Intermediate · 1h 45m · 15 lessons
Leadership Skills: Intermediate
Lead people, not just a task: build trust, coach, motivate, and decide fairly.
What you'll learn
- ✦Build a team's trust over months by staying consistent, keeping confidences and crediting fairly, then rebuild it once broken
- ✦Influence a peer or senior without formal authority, by trading real value and staying consistent instead of pulling rank you don't have
- ✦Tell influence and manipulation apart in a real situation, and choose the honest form even when it is slower
- ✦Coach a stuck teammate with genuinely open questions instead of rescuing them by doing the task yourself
- ✦Judge when to let a teammate struggle a bit longer and when to step in and help
- ✦Diagnose what actually motivates a specific teammate, find the real cause behind a motivation dip, and recognise effort as well as results
- ✦Notice your own reaction before you act, read what a teammate is not saying, and stay steady with someone who is upset
- ✦Make a fair, bias-checked call between two good people, and deliver a decision that disappoints someone with an honest reason
Certification projects
Build 3 projects to earn your certificate
Hands-on work that proves you can apply what you learned — part of the certificate requirements.
Syllabus
What you'll be able to do
- Can keep a team's trust consistent across every person over months, and start rebuilding it once broken
- Can influence a peer or senior without formal authority, by trading real value instead of pulling rank
- Can tell influence and manipulation apart, and choose the honest form
What you'll be able to do
- Can choose to coach a stuck teammate instead of rescuing them by doing the task
- Can ask a genuinely open question that helps a teammate find their own next step
- Can judge when to let a teammate struggle a bit longer and when to step in
What you'll be able to do
- Can work out what actually motivates a specific teammate, instead of assuming everyone wants what they want
- Can find the real cause behind a teammate's motivation dip and respond to that cause
- Can recognise and credit real effort, not only the results that happened to land
What you'll be able to do
- Can notice their own reaction to a tense moment before acting on it
- Can pick up on what a teammate is signalling but not saying outright, and check it
- Can stay steady with a teammate who is upset, without rushing to fix or dismiss it
What you'll be able to do
- Can choose fairly between two good people for one opportunity, based on the need and the evidence
- Can deliver a decision that disappoints someone with a clear, honest reason
- Can catch a bias of their own before it decides a people call for them
Good to know
Questions about Leadership Skills: Intermediate
Do I need to finish Leadership Skills: Beginner first?
This course assumes Beginner's ownership, goal-setting and decision skills. If you already lead people day to day, you can start here directly.
Is this course only for people with a manager title?
No. It's for anyone now responsible for people over time. That includes a team lead, a club head, a shift supervisor or a teacher leading a project team, titled or not.
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