ML111 - Leading and Motivating
This course provides a synopsis of the essential tasks of leadership setting direction, aligning people, and motivating others. You will learn how to recognize the skills and characteristics of effective leaders, create an inspiring vision, and energize people to support and work toward your goals.
Course Reviews
Course Rating
"I really enjoyed the course. I especially enjoyed the videos of leaders giving their personal perspectives."
"Thank you for a well designed course with relevant and concise videos."
"This was a great course to take online. I am able to take the skills learned and implement them into my daily life."
"This course has brought quite a bit of insight to me. I am using the skills that were taught to me on a daily basis. Thank you!"
"This course helped me to evaluate new ways to motivate and keep my staff on the path toward a vision. Keeping them motivated is always a challenge."
"This course was helpful in making me think about how I motivate and lead my team. I often found myself thinking of ways I could improve on my own leadership skills while studying the course content."
"The difference between management and leadership was well defined within this course. I will take away a lot of great points to help in my daily role. We can now take this information and improve both our management and leadership styles."
"This course not only enlightened me on new leadership styles and techniques. I feel it will enhance my current leadership skills and, in turn, help me to empower my team and create a more efficient work environment. The specific differences learned in this lesson between a manager and leader helps me to value and appreciate my manager even more. Learning more about a clear vision and how it relates to the mission was also beneficial. Most importantly, I was able to take away new tactics on how to motivate people who do not follow the vision or unmotivated employees. I think most companies experience this from time to time and being able to coach them properly is imperative. This course helped enhance my knowledge overall in the world of leadership and I feel sure others will benefit the same."
"I found the scenarios in this course very useful. I really enjoyed the emphasis on delivering a vision to a team. Also, motivating others to do what you want them to is a skill worth mastering and I look forward to working on this. Overall, very informative."
"The course is well designed. It provides a great deal of insight for identifying the characteristics of a leader and a manager. I had an eye opening experience and can't wait to put into practice all of the tools I learned."
"This course helped me put some of my thoughts in perspective as well as confirm some of my ideas about being an effective leader. It also gave me direction for the areas in which I was not as strong as I initially thought, which was an awesome learning experience for me. I enjoyed learning from this course."
"This course gave me a great opportunity to re-evaluate my leading and motivating skillset."
"I found ML111 to be informative on many different aspects. A strong takeaway that I had is when trying to convey a message, know the content, know yourself and lastly work the style that best suits you."
"This course made me look at my management and leadership styles. I realized the importance of celebrating successes, even the little ones. I am coming up with little ways to celebrate the achievements of the department, my instructors, and my students, and to just to say thank you for the work put in."
"I enjoyed the course. It was focused and presented key leadership concepts."
"I enjoyed the course and I like the self pace study so that you can really understand the material and even apply it to your everyday work experience. Thank You"
"Starting off as a trainee for a leadership position I found this very helpful and very enjoyable. It also gave me insight on what I can do better for myself now to be a better worker and to work towards earning a potential promotion. I would suggest this course to be a standard for every worker with or without leadership goals currently on the horizon. This course has so much to teach the every man!"
"This is the best MaxKnowledge course I have ever taken. Thank you!"
"This class was very helpful in discussing situations that I have had at my own job. I learned a lot about being a leader and developing the ability to motivate others."
"This took what I thought I knew about Leadership to a whole new level. The organization and how it pertains to our current work force was very relatable. Worth the time spent on this. "
Course Structure
Course Format
- Can Start Anytime
- Self-paced (within course enrollment timeframe)
- 4 Hours of Activities
Completion Requirements
- Study Course Content
- Pass ALL Required Quizzes
Certificate of Completion
- 4 Hours of Continuing Education
- Available for download at the end of the course
Technology Requirements
- A Web browser with JavaScript and cookies enabled
- Adobe Flash Player
- Speakers or headphones
Course Objectives
Leading and Motivating
- Distinguish between managing and leading.
- Recognize the skills and characteristics of leaders.
- Understand that leaders use different styles.
- Create an inspiring vision and align people to achieve it.
- Understand what motivates people, and how to foster an inspiring work environment.
- Learn techniques for energizing problem employees.
Community TV
- NA
Lounge Group
This course provides you with a lifelong peer-to-peer learning opportunity through a specific Performance Group created within the Career College Lounge, a learning community of career college professionals. This allows you to learn and share with your peers at any time you want, even after you complete the course.
How to Enroll
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