Blog: I want to motivate my team to get the most important things done.

Why is it vital for leaders to know how to properly motivate their teams? When projects come up that are uninteresting or if a project goes from fun to frustrating, leadership can light a fire under their employees to push the limits on projects. Think of a leader who helped you see the value of what you are doing or energized you to do your best despite challenging circumstances. It changes people from going through the motions to bringing out their best work.

The Leadership Currency of 2024—and Beyond: By Stephen M. R. Covey

How do you build trust on purpose? The simplest answer: Through credibility and behavior.

Blog: How To Inspire Your Team

Some people become leaders because they are good at their job as individual contributors. Others are intentional about moving into leadership. In both cases, they’re often expected to perform that role with excellence but haven’t been given appropriate training.

Case Study: Client Spotlight - Ferguson

Ferguson uncovered the need to instill knowledge around inclusion and diversity across their distributed workforce. The goal was to have everyone speaking the same language and increase self-awareness and self-reflection concerning bias—how they view the world and how they view each other.

Case Study: Client Spotlight: ASICS

Brought Together by Leadership Development, Diversity, and Inclusion ASICS’s vision of the future is to help the world live uplifted through sport to reinforce their founding principle of “A Sound Mind in a Sound Body.”

Guide: 6 Ways Your Leaders Can Build Trust And Avoid Breaking It

A big part of leadership is inspiring teams to meet performance goals. But what determines whether they respond? Often, the answer hinges on the leader's ability to instill or erode trust within their teams. Building trust and inspiring your teams to meet performance goals—while fostering professional growth, productivity, and commitment—are all part of creating a culture that thrives.

Podcast Ep 2: Building Future Leaders in UAE

Join Aamna Alshehhi, Head of the Emiratization and Talents Department at RAK Human Resources Department as she discusses the importance of developing future leaders. On Leadership Arabic Podcast, a monthly podcast from FranklinCovey Middle East to help you become a better leader.

Video: Leading at the Speed of Trust®

Case Study: Irvine Valley College Case Study

Achieving good results during disruptive times is commendable, but the team at Irvine Valley College strived for more. Read how the team at IVC established the FranklinCovey All Access Pass® (AAP) solution as the best fit for addressing lasting changes in human behavior.

Tools and Guides: 7 Ways to Build Trust Between You and Your Team

With trust, everything’s possible. Credible leaders know this. They know how to build the trust necessary to propel their organization—and the people in it—forward.

Guide: Listen like a leader 9 tips to drive powerful conversations

If you’re a leader, it helps to be a good talker. But great communication is actually more about hearing and understanding others than it is about being heard yourself. When you listen well in person or over video meetings, you’ll be able to connect more deeply with your team members, colleagues, and customers. You’ll help advance their thinking — and they’ll advance yours with their ideas and insights.

Case Study: Client Spotlight - ViaWest

Founded in 1999, ViaWest is an IT Infrastructure company with more than 30 data centers across the United States and Canada. Their focus is partnering with businesses to customize IT solutions that are secure, reliable, and easy to scale. The company has 600 employees across eight states and one territory. The employee base at ViaWest is diverse—some have been employed there since the company began while others joined more recently, bringing skills from other tech-based businesses.

Achieving Results in Unpredictable Times

In times of great uncertainty, leaders are faced with one of two choices. Freeze to the point of inaction, allowing uncertainty to damage culture, performance, results, and significantly slow a return to greatness. Or, transform fear into engagement, execute with excellence, use the uncertainty as a time to actually increase trust, and help everyone in the organization prepare to do more with less.