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To make a positive impact on the world, learning to lead and influence better will take you a long way. According to author John C. Maxwell, good leadership goes beyond advancing yourself, to helping others advance. In this series, David McNeill, a principal at thoughtLEADERS LLC explains how leadership is not about position but about building and influencing a team to produce their best.

The Five Levels Of Leadership By John C. Maxwell

Underlining the key message that leadership is influence, The 5 Levels of Leadership explains that leadership is a process and not a position. This series takes you on a journey to understand the five levels of leadership and helps internalize the process that can make you an outstanding leader.

Position marks the lowest level of leadership and seldom requires any exceptional ability or effort. Position itself does not make you a leader. Learn why it is important to stay humble, even if you're in a position of authority.

At the first level of leadership development, you begin assuming power. Here, start engaging with your team and connecting with them individually.

Moving up leadership levels requires you to build relationships. Learn how you can master the second level of leadership by building trust, in this video.

Level 2 in your leadership development involves shifting mindsets from being served to serving others. Be intentional about extending trust and getting to know people personally.

The difference between good and great leaders is that the latter make things happen. They get results. They are not just productive individually, but empower and enable their team to produce. Learn how to become a productive, result-oriented leader, in this episode.

To continue your leadership journey, you must show that you can get results. Coordinate your team and focus their efforts on the areas that will be most productive.

Level four of leadership requires you to invest your time, energy, money, and thinking into growing others as leaders. Learn how people development is about creating other leaders, in this episode.

Developing as a leader means developing your people to become leaders themselves. Position your team members to learn new skills, management competencies and leadership principles.

Individuals who reach Level 5 or the pinnacle – are natural leaders, who lead so well that they create a legacy of leadership in their organization. Aspire to reach the peak of leadership through this video.

Becoming a leader of leaders requires long-term commitment. Reach beyond your own drive for success to focus on the ideals and legacy that others will aspire to.

Moving up the leadership ladder requires consistent effort and the right balance. This episode explains how to balance principles of each level of leadership to keep forging ahead.

There are times as a leader when you feel yourself moving down the ladder. To continue growing, be intentional in your leadership and stay focused on your people and on navigating obstacles.

If you were to change your position, organization or even sector, it is unlikely that you will maintain your leadership level from the previous position. Find out why leadership levels vary for the same individual and learn to accept that and act accordingly, in this episode.

Leadership levels can vary significantly depending on the sector and the people being led. It is important to be aware of different scenarios so you can connect with people based on where they are with you at the time.

A lot of us crave success, yet come up short on striving to achieve it. In The 10X Rule, Grant Cardone explains why it is important to set unrealistic goals and work ten times more than what you think it takes to accomplish those targets. Understand the 10x Rule to brush off mediocrity and achieve remarkable success.

Grant Cardone says to achieve extraordinary success, you need to set your goals 10 times higher than usual and work ten times harder than most people to achieve them. Learn how to build the right mindset to guarantee success.

Massive Goals + Massive Action = Massive Success

What sets successful people apart from average achievers? Setting your goal is the first step but having the right mindset to achieve it is what makes the difference. Find out more in this video.

Once you have set goals that you did not think possible for yourself, estimate the effort you need to achieve them and then plan to work 10 times harder.

Cardone argues that the large decline in US housing prices following the collapse of a housing bubble in 2007 was caused by people not setting the right goals for themselves. This episode explains how.

Assess your situation and set goals that are tailor-made for you rather than competing with others and thereby letting external factors dictating your goals.

Success means different things for different people. This video explains how understanding what success means to you is the first step towards achieving it.

Do not feel ashamed of wanting success. Treat it as a duty to develop not only your own well-being but also that of your family and community.

What is common between KFC founder Colonel Sanders, actor Sylvester Stallone and Walt Disney? They didn't stop after achieving success. Find out more in this video.

There are no limits to success. Truly successful people are driven by their own success to set even loftier goals for themselves that they strive to achieve.

One quality that sets winners apart is that instead of playing the blame game, they make themselves accountable for their own success or failure. This video explains how taking responsibility improves your chances of success.

It is important to understand that success is not something that happens to you, it’s something that happens because of you and because of the actions you take.

Cardone categorizes action into four degrees and explains why failure comes from operating at the wrong degree of action in this video.

All action levels need time and energy. Normal levels of action are dangerous as they lead you towards mediocrity. Instead, push yourself to take massive levels of action to attain consistent success.

