The Foundations of Effective Leadership

Learn the fundamentals of strategic leadership and people management and improve your leadership style.

What you'll learn

Motivate Your Team

Keep your team members  happy and incentivised to do  their best work.
Make Desicions

Practice useful strategies for improving both individual and group decision making processes.
Lead Change

Pick up skills for successfully leading initiatives to implement organizational change.

Become a better leader today

The Foundations of Effective Leadership will teach you everything you need to know to become the most successful leader for your business. This course covers the vital skills and tactics for strategic, yet human-centric, people management.

Course curriculum

1. [Download] The Managing Team Motivation PDF Workbook
2. Lecture 1: Introduction to Principles of Motivation
3. Lecture 2: Motivating an Individual
4. Lecture 3: Motivation a Group
5. Lecture 4: Team Structure
6. Case Study #1
7. Case Study #2
8. Module 1 Quiz
9. Module 1 Summary
1. Do it.
1. It's getting serious
1. This is going to be tough.
1. Let's go

About this course

Free
13 lessons
0 hours of video content

Learn from the best in the business

Read more about Effective Leadership’s expert instructor:

Founder, ManageToday Riccardo Ortega

Riccardo is the former CEO of SkyTent, a cloud computing company featured in BusinessBook’s 20 companies to watch. Riccardo’s passion has always been helping people in management roles refine their people leading skills. He started teaching leadership seminars out of the SkyTent office before deciding to pursue business training full time. Since then, his leadership program ManageToday has helped over 70,000 business professionals worldwide. Riccardo has been the keynote speaker at The North American Business Conference (NABC), as well as featured in BusinessToday, TheSmallBizOwner and The School of Thought Leadership Online. He’s so excited to package his thought leadership and speaking sessions into a complete online course to help as many people succeed as possible!

What people are saying

Excellent Course!

Joanna Smith

This course has given me so much more confidence as a first-time manager. I’ve already been applying what I’ve learned, with great results! I would say that ...

This course has given me so much more confidence as a first-time manager. I’ve already been applying what I’ve learned, with great results! I would say that The Foundations of Effective Leadership is essential training for new people leaders.

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Well Worth Your Time

Tate Donovan

I’ve taken a few different courses on leadership and The Foundations of Effective Leadership is the best by far. The topics are well structured and clearly e...

I’ve taken a few different courses on leadership and The Foundations of Effective Leadership is the best by far. The topics are well structured and clearly explained, with plenty of case studies so you can see how the teachings can be applied in real-life situations.

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Course bonuses

Along with our Foundations course, enjoy full access to:

Official eBook

Download the official course ebook to support you as you work through the lessons.
Lifetime Access

You’ll be able to come back and review the content at any point.
Personal Training

1 hour of complementary coaching time with one of the UBL’s expert instructors.

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