Management and Leadership (Lightning Skills Bundle) Certificate

Designing Effective Teams Course

Learning how to design effective teams is absolutely essential for anybody looking to get the most out of their team dynamics, whether you’re a current or aspiring supervisor, manager or team leader. This course provides a comprehensive guide to designing effective teams by establishing dynamic leadership and choosing the right members. From how to connect with and inspire your team, to setting guidelines and ensuring success, this course covers everything you need to know about every aspect of designing the most effective team possible.

You Will Learn

• How to ensure the most effective leadership and structures
• The science of choosing the right team members for the tasks at hand
• How to inspire, motivate and truly connect with your team
• Setting boundaries, goals and guidelines to ensure maximum team success

Benefits of Taking This Course

• You will ensure the success of your team
• You will dramatically improve the relationships within the team
• You will achieve the goals of the team as a cohesive unit
• You will improve your chances of being chosen as a team leader

Essential Skills for First-Time Managers Certificate Course

Taking on responsibility for a team can be a huge challenge for first-time managers, and it requires certain skills and abilities that weren’t previously required. As it’s such a difficult transition from an individual to a leader, it’s crucial that all new managers receive the necessary skills and training from the outset. This course will be looking at the various skills that first-time managers need in order to become better leaders, create engaged, productive teams and produce great results.

You will Learn:

• How to adapt your mindset from an individual to a manager
• How to successfully delegate tasks
• How to motivate your team and encourage professional development
• How to build trust and relationships with your team
• How to lead by setting an example

Benefits of Taking this Course:

• You’ll gain a better understanding of what to expect and what to do as a first-time manager
• You’ll learn how to achieve your goals by guiding others through tasks
• You’ll be able to manage more efficiently and create productive teams

Inspirational Leadership Certificate Course

There is a big difference between a manager and an inspirational leader. A manager is there to supervise and oversee a team, whereas a leader spends their time trying to inspire the team to be more productive and accomplish more of their goals.

Inspirational leadership is a key skill to learn in today’s modern corporate culture. It is no longer good enough to simply show up, put in your time, and go home. Nowadays, you need to constantly learn, evolve and strive to be better – both as a leader and as someone who must motivate others to do the same.

This course goes into detail about how you can change your style from mere management to inspirational leadership. We begin by talking about how you can inspire the best from your team and why this is important. Next, we talk about the specific tools you can use to help elicit the best performance from your team members. Finally, we review the difference between business and productivity.

You Will Learn:

• Three strategies you can employ as an inspirational leader to motivate your team
• How to set effective goals that you and your team members can actually meet
• How to turn your busy, chaotic days into productive ones, where you and your team get things done
• The importance of focusing on one task at a time
• How you can adjust your management style to get the best out of each of your team members

Benefits of Taking This Course:

• The importance of paying attention to your team members
• Understanding what SMART goals are, how to set one and why they are preferable
• Learning how to communicate effectively with your team
• Understanding what your staff members mean when they tell you that they are too busy
• Learning how to change busy days into more productive ones through motivation

Managing Your Workload Course

Today’s work environment exerts high pressure on employees, making it difficult to work efficiently. Work can overwhelm you. You can feel stressed and pulled in all directions, losing the ability to focus. With ever-increasing schedules and more jobs in need of your attention and time, the workplace environment can be endlessly demanding. Therefore, there is a need for a solution to help entrepreneurs and employees to better handle their workloads and deliver exceptional results. Workload management is a skill that everyone should develop to cope in the modern workplace and overcome its high pressures. The solution to managing a high workload is adopting a proactive mindset instead of a reactive approach. This course has been developed to help you learn how to manage your workload effectively and efficiently.

You Will Learn:

• How workload can affect your life
• The need to learn how to manage your workload
• How to manage your workload
• The benefits of workload management

Benefits of Taking the Course:

Taking this course will help you:
• Learn the importance of managing your workload
• Learn the benefits of workload management
• Develop workload management skills
• Take control of your workload using hands-on tips
• Learn how to prioritise your workload
• Learn how to create value and become more productive through workload management
• Learn how to use the 80/20 rule
• Learn how to be more proactive in managing your workload
• Learn how to create work schedules

Practical Leadership Skills Certificate Course

The success of your company depends entirely on your ability to lead a team. Without effective leadership, companies soon fail. It is important to be there, to guide your staff, to provide advice and to make crucial business decisions with very little notice. Those who are unable to learn the skills that they need in order to effectively lead, may find themselves quickly out of a job. Even in a best-case scenario, being an ineffective leader can cause a lot of stress and unhappiness.

