Be a Better Leader

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...

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 conversa...

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 c...

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 insid...

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 Conversati...

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 Le...

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 resis...

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...

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 Powerfu...

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 insig...

Trust Changes Everything | Join FranklinCovey’s Jeffery Downs and Kory Kogon, bestselling author of The 5 Choices: The Path to Extraordinary Productivity, as they explore the connection between trust and productivity and how trust empowers individuals to excel. Learn how you can use this relationship between trust and productivity to be a catalyst for change, inspire your team, and create high-tru...

Trust Changes Everything | Discover how leaders can create environments that inspire unwavering loyalty in this conversation between FranklinCovey’s Dr. AJ Lee and Doug Faber. Learn practical strategies for fostering loyalty within your team and how you can lead with your heart to unleash your team's full potential. Download now: How to Build Trust and Unleash the Potential of Your Direct Reports

Trust Changes Everything | Dive into the heart of leadership and employee engagement with bestselling author and thought leader Stephen M. R. Covey and Managing Director Jeffery Downs. Listen to their conversation on how trust profoundly impacts engagement in the workplace. Learn how trust leads to increased value, engagement, and inspiration among employees, and discover practical strategies for...

Trust Changes Everything | Uncover the keys to fostering trust and effective communication. Join FranklinCovey’s Dr. AJ Lee, manager of customer success, and Doug Faber, the global practice leader for the Speed of Trust®, as they delve into the crucial connection between trust and communication in leadership. Learn how to ensure your actions align with your intent, create environments for open, tr...

Trust Changes Everything | In this episode of Be a Better Leader, Jeffery Downs, a FranklinCovey managing director, discusses the relationship between trust and innovation with bestselling author and thought leader Stephen M. R. Covey. Listen as they share insights about the profound impact of trust on fostering innovation. Learn how a culture of trust encourages your people to collaborate, take c...

Trust Changes Everything | In the first episode of this new season of Be a Better Leader, FranklinCovey’s Vice President of Content Development and best-selling author, Kory Kogon joins Managing Director Jeffery Downs to talk about the importance of trust for leaders and how profoundly it affects performance. Learn what “Trust Taxes” and “Trust Dividends” are, while learning key skills and attribu...

Recharge: Your Leaders. Your Teams. Your Culture. Your Results. | You started down the pathway of recharging your leaders, your teams, your culture, and your results. But once you get started, how do you keep it going? Harvey Young, a regional practice leader at FranklinCovey, joins Managing Director Jeffery Downs to discuss how accountability is key to getting the results you’re working for. The...

Recharge: Your Leaders. Your Teams. Your Culture. Your Results. | Organizations, teams, and individuals face many challenges. But developing a winning culture looms as one of the make-or-break variables in an organization’s success. Recharging your culture is key to keeping people at all levels engaged, giving their best efforts, and getting your best results. Dr. AJ Lee is joined by Todd Davis, f...

Recharge: Your Leaders. Your Teams. Your Culture. Your Results. | Our teams and responsibilities are all interconnected. But in times of change, uncertainty, or mounting projects, silos can form, and it becomes easy to lose the power that comes from collaboration and synergy. Andrea Caldwell, a FranklinCovey managing consultant, joins Managing Director Jeffery Downs to break down this problem and...

Recharge: Your Leaders. Your Teams. Your Culture. Your Results. | With constant demands and competing priorities, we know that all leaders must help their teams identify the most important tasks and find a way to accomplish them. Few things can burn out a team like feeling as if they’re not achieving their top priorities. Listen as Dr. AJ Lee and Cris Lang, a FranklinCovey senior consultant, talk...

Recharge: Your Leaders. Your Teams. Your Culture. Your Results. | What if all your organization’s leaders could identify their weaknesses but instead steer toward their strengths? What difference could that make for them and their teams? In this episode, Dr. AJ Lee, manager of customer success, is joined by FranklinCovey Vice President of Content Development and best-selling author, Kory Kogon, to...

Recharge: Your Leaders. Your Teams. Your Culture. Your Results. | How can we continue to progress and deliver results when there’s so much going on—both inside and outside of our organizations? Join FranklinCovey Managing Director Jeffery Downs and Scott Thele, national execution practice leader, as they discuss what the “Performance Curve” is and how understanding it can help you and your organiz...

What You Don't Know When You Become a Leader  | One of the biggest changes when transitioning to a leadership role for the first time is making the mindset shift from an individual contributor to a leader. In this episode of Be a Better Leader, FranklinCovey’s Leena Rinne and senior leadership consultant Victoria Roos Olsson discuss why this mindset shift is so critical, explore the underlying pur...

What You Don't Know When You Become a Leader | Leaders are responsible for a workplace culture that creates opportunities for growth and advancement for everyone. Teams with inclusive leaders report higher performance, better decisions, and more collaboration. Daniel Martin, a FranklinCovey senior solutions architect, joins Leena Rinne to talk about differences between diversity and inclusion, way...

What You Don't Know When You Become a Leader | As a leader, it's not always easy to have tough conversations with team members who may be falling short. But when a leader creates a culture of feedback, everyone feels heard and respected, and performance and productivity blossom. In this episode, Leena Rinne and Todd Davis, a FranklinCovey consultant, author, and former chief people officer, discus...