Why you should set loftier goals rather than average goals? This video offers insights on this apart from tips to help you set your 10X goals.

Set unrealistic goals right from the start. With average goals, you risk losing interest and thereby failing to accomplish them.

Cardone argues that fear is a sign that you are taking the right actions to move in the right direction. Learn how to use fear to guide you towards your next step in this video.

Don’t allow fear to build up and crowd your judgment. Instead, let it act as a guide for your next actions.

It’s important to understand how to leverage data to inform your business decisions. In this course, data analytics consultant John David Ariansen shares the benefits of effective data analysis for business. Starting with the best data-tracking tools that even beginners can use, you'll learn about data source maps, database management, and different types of data sources such as cost data and external data.

Introduction To Business Analytics By John David Ariansen

In this course, data analytics consultant John David Ariansen shares the benefits of effective data analysis for business. Starting with the best data-tracking tools that even beginners can use, you'll learn about data source maps, database management, and different types of data sources such as cost data and external data.

Module 2 - How Can Data Improve Your Business?

Data is an extremely valuable resource for your organization. After watching this video, you will be able to identify the three steps that your organization can follow that will make the most of collecting, analyzing, and using data to improve your decision-making process.

Organizations are increasingly leaning on data to drive their decision-making process. After watching this video, you will be able to identify some of the common tactics that enable organizations to make better, data-informed decisions.

Using data to drive your decisions can be a powerful tactic. After watching this video, you will be able to successfully navigate adding data analysis to your decision-making process.

There are three main types of analysis. After watching this video, you will be able to identify the differences and applications of each of the three types of analytics.

Collecting data successfully can be tough. After watching this video, you will be able to identify the basic tenets of governing your data collection process.

Data governance is getting easier as more and more tools are being developed to help you track data successfully. After watching this video, you will be able to find the right tools to help you nail data governance.

Effective data analysis can slice through massive swaths of data to find insights that drive strategy. After watching this video, you will be able to identify effective data analysis.

A pivot chart is an excellent way to slice through your data and find insights. After watching this video, you will be able to use a pivot chart to study data.

Statistics may seem intimidating to a lot of people but most data analysis is relatively simple math. After watching this video, you will be able to use very simple statistics to find insights in a data set.

Finding insights in your data that are good enough to drive a decision is tough. After watching this video, you will identify the challenges and opportunities in using data to inform your decision-making process.

There are many moving parts in a well-functioning data infrastructure. After watching this video, you will be able to identify all the different data sources your organization has access to and an overview of each individual data source.

There are two major types of data sources - internal and external. After watching this video, you will be able to identify the difference between these two types of data sources and how you can use each to drive your decision-making process.

Studying one data source can be valuable but combining data sources provides you with a more in-depth view of your organization. After you watch this video, you will be able to combine data sources.

Managing your data can be a tough challenge. After watching this video, you will be able to manage the biggest challenges when it comes to database management.

Analysis that spans multiple data sources can have a huge impact on your organization. Unfortunately, this kind of analysis is impossible if your data exist in separate silos. After watching this video, you will be able to identify the true benefit of breaking out of data silos.

Collecting data is the first step towards analysis. This creates a unique challenge - once the data is collected, now you have to manage that data. After watching this video, you will be able to find the right tools that can help you accomplish effective data management.

Your organization is generating so much data that it can be tough to handle. Data visualization is a great tactic that allows you to take huge sets of data and uncover insights. After watching this video, you will be able to execute the fundamentals of effective data visualization.

Creating ad hoc data visualizations is a great way to find insights in your data, but creating a reporting infrastructure takes this process to the next level. After watching this video, you will be able to create a reporting infrastructure outline for your data so that you can not only track your key sales metrics but also quickly drill down into your data when you spot trends.

If you are making sales, you are collecting data. After watching this video, you will be able to identify the value your sales data can bring to your organization.

Marketing data helps you understand where you are resonating in the marketing place. After watching this video, you will be able to identify the key metrics involved in marketing analytics and how they can help grow your organization.

Understanding your cost data will help your organization run more profitably. After watching this video, you will be able to identify various cost data sources.

Psychographic data helps you understand how people feel about your product or service. After watching this video, you will be able to execute the basics of how to track and analyze this type of data.

External data sources help you understand your market. There are various external forces acting on your organization. After watching this video, you will be able to manage external data sources and find the right data sources to grow your organization.

