Leadership Styles: Don’t Lead Everyone the Same, 230+ Tools

This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.

Leadership styles are usually taught as a list of six names. People pick the one that sounds most like them and apply it to everybody equally. Here are 234 tools to choose the style for the person and the moment: 137 ready-to-use question lists, templates, checklists and procedures, 81 models and methods, 15 services shown on screen and the Style Choice Finder.

Open a lecture, take the question list, and use it with one person on your team.

Why one style stops working

A style works with some people and fails with others. The directive manager loses experienced people, the friendly one loses control in a crisis, the coach frustrates the newcomer who needs instructions. Without a way to read the person and the situation, the manager blames the team.

What changes after this course

You read the person, the task and the moment, and switch style on purpose. You inspire, coach, set order, motivate and mentor as needed, and you develop other leaders with the same tools.

What is inside: 234 tools, counted lecture by lecture

You do not have to take this number on trust. Open any lecture and read its description: every tool inside is listed there by name.

• 41 downloadable resources: lecture presentations plus the Style Choice Finder
• 137 ready-to-use tools inside the presentations:
• 52 question lists and scripts: strengths-based coaching, one-on-one meetings, returning responsibility to employees, recognition preferences
• 26 templates and sample documents: one-on-one meeting agenda, personal development action plan, mentoring ground rules, succession planning
• 23 checklists: talent recognition, micromanagement self-assessment, coaching suitability, burnout recognition
• 18 step-by-step procedures: motivating task assignment, performance improvement plan, team role balancing, Delegation Poker
• 12 scorecards, rubrics and matrices: personal energy assessment, ABCDE employee assessment, people management competency levels, RACI matrix
• 5 other working tools and 1 ready AI prompt: resonant leader reflection worksheet, developmental relationships reflection worksheet, financial incentive decision tree
• 81 models and methods explained with examples: situational leadership, Goleman’s six leadership styles, Blake-Mouton managerial grid, Tuckman team development
• 15 services shown on screen, including CliftonStrengths, VIA Character Strengths Survey, HIGH5, 16Personalities and Slack

Where the tools are

The style model (2 sections, 74 tools). Switching between styles, inspiration, coaching and order.

Reading the person (2 sections, 13 tools). MBTI, DISC, PAEI, team roles and trait models.

Authentic leadership (3 sections, 26 tools). What you feel first, awareness, empathy, shared vision and changing your style.

Motivation (2 sections, 36 tools). What moves people, loyalty, engagement and Motivation 3.0.

Mentoring (2 sections, 33 tools). Mentoring as a leadership mode, running and ending the relationship.

Developing leaders (3 sections, 105 tools). Competencies, team building, coaching, engagement and the system managers operate in.

Who is teaching

I am Mike, the #1 HR instructor on Udemy, with 1,800,000+ course enrollments from 170,000 students, and the author of about 200 books on Amazon. I built the people system at Preply as it became a unicorn and worked at Wargaming, iDeals and Alfa-Bank across 20 years in HR. I hold PHRi, SHRM-CP and HCI sHRBP certifications and represent HRCI in Eastern Europe.

When I started as a manager, my style was top-down: I listened very little, thought I knew better and pushed my opinion through my authority, and my people often argued with me. Then I took a coaching training, and everything turned upside down: instead of telling, you ask questions. I started using that in management, and my style changed.

How to use the course

Start with the style model, then use the reading people, motivation and mentoring sections with your own team. Section and lecture titles show how many tools are inside, and each lecture description lists them by name.

What is included

• 42 lectures across 15 sections, 20.5 hours
• 41 downloadable resources: lecture presentations and the Style Choice Finder
• 234 tools across the lessons, including 15 services shown on screen
• Lifetime access to all materials
• Active instructor support in the Q&A section
• A Udemy Certificate of Completion

Where to start

Pick the person on your team you find hardest to manage, then open the Style Choice Finder and see which style you have been using. Enrol now and start your first lesson today.

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