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Sara Canaday is a recognized authority when it comes to leadership development, with over…
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Coaching Skills for Leaders and Managers34m
Coaching Skills for Leaders and Managers
By: Sara Canaday
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Mastering the Art of Relentless Prioritization: Real-World Scenarios and Practical Solutions
Mastering the Art of Relentless Prioritization: Real-World Scenarios and Practical Solutions
By Sara Canaday
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From Cascading to Collaborative: Transforming How You Communicate Your Company's Objectives
From Cascading to Collaborative: Transforming How You Communicate Your Company's Objectives
By Sara Canaday
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Executives, It's Time to Step Up: Three Strategies to Truly Support Your Leaders
Executives, It's Time to Step Up: Three Strategies to Truly Support Your Leaders
By Sara Canaday
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Board Member
LifeWorks Austin
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Children
LifeWorks is a fearless advocate for youth and families seeking their path to self-sufficiency. We are committed to innovative problem solving, shared accountability and a relentless focus on achieving real, sustainable and measurable results for the clients we serve.
Every year, LifeWorks provides a pathway to self-sufficiency for more than 4,000 youth and families, many of whom are facing life’s most difficult challenges, including homelessness, trauma, and abuse.
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Essential Coaching Skills for Managers: The Tools You Neet to Ignite Greatness in Each Employee
McGraw Hill
Helping employees hit their goals and feel engaged at work has always been a rewarding part of a manager's job. But in today's hybrid world, helping your team overcome challenges and feel like they are progressing is more than simply a "nice to have" skill. Developing a robust, modern approach to coaching can help unlock your leadership impact. Whether you're just starting out or looking to update your understanding of best practices, you'll find what you need in this book.
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Leadership Unchained: Defy Conventional Wisdom for Breakthrough Performance
T&C Press
The traditional wisdom that molded leadership for years is losing its effectiveness in our chaotic, digitally overwhelmed world. In some cases, those principles you’ve always relied on may even be impeding your progress. Truth is, you can’t possibly seize unexpected opportunities or take full advantage of today’s innovations if you’re stuck using old patterns.
In Leadership Unchained, Sara Canaday offers a unique perspective that helps modern leaders break free from the chains of…The traditional wisdom that molded leadership for years is losing its effectiveness in our chaotic, digitally overwhelmed world. In some cases, those principles you’ve always relied on may even be impeding your progress. Truth is, you can’t possibly seize unexpected opportunities or take full advantage of today’s innovations if you’re stuck using old patterns.
In Leadership Unchained, Sara Canaday offers a unique perspective that helps modern leaders break free from the chains of conventional wisdom and blaze new trails toward even greater success.
If you’re a current or future leader, this book can become your game-changing guide to the new era of evolutionary leadership — the kind that’s no longer tethered to standard operating procedures. You’ll learn when to apply classic principles. And when to break them.
Using this approach, you’ll have an advantage in navigating today’s complex business landscape. You’ll be better equipped to take on new challenges. And you’ll dramatically increase your odds of producing extraordinary results. -
Leadership Blind Spots
LinkedIn Learning
Have you found yourself mired in a career rut, even though you've worked tirelessly to position yourself as a leader? If so, there may be factors that you're unaware of that are holding you back from being seen as leadership material. In this course, learn how to identify the hidden roadblocks—or blind spots—that are holding you back, and manage them in order to accelerate your career growth.
Instructor Sara Canaday dives into the nuances of blind spots, explaining why blind spots matter…Have you found yourself mired in a career rut, even though you've worked tirelessly to position yourself as a leader? If so, there may be factors that you're unaware of that are holding you back from being seen as leadership material. In this course, learn how to identify the hidden roadblocks—or blind spots—that are holding you back, and manage them in order to accelerate your career growth.