Thankfully, leadership is not an innate quality. The skills that you need for effective leadership are easy to acquire, as long as you are eager to put in the time and effort. This course goes into detail about the practical skills that you need for effective leadership. It begins by diving into the general styles of leadership, giving you the tools that you need in order to identify your own style and make adjustments accordingly. Next, we discuss the best strategies that you can use in order to motivate your staff. Delegation and coaching techniques are covered next, ensuring that all the skills that you need for effective leadership are covered as thoroughly as possible.

You will Learn:

• The differences between directive, transformational and participative leadership
• The drawbacks and benefits of each style discussed
• Why motivation is such an important tool to use with your team
• The importance of delegation
• Why coaching is also an important skill to learn

Benefits of Taking this Course

• Learning the three primary strategies that you can use in order to motivate your staff
• Understanding why it is important to share corporate information with your staff
• Learning how to share your enthusiasm with your team and the benefits of doing so
• Understanding the value of delegation and when you need to put it into practice
• Learning how and when to most effectively coach your team members

Project Management Foundation (Small Projects) Certificate Course

Despite the importance of project management, many workplaces do not spend time investing in small-scale project management. Smaller projects are then left without someone in charge, which only invites disorder and chaos. Project management ensures that everything goes smoothly, including the development and delivery of the product to the client. Effective management can also cut costs and prevent wasted time by focusing on the ultimate goal and taking steps to make it happen. When a team is left without leadership, things can soon become unfocused and disorganised.

This course gives you a solid foundation in project management, focusing on small projects. We go into detail about the general steps you need to take, giving you valuable information you can use to start managing projects effectively. The course begins by discussing how to define and plan the project. Next, we discuss the steps you need to take to complete the project, including how to keep the project running well and on time. We also review the importance of flexibility in project management. Finally, we let you know how to purchase software programs that you can use to make project management much easier.

You will Learn:

• How small projects are different to large-scale ones
• The steps involved in effective small project management
• The best time to set your budget
• How to schedule your project
• The qualities you need to learn for your project to run smoothly

Benefits of Taking this Course

• Learning how to create a purpose statement and why this is important
• Understanding the factors you need to consider when setting your scope
• Learning how to build a team that can be successful
• Understanding the importance of contingency time
• Learning how to find the best project management software to help with projects of this scale

Win-Win Negotiations for Conflict Resolution Certificate Course

Learning about win-win negotiations for conflict resolution is absolutely essential for anybody looking to resolve conflict in any situation with every personality type, whether you’re a team-leader, member of the team, or simply interested in resolving conflict in any aspect of your life and the lives of others.

This course provides a comprehensive guide to win-win negotiations for conflict resolution by teaching techniques to remain calm and collected, having the right timing and performing a holistic conflict analysis incorporating occupational therapy.

From fostering collaboration by establishing commonality and techniques to successfully negotiate compromises, to the science of staying on track and being results-driven, this course covers everything you need to know about successfully resolving conflicts in a way that benefits all parties involved.

You Will Learn:

• How to remain calm and have the right timing during conflict resolution negotiations
• The science of performing a holistic conflict analysis incorporating behavioural therapy
• How to negotiate collaboration and compromise to ensure conflict resolution
• How to remain focused and keep negotiations on track

Benefits of Taking This Course:

• You will increase company profitability by eliminating conflict
• You will dramatically improve teamwork and relationships
• You will improve production and output by improving morale
• You will avoid disciplinary procedures and potential dismissals

The course is broken down into 0 individual modules. Each module takes between 20 and 90 minutes on average to study. Although you are free to spend as much or as little time as you feel necessary on each module, simply log in and out of the course at your convenience.

You can study the course any time you like. Simply log in and out of the web based course as often as you require. The course is compatible with all computers, tablet devices and smart phones so you can even study while on the move!

Once you have completed all 0 modules there is a multiple choice test. The questions will be on a range of topics found within the 0 modules. The test, like the course, is online and can be taken a time and location of your choosing.

The pass mark for the test is 70%.

If you don’t pass the test first time you will get further opportunities to take the test again after extra study. There are no limits to the number of times you can take the test. All test retakes are included within the price of the course.

Once you have completed your test you can log in to your account and download/print your certificate any time you need it. If you would prefer us to post you a certificate to a UK address, there will be an admin charge of £10 (certificates sent internationally may cost more).

You can either use your Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Solo cards or PayPal account to pay for the online course. Our site uses the latest SSL encryption to ensure your safety. All payments are handled securely by PayPal.

You can begin the course immediately after your payment has been received. You will create your login details during the checkout process. We will also send you an email confirming your login details.

We estimate that the course will take about 4 hours to complete in total, plus an additional 30 minutes for the end of course test.

Once you have been awarded your certificate it is valid for life. The certificate does not expire or need renewing.