Leadership Stories: 5-Minute Lessons in Leading People

Course details

Join expert storyteller Paul Smith to get engaging insights into leadership. Drawing on his exclusive, one-on-one interviews with over 250 CEOs and executives around the world, Paul reveals experiences that led these leaders to learn a critical lesson or gain some invaluable-and often unconventional-wisdom. Each video is centered around a single story. He covers topics such as setting a vision, leading change, and getting more creativity out of an organization. Think of this series as a fireside chat with someone who's had the luxury of interviewing some of the most insightful executives in the world.

Learning objectives
Communication
Leading change
Creativity and innovation
Getting results
Collaboration and teamwork
Managing during crisis
Giving and receiving performance feedback
Delegating
Increasing engagement

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Introduction

1. Leadership Stories (Jan-Mar 2018)

02 - Crisis communication
03 - Talking too much (or too little)
04 - Learn jaw-dropping candor
05 - Great results vs. happy people
06 - How to be a top performer
07 - How to receive tough feedback yourself
08 - Good vs. better vs. best performance
09 - Think outside the box
10 - Find solutions outside your industry
11 - Identify compensating behaviors
12 - Promote simplicity
13 - Give inventors needed room to invent
14 - Use moonlighting to increase engagement

2. Leadership Stories (Apr-Jun 2018)

15 - Use the Discovery Journey method
16 - How to use a metaphor
17 - Challenge assumptions
18 - Understand, agree, care, or don't bother
19 - Concrete vs. Abstract
20 - No excuses
21 - Ask Did I win or lose today
22 - Foster friendly competition
23 - Prepare for change
24 - Make it impossible not to change
25 - Turn barriers into change agents
26 - Trust your judgment
27 - Permission to spend in hard times

3. Leadership Stories (Jul-Sep 2018)

28 - Customer versus employee focus
29 - Find passion for the customer
30 - How to remove passion drains
31 - How to finish the race
32 - How to inspire and motivate employees
33 - Build perseverance
34 - Stop people pleasing
35 - Overcome past failures
36 - Overcome fear
37 - Find common values
38 - Use competition for collaboration
39 - Never work with strangers again
40 - Build company values through story

4. Leadership Stories (Oct-Dec 2018)

41 - Communicating values through creativity
42 - Written rules versus unwritten norms
43 - Avoid assuming
44 - The cost of not understanding culture
45 - Enforcing policies through stories
46 - Modeling behaviors
47 - Considering unintended consequences
48 - Value diversity and inclusion
49 - Find skeptics turned supporters
50 - Setting expectations
51 - Recognizing good stories
52 - Provide stellar customer service

Leadership Stories: 5-Minute Lessons in Leading People

Authors

Paul A. Smith