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Leadership for Modern Managers: Core Models and Methods

Build a flexible leadership toolkit with proven methods, to tackle real-world challenges, inspire teams & drive results

Created byMike Claytonworkspace_premiumBest Instructor
BeginnerUpdated Jan 12, 2026

What You'll Learn

  • check_circleIdentify core traits, styles, and roles of leaders.
  • check_circleApply situational leadership to varying contexts.
  • check_circleContrast transactional and transformational methods.
  • check_circleImplement coaching models to develop team talent.
  • check_circleBuild trust via authentic and servant leadership.
  • check_circleMaster key frameworks like Path-Goal and Cynefin.

About This Course

In the complex landscape of the modern workplace, effective leadership needs more than charisma. It demands a robust toolkit of proven skills, behaviors, and strategies. This course takes a deep dive into the most influential theories and practical frameworks. They will help you transition from a competent manager to an extraordinary leader.
 
We start by exploring the fundamental evolution of leadership thinking. It breaks leadership down into the 'Big Three' approaches:
  1. Traits (who leaders are)
  2. Styles (how leaders interact)
  3. Roles (what leaders do)
You will recognise that we learn and hone critical leadership capabilities through practice. The course navigates through essential behaviors, roles, and styles, to inspire and motivate.
 
We move beyond static models to explore Situational Leadership and Contingency Theory. You will learn how to adapt your approach based on the context, the readiness of your team, and the nature of the task at hand.
 
By the end of this course, you will have developed versatile leadership skills. You'll get the following learning outcomes:
  • Understand a broad range of leadership frameworks.
  • Apply Action-Centered Leadership to balance the needs of the task, the team, and the individual.
  • Master Situational Leadership models, that flex with circumstances.
  • Distinguish between Transactional and Transformational leadership. Move from getting things done to motivating and inspiring change.
  • Utilize the Blake and Mouton Managerial Grid to optimize your concern for people alongside your concern for results.
  • Become a Servant Leadership and an Authentic Leader, to lead with trust, integrity, and psychological safety.
  • Use coaching and mentoring, to develop talent and empower those around you.
  • Navigate Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) theory to avoid bias and creating toxic 'out-groups'.
  • Benefit from the insights and expertise of key thinkers and researchers, like Bennis, Bass, Adair, Ainek, and Kouzes & Posner.
 
Whether you are an aspiring supervisor looking to build your foundation or an experienced executive seeking to refine your methods, this course offers the clarity and depth needed to enhance your personal impact.
 
Join us to master the core models and methods that will empower you to lead with confidence, purpose, and agility.

Course Content

6 activities • 29 videos • duration: 3h 51m

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Introduction to Leadership6 videos • 37 min
  • videocamWhat is Leadership? and Why do We Need Leaders?
    Duration 5:54
  • videocamThe Leadership Skill Set: What Every Leader Needs to be Able to Do
    Duration 5:32
  • videocamLeadership Attitudes: How to Approach Things Like a Leader
    Duration 6:36
  • videocam10-Step Leadership Process: A Simple Model for How to Lead
    Duration 5:03
  • videocamWhat is Leader-Member Exchange Theory? And Should You Use LMX Theory?
    Duration 9:12
  • videocamLeadership Traits, Roles, and Styles: Three Types of Leadership Model
    Duration 4:58
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Models of Leadership11 videos • 1.4 hours
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Situational Leadership Models6 videos • 49 min
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Leadership Development3 videos • 34 min
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Masters of Leadership3 videos • 23 min
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Final Assessment1 quiz

Your Instructor

Mike Clayton

Business Trainer, Author and Speaker

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Dr Mike Clayton is a business trainer, author and speaker. Since 2002, he has been helping professionals, managers and leaders to excel in their roles with management, leadership, and personal effectiveness training. Mike has written over a dozen books for major publishers like Wiley, Macmillan and Pearson, including: Powerhouse, How to Manage a Great Project, How to Speak so People Listen, Brilliant Time Management, and The Influence Agenda. Mike's professional background is 12 years as a project management professional with the London office of international management consultancy Deloitte. Prior to that, Mike had an academic career in Physics, working at the world renowned Schuster Laboratory of the University of Manchester.

Credit Information

Is this course eligible for my CPD requirements as a Canadian CPA?

Provincial regulators of CPAs in Canada do not require that independent providers of CPD be approved to offer courses. Instead, individual CPAs are responsible for assessing whether a CPD activity meets their requirements, and may take activities from any source provided those requirements are met.

Every course offered on LearnFormula is delivered by a qualified subject matter expert or learning organization, and advances learning objectives that are relevant to the responsibilities or professional competencies of Canadian CPAs. All activities on LearnFormula are quantifiable in terms of hours, and are also verifiable, in that users receive documented evidence of their attendance via a certificate of completion after finishing a course (and this certificate is stored by LearnFormula indefinitely). Nearly 100,000 Canadian CPAs successfully satisfy their CPD requirements via LearnFormula on an annual basis.

What Students Are Saying

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    very useful presentation

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