“Leadership is not about being in charge. Leadership is about taking care of those in your charge.” ~ Simon Sinek. This deceptively simple quote offers some ideas about the importance of letting go of our ego and lifting up those around us, but how, exactly, can we act on it? The Dragon Leadership Certificate: The Heart of a Leader offers ideas, guidance and advice from thought leaders on leading with heart – taking care of those in your charge. This certificate program includes the courses listed below, and others. It will take approximately four hours to complete.

• A Guide to Empathy at Work 
• Ethical Leadership 
• Micro-Module: Building a Positive Team Culture 
• Micro-Module: Fostering Psychological Safety in the Workplace 
• Micro-Module: Be Selectively Vulnerable 

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While the mind of a leader is how the leader thinks, the soul of a leader is who the leader is, and the heart of a leader is how they connect with and care for others, the hands of a leader is about the actions a leader takes. This certificate program offers ideas on taking action in a variety of circumstances, like setting goals, delegating, holding effective performance conversations, or developing your team. The courses listed below, and others, are included in the certificate. It will take approximately 4.5 hours to complete. 

• Micro-Module: “Do” Goals Over “Don’t” Goals
• The Art of Management: Performance Management 
• The Secrets of Skilled Delegation 
• Develop a Thriving Team 
• Micro-Module: Amplifying Employee Voice 

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How do effective leaders think? What kinds of things do they pay attention to? How do they go about solving problems? The answers to these questions can help guide a leader toward checking their assumptions, making better decisions, and generating more creative solutions. The Dragon Leadership Certificate: The Mind of a Leader includes the courses listed below, and others. It will take approximately 4.5 hours to complete. 

• Critical Thinking and Information Literacy 
• Video Series: Adam Grant on the Surprising Habits of Original Thinkers
• Micro-Module: How to Overcome Your Unconscious Bias
• Annie Murphy Paul on Thinking Outside the Brain Part 1
• Annie Murphy Paul on Thinking Outside the Brain Part 2

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A leader’s journey can sometimes feel like being in The Wizard of Oz – with whirlwinds, challenging goals, unexpected setbacks, complicated relationships, the need to build a robust team, and sometimes, beauty, validation and magic. This certificate will offer possibilities for handling all of these, including the courses listed below and many more. The Dragon Leadership Certificate: Wizard of Oz will take approximately 3.5 hours to complete.

• Micro-Module: Leading With Vision
• Motivating Your Team  
• How Great Leaders Solve Problems 
• Dr. Brene Brown on Empathy – A Video Short
• Micro-Module: Challenging Assumptions 

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Leaders often focus their energy on learning the skills they need to be effective – on what they do. As they are learning what to do, they often discover they have more to learn about how to be – how they show up and the behaviors they model – to be the leader they want to be. This Dragon Leadership Certificate: The Next Big Idea Club offers perspectives from thought leaders on how to be, because we are human beings, not human doings. The courses below, and many more, are included in the certificate. This certificate will take approximately five hours to complete.

• Alex Hutchinson on Endurance 
• Ayelet Fishbach on Getting it Done 
• Bo Seo on What Debate Teaches Us About Listening to Each Other 
• Zachary Wood on Having Uncomfortable Conversations About Sensitive Issues 
• Steven Johnson on Farsighted Decisions 

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Each person has their own idea what leadership success looks like, and once you’ve formulated your idea of success, it’s important to create a plan of action for moving toward that goal. The Dragon Leadership Certificate: Leading Successfully - Next Big Idea Club program offers several different approaches to success and guidance on how to use them. The courses listed below, and others, are included in the program. This certificate program will take approximately five hours to complete.

• Bradley Staats on How to Stay Relevant, Reinvent Yourself, and Thrive - Part 1 - Next Big Idea Club
• Henry Timms and Jeremy Heimans on Redefining Power in a Hyper-Connected World - Next Big Idea Club
• Steven Johnson on Farsighted Decisions - Next Big Idea Club
• Amanda Ripley on Why We Get Trapped in Conflict and How We Get Out - Part 1 - Next Big Idea Club
• Fostering Fearless and Resilient Teams—Featuring Bestselling Author Mollie West Duffy - Next Big Idea Club

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Some leaders are naturally skilled at engaging in productive conflict – conversations in which participants disagree but which are respectful and lead to positive outcomes. Those leaders who fear or avoid conflict because they’re concerned about hurt feelings, damaged relationships, or poor outcomes can learn how to approach conflict with a more positive, productive, healthy perspective. This certificate program offers guidance on how to do just that. It includes the courses listed below, and many more. Dragon Leadership Certificate: The Conflict Confident Leader will take approximately 5.5 hours to complete.

