Short leadership classes that fit the week you already have
Twenty self-paced classes in leadership, management, communication and productivity, most of them under an hour, each ending in a check you have to pass and a certificate you can add to LinkedIn.
$59.99 a month after that. Cancel any time.
KingFisher Academy is the online classroom of Kingfisher Services, a veteran-owned consultancy with decades of corporate, government and defense work. Each class takes one problem a supervisor actually has, a decision nobody owns, feedback that changes nothing, a team running on empty, and gives you a handful of practices that fit the meetings you already hold.
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Every class is self-paced, narrated, and ends in a check. Take one on its own, or put several into a track of your own.
Creating a Coaching and Performance Culture
Performance improves when supervisors manage it all year instead of once a year.
Trusting Your Team
Supervisors and program leaders often hold decisions that experienced people could make, and capable people can leave for the growth those decisions would give them.
Giving and Receiving Feedback
Feedback often changes nothing: the person nods, and a week later the same problem is back.
Reducing Stress
Pressure builds in every job, and without release it hardens into stress that never switches off.
Positive Message Framing
Leaders who frame a message well help people get past obstacles, work across the team, and act on a change.
Delegating Authority and Empowering Employees
When every task runs through the supervisor, work waits, people stop growing, and no one is ready to step in when a key person leaves.
Managing Expectations
Missed deadlines, rework, and disappointed clients often start with an expectation that no one stated, checked, or updated.
Be a Leader Others Want to Follow
A title puts people under you, but it does not make them follow you.
Taught in real rooms first
Before they were online classes, these were sessions KingFisher ran in person for teams in government and the private sector. The online versions keep the same practices, cut to the length of a lunch hour, with narration you listen through and a final check you have to pass, so the certificate means you did the work.
“We exist to serve the mission, whether that mission is corporate, government, or community. When our clients succeed, we're better together.”Kingfisher Services
Every class moves you up the branch
Finishing a class banks credit hours in its category, and each category has its own ten ranks, from Raw Recruit on day one to Strategic Commander at 30 hours. Your certificates and your dashboard always agree with the course.
- 0 hrRaw Recruit
- 2 hrBuzzword Brevet
- 4 hrField-Tested Specialist
- 6 hrTactical Chief
- 9 hrCapstone Crusher
- 12 hrResident Expert
- 16 hrChief Strategist
- 20 hrVanguard Mentor
- 25 hrForce Multiplier
- 30 hrStrategic Commander
Try it with the Leadership classes. Tap a few to see where they would put you.
Your first month is on us
For the first 100 members. After that it is $59.99 a month, and if you cancel before the month ends you pay nothing.