Leadership: Practical Skills – Chris Croft

Get practical leadership skills you can use every day. This course provides leaders and managers of all levels with an introduction to the basic skills they need to lead their teams to success. Based on theories instructor Chris Croft has acquired over 20 years of teaching, it explores the qualities of a great leader, theories of motivation, leadership styles, and core proficiencies like connecting with your team and effectively delegating work. In closing, Chris provides an optional pledge, which can help you commit to being a better boss.

• What makes a great leader?
• Connecting with your team
• What motivates your team
• Leadership styles
• Delegation
• Autonomy
• Making a leadership pledge

• Introduction
• 1. What is a Leader
• 2. Motivation
• 3. Leadership styles: Part 1
• 4. Delegating
• 5. Leadership styles: Part 2
• Conclusion

Lecturer turned thought leader Chris Croft has trained 80,000+ people in project management and leadership.

Chris has also provided instruction on time management and negotiation, and has trained two million people on Lynda.com and LinkedIn Learning. He comes from an operations background, having earned an engineering degree from Cambridge, qualified as a chartered engineer, and worked as a senior manager in manufacturing for 10 years. He earned an MBA and worked as a university lecturer at Bournemouth University Business School for four years before starting his own training company in 1992. Since then, he has been in constant demand as a speaker, and his free email tips are sent to over 20,000 people.

His website, www.chriscroft.co.uk, offers a free email tip of the month, a wide-ranging and unusual blog, and free instant guides. Chris has also created numerous free iPhone and Android apps, notably his Jobs To Do app and his Daily Happiness Tips app.

His book Time Management is available from Amazon and most bookshops. He has eleven other “instant guide mini-books” at www.lulu.com and on Amazon Kindle Store, and recently published The Big Book of Happiness for the Kindle, as well as the rather eccentric Management Vegetables.