Be a Better Leader

Leadership Strategies to Thrive Through Change | Discover how to leverage the strengths of your team members and the trust you’ve built with them to drive innovation and success during change. Stephen M. R. Covey shares insights and strategies to harness the power and diversity of skillsets within your team. 7 Ways to Build Trust Between You and Your Team—A Toolkit for Leaders at All Levels: Use our toolkit to build trust necessary to propel your organization forward.

Leadership Strategies to Thrive Through Change | Learn how to empower and motivate your team members to contribute their best during times of change. Marché Pleshette returns to provide practical tactics to ensure your team feels driven and inspired. The Energy of Change—5 Leadership Behaviors to Drive Collective Action in a Fluid Landscape: Help your leaders prepare their teams to move through change and transform your organization’s approach to change by downloading and sharing this guide.

Leadership Strategies to Thrive Through Change | Join us in our newest episode of Be a Better Leader as we explore the importance of fostering open communication and transparency within your team. In this conversation, Barbara Cogburn reveals practical tactics to create a culture where communication flourishes, even in times of change. Do you know how you communicate? Take our Difficult Conversation Assessment to gain insight into which of three conversation styles you use and learn how to navigate conversations with effectiveness and authenticity.

Gain the insights and strategies you need to communicate during one of the most high-leverage situations leaders face: Change. Marché Pleshette, a FranklinCovey sr. consultant and co-author of Change: How to Turn Uncertainty Into Opportunity, and AJ Lee, manager of customer success, discuss best practices and preparation for how to communicate an upcoming change and how managers can navigate resistance. How to Communicate Change: A Tool for Leaders—All change creates disruption, but leaders can minimize this through effective communication. How leaders communicate a change to their team is critical to helping them understand and adapt.

Every manager knows that they need to communicate effectively. They know good communication is necessary to help people get—and stay—engaged. Todd Davis, bestselling author, and former FranklinCovey chief people officer joins AJ Lee, manager of customer success, to talk about why 1-on-1s are such an effective opportunity to communicate with your team. Listen Like a Leader: 9 Tips to Drive Powerful Conversations—Read our guide to learn how to listen and then pick one or two skills you can start building this week.

Trust Changes Everything | Join FranklinCovey’s Jeffery Downs and Kory Kogon, bestselling author of The 5 Choices: The Path to Extraordinary Productivity, as they explore the connection between trust and productivity and how trust empowers individuals to excel. Learn how you can use this relationship between trust and productivity to be a catalyst for change, inspire your team, and create high-trust environments. Download now: 10 Phrases Leaders Use to Build Trust with Team Members

Trust Changes Everything | Dive into the heart of leadership and employee engagement with bestselling author and thought leader Stephen M. R. Covey and Managing Director Jeffery Downs. Listen to their conversation on how trust profoundly impacts engagement in the workplace. Learn how trust leads to increased value, engagement, and inspiration among employees, and discover practical strategies for both leaders and team members to build a culture of trust. Download now: 6 Ways Your Leaders Can Build Trust and Avoid Breaking It

Trust Changes Everything | In this episode of Be a Better Leader, Jeffery Downs, a FranklinCovey managing director, discusses the relationship between trust and innovation with bestselling author and thought leader Stephen M. R. Covey. Listen as they share insights about the profound impact of trust on fostering innovation. Learn how a culture of trust encourages your people to collaborate, take calculated risks, and transform managers into leaders. Download now: 7 Steps to Create an Environment of Trust on Your Teams

Recharge: Your Leaders. Your Teams. Your Culture. Your Results. | You started down the pathway of recharging your leaders, your teams, your culture, and your results. But once you get started, how do you keep it going? Harvey Young, a regional practice leader at FranklinCovey, joins Managing Director Jeffery Downs to discuss how accountability is key to getting the results you’re working for. The Agility Advantage: 4 Steps to Respond to Change and Achieve Consistent Business Results

Recharge: Your Leaders. Your Teams. Your Culture. Your Results. | Our teams and responsibilities are all interconnected. But in times of change, uncertainty, or mounting projects, silos can form, and it becomes easy to lose the power that comes from collaboration and synergy. Andrea Caldwell, a FranklinCovey managing consultant, joins Managing Director Jeffery Downs to break down this problem and discuss strategies to overcome it. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: A Brief Guide: Download our guide for a summary of principles and practices that can help you cope with Change in resilient, creative ways.

Recharge: Your Leaders. Your Teams. Your Culture. Your Results. | What if all your organization’s leaders could identify their weaknesses but instead steer toward their strengths? What difference could that make for them and their teams? In this episode, Dr. AJ Lee, manager of customer success, is joined by FranklinCovey Vice President of Content Development and best-selling author, Kory Kogon, to talk about how a leader can focus on multiplying their strengths and recharging their approach to leading others. 40 Back-pocket Questions to Unleash Your Team’s Intelligence: The best leaders are curious. But they don’t just ask a lot of questions. They ask the right questions—the kind that focus their team’s brainpower on the right problems.

What You Don't Know When You Become a Leader | One of the biggest changes when transitioning to a leadership role for the first time is making the mindset shift from an individual contributor to a leader. In this episode of Be a Better Leader, FranklinCovey’s Leena Rinne and senior leadership consultant Victoria Roos Olsson discuss why this mindset shift is so critical, explore the underlying purpose of leadership, and recommend resources and practices to help a new leader make the transition. Make the Mental Leap to Leader: A Six-Step Guide for First-Level Leaders

What You Don't Know When You Become a Leader | As a leader, it's not always easy to have tough conversations with team members who may be falling short. But when a leader creates a culture of feedback, everyone feels heard and respected, and performance and productivity blossom. In this episode, Leena Rinne and Todd Davis, a FranklinCovey consultant, author, and former chief people officer, discuss how to create that culture of feedback, common mistakes that leaders make, and share successes and failures from their own careers. Crucial Insights for First-Level Leaders: Leading a team requires a different skillset than working as an individual contributor.