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Twenty classes, one problem each

Leadership, management, communication and productivity, built from mission-tested experience and private-sector practice. A membership opens all of them; tokens open one at a time.

20 classes
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Leadership

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.

What you'll practice

Five practices help you extend trust and earn it: diagnose why a decision has not moved; set boundaries and write the lane; delegate the decision, not the task; supervise to support, not to surveil; and be heard upward and repair trust fast. Each practice fits the handoffs, supervision meetings, and requests you already handle. Finish by answering every question correctly.

~40 min1 section100 tokens
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Management

Managing Expectations

Missed deadlines, rework, and disappointed clients often start with an expectation that no one stated, checked, or updated.

What you'll practice

Five practices help you set and keep commitments with clients, managers, and peers: make no assumptions; anticipate client needs; under-promise, over-deliver; communicate, communicate, communicate; and pushing back is OK. You will agree on what is due and when, tell people what is coming before they ask, and push back with a plan when a request is not realistic. Finish by answering every question correctly.

~40 min1 section100 tokens
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Management

Creating a Coaching and Performance Culture

Performance improves when supervisors manage it all year instead of once a year.

What you'll practice

You will learn to run planning, acting, tracking, and reviewing as one continuous cycle, link each goal to a measure your organization tracks, and write evaluations that cite specific examples. You will also coach with questions, listening, and feedback, decide whether a performance gap comes from ability, motivation, or the workplace, and follow four steps to correct it. Each practice fits the meetings, evaluations, and conversations you already hold. Finish by answering every question correctly.

~2 hr 5 min7 sections200 tokens
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Communication

Positive Message Framing

Leaders who frame a message well help people get past obstacles, work across the team, and act on a change.

What you'll practice

Three framing considerations and seven persuasion techniques show you how: circumvent obstacles; correct organizational disconnects; change the style, change the frame; use precise numbers; choose colors deliberately; lead others to self-discovery; repeat, repeat, repeat; appeal to the risk of loss; direct attention with images; and implement Monroe's motivated sequence. Each one fits the updates and proposals you already deliver. Finish by answering every question correctly.

~45 min1 section100 tokens
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Leadership

Adapting Your Leadership Style

Managers, team leads, and anyone who gets work done through other people can lose capable people by giving everyone the same direction in the same way.

What you'll practice

Four leadership styles help you lead each person as they are: directing, coaching, supporting, and delegating. You diagnose which style each person needs for the task in front of them, and you hold one standard for the work while your style changes. Each style fits the handoffs, check-ins, and one-on-one conversations you already hold. Finish by answering every question correctly.

~35 min1 section100 tokens
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Productivity

Confronting Stressful Situations

Stress at work builds when the same situations keep costing you time, attention, and patience.

What you'll practice

Four techniques give you a choice in how you respond: avoid the situation, adapt to the situation, alter the situation, or accept the situation. Keep a record of what raises your stress, say no to optional requests that would overload you, set the standard each task needs, ask others respectfully for a specific change, and treat a mistake as a lesson. Finish by answering every question correctly.

~40 min1 section100 tokens
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Communication

Building Effective Relationships

When people stop trusting their supervisor, morale drops, problems go unreported, and good employees leave.

What you'll practice

Eleven practices build effective working relationships with your team: figure out if you're the problem, learn why morale is low, win trust, give people control, listen, communicate well, celebrate achievements, let your team do things in new ways, advocate for your staff, tell stories, and listen to your team's internal customers. Finish by answering every question correctly.

~40 min1 section100 tokens
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Management

Characteristics and Benefits of Critical Thinking

Decisions at work often rest on a confident claim, an untested assumption, or a method no one has questioned.

What you'll practice

This course defines critical thinking, shows why to challenge what seems given, and teaches eight critical thinking skills: analysis, interpretation, inference, evaluation, explanation, self-regulation, open-mindedness, and problem solving. It then shows what those skills give a team: new ideas, teamwork, more options, and spinoffs. Finish by answering every question correctly.

~40 min1 section100 tokens
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Leadership

Giving and Receiving Feedback

Feedback often changes nothing: the person nods, and a week later the same problem is back.

