LIVE ONLINE COURSE
21 FEBRUARY - 16 MARCH 2023
Duration:
4 weeks
TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS
9:30 AM PST / 12:30 PM EST
Learn how to get the best out of all members of your team – including yourself – as you develop essential leadership skills and traits.
Join Caroline Didem Erdem, Marketing Director, ex LEGO, Johnson & Johnson, SABMiller, to discover the foundations of effective leadership, organizational design, and emotional intelligence.
THIS COURSE IS FOR YOU, IF...
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YOU WANT TO ESTABLISH YOUR OWN LEADERSHIP STYLE
Are you about to take on your first leadership position? Find your own effective and unique leadership style and gain tips on motivating, supporting, and building your team.
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YOU WANT TO ADVANCE YOUR LEADERSHIP SKILLS
Even established leaders can benefit from evaluating their own approach against modern trends. Learn how to implement organizational changes, champion D&I, manage remote workers, and get more out of your team.
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YOU WANT TO STEP INTO A LEADERSHIP ROLE
Can you see yourself as a future leader? Understand the traits and qualities needed to be an effective leader, the importance of emotional intelligence, and how to inspire your team.
Master the foundations of impactful leadership.
Understand how the intertwining principles of management, psychology, and leadership all come together in the workplace as Caroline maps out a complete blueprint for effective leadership.
Boost the performance of your team, company, and yourself.
This course tackles both the soft and hard skills needed to be a successful leader – everything from improving emotional intelligence and finding your unique leadership style to improving organizational design and team structures.
Learn techniques and strategies to apply in your team. With hands-on workshops, you’ll learn how to assess your own strengths and weaknesses, develop active listening skills, drive team building in remote teams, and champion D&I.
Map out what drives both you and your team to keep motivation levels high. You’ll learn how to create a healthy culture at work that inspires every member of your team – including remote workers.
Develop a plan to improve the organizational design of a company. You can apply these principles in your own workplace to get more out of your team or show off your skills to potential employers.
- Marketing Director, ex LEGO, Johnson & Johnson, SABMiller
- 15+ years of management experience in multifunctional and international teams, at leading brands such as LEGO, Johnson & Johnson, Abbott, and SABMiller
- Renowned for building diverse and high-performing teams with a shared vision, as well as fast and effective business solutions
- A passionate, innovative, and empowering team leader with a track record in bringing out the best performance from every member of the team
- Proud mom of two children who values spending time with family, an active social life, and time to re-energize
How are you showing up each day, and what do you bring to the table? In this first lesson, you'll learn how to bring your best self to work as a leader.
- Finding an appropriate leadership style
- Accepting and leveraging your strengths and weaknesses
- Avoiding common mistakes
- Workshop #01: Assessing and managing personal strengths and weaknesses
Explore the impact of emotional intelligence and “being present” to create a team that works in harmony.
- Managing emotions and flexing your communication style
- Establishing a team with different personality types
- Using the power of positive feedback
- Workshop #02: Emotional intelligence and active listening
Learn to constantly think of ways to motivate and inspire your team to deliver great business results.
- Essential needs and motivations at work
- Conflict resolution in the workplace
- Setting clear goals and motivating the team
- Case study: Motivating work environments
Assignment #01: Define key motivational factors for yourself and perceived motives that drive your team. Develop an action plan, specifying how you could further track motivation levels and keep them high.
Learn to embrace cultural differences and work across countries and time zones to become a true global citizen and leader.
- Understanding different cultures
- Challenges in remote teams
- Maintaining unity in remote teams
- Workshop #03: Building team spirit in remote teams
Define your purpose as a leader on the journey from recruitment to employee advancement.
- Engaging candidates during recruitment
- Managing employee competencies
- Career planning and the career path
Learn to keep your organizational structure relevant and efficient in an ever-changing environment.
- Analyzing the effectiveness of an organizational structure
- Building an optimization plan
- Identifying new capabilities and managing transitional risks
- Communicating change to the wider team
Assignment #02: Develop a plan to redesign the organization or team structure in your workplace. If you don’t have a current team to consider, identify the organizational capabilities missing in one of your recent workplaces and describe the steps needed to introduce them. Record a 3-minute video pitching your plan to senior management or stakeholders.
Diversity in the workplace means having a culture that values uniqueness, while inclusion makes every individual feel accepted for who they are. How do you, as an individual and a leader, champion D&I in your organization?
- Assessing D&I at your company: the diversity map
- Recognizing and fighting unconscious bias
- Fostering a culture of D&I
- Workshop #04: Commitments to champion and embrace D&I in the workplace
Learn how to foster resilience and wellbeing in your team to promote a healthy workplace and increase effectiveness.
- Offering support in difficult situations
- Building resilience in your team
- Being a “corporate athlete”
- Understanding the “high-performance pyramid”
What our students say
"I absolutely love the format! Working through real life scenarios makes it super applicable and easy to translate the learning into practical takeaways. I also enjoy that the assignments are straightforward enough to get through but you can make them more complex to get more learning out of the course. It really is a format where you get out what you put in."
"The group activities, they allow us to interact and exchange ideas, plus the way it is structured is challenging and mind twisting as we collaborate in different parts of the ideation."
"Overall I'm impressed with the level of detail and explanation around particular topics and subjects. There's a real depth to each module which for learning allows the information to stay in your brain."
"I really enjoy the format of the course. Lectures with real life examples and an ongoing case study. Also built in 20 minutes at the end of each class for questions is helpful."
"I enjoyed the structure of the class. I like how we learned about a topic and practiced it in the workshops. It’s helped me to apply what I learned!"