• A Manager’s Guide to Resolving Team Conflict 
• Zachary Wood on Having Uncomfortable Conversations About Sensitive Issues
• Micro-Module: Four Steps to Overcome Your Fear of Confrontation and Conflict 
• Micro-Module: How to Apologize at Work  
• Dealing With Difficult Emotions 

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As we make our way through our daily lives, obstacles arise and challenges threaten to derail our progress. It’s essential for leaders to navigate these challenges effectively and get back on track – to be resilient. Dragon Leadership Certificate: The Resilient Leader offers tools and advice from experts on increasing resilience. This certificate program includes the courses listed below, and more. It will take approximately three hours to complete.

• Emotional and Physical Resilience 
• Fostering Fearless and Resilient Teams Featuring Bestselling Author Mollie West Duffy
• Thriving Through Challenges
• Alex Hutchinson: Believe You Can 
• Leadership & Resilience

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Creativity is commonly viewed as an essential leadership quality. Not everyone is innately creative, but by investing energy in building your creativity, you can enhance your ability to lead effectively. Dragon Leadership Certificate: The Creative Leader offers the courses listed below, and more, to help you learn to lead more creatively. This certificate program will take approximately two hours to complete.

• The 7 Keys to Creative Collaboration
• Video Series: Adam Grant on the Surprising Habits of Original Thinkers
• Creative Problem-Solving Fundamentals
• Micro-Module: Six Ways to Brainstorm Ideas
• Micro-Module: Where Good Ideas Come From – Steven Johnson – Next Big Idea Club

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Most people would agree that being ethical is an essential leadership quality. It seems simple – make decisions and act on them based on what is right and what is wrong. However, we don’t always explore the nuances of acting ethically; for example, acting in alignment with values – your own and those of the organization. The Dragon Leadership Certificate: The Ethical Leader provides a deeper look at ethical leadership and includes the courses listed below. It will take approximately 2.5 hours to complete.

• Employee Ethics 
• Business Ethics and Workplace Integrity
• Ethical Leadership
• Doing the Right Thing: A Guide to Good Business Ethics 
• How to Be an Ethical Leader

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Inclusion is essential to the health, well-being and success of individuals, teams and organizations. It’s easy to say that leaders should practice inclusive leadership, but what does that look and feel like? What actions and ways of being are the hallmarks of inclusive leaders? The Dragon Leadership Certificate: The Inclusive Leader offers the courses listed below, and many more, to help answer those questions and build skills and knowledge around this critical topic. It should take approximately 5.5 hours to complete.

• Our Words Matter: Using Inclusive Language
• Zachary Wood on Having Uncomfortable Conversations About Sensitive Subjects – Next Big Idea Club
• Micro-Module: Understanding and Amplifying Employee Voice Diversity Basics: Taking Action
• A Guide to Cultural Competence
• Micro-Module: Building a Respectful Workplace

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“Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate to and connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives.” - Oprah Winfrey

Empathy is more than a “soft skill” - it’s an essential skill for a leader. The Dragon Leadership Certificate: The Empathetic Leader offers the courses listed below, and more, to help you build your capacity in this critical, but often overlooked, dimension of leadership. It will take approximately two hours to complete.

• Dr. Brene Brown on Empathy – A Video Short
• Micro-Module: Empathy: The Skill You Need
• Micro-Module: Building Empathy
• Micro-Module: Empathy Roadblocks
• Micro-Module: EQ Developing Empathy

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Managers are responsible for managing the individuals on their teams, and for managing the team overall. These roles of a leader require different sets of skills and ways of showing up. The Dragon Leadership Certificate: The Team Focused Leader program offers ideas and approaches for focusing on leading the team, including the courses listed below, and many more. It will take approximately three hours to complete.

• 5 Leadership Styles to Influence a Team
• A Guide to Managing Remote Teams
• Create an Enviable Team Culture
• Daniel Coyle on the Secrets of Highly Successful Groups – NBIC
• Develop a Thriving Team

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If you have ever attended a meeting and thought “What is the purpose of this meeting?”, “What am I supposed to do as a result of that meeting?”, or “That meeting could have been an email”, you’re not alone. While purposeful, well-run meetings in which everyone is prepared are ideal, they are not necessarily the norm. The Dragon Leadership Certificate: Making Meetings Matter program offers practical, actionable ideas for more effective meetings. It includes the courses listed below, and many more. This certificate program will take approximately four hours to complete.

• The 5 Steps for Running Effective Meetings
• Meeting Do’s & Don’ts
• Should We Cut Back on Meetings?
• Building Consensus in Meetings
• Speaking Up in Meetings

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If you ask people for a list of leadership qualities, most will include “good communicator” in their lists. The problem is that communication includes so many dimensions. What should a leader focus on to become a good communicator? The Dragon Leadership Certificate: The Communicative Leader program offers the courses listed below, and more, on communicating using many modes, listening to understand, using inclusive language, and engaging in conversations even when it’s hard to do so. It will take approximately 4.5 hours to complete.

• Kate Murphy on the Science of Effective Listening
• Our Words Matter: Using Inclusive Language
• How to Have a Difficult Conversation
• Master the Art of Verbal Communication
• Write Like a Pro

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