FIVE LEADERSHIP SKILLS YOU CAN BUILD

In Four Weeks This Winter

by Alison Adair

Finding time for learning can be a challenge with our increasingly busy and fast paced lives. We get it: you want to keep up with the latest professional development strategies and continue to sharpen your leadership, communication, and performance management skills, but you need a way to learn that fits into your life.

We offer courses designed for working professionals to acquire essential job skills in just four weeks. These leadership skills can help you elevate your impact, whether leading a team or preparing for a new leadership role.

Here are five leadership skills you can build in just four weeks!

1. Improve your Emotional Intelligence

Emotional intelligence is at the core of strong leadership. It helps you manage stress, navigate workplace challenges, and build stronger relationships with colleagues and teams. Leaders with high emotional intelligence are better equipped to inspire, collaborate, and make sound decisions.

Emotional Intelligence (four weeks online) helps you explore the five key areas of emotional intelligence. You'll discover how to better understand your emotions and those of others and use this awareness to improve communication, build trust, and lead with empathy.

2. Become a more effective leader

We are not all natural-born leaders. Great leaders seek opportunities to improve their leadership skills and cultivate a positive and productive work environment. 

The Effective Leader (four weeks online) enables you to build the skills and develop the insights required for effective leadership at any level of the organization. You will also access the Leader’s Tool Box, packed with ideas to build your leadership skills.

3. Lead a difficult conversation

Most people do their best to avoid conflict, even though it may be a daily occurrence in the workplace. When left unchecked, it can damage relationships, kill momentum, and undermine the performance of any team. But ignoring conflict can be equally destructive. 

Leading Difficult Conversations (four weeks online) will show you how to approach the most challenging conversations confidently. You will develop the skills to move past emotion and deliver your message clearly and positively.

4. Build a high-performing team

Understanding what motivates people is essential to unlocking potential and driving team success. Whether managing performance or helping others set goals, you need strategies that inspire people to do their best.

Building High-Performing Teams (four weeks online) helps you explore motivational theories and apply them in practical ways. Learn how to inspire yourself and others by connecting personal and organizational goals and recognizing what drives high performance.

5. Strengthen Your Ability to Lead and Adapt Through Change

Change is constant, and how you navigate it defines your effectiveness as a leader. Understanding your own habits, reactions, and biases is the first step toward leading others with clarity and confidence.

Optimizing Change (four weeks online) helps you develop the awareness and skills to respond to change thoughtfully and intentionally. You’ll explore how to form new habits, overcome resistance, and apply practical strategies for guiding change, whether working one-on-one, in small groups, or across an organization.

Want to build one or more of these skills this fall?

Explore our Winter leadership courses