Leadership Courses

This is a list of some freely available leadership courses that you may find interesting.

Free Leadership Courses - Planning the Rest of Your Career

This one-day course is designed to help you decide what you want to do with your career and develop a strategy to acheive it. Whether you are being made redundant or are just ready for a change of career, this course will help you find what you really want to do and show you how to acheive it.

Benefits

• Find what your real strengths are
• Find the ideal career for you
• Develop an action plan and strategy for acheiving your ideal career

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Free course - Double the income of your social enterprise

This is a one day course aimed at people who are currently running social enterprises and who want to substantially increase their turnover.

Benefits

• Learn about the untapped income potential within your current social enterprise
• Understand the range of funding available and work out which is most appropriate to you
• Develop an effective strategy to double your enterprises' income
• Understand the requirements of external funders and investors

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Free Leadership Courses - Presenting magically

Have you ever been asked to present at conferences or speak to the trust board? Find out how to do it with style and conquer your fears. This day will help you find your natural style, hone your skills and help you feel able to present magically.

Benefits

• Demonstrate improved confidence in a range of presentation settings
• Understand and achieve your own presentation style
• Be able to deal with nerves and engage an audience
• Learn how to sell an idea or a service through presentations
• Understand what audiences want and how to completely engage with them
• Create additional income as a professional speaker

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Free course - Creating a social enterprise

This is a one day course aimed at people interested in the development and creation of social enterprises.

Benefits

• Learn about the various legal structures and processes to create social enterprise
• Understand the reasons that most social enterprises fail and how to avoid these
• Be able to support yourself and your team through the creation process

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Free Leadership Courses - Strategic thinking

What is strategy really and how do you become a better strategist? How do you work with organisational politics and survive the sharkpool? Thinking strategically is the key. Find out how to think strategically, write strategies that will really work and get the support of your organisation and your board.

Benefits

• Gain increased confidence in working at a strategic level with senior people
• Be better placed to lead, manage and influence other people
• Enhance your profile in your organisation and field of practice
• Learn how to get committees to support your ideas and fund your proposals

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Free Leadership Courses - Increase your personal effectiveness

Do you find yourself running out of time and feeling stressed? Would you like to create more time in order to do the things you really matter to you? Do you feel that you are working harder and harder but sometimes acheiving very little? Are you struggling in getting things done? Then this course is for you.

This course will not only increase your time management skills but will help you to delegate, prioritise and produce far more in much less time.

Benefits:

• Set clear goals and learn strategies for acheiving them
• Lower your stress levels by giving yourself more time in the week
• Be more confident and competent in your current role at work
• Reduce time wasted in meetings and dealing with email and paperwork
• Acheive a much healthier work-life balance

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Free Leadership Courses - Power networking

Networking is often seen as a frivolous activity or an excuse to swap gossip over coffee. One of the major differences between really high performers and average performers is the quality of their personal network. Ths course will show you how having an effective network can make you far more productive in your current role. It will show you how to value your current network and how to expand it in a congruent and ethical way. For entrepreneurs, this course will aslo show you how to never make a "cold call" ever again and have all your income and sales generated by your network.

Benefits

• Become a much more effective networker
• Learn how to use your networks to solve problems
• Never have to make a "cold call" ever again
• Discover the value of your existing network

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Free Leadership Courses - Reclaim over 8 hours per week

Do you want to reduce the amount of time that you waste each week? Do you find yourself running out of time and feeling stressed? Would you like to create more time in order to do the things you really matter to you? Do you feel that you are working harder and harder but sometimes acheiving very little? Are you struggling in getting things done? Then this course is for you.

This course will help you develop a practical strategy for reclaiming over 8 hours per week in your current role.

Benefits

• Learn how your time is stolen by pointless activities
• Regain a sense of control over your time and your job role
• Lower your stress levels by giving yourself more time in the week
• Be more confident and competent in your current role at work
• Reduce time wasted in meetings and dealing with email and paperwork
• Acheive a much healthier work-life balance

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If you know of any other free leadership courses, please let us know and we will feature them here.