FranklinCovey Online Learning Special!

 

Online Learning Special for a Limited Time!

77 On Demand Courses for only $299!

Access to FranklinCovey’s On Demand Catalog includes 77 online self-paced courses which cover a wide range of leadership, productivity and business skills. They incorporate concepts from the FranklinCovey popular workshops including The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Leading at the Speed of Trust and Great Leaders, Great Teams and Great Results.  Catalog includes:

LiveClicks Encore

Access to 10 self-paced courses which are 30 to 60 minutes in length. All courses are online and include content-based instruction through videos, animation, interactive quizzes and assessments, PDF toolkits as well as other resources and tools

The 7 Habits Jump Start: Habits 1–3

Learn to: Be proactive, keep commitments, become accountable for your actions and have a positive influence.

The 7 Habits Jump Start: Habits 4–7

Learn to: Collaborate effectively, form productive business relationships, develop listening skills and apply effective persuasion techniques.

Building Process Excellence

Learn to: Create excellent systems and processes using the Six Building Blocks of Process Excellence.

Building a High-Trust Organization

Learn to: Develop trust in your role and identify processes that need improvement by using the 13 Behaviors of Trust

The Speed of Trust Foundations

Learn to: Increase speed to market, accelerate growth and enhance innovation

 

Time-Management Fundamentals

Learn to: Apply time management principles to your life and master the skills of planning your weeks and organizing your days.

 

Business Writing Skills

Learn to: Increase writing productivity, resolve issues and avoid errors and write faster with more clarity

Unleashing Your Team’s Talent

Learn to: Engage in meaningful conversations that enable team members to contribute their talent to the organization’s needs.

The Diversity Advantage

Learn to: Increase understanding, gain deeper trust and achieve high levels of collaboration.

Resolving Generational Conflict

Learn to: Manage employees from different generations and understand why and how each generation responds differently in the workplace.

 

Excelerators

Access to 4 self-paced courses which are 45 to 60 minutes in length. Excelerators offer a highly interactive experience  through videos, animation, interactive quizzes and assessments, PDF toolkits as well as other resources and tools.

Clarifying Your Team's Purpose and Strategy

Learn to: Connect your team’s purpose to the mission and strategy of the organization and gain the skills for leading your team in executing on goals

The Speed of Trust: Relationship Trust

Learn to: Set a positive example, take responsibility and restore trust

The Speed of Trust: Self Trust

Learn to: Act with integrity, take responsibility, and build confidence

The 4 Imperatives of Great Leaders

Learn to: Inspire trust within your team, identify and address the four chronic problems that undermine success, creating an environment where productivity and creativity thrive

 

InSights On Demand

Access to 63 single-point lessons based around FranklinCovey's award winning vidoes. These bite-sized courses are 10 to 15 minutes in length and fall under 15 competencies below:

Business Acumen

3 Courses: The Power of Keeping Score, Make Your Systems Succeed, Understand How You Affect the Bottom Line

Learn to: Set clear objectives, create effective team processes and be accountable for key measures.

 

Communication

3 Courses: How to Give and Receive Feedback, Empathic Listening, Win-Win Thinking

Learn to: Communicate candidly and respectfully, create a “win-win” culture and respect the viewpoints of others.

 

Conflict Management

5 Courses: Resolve a Conflict, Build a Relationship, Turn Your Adversaries Into Allies, Negotiating Breakthrough Solutions, Win-Lose Conditioning

Learn to: See conflicts as opportunities, eliminate sources of unhealthy competition and collaborate for the good of the team.

 

Customer Focus

4 Courses: Build Your Brand, Know What Your Customers Really Want, Earn the Loyalty of Your Customers, How to Partner With Your Customers

Learn to: Build a trusted brand, build relationships with customers and make customers into promoters.

Execution

7 Courses: Overcoming the Execution Gap, Staying Focused on Key Priorities, Lead Measures, Steps to Effective Team Execution, Whirlwind, Creating an Accountability System, Turn Strategy into Action

Learn to: Execute strategy with excellence, eliminate barriers to achieving goals, and focus on the “critical few” instead of the “trivial many.”

Innovation/Creativity

3 Courses: Building an Innovative Culture, What Positive Difference Can Your Team Make?, Achieving Creative Breakthroughs

Learn to: Come up with innovative solutions to problems, develop a creative approach to work and leverage diverse points of view.

Managing Change

4 Courses: Taking Charge of Your Life, Becoming a Force for Positive Change, Initiate Change, Navigate Through Turbulent Times

Learn to: Take responsibility for results, see opportunity in adversity and deal successfully with a changing and uncertain environment.

