Leadership Pro Stack

Lesson 1: Leadership Styles

• Define leadership
• Recognize different leadership styles
• Apply the best leadership techniques for your teams

Lesson 2: Positioning Yourself as a Leader

• Advocate for your employees
• Delegate tasks to your employees more effectively
• Broaden your understanding of your industry by growing your social network

Lesson 3: Identifying Core Values and Vision

• Differentiate between vision and values
• Create buy-in from your teams
• Develop a plan for action

Lesson 4: Effective One-on-Ones

• Understand what goes wrong in many of these meetings
• Set appropriate goals
• Identify next action steps
• Change your delivery style to match your audience

Lesson 5: Operations Management

• Understand your business's finances
• Recognize when is the right time to hire a new employee
• Practice excellent documentation procedures

Lesson 6: Performance Management

• Communicate expectations effectively
• Manage teams while fulfilling your own workload
• Foster cooperation and manage competitiveness in your teams

Lesson 7: Tracking Performance Metrics and Holding Difficult Conversations

• Create various types of manager agreements
• Provide constructive feedback following the five best practices

Lesson 8: Decision Making

• Identify the three decision types
• Develop methods to speed up the decision-making process and delegate tasks more effectively
• Address personal biases that may affect the decision-making process

Lesson 9: Financial Management

• Identify the base components of a profit and loss statement
• Calculate and evaluate profitability percentages, staff leverage ratios, and staff productivity ratios
• Recognize which expenses are variable expenses
• Identify ways to limit financial risk