Instant Leadership Course!

Instant Leadership Course!

Here is your instant Leadership Course.  Rather than spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on a Leadership Course, here are some things you can do right now to improve your ability as a leader and a manager.

Ten Simple Things You Can do Right Now That are Better Than Going to a Leadership Course:

  1. Listen Better.  Listening is the most underrated and underused skill in business (or in life).  If you make a conscious effort to improve your listening skills, you will advance your skill as a leader exponentially.  Ironically, trying to find a leadership course on listening skills is difficult.
  2. Set Clear Expectations. One of the key leadership skills is painting a clear and compelling picture for your people of where you want them to go, and what you want them to do.  Any leadership course you take should include this.
  3. Hold People Accountable.  Once you’ve told people what you want from them, you need to hold them to account for those expectations.  Holding people accountable is an area that many leaders have discomfort around.
  4. Offer Constant Feedback.  Offering regular and quality feedback is the easiest of the leadership skills to understand, and one of the hardest to do well.  You don’t need to go to a leadership course to offer regular feedback to your people.
  5. Use Positive Reinforcement.  Nothing will accelerate great performance better or faster than the appropriate use of positive reinforcement.
  6. Address Difficult Issues Promptly.  Failure to address difficult issues will cause performance to suffer not only from the individual, but from the rest of your team as well.  A leader may be reluctant to deal with difficult issues, but s/he should seek out help (a leadership course, or otherwise) to build confidence in this area.
  7. Meet One on One With Your People Regularly.  Regular one on one meetings are often overlooked by leaders.  Quality and consistent one on one meetings saves managers time and energy by providing a forum to reinforce expectations and to offer feedback on progress.  Rather than trying to find a leadership course on this important skill, check out Wily Manager’s podcast on One on One meetings.
  8. Communicate Constantly.  The managers with the best leadership skills are very simply those who communicate the most.  Both quality and quantity of communication efforts are important.
  9. Do What You Say You Will.  This is the only way for a new manager to create trust amongst people, peers, the boss and the organization.  This does not require a leadership course, but rather the discipline to follow through.
  10. Make More Mistakes.  What?!?!  It is important to make mistakes otherwise you are not taking enough risk.  The important thing for a manager is to not repeat mistakes, and be humble and honest about mistakes with everyone.

Become a Wily Manager member as an alternative to the traditional leadership course.

 

How Wily Manager Replaces the Traditional Leadership Course

Wily Manager helps managers and their organizations improve leadership skills through leadership coaching and also through the information rich Wily Manager website.

The Wily Manager Website

Wily Manager helps leaderes by providing the management and leadership tools, information, and advice that you need – it’s all here, at your fingertips, whenever you need it:

  • It’s Easy – We provide tools and advice on things Managers face every day, in a simple and condensed format.
  • It’s Relevant – You could pay $5000/day to hire a Management Consultant, or take a leadership course, but you’re much better off using the pragmatic tools and techniques discussed here.
  • It’s Fun – We don’t take ourselves too seriously.  We’ve got a wealth of experience and professional credentials but we turn consultant-speak into usable advice.

Join the thousands of managers from over 60 countries around the world, who improve their Leadership Skills by listening to the Wily Manager weekly podcast, watching our videos, and downloading pragmatic management and leadership tools from the website.

Join the Wily Manager mailing list

Instead of a leadership course, improve your Leadership Skills by joining our mailing list.  You will get a weekly email from Jed & Bob with lots of information and links to:

  • The weekly podcast that covers a wide variety of topics and subjects designed to improve Leadership Skills.
  • The Wily Manager Blog provides stories and insights for people looking to improve their Leadership Skills
  • The Wily Manager Tip of the Day – to help turn new ideas into entrenched Leadership Skills

Become a Wily Manager Member

Jed and Bob not only provide a weekly podcast, podcast, and Tip of the Day, but also offer the following to their members:

  • A condensed point form “cheat sheet”
  • The podcast slide notes
  • Access to Wily Manager videos

Recent Wily Manager Topics of the Week:

  • Onboarding new employees
  • Making Better Decisions
  • The Balanced Scorecard
  • The Top 10 Management Challenges, and How to Address Them
  • Situational Leadership
  • Dealing with Difficult Behavior
  • More Effective Meetings
  • How to Fire Someone
  • How to Conduct an Effective Interview
  • Time & Priority Management
  • Change Management
  • Help, My Boss is a Micro-manager
  • RACI:  Responsibility Charting

A new topic bundle is added each week to help people improve the Leadership Skills

Wily Manager Consulting Services

Wily Manager is a full-service Management Consultancy with a passion for developing Leadership Skills:

  • Leadership Skill Development — either by facilitating sessions and retreats, or on a consultative basis.
  • Change Management — we have assisted numerous organizations in navigating through high-velocity change.
  • Lean Leadership — ensure your investment in Lean Methodology is realized by equipping organizational Leaders to “Lead Lean”.
  • Fast Start Onboarding — set your new leaders up to be successful by supporting their first 90 days on the new job in a systematic and pragmatic way.
  • Performance Management Tools — the quest to improve never ends, and goes much faster with appropriate tools and coaching.
  • Team Development — we have facilitated many organizations’ transformation to a teams-based environment that improves performance and results exponentially.

Some organizations will develop Leadership Skills through the services of a skilled, on site Wily Manager Coach.  Wily Manager also offers alternatives for companies that do not typically purchase professional services.  Service delivery options:

  • Personal Coaching: Embed a Wily Manager coach in your business.  One of our seasoned business professionals works personally with a group of your managers to build skills, and solve specific problems in your business.
  • Virtual-Coach ®: Virtual-Coach provides individual coaching to managers, and also relies on extensive written materials and podcasts.  These are supplemented by weekly individual telephone or video-conference coaching sessions with one of our professionals.
  • Group-Coach®: Group-Coach provides some individual coaching, as well as a facilitated peer learning experience.  It relies on extensive written materials and podcasts, as well as weekly group conference calls or webinar with a Wily Manager Coach, and an on-line group forum to solicit peer input and feedback.
  • Self-Directed Coaching: You can use the written materials, and listen to the podcasts at your own convenience and pace, and receive email support for any questions or problems you may face.
  • Wily-Temp: Sometimes organizations just need an experienced manager for a brief period of time.  One of our seasoned business professionals can manage a project, or part of your business on a temporary basis.