Instructor Sara Canaday dives into the nuances of blind spots, explaining why blind spots matter when it comes to career success, and which intangible skills can help you find and eliminate these roadblocks. Sara also covers ways to find and close the gaps between your perception of yourself and your reputation. She explores specific examples of leadership blind spots commonly seen in the business world and provides steps that you can take to mitigate your perception problems. -
Managing Experienced Managers
LinkedIn Learning
Learn how to effectively manage experienced leaders by approaching them with the proper balance of authority and autonomy. Leadership expert Sara Canaday provides a guide to help you understand their mindset, set your expectations, and provide the appropriate support in order to reinforce positive behaviors, break bad habits, and learn from their wisdom. Because they are experienced, the goal is to create a partnership atmosphere that shows respect for their previous achievements.
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Managing Experts
LinkedIn Learning
Subject matter experts (SMEs) are valuable players on any team, but managing individuals who know more than you do about a particular subject can be challenging. In this course, learn how to identify the mindset and specific needs of the experts on your team, so that you can meet their expectations and provide them with the support they need to grow and excel. Join leadership expert Sara Canaday as she shares management strategies that can help you understand the common challenges among SMEs…
Subject matter experts (SMEs) are valuable players on any team, but managing individuals who know more than you do about a particular subject can be challenging. In this course, learn how to identify the mindset and specific needs of the experts on your team, so that you can meet their expectations and provide them with the support they need to grow and excel. Join leadership expert Sara Canaday as she shares management strategies that can help you understand the common challenges among SMEs and set goals deemed worthy of your experts' time and full attention. Plus, she discusses how to provide your SMEs with the development tools they need to refine their knowledge and keep their skills current.
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Managing Experts
LinkedIn Learning
Subject matter experts (SMEs) are valuable players on any team, but managing individuals who know more than you do about a particular subject can be challenging. In this course, learn how to identify the mindset and specific needs of the experts on your team, so that you can meet their expectations and provide them with the support they need to grow and excel. Join leadership expert Sara Canaday as she shares management strategies that can help you understand the common challenges among SMEs…
Subject matter experts (SMEs) are valuable players on any team, but managing individuals who know more than you do about a particular subject can be challenging. In this course, learn how to identify the mindset and specific needs of the experts on your team, so that you can meet their expectations and provide them with the support they need to grow and excel. Join leadership expert Sara Canaday as she shares management strategies that can help you understand the common challenges among SMEs and set goals deemed worthy of your experts' time and full attention. Plus, she discusses how to provide your SMEs with the development tools they need to refine their knowledge and keep their skills current.
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Managing High Performers
LinkedIn Learning
Managing high performers gives you an opportunity to pave the way for some of your organization's strongest talent. By strategically helping these professionals grow and expand their responsibilities, you can have a significant impact on the future of your organization. In this course, leadership expert Sara Canaday equips you with innovative strategies for successfully managing—and retaining—your most exceptional employees. Sara familiarizes you with the mindset and motivations of high…
Managing high performers gives you an opportunity to pave the way for some of your organization's strongest talent. By strategically helping these professionals grow and expand their responsibilities, you can have a significant impact on the future of your organization. In this course, leadership expert Sara Canaday equips you with innovative strategies for successfully managing—and retaining—your most exceptional employees. Sara familiarizes you with the mindset and motivations of high performers, so that you can use this knowledge to meet their expectations and provide them with the appropriate level of support and development.
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Managing High Potentials
LinkedIn Learning
Managing high potentials gives you an opportunity to pave the way for some of your organization's strongest talent. High potentials are employees who are most likely to be promoted to—and succeed in—leadership roles. By strategically helping these professionals to grow and expand their responsibilities, you can have a significant impact on the future or your organization. Leadership expert Sara Canaday helps you understand the mindset and motivations of high potentials so you can meet their…
Managing high potentials gives you an opportunity to pave the way for some of your organization's strongest talent. High potentials are employees who are most likely to be promoted to—and succeed in—leadership roles. By strategically helping these professionals to grow and expand their responsibilities, you can have a significant impact on the future or your organization. Leadership expert Sara Canaday helps you understand the mindset and motivations of high potentials so you can meet their expectations and provide them with the appropriate level of support and development.
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Managing New Managers
LinkedIn Learning
Managing new leaders comes with a unique set