Studying the right sales metrics will help you make the right decision. After watching this video, you will be able to identify the most important metrics related to your sales data.

Collecting data is the first step in analyzing data. After watching this video, you will be able to find the right tools to effectively track your sales data.

There are a few key metrics that will help know if your marketing efforts are hitting the mark. After watching this video, you will be able to identify the key performance metrics related to marketing data.

Sometimes marketing can be hard to track. This video outlines the various tools that will ensure you are getting the most out of your marketing data. After watching this video, you will be able to find the right tools to execute tracking your marketing data.

It is very important to understand your organization's margin. This video will break down the key performance metrics that affect your organization's margin. After watching this video, you will be able to identify key cost metrics.

Studying cost data can help you find opportunities to lower your organization's cost. After watching this video, you will be able to find the right tools that can help you track cost data effectively.

It can be tough to know how people feel about your organization. This is where psychographic data comes into play. After watching this video, you will be able to build the metrics to track how consumers feel about your product or service.

Psychographic data is often tricky to collect. You need to find a way to get your customers talking about your product or service. After watching this video, you will be able to find the right tools to track psychographic data.

In this lesson, John shares additional resources on learning more about business analytics.

Patrick Lencioni, founder and president of The Table Group, writer and consultant to CEOs and their executive teams, professional sports organizations, the military, non-profits, universities, and churches; has conceptualized the Five Dysfunctions of a Team model. This model, which we will cover in detail during the course, lists five behavioural tendencies that will keep your team from performing at its best.

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni

Genuine teamwork in most organizations remains elusive because of five inherent dysfunctions of a team. In this video, you will learn about the importance of teamwork and how you can, by the end of this course, help your team overcome behavioural dysfunctions to achieve effective teamwork.

This video sets the context of the Dysfunctions of a Team model through the story of a realistic, but fictional organization. By relating with the characters and set-up in the story, you will learn how team dysfunctions mar a company’s performance in the practical world.

In this episode, Kathryn, the new CEO of Decision Tech, holds an offsite meeting to address team issues, and explains the importance of trust. By the end of this video, through observing the behaviour of the members of the group in the story, you will learn how to identify signs of mistrust in your team.

This episode reveals the actions exhibited by trusting teams. They are open about their mistakes, ask for help and provide feedback. In this video, you will learn about a few tools that can help overcome the absence of trust within your team.

In this episode, you will view a change of track when Kathryn tells the group that they now need to spend some time understanding what they are working towards: the team's goals. Individual results don't matter if they don't promote the team's goals. By the end of this video, you will learn the importance of formulating specific team goals, rather than individual or department-wide goals.

In this video, you will learn how to make your team focus on results by making the goals clear, and rewarding only those behaviours and actions that contribute to those results

In this episode, you'll be working on how to diagnose the dysfunctions prevalent in your team.

All strong and long-lasting relationships require productive conflict in order to grow. Unfortunately, most people go all out to avoid passionate debates that are essential to any great team. After watching this video, you will learn how conflict is productive, and will discover how to guide your team to let down their guards, to willingly engage in healthy conflict.

Healthy conflict can improve productivity by involving different perspectives to arrive at solutions. In this video, you will learn how to transform your boring, political meetings to lively, constructive, and solution-driven ones.

Great teams move forward on their decisions with complete buy-in from every member of their team. Conflict underlies the willingness to commit without perfect information. In this video, you will learn how to push your group for closure and adherence to set schedules.

The Third Dysfunction: Lack of Commitment

Accountability refers to the willingness of team members to call their peers out on performance or behaviours that may hurt the team. This video shows you how to identify signs of avoidance of accountability within your team and will provide ways to help overcome this dysfunction.

The Fourth Dysfunction: Lack of Accountability

In this episode, you will be introduced to a team exercise in order to demonstrate some of the points you have learned so far.

The on-site application is a different ball game. Difficult decisions are taken, and some heads are rolled. The team strives to overcome their dysfunctions to drive their company to achieve the top spot in the market. After watching this video, you will learn how team building efforts can help your organization accomplish goals.

Take your team through the experience of this diagnostic exercise, discuss the results, and identify any clear implications for the team.

As difficult as it is to build a team, it is not complicated. The five dysfunctions listed in this course can keep your team from performing its best. You, as a leader, need to facilitate having your team spend considerable time together to overcome these dysfunctions, and perform effectively and successfully.

