Course Duration:
6-8 Hours
Tools and strategies for leaders to build your team's performance and morale
Price:
LinkedIn Certification upon completion
Team Access Available
Online Learning That Isn't Boring
Leading and managing a team is often the most stressful part of your job. This course offers team leaders the best practices, tools, and strategies for building a strong team along with solutions to overcome the most common management challenges. And with Dennis Miller hosting it, you'll have a little bit of fun too.
Why Take this Course?
Effective team performance is based on two fundamental disciplines: clear, focused goals and consistent, effective feedback. According to a 2019 People Management Report by Predictive Index, delivering useful, timely performance feedback was one of the top 5 skills that managers lack.
Based on the best-selling performance management advice from HR expert Paul Falcone and hosted by former Saturday Night Live Weekend Anchor and Emmy Award-winning Dennis Miller – generally acknowledged as one of the smartest comedians on the planet – you will quickly sharpen your ability to manage your team to greater heights!
This course helps you develop performance management skills that are compatible with the most common positions, like sales and marketing, accounting and finance, HR, IT, legal, manufacturing, and operations. You'll also learn vital management lessons to help you overcome the most common headaches managers have to deal with – all while being entertained by Dennis Miller throughout!
BONUS: The course includes downloadable PDF resources with hundreds of ready-to-use words, phrases, descriptions, and action items for improving performance right at your fingertips.
Effective team performance is based on two fundamental disciplines: clear, focused goals and consistent, effective feedback. According to a 2019 People Management Report by Predictive Index, delivering useful, timely performance feedback was one of the top 5 skills that managers lack.
Based on the best-selling performance management advice from HR expert Paul Falcone and hosted by former Saturday Night Live Weekend Anchor and Emmy Award-winning Dennis Miller – generally acknowledged as one of the smartest comedians on the planet – you will quickly sharpen your ability to manage your team to greater heights!
This course helps you develop performance management skills that are compatible with the most common positions, like sales and marketing, accounting and finance, HR, IT, legal, manufacturing, and operations. You'll also learn vital management lessons to help you overcome the most common headaches managers have to deal with – all while being entertained by Dennis Miller throughout!
BONUS: The course includes downloadable PDF resources with hundreds of ready-to-use words, phrases, descriptions, and action items for improving performance right at your fingertips.
Meet Your Host Dennis Miller
Dennis Miller is the Emmy Award-winning former host of Saturday Night Live’s “Weekend Update,” a former Monday Night Football host, and one of the most iconic comedians in the world known for his sharp wit, rapid pace, and impressive knowledge of culture, politics, history…and, yes, business! He’s also the host of the popular “The Dennis Miller Option” podcast.
Finally, professional development that's actually exciting!
Meet Your Host Dennis Miller
Dennis Miller is the Emmy Award-winning former host of Saturday Night Live’s “Weekend Update,” a former Monday Night Football host, and one of the most iconic comedians in the world known for his sharp wit, rapid pace, and impressive knowledge of culture, politics, history…and, yes, business! He’s also the host of the popular “The Dennis Miller Option” podcast.
Finally, professional development that's actually exciting!
What You’ll Learn
Lesson 1: Effective Hiring & Selection
Let's start at the beginning. Learn how to recruit online, finding and screening the right candidates, making offers, and effective onboarding.
Lesson 2: Effective Leadership & Communication
Discover the art of successful communication, including how to interact with team members in staff meetings, uncomfortable workplace situations, and more.
Lesson 3: The Importance of the Written Record
Pro tip: document everything. Go deep into performance reviews, workplace investigations, progressive disciplining, and more.
Lesson 4: Avoiding Litigation Land Mines
Management is more than just delegation. In this lesson, you'll learn how to deal with the challenges that come with management - like firing, dealing with employee attitudes, and understanding your company's HR policies.
Lesson 5: Inspiring Employee Engagement
Now to the fun stuff. Understand how to *truly* motivate your team, delegate tasks, engage with employees, keeping top performers, and dealing with adversity.
Lesson 6: Putting It All Together
In the final lesson, you'll discover all the lessons every HR leader wishes you knew. Understand how to deal with resignations, multi-generations at work, integrating new hires, and some lessons in ethics you may not have thought about.
After this course, you’ll be able to...
Establish compelling, actionable, individualized performance goals that inspire exceptional results.
Effectively manage common performance issues such as sexual harassment, absenteeism, insubordination, drug or alcohol abuse, substandard work, and more.
Set expectations on the basics like attendance, attitude, teamwork, and time management.
Hold tough conversations with problem employees and manage them up or out with humane, yet effective, methods, including documenting poor performance.
Identify and reward high performers.
Plan and execute effective performance review conversations and documentation.
Who this course is for
Small business owners who need to quickly improve performance across many types of employees
Middle managers who need to clarify and focus the efforts of frontline workers in their organization
Senior leaders experiencing a lack of productivity and return on investment from your workforce
New managers who need guidance on how to establish credibility and add value to your direct reports.
Want to buy access for your team?
If you are interested in buying this course in bulk for your team or organization, we are happy to help! Please email our customer service team below or call us at 1-800-250-5308 for assistance.
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