 

Performance Management

3 Courses: Holding Each Other Accountable for Results, The Art of Demotivation, Win-Win Agreements

Learn to: Demonstrate accountability for results, develop individual talents and leverage the potential of each person.

 

Personal Productivity

7 Courses: Big Rocks, Circle of Influence, Understanding the Stress Cycle, Sharpen the Saw, Survival/Revival, How to Manage Your Time Effectively, Weekly Planning

Learn to: Focus on what is important, handle stress productively, balance work and life priorities and take initiative and plan daily and weekly.

Problem Solving

3 Courses: How to Change the World, Prevent Crises Before They Arise, See-Do-Get

Learn to: Anticipate and prevent crises, attack problems at their roots, make a meaningful contribution and deal successfully with change and ambiguity.

 

Strategic Leadership

5 Courses: Create a Clear and Compelling Strategy, Principles of Long-Term Success, How to  Lead a Team to Victory,  Balancing Short- and Long-Term Thinking, What Great Leaders Are Made Of

Learn to: Think beyond the short term, become principle-oriented, develop the leadership qualities of character and genuine concern for people.

Talent Development

4 Courses: Seeing the Potential in Others, Empowering Ourselves to Succeed, Light the Fire, Unleashing the Full Capacity of People

Learn to: Empower one another to succeed, build the confidence of others and create a climate where everyone wants to give their best.

 

Team Building

3  Courses: Reaching the Summit as a Team, Build a Great Team by Leveraging Diversity, Speed Up Your Team

Learn to: Develop team routines and processes to ensure excellence, learn to solve new problems and value diverse perspectives.

Trust/Integrity

5  Courses: How to Destroy Your Credibility, Building High-Trust Relationships, Building Personal Credibility, The Case for Trust, The High Cost of Low Trust

Learn to: Build trust by demonstrating  integrity, restore trust by being truthful and righting wrongs, extend trust to others, walk your talk” in living up to your values.

Vision/Purpose

5 Courses: Develop a Powerful Personal Mission, Contribution, Discovery of a Character, Live, Love, Learn, Leave a Legacy, Paint a Picture of Your Best Life

Learn to: Think beyond the short term, define a set of core values and engage your passion and sense of purpose.

 

After purchasing, you will receive an email containing the details you need to access the entire library. All courses are organized by competency. You can move through the courses as you please. You will have access for one year after the time of purchase.

Ready to get started?  If so, contact your regional Business Partner, John Vakidis at 214-387-9960.

80th Birthday

Today, October 24^th,  would have been Stephen R. Covey’s 80^th Birthday.  SRC passed away earlier in July 2012.  Read the announcement here.

Dr. Covey's work, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (and several other books), has made a trememndous impact on millions of people and thousands of organizations across the globe (both directly and inderectly).  In The 7 Habits book (and workshop) readers/participants are encouraged to work on their mission statement and and think about "Leaving a Legacy."

Below is a sample of a video used in our 7 Habits Signature Program titled, 80th Birthday.  Take a moment out of your busy day and watch this heartfelt video.  Then in the next 24 hours, take some time to think about your life, you work and the direction you are heading and then ask yourself this question, "Will I be remembered for making lives of others better?"  Enjoy the video!

What type of legacy would you like to leave?

 

Click here to begin your mission statement!

 

Live, love, laugh, leave a legacy! - Stephen R. Covey

 

 

 

Leading at the Speed of Trust - Dec 3-4 2012

Leading at the Speed of Trust Executive Retreat

Two-Day Training Workshop - Dec 3-4

1-day LIVE Certification Event - Dec 5

(Robert Redford's Sundance Resort, UT) 

During this 2-day course, leaders learn the career-critical leadership skills necessary to impact performance within their organization.  They learn how leveraging trust as a competency dramatically lowers costs and increases profits and influence.  The course significantly enhances leadership capabilities by teaching participants to master The 4 Cores of Credibility™ and The 13 Behaviors of High Trust™, and how to model them on a daily basis.

Participants are engaged in case studies and activities based in their current work – not on theoretical examples or academic models.  Leaders focus on increasing the speed and magnitude of their individual and organizational results by improving trust and increasing influence with their key stakeholders.  In addition, the workshop provides ample opportunity to collaborate in a discussion with other leaders sharing different perspectives and solutions to common organizational trust issues.

The workshop is based on years of organizational leadership and research.  The course is centered on an in-depth analysis of the principles taught from The Speed of Trust™ - a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller by Stephen M. R. Covey.

