Free online leadership training programs

9 Places To Learn Leadership Skills For Free Inc.com

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1. Master Class Management. Masterclassmanagement.com offers a free online management course that covers topics such as "How to be a Great Manager through Leadership," "How to Organize and Manage Your Department to Meet Goals," "How to Hire and Retain the Right People," "How to Deal With Conflict, Problems, Difficult Employees, and Firing," and "How to Get your Point Across Through the Art of Business Communications."
2. Building your Leadership Skills via Coursera. Offered via the HEC Paris, this online course focuses on building your leadership skills by first understanding your personal leadership style and interpersonal skill set.
3. Leadership and Management via open.edu. Open Learn has a series of Leadership and Management courses that are all available online and free. Learn about operations management at an introductory level, and study the theory of management perspective and practice.
4. Leadership Skills in Business via Alison.com. Geared to entrepreneurs, this course gets you up to speed quickly with topics such as "Leadership in Business," "Leadership in Entrepreneurial Venture," "Selecting Your Team," "Business Ethics," and "Business Assessment."
5. Supervising Difficult Behaviors via Latitude U. Do you have a challenging employee whom you have no idea how to handle? This 1.5-hour course is designed to provide insights into what can trigger difficult behavior, as well as common strategies for effectively managing them.
6. Level 5 Leadership. Based on the Ann Arbor SPARK Entrepreneurial Boot Camp Program, this one-hour course provides an overview of how to become a "Level 5 Leader" (a term originally coined by Jim Collins to describe someone who leads with personal humility and professional will to achieve superior results).
7. Organizational Leadership and Change. This course is a graduate-level university course offered by Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Yep, that's an MIT graduate-level course in leadership--for free.
8. MindTools.com. Less a course than a series of references, the Mindtools.com site lists 57 different skills and techniques to improve your leadership abilities.
9. Building and Leading Effective Teams. Another offering from MIT's Sloan School of Management, this one-week course is an academic boot camp to effective leadership.

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