What you'll practice

Four areas of practice change that: providing positive and opportunistic feedback, listening objectively, using feedback and reinforcement in coaching, and reducing personal bias in the feedback you give and receive. None needs a new tool or a budget. Finish by answering all eight questions in the final check correctly.

~1 hr6 sections200 tokens
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Leadership

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.

What you'll practice

Four areas of practice prevent that: hand over tasks with a clear level of authority, build bench strength for the roles your team cannot lose, use preferred methods to develop your team, and coach each person toward specific goals. Finish by answering all eight questions in the final check correctly.

~1 hr 15 min6 sectionsIntermediate200 tokens
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Leadership

Maintaining Morale During Challenging Times

When a team goes through a hard stretch, such as a budget cut, a lost contract, or a reorganization, people lose confidence and work slows.

What you'll practice

Seven practices help you keep morale steady: enable team members to think and act as small business owners; communicate, communicate, communicate; share success stories; celebrate wins; foster self-efficacy; strengthen relationships; and remove unnecessary sources of stress. Finish by answering all five questions correctly.

~40 min1 section100 tokens
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Communication

Communicating in a Diverse Environment

Make the purpose, wording, questions, and shared terms of a work message clear enough for people with different experiences and language preferences to respond accurately.

What you'll practice

Practice checking meaning without making assumptions about any person or group.

~35 min1 section100 tokens
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Leadership

Generational Differences in the Workplace

Discuss how each person wants to work this assignment.

What you'll practice

Ask about the stated preference, the skill already on the visit, and the job requirement before you choose a briefing, a schedule, a training option, or a work arrangement.

~35 min1 section100 tokens
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Leadership

Strategic Leadership

Set the priority for your team's work, assign an owner within a boundary, choose the measure and review date, then adjust support when the result shows what changed.

~50 min5 sections200 tokens
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Leadership

Creating High-Performing Teams in a Hybrid Workplace

A supervisor course on hybrid teams: design work so teleworkers can shape decisions, put the hybrid model on standing practices, measure results rather than desk time, and keep both locations in one conversation.

What you'll practice

Finish by answering all five questions correctly.

~40 min1 sectionIntermediate100 tokens
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Productivity

Reducing Stress

Pressure builds in every job, and without release it hardens into stress that never switches off.

What you'll practice

This course lays out eight practical habits for reducing stress: set clear boundaries, rank urgency and importance, eat well, check your ego, meditate, exercise, focus on control, and protect sleep. It includes four videos, four decision scenarios, and an eight-question final check you must pass.

~1 hr 10 min6 sections200 tokens
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Leadership

Benefits of Informal Leadership

As an informal leader, you use trusted working relationships to send a work question to the person who can answer it and help technicians clear a line fault.

What you'll practice

You ask respected coworkers to shape a pending change. You give an employee's idea an owner and a next action. The result is faster answers, repairs made close to the work, stronger support before an announcement, and ideas that move forward.

~30 min1 section100 tokens
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Leadership

Be a Leader Others Want to Follow

A title puts people under you, but it does not make them follow you.

What you'll practice

This course works through ten traits that decide whether people follow a leader by choice, taken from the KingFisher leadership program: owning your decisions, setting a direction, being predictable, and treating people well. Two decision scenarios, two short videos, and a five-question final check that you must pass.

~35 min1 section100 tokens
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Leadership

Building a Learning Team

Every team faces setbacks and hard problems, but the best teams turn them into learning.

What you'll practice

This course lays out four practical pillars for building a learning team: reward continuous learning, give meaningful and constructive feedback, lead by example, and recruit curious people. It includes a short video, a realistic team scenario, and a five-question check you must pass to complete the course.

~35 min1 sectionIntermediate100 tokens
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Productivity

Personal Productivity

A practical, self-paced course on managing your time, energy, and resources to do your best work, without burning out.

What you'll practice

Master your motivation, set priorities that stick, protect your deliverables, apply proven time-management techniques, work resourcefully through others, and keep growing.

~1 hr8 sections200 tokens

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