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Building Relationships as a Leader

Create and nurture relationships as a leader
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Course: On-Demand
Advanced Provider Christal Blalock  6 Lessons ·  12m  in Arabic, German, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese 

Course Description

As a leader, you likely want to have a great relationship with your followers. Developing relationships within your team may be difficult without developing skills like intentional communication, strong collaboration, and healthy competition. With a little practice, you can acquire the skills needed to create productive relationships. By learning how to effectively build relationships among your team members, you can cultivate a culture of leadership development and create a team of strong leaders.

In this Building Relationships as a Leader course, you will learn how communication can help you build and maintain productive relationships. You’ll also discover the importance of ethical and moral leadership, and how change affects a leader’s vision when communicating with followers. This course will also discuss best practices that can impact a leader’s ability to identify and train future leaders. We’ll also show you how to create a team of leaders by identifying personality traits ideal for leadership roles.

What You'll Learn

  • Communicate with intention to build and maintain productive relationships with your followers
  • Identify the roles of collaboration and competition within your team
  • Recognize what makes relationships productive among team members
  • Apply best practices for training and developing future leaders
  • Identify personality traits ideal for leadership roles to create a team of leaders
  • Explain how ethical and moral leadership and change affect a leader's vision when communicating with followers

Key Takeaways

  • Developing relationships within a team requires skills such as intentional communication, strong collaboration, and healthy competition.
  • Communication helps a leader build and maintain productive relationships with followers.
  • Ethical and moral leadership matters, and change affects a leader's vision when communicating with followers.
  • Leaders can build a team of leaders by identifying personality traits ideal for leadership roles and training future leaders.
  • With practice, the skills needed to create productive relationships can be acquired.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who is this course for?

It is for leaders who want to have a great relationship with their followers and build productive relationships within their team.

What does the Building Relationships as a Leader course cover?

It covers how communication helps build and maintain productive relationships, the importance of ethical and moral leadership, how change affects a leader's vision when communicating with followers, and best practices for identifying and training future leaders.

What skills will I gain from this course?

You will learn to communicate with intention, identify collaboration and competition, recognize productive relationships, and explain how to train leaders.

How is the course structured?

The course includes the following lessons: Introduction; Communicating with Intention; Building and Maintaining Productive Relationships; Creating a Team of Leaders; Training Others to Train Leaders; and Test Your Knowledge.

How can I build a team of leaders?

The course shows how to create a team of leaders by identifying personality traits ideal for leadership roles and by training others to train future leaders.

Professional Certifications and Continuing Education Units (CEUs)

Project Management Institute (PMI®)

Professional Development Units (PDUs): 0.25

Certification Program Categories:
Ways of WorkingPower SkillsBusiness Acumen

KnowledgeCity has been reviewed and approved by the PMI® Authorized Training Partner Program. Users can maintain your PMI credentials by earning PDUs from KnowledgeCity qualified courses in Project Management, Business Management, Leadership and many others.

Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM®)

Professional Development Credits (PDCs): 0.25

Certification Program Categories:
Leadership & NavigationBusiness AcumenConsultationGlobal MindsetEthical PracticeRelationship ManagementAnalytical AptitudeCommunicationDiversity, Equity & Inclusion

KnowledgeCity is approved by SHRM as a Recertification General Provider to offer SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP professional development credits (PDCs). By taking the courses approved by SHRM, KnowledgeCity can award SHRM Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for HR knowledge and competency programs related to the SHRM Body of Applied Skills and Knowledge™ (the SHRM BASK™).