading and Managing Change
• Leading Teams
• Leaders and Work-Life Balance
• Body Language for Leaders

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