In The Undercover Economist, author Tim Harford shows the level of intricacy in the simplest of things. In the process, he simplifies complex economic concepts.

A Book In 12 Minutes - The Undercover Economist By Tom Harford

A seasoned economist delves deep to perceive every situation in greater detail. If you have ever wondered what makes countries rich or poor, or if there are solutions to fundamental problems of air pollution and traffic jams, this is for you.

High prices indicate a cause and effect. Understand this principle with a multitude of examples. What drives up cost and who bears the brunt of it, also, do you have any role to play in it? Find answers to all this and more.

Retailers determine pricing by what consumers are willing to pay. To understand pricing, look beyond the effect to the cause—for example, land scarcity or convenience.

Tim Harford borrows from acclaimed economists to explain difficult theorems such as the Head Start theorem. In search of an equitable society, the author finds the answer is a little more ludicrous as the concept of a free market is put in perspective with a 100-meter dash.

According to Harford, fairness across society can be achieved by giving some people a headstart in the form of opportunities or support. The catch is not to take resources away from people but to level the playing the field with one-time taxes and targeted subsidies.

If you have ever been stuck in a traffic jam, felt the frustration of delay and wastage in the rising fumes from stalled revving vehicles, you can comprehend the free market as Tim Harford describes it. As you meander through the congestion, the solution will become apparent too.

Consumers often do not consider the effects of their consumption on broader society. "Externality charges," in which consumers pay for their specific actions, offer a potential solution.

How can a poor nation rise out of the mire of despondent poverty to thrive? To find the answer to that tricky question you need to dig a little deeper. Check if the needle of suspicion points at some despotic figure. There are some solutions to the predicament to consider.

Corruption is often at the root of poverty in poor countries. A potential solution is political will and accountability, along with minimizing bureaucracy and facilitating the free-flow of money and ideas.

One of the best ways to rise out of the quagmire of poverty is to open up the market if only poor nations could be on the same page as Tim Harford! The author has three compelling reasons why they need to speed up the process.

Globalization is imperative for poor nations to grow richer. This means avoiding protectionism, defining areas of expertise, and employing appropriate work force and environmental practices.

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Rajiv Bajaj shares insights on various leadership strategies that helped him make Bajaj Automobile a market leader in India in the motorcycle segment. He also stresses the importance of changing one's outlook to survive in a globalized world.

Rajiv explains the core and pillars of his business and how they help his business to succeed.

What It Takes To Build An FMCD business | Rajiv Bajaj

In an age when your product might not be much different from your competitor's, you can differentiate yourself with the right branding and marketing strategy.

Rajiv draws parallels between homeopathy and business and concludes with the secret sauce to achieve corporate wellness.

What You Can Learn From Homeopathy About Corporate Wellness | Rajiv Bajaj

CEOs, as a custodian of strategy, should ensure that the business is immune to the external factors that might negatively impact its functioning.

Rajiv, taking Bajaj Auto as an example, stresses the need to specialize in a highly globalized market space.

Globalization Needs Specialization | Rajiv Bajaj

It is advisable to specialize in a few areas to tap into the wider opportunity that our globalized world provides.

To be profitable, Bajaj is repeating the formula that it applied in the 60s, the 70s and the 80s but with a different focus.

Keep your effort focused rather than diversifying too much. Having a focused outlook has a positive impact on your profit margin.

Rajiv shares what he learnt on 'branding' after Bajaj's venture into the motorcycle portfolio.

How To Understand Your Brand | Rajiv Bajaj

It is not enough to have a good product. It is also important to understand if the product is compatible with the perception of the brand.

Rajiv shares how Prof. Yamaguchi, Bajaj's productivity consultant, made him realize his job clearly and why you must also get that clarity.

Understand Your Role Clearly | Rajiv Bajaj

The CEO mustn't worry about the day-to-day functioning but be more involved on the strategic front.

Co-written by Google Executive Chairman and ex-CEO Eric Schmidt and former SVP of Products Jonathan Rosenberg, How Google Works is an insiders' view on what makes the technology giant a leader in innovation and among the most desired places to work. We've distilled the book down to 9 valuable insights on corporate culture and strategy to help make your organization Google-smart.

How Google Works By Eric Schmidt And Jonathan Rosenberg

Only a few brands become verbs, and this book tells you how how Google did it.