 

 

Learn more about this program and the tools used that help leaders achieve a new mind-set, skill-set and tool-set around creating a culture of Trust.  Click here now.

If you would like to register for this program, please contact your regional business partner, John Vakidis at 214-387-9960 or by email.

 

“Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.”  — Stephen R. Covey

 

 

The Webinar Manifesto

Franklin Covey Co. Releases New eBook: The Webinar Manifesto: Never Design, Deliver, or Sell Lousy Webinars Again! – Authors Offer 7 Principles for Creating Best-in-Class Webinars

Franklin Covey Offers Free Download of The Webinar Manifesto on October 22-23, 2012

SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Franklin Covey Co. (NYSE: FC) announced today the release of a new ebook, The Webinar Manifesto: Never Design, Deliver, or Sell Lousy Webinars Again!, published by Franklin Covey Publishing.

Franklin Covey is offering a FREE downloaded copy of The Webinar Manifesto on October 22 and 23, 2012. On October 24, the ebook will be on sale for $6.99 (retails at $9.99). (www.thewebinarmanifesto.com)

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The Webinar Manifesto is co-authored by Matt Murdoch and Treion Muller. Murdoch is the Global Director of Online Learning and Muller is the Chief E-Learning Architect for Franklin Covey. The two are industry leaders in e-learning and webinar design and delivery. They have been responsible for transitioning Franklin Covey’s own world-renowned content from the live classroom to the virtual classroom, as well as creating Franklin Covey's best-in-class on-demand, self-paced offerings.

In The Webinar Manifesto, which premiered at #3 in all Internet books on Amazon.com’s list, the authors declare war on bad webinars, mundane talking head PowerPoint presentations, working in silos and doing things the way they have always been done in webinar creation. They invite readers to join their revolution by applying their 7 Webinar Manifesto Principles for creating best-in-class webinars.

Guillaume Privat, Director, Adobe Connect, said, “Whether you are running webinars for sales, marketing, or e-learning, your ability to create rich and engaging experiences for your audience directly impacts the ROI of your event. The Webinar Manifesto provides a set of principles and tools that will help you transform flat and boring webinars into rich and engaging experiences.”

“The Webinar Manifesto is for anyone who uses webinars to present, teach, inform or engage employees, customers or vendors. It’s especially written with HR professionals, trainers, instructional designers, marketers, and sales people in mind,” said Murdoch. “It’s for those who want to transform their webinar design and delivery. We’ve all tolerated boring and wasteful webinars for many years. Of course, we’ve made some real advances. But we still have a long way to go.”

Muller said, “Webinars can’t continue to evolve incrementally. We want to help readers of The Webinar Manifesto to speed up the evolutionary process, whether it’s in the virtual classroom, on a webcast, or in an online conference. We offer proven principles and tools to help readers captivate audiences with webinars which are beautifully designed, push the limits of technology, are eloquently delivered and create the best experiences possible for their audience.”

In The Webinar Manifesto, the authors outline 7 Webinar Manifesto Principles for creating best-in-class webinars focused on next-generation design and delivery:

Principle 1 – Connect or Die: Survive the constant evolution of webinar platforms, influx of new studies and information, and best practices by tapping into the online network of relevant thought leaders and communities.

Principle 2 – Don’t Default: Be aware of everything your platform will do, attempt and assimilate new ideas, discard those that are irrelevant, and keep a manual with best practices for engaging your learners.

Principle 3 – Shut Down the Ugly: Shut down the creation of webinars which are ugly or boring to encourage engagement and behavioral change. Keep four key touch points in mind:

• Marketing Communication – To market your webinar, use the right communication channel to invite the right audience with creatively designed invitations that feature simple messages and beautiful graphics.
• Presentations – Keep visuals simple, refrain from regurgitation, use creative approaches on slides, and cater to the culture and generations to whom you are presenting.
• Handouts – Handouts should be beautifully designed, have a purpose, be relevant, and properly messaged.
• Webinar Experience – Break up content into chunks with segments to engage and keep learners focused.

Principle 4 – Captivate or Alienate: To captivate a virtual audience, apply the following guidelines:

• Verbal Accountability – Give participants opportunities to contribute.
• Visual Accountability – Provide a visual content roadmap, use storytelling, and vivid images instead of text.
• Kinesthetic Accountability – Use platform tools to involve participants, provide downloadable materials, opportunities to engage, breaks to work offline, and utilize accountability measures.

