The 6 Critical Practices For Leading a Team
Explore all of our personal and professional development resources for individuals and organizations.
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Read MoreTool: Listen First
Strengthen one of the most under-valued leadership competencies with this tool to help you listen first.
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Read MoreTool: Become A Transition Person - Tool
Become a transition person and break unhealthy, harmful, abusive, or ineffective learned behaviors and replace them with proactive, helpful, effective behaviors.
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Read MoreTool: Productivity Questionnaire
Leaders must help their team focus on what is most important, not just urgent. Use this tool to guide your people toward high-impact activities.
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Read MoreTool: Extend Smart Trust
Learn about extending trust. Use this worksheet to determine when to extend trust with your team.
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Read MoreTool: Balance Courage and Consideration
Use this tool to find the right balance of courage and consideration when faced with a difficult conversation.
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Read MoreCase 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.
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Read MoreTool:Extend Smart Trust - Tool
Identify a person or situation where increased trust could help improve communication or results. Use this tool to extend smart trust.
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Read MoreTool: 3 Questions For Effective Coaching
Use this tool to hold clarifying, open-ended, and insightful coaching sessions.
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Read MoreCase Study: Employee Productivity at LG Philips
LG Philips LCD is the global leader in the development and manufacturing of TFT-LCD panels for electronics. The company faced the challenge of having too much overtime payroll, averaging 10.6 days per month.
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Read MoreLead Through Change
Change is now the norm. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by change. By the time you adjust to a change, another one is coming down the pipe. Learn to expect change and handle it with grace:
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Read MoreHow To Handle A Micromanager
Being micromanaged is frustrating and can kill engagement. It’s important to discover why your boss is micromanaging you because it will allow you to formulate a plan to address it. Explore the following points to get a better idea of why you are being micromanaged and solutions to it:
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Read MoreBlog: How To Think Like A Leader
For some, shifting into a leader’s mindset is intuitive, something that comes easy. For many others, that shift can take significant time and effort. And be quite humbling.
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Read MoreCase Study: PepsiCo Foods Case Study
Read how PepsiCo Foods North America partnered with FranklinCovey to make meaningful, targeted improvements in their leaders across the organization.
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Read MoreLeadership Tip: Lead Through Change
When leading through change, are you calm, confident, and focused – or anxious, threatened, and scattered? Be the leader your team deserves, especially during uncertainty, with this tip.
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Read MoreLeadership Tip: Lead Difficult Conversations
Have you avoided a difficult conversation and inadvertently caused the situation to worsen?
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Read MoreGuide: 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.
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Read MoreGuide: 8 tips to boost engagement, collaboration, and morale
With much of the world having to adapt and work remotely where possible, it can be hard to manage even a single team because of virtual distances. Managers might feel powerless to keep a group cohesive and productive, whether in the office or working remotely. Distance working has its own set of challenges and cultural issues, just like working in the office does.
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Read MoreGuide:6 Traps to Avoid When Creating an Engaged Virtual Team
Productivity isn’t necessarily hurt — and may be improved — in remote environments. A PwC survey found a 47 percent productivity increase in 2020, despite the large rise in working from home. And 94 percent of employers surveyed by Mercer reported productivity was unaffected or improved during the pandemic.
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Read MoreCase 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.
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Read MoreVideo: Advent Health
AdventHealth had a vision to establish a culture and organization that identified, developed, and helped grow leaders over time. They faced high levels of leadership turnover due to a lack of development. They knew that promoting people to leadership roles based on their performance as individual contributors was not enough.
