Be a Better Leader

Leveraging Team Strengths for Innovation and Success

Leadership Strategies to Thrive Through Change | Discover how to leverage the strengths of your team members and the trust you’ve built with them to drive innovation and success during change. Stephen M. R. Covey shares insights and strategies to harness the power and diversity of skillsets within your team.
7 Ways to Build Trust Between You and Your Team—A Toolkit for Leaders at All Levels: Use our toolkit to build trust necessary to propel your organization forward.

Practical Tactics for Managing Emotional Reactions and Conflicts

Leadership Strategies to Thrive Through Change | Explore practical tactics for managing emotional reactions and conflicts that arise during change. FranklinCovey’s Barbara Cogburn offers strategies to help you navigate challenging situations and maintain a positive team dynamic.
Do you know how you communicate? Take our Difficult Conversation Assessment to gain insight into which of three conversation styles you use and learn how to navigate conversations with effectiveness and authenticity.

Empowering Team Members for Success During Times of Change

Leadership Strategies to Thrive Through Change | Learn how to empower and motivate your team members to contribute their best during times of change. Marché Pleshette returns to provide practical tactics to ensure your team feels driven and inspired.
The Energy of Change—5 Leadership Behaviors to Drive Collective Action in a Fluid Landscape: Help your leaders prepare their teams to move through change and transform your organization’s approach to change by downloading and sharing this guide.

Leading Teams Through Change With Trust and Collaboration

Leadership Strategies to Thrive Through Change | Discover how to maintain high levels of trust and collaboration while leading your team through change. FranklinCovey’s AJ Lee welcomes Stephen M. R. Covey, who shares leadership strategies to navigate challenges and foster a collaborative environment.
How to Build Trust and Unleash the Potential of Your Direct Reports: Everyone has greatness inside of them. Are your leaders doing enough to unlock it? An exceptional leader's job is to unleash the potential in each of their direct reports.

Creating a Culture of Open Communication and Transparency

Leadership Strategies to Thrive Through Change | Join us in our newest episode of Be a Better Leader as we explore the importance of fostering open communication and transparency within your team. In this conversation, Barbara Cogburn reveals practical tactics to create a culture where communication flourishes, even in times of change.
Do you know how you communicate? Take our Difficult Conversation Assessment to gain insight into which of three conversation styles you use and learn how to navigate conversations with effectiveness and authenticity.

Communicating Change Initiatives Effectively

Leadership Strategies to Thrive Through Change | Join FranklinCovey Senior Consultant Marché Pleshette and Managing Director Jeffery Downs to learn how effective communication can drive success during change. Marché shares valuable insights and strategies to ensure your communication resonates with your team, fostering understanding, buy-in, and commitment.
How to Communicate Change: A Tool for Leaders—Download our tool to help your leaders learn how to articulate change clearly and share a vision of the future when they communicate a change to their team.

Communicating in Times of Change

Gain the insights and strategies you need to communicate during one of the most high-leverage situations leaders face: Change. Marché Pleshette, a FranklinCovey sr. consultant and co-author of Change: How to Turn Uncertainty Into Opportunity, and AJ Lee, manager of customer success, discuss best practices and preparation for how to communicate an upcoming change and how managers can navigate resistance.
How to Communicate Change: A Tool for Leaders—All change creates disruption, but leaders can minimize this through effective communication. How leaders communicate a change to their team is critical to helping them understand and adapt.

Establishing High-Trust Communication

Establishing trust is vital for effective communication, especially between managers and the people they lead. David Kasperson, co-author of Trust & Inspire: How Truly Great Leaders Unleash Greatness in Others, joins Jeffery Downs to give practical advice on how to start communicating from a place of mutual trust.
6 Key Communication Practices to Build Trust and Inspire Your Team: Your job as a leader is to connect your team to a greater sense of purpose and meaning at work. To do this, communication is key. Leaders must communicate in ways that build trust and inspire their teams to greatness.
 

Making the Most of 1-on-1s

Every manager knows that they need to communicate effectively. They know good communication is necessary to help people get—and stay—engaged. Todd Davis, bestselling author, and former FranklinCovey chief people officer joins AJ Lee, manager of customer success, to talk about why 1-on-1s are such an effective opportunity to communicate with your team. 
Listen Like a Leader: 9 Tips to Drive Powerful Conversations—Read our guide to learn how to listen and then pick one or two skills you can start building this week.

Holding Difficult Conversations

Effective Communication for Leaders | Join FranklinCovey Sr. Consultant, Barbara Cogburn, and Managing Director, Jeffery Downs as they talk about the hard conversations that all leaders must hold. Learn practical approaches to initiate those conversations and how to deal with the emotions that come from them.
Do you know how you communicate? Take our Difficult Conversation Assessment to gain insight into which of three conversation styles you use and learn how to navigate conversations with effectiveness and authenticity.