The Google experience shows that hiring is the most important part of building a business. That is why they make it a collaborative process,

Hiring: The Manager's Most Important Task

A collaborative hiring process will help ensure that you hire the best people -- those with a visible willingness to learn.

See how Google co-founder Larry Page's frustrating search for H1-B visa on the Google search engine unwittingly led to the creation of AdSense.

Smart, creative people need the right work culture to excel. This includes clear priorities, exciting work, independence, and recognition for problem-solving.

You are as good as your competition, right? Not quite so. To be innovative, you have to think beyond what your rivals are doing. Instead, focus on customers.

Identify customer needs and focus on innovation rather than fixating on what the competition is doing.

If the brains of your unit feel stagnated, they will leave the organization. See how Google reinvented roles to re-engage with its talents.

Stagnation can cause your best employees to get restless and leave. Organizations should understand their needs, and find opportunities to retain them.

Understand the importance of the decision-making process from the example of Google’s decision to exit from the Chinese market.

Bring in people and data to evolve a decision-making process that is both inclusive and information-driven.

Meetings need not suck your time and energy. The internet giant's secret to effective meetings is to make them purpose-driven.

Meetings need not suck your time and energy. Google's secret to effective meetings is to make them purpose-driven.

Have you heard of Google's 70/20/10 rule? Understand the reasoning behind this strategy and see how you can use it too.

If you can get your colleagues excited enough about your new idea or project to invest their time into it, then your company is more likely to invest in it too.

Learn about Google's famous fails and how the learnings from these mistakes were reapplied elsewhere to make them "successful" failures.

Failure is inevitable. It is important to learn how to fail well by making it fast, kind, and a learning experience.

Teamwork can prove elusive for many organizations, while others seem to have it worked out with each member of the team working in perfect tandem with the other. In Leaders Eat Last Simon Sinek delves deep into neuroscience, exploring the science behind good and bad teamwork and leadership. If you are a leader or aspire to be one, watch this series to learn how to create team environments that foster trust and collaboration for the best outcomes.

Great teams are usually defined by their leaders. According to Simon Sinek, there is one defining attribute that the best and most successful leaders across industry possess. Find out what it is in this series.

One of the greatest assets for a leader is the empathy and care he or she have for their team. Learn what it takes to create a culture where teammates look out for each other through the story of an air force pilot in this episode.

Your job as a leader is to create a culture of shared risk and allegiance. Your first step is to demonstrate a supportive mindset yourself.

Leaders need to create work environments where employees feel safe. This video shows how to create a Circle of Safety where everyone rallies together and stands united against external threats.

For an organization to thrive, a leader must create a sense of safety. Give people the tools to work through challenges together.

Find out how leaders who understand the value of empathy and are willing to sacrifice their interests in favor of their teams come out as winners even in aggressively competitive worlds of business.

True leadership is not about exercising authority but about taking responsibility for your people. Your first priority as a leader is to care and protect others.

Leadership is about truly valuing people and going beyond looking at them as resources. This video shows that placing trust in your people, will drive them to their productive best.

Treat your people as you would want them to treat you—with trust and appreciation. Consider your people not as a resource but as your most important asset.

Four different neurochemicals are responsible for human behaviour and impact the work environment. This episode explains how leaders can trigger the right hormones in people to encourage employees to rally together working towards a common goal.

The relative safety of a situation will determine the chemicals our brains release. When people feel trust and support within an organization, they will naturally be more creative and productive.

All ideas are valuable, even if they seem worthless at the time. But to foster of culture where people feel secure to put forth their ideas requires work. Learn what it takes to foster a culture of innovation in this episode.

A collaborative environment will tend to yield innovative results. As a leader in your organization, encourage conversation, interaction and freedom to fail.

Good leaders encourage people to take ownership of their actions and make better decisions. Learn why there is more to leadership than just giving orders, in this video.

Leadership is about empowering people at all levels in an organization. Show respect for your people and encourage them to own their own actions.

Long-term organizations foster long-term leaders. Learn why Simon Sinek draws parallels between good leadership and exercise, in this video.

To empower your organization, maximize productivity and minimize turnover by creating a secure, people-first environment. But just as with exercise, it can take time to see the results.

Today, Millennials make up about half of our workforce. This episode offers actionable advice to help leaders engage with, inspire and learn from the younger members of their teams.

How Do You Solve A Problem That’s Millennial?

Engage with millennials face-to-face as a mentor and a colleague. Use storytelling to bond with millennials in a shared work experience.

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