Principle 5 – Humanize the Screen: Create a face-to-face virtual experience by mastering four humanizing skills:

• Skill One – Look at Me: Create a persona that is human and engaging.
• Skill Two – Talk to Me: Converse naturally, as if talking to a friend face-to-face.
• Skill Three – Listen to Me: Listen and speak variably to encourage dialogue and discourse.
• Skill Four – Let Me Think: Allow time for participants to think, process and reply.

Principle 6 – Crack the Feedback Code: Don’t just rely on visible feedback, such as forms and Q&A. Learn and decipher four invisible feedback codes:

• Invisible Code #1: Poor Attendance – To encourage maximum attendance, use the right invitations, sent to the right audience, with the right value proposition at the right time and at the right price.
• Invisible Code #2: Dropoff – Avoid dropoff rates by applying Principles 1-5 in the book. Once attendees are logged in, it’s too late to design a better experience.
• Invisible Code #3: Silence – Silence may occur because of technical issues, prior experiences with talking heads, feeling too uncomfortable to contribute, the presenter lectures, there is no opportunity given to comment.
• Invisible Code #4: Poor Feedback or No Feedback Scores – Feedback from attendees should be gathered before they log off, with follow up via e-mail, phone or questionnaire. Clarify with attendees why there is a lack of feedback submitted (e.g. confusing, complicated, takes too long or confusing and too time-consuming.)

Principle 7 – Cage the Monsters: Content, technology and delivery are the three biggest monsters that can destroy a webinar:

• Content Monster: Content overload (too much content in one webinar), content block (subject matter expert doesn’t keep to time deadlines), and content stink (boring).
• Technology Monster: Disruptions because of technology issues.
• Delivery Monster: An unprepared or unskilled presenter.

“Webinars are the fastest-growing form of corporate learning event, yet they are often too boring, too long, and invite multi- or even triple-tasking. The Webinar Manifesto is an important and brave look at redesigning and refocusing our online connected learning time,” said Elliott Masie, Chair, The Learning CONSORTIUM.

The Webinar Manifesto authors, Murdoch and Muller, also co-authored The Learning Explosion: 9 Rules to Ignite Your Virtual Classrooms, published by Franklin Covey, which serves as a resource and guide for training professionals charged with the task of introducing virtual learning into their corporate environment, specifically through the use of virtual classrooms.

The authors are available for consulting, as well as speeches and keynotes on any number of topics related to online learning and training and are listed on the Franklin Covey Speakers Bureau at www.franklincoveyspeakersbureau.com.

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About Franklin Covey

Franklin Covey Co. (NYSE: FC) is a global company specializing in performance improvement. We help organizations achieve results that require a change in human behavior. Our expertise is in seven areas: leadership, execution, productivity, trust, sales performance, customer loyalty and education. Franklin Covey clients have included 90 percent of the Fortune 100, more than 75 percent of the Fortune 500, thousands of small- and mid-sized businesses, as well as numerous government entities and educational institutions. Franklin Covey has more than 40 direct and licensee offices providing professional services in over 140 countries. For more information, visit www.franklincovey.com.

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The Power of Small Wins

Last week I attended two sessions with approximately 240 leaders between DFW and OK on the topic of our newest best-seller, The 4 Disciplines of Execution.  Our global Execution Practice Leader and the main contributing author, Chris McChesney, delivered a great keynote.

One thing that stood out to me and many of our guests was the thought that increasing Employee Engagement can be accomplished by giving your front line contributors a “winnable game.”  Chris explained that the “day job” (aka: Whirlwind) will never be beaten.  You can give the whirlwind 40 hours, 50 hours or more and even your weekends, and it will take all you can give it and not really give you anything in return.

But, in addition to the whirlwind, if leaders will give employees ONE THING related to behavior change strategy to focus on each week, you can engage employees like never before.  Chris also quoted an  article from HBR in May 2011 titled, The Power of Small Wins by Teresa M. Amabile and Steven J. Kramer, “Of all the things that can boost emotions, motivation, and perceptions during a workday, the single most important is making progress in meaningful work.”  Read the fullarticle here.

“If you are a manager, the progress principle holds clear implications for where to focus your efforts. It suggests that you have more influence than you may realize over employees’ well-being, motivation, and creative output. Knowing what serves to catalyze and nourish progress—and what does the opposite—turns out to be the key to effectively managing people and their work.”

 

For more details on executing strategy, consider picking up a copy of The 4 Disciplines of Execution.  You’ll be glad you did!

Creating wins for organizations one team at a time,

John Vakidis

 

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