Be a Better Leader

Stephen M. R. Covey, a renowned author and speaker on trust and leadership, shares valuable insights on harnessing team strengths for innovative success. He discusses the vital role of trust in fostering collaboration and creativity, emphasizing how a trusting environment allows for diverse perspectives. Covey outlines practical strategies to build trust, pointing out that embracing individual differences can enhance team synergy. He also highlights how viewing failure as an opportunity encourages innovation, making teams more resilient and effective.

Barbara Cogburn, FranklinCovey's expert on leadership, discusses practical tactics for managing emotional reactions and conflicts during change. Topics include understanding communication styles, navigating conflicts, validating team emotions, enhancing leadership abilities through self-awareness, and fostering team growth and resilience.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.  

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.

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.