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Leadership Fundamentals Course: Lead 4 Success®
Leading yourself while also engaging others can be challenging. Our fundamentals of leadership course can help, as it grows the 4 core skills most needed for success: self-awareness, learning agility, influence, and communication.
Best for
Individuals
Format
Live online and
Licensable
Duration
16-hour intensive, over one week
Model
Live instructor-led
Class Size
Faculty-to-participant ratio: 1:12
Locations
Online – Global
About the Program Experience
Lead 4 Success®: Our Leadership Fundamentals Course
No matter their industry or role, our research has found that leaders at every level of the organization need the same basic leadership skills to be truly effective. We call them the Fundamental 4 leadership skills:
- Self-awareness: Understanding the impact of one’s behavior on organizational outcomes
- Communication: Effectively communicating goals and inspiring trust
- Influence: Being comfortable persuading, promoting, and delegating
- Learning agility: Knowing when to change course, and helping others to do so
Our leadership fundamentals course develops these foundational skills of leadership.
Who Should Attend
Lead 4 Success® is a course designed for anyone who wants to understand the fundamentals of leadership: Individual contributors, professional staff, aspiring or emerging leaders, first-time managers, or those with leadership experience who want a refresher course on leadership fundamentals.
What Participants Learn
In this basics of leadership training, participants learn the fundamental 4 skills essential for leader success: self-awareness, communication, influence, and learning agility.
They also discover how to adapt these fundamentals of leadership to their own context, participate with peers in learning new skills, and share ideas to apply to lessons learned in the real world.
What’s Included
Delivered by highly qualified faculty, this leadership fundamentals course includes:
- Research-based curriculum on the fundamentals of leadership
- Hands-on practice applying new skills to a real-world challenge
Program Agenda
| Day 1 30 minutes | Day 2 4 hours | Day 3 4 hours | Day 4 4 hours | Day 5 4 hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Program Orientation | Program Introduction, Self-Awareness | Learning Agility | Influence | Communication, Program Close |
Why Choose Our Leadership Fundamentals Training?
Lead 4 Success® is a robust leadership fundamentals course built on our research about the core leadership skills leaders need in every industry and role. This program focuses on the basics of leadership and represents the essence of our decades in the field of leadership development. It incorporates:
- Experiential activities to learn through doing
- Self-awareness principles for making conscious leadership decisions and clarify goals
- Guidance on identifying growth opportunities through learning agility
- Ways to increase influence by building trust and leveraging networks, and communicate
- Practice improving communication through active listening, feedback, and vision
- A safe environment for all participants to try new behaviors
- Peer-based learning and engaging learning experiences
- Continuing education credentials — upon completion, participants are awarded 1.63 CEUs in partnership with National University
Program Requirements & Cancellation Information
Requirements for Program Participation
Our programs provide personalized insights into participants’ unique leadership style and abilities. Completing required online coursework and assessments ensures maximum benefit from the development experience to support personal and professional growth. Specific assignments will be communicated with ample time for completion.
Payment & Cancellation Information
Online registration requires payment by credit card. If you require other payment methods, such as invoicing your organization, please contact us to register.
If you need to transfer or cancel a program registration, fees may apply. Please review our Transfer & Cancellation Policy for complete details.
Upcoming Program Dates
Select a date below to provide key individuals with leadership fundamentals training, or learn more about offering this program more widely.
Want to Offer This Leadership Fundamentals Course Widely?
Strengthen your organization by scaling training on leadership fundamentals. This content is available in different modalities and levels of impact:
Volume pricing options are available for organizations wishing to offer access to this basics of leadership course to multiple participants.
License our leadership fundamentals course and we’ll train your team, who can then facilitate this session as an internal program for your team or organization.
Let’s co-create a customized leadership fundamentals course for your organization’s unique context and culture. Partner with our experts to get started.
Develop leaders across your organization with access to this program and access to more of our content, assessments, and tools, all based on our research.
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What Our Alumni Are Saying
As a top-ranked provider of leadership development, we’ve shaped the industry for more than 50 years and are trusted globally to design and deliver solutions that enable individuals and organizations to reach their full potential. Clients around the world — including 2/3 of the Fortune 1000 — have partnered with to offer our fundamentals of leadership course to their leaders, driving remarkable transformations at their organizations.
But don’t just take our word for it — take theirs.
Impact of Our Fundamentals of Leadership Training
What participants said about our Lead 4 Success® program:
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Fundamentals of Leadership: Research & Resources
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Whether you’re an individual contributor, a firstline manager, a mid-level leader, or a senior executive, there are core skills needed, regardless of industry. We call them the Fundamental 4 leadership skills.
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Development isn’t passive. It’s more than letting life experience wash over you. The best leaders understand the benefits of leadership experience and actively mine their experiences for lessons and growth.
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Individual contributors are leaders too, shaping the direction and execution of their organization’s strategy as much as those in managerial roles. They also can benefit from leadership development.
More Information About Our Leadership Fundamentals Course
What are the 4 fundamental leadership skills?
The fundamental 4 leadership skills everyone needs, no matter their role, are self-awareness, communication, influence, and learning agility. We believe that every leader should master these core skills so they can understand their impact on others and on organizational outcomes; effectively communicate goals and inspire trust; be comfortable persuading, promoting, and delegating; and know when to change course.
Who should participate in a leadership fundamentals course?
Everyone can benefit from brushing up on the fundamentals of leadership, but our research-based Lead 4 Success® online course focused on leadership fundamentals is particularly ideal for emerging leaders, professional staff with no direct reports, first-time managers who have been in role for 6 to 12 months, and leaders with 3 to 5 years of experience.
Why is training on fundamentals of leadership so important for an organization?
Training on the fundamentals of leadership is critical for an organization because regardless of their leaders’ intelligence or experience, every individual will be more effective if they hone the 4 core leadership skills of self-awareness, communication, influence, and learning agility. These key skills are the basis for our immersive online leadership fundamentals program, Lead 4 Success®, where participants can adapt practices to their unique contexts, engage with peers, and share ideas to apply their lessons to the real world. Organizations can use this research-based program to scale learning about the fundamentals of leadership across large populations.
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