How to Be a Better Boss

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Free Online Course: How to Be a Better Boss provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 3-4 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from LinkedIn Learning. How to Be a Better Boss is taught by Chris Croft.

Overview
  • This course presents dozens of tips in short videos that can help make you a better manager.

Syllabus
  • Introduction

    • Becoming a better boss
    1. Seeing the Bigger Picture
    • Leadership self-audit
    • Management by Walking About
    • Back to the floor
    • Finding the root of problems
    • Standing back at all levels
    2. Motivation by Maslow
    • The difference between leadership and management
    • Team motivation audit
    • Maslow's hierarchy
    • Improving security
    • Sense of belonging
    • Feeling valued
    • The ultimate motivator
    3. Other Motivational Techniques
    • The management potato
    • Watering a plant
    • Ownership
    • The challenge challenge
    • Always learning
    • Between the cracks
    • Making auditing a habit
    4. Adapting to Personality
    • Personality types
    • Who are you?
    5. Working with Your Boss
    • Your boss's management style
    6. Planning Involvement
    • Tannenbaum and Schmidt
    • Sliding scale of involvement
    • Involving your team
    • Encouraging your boss
    7. Leadership Style
    • Intro to situational leadership
    • Styles for your team
    • Styles for your boss
    • Allocating tasks
    • Coaching
    • Underachievers
    • Who to empower
    • Problem with stars
    • The banana of boredom
    • How to apply situational leadership
    8. Developing Your Team
    • Coaching is part of leadership
    • The process of coaching
    • Let's begin
    • Loosening the reins
    • Your current level
    • Asking for coaching
    • Asking your boss
    • Why coaching is so important
    9. The Right Amount of Monitoring
    • Two directions of freedom
    • The Freedom Ladder
    • Freedom for your team
    10. Managing Planning and Implementation Differently
    • The management matrix
    • You're the boss
    11. Maximum Delegation
    • My biggest regret
    • What are your cushions?
    • Could vs. can't
    • Value of delegating
    • Expert systems
    • Giving away your job
    • Motorbike crash
    • 80 percent rule
    • Nearly ready
    • Delegating a part
    • Assigning a deputy
    • The delegation process
    • Not difficult and very effective
    12. Accepting Tasks from Your Team
    • What are monkey tasks?
    • Monkey givers
    13. Understanding Empowerment
    • Beyond delegating
    • Key parts
    • Abdication
    • Trying empowerment
    • Training your boss
    • Combinations of monitoring and supporting
    14. Appraisals
    • The importance of appraisals
    • Power of appraisals
    • Making it happen
    • Making a difference
    • The key to your relationship
    15. Your Management Routines
    • Regular leadership habits
    • Daily actions
    • Weekly actions
    • Monthly actions
    • Yearly actions
    Conclusion
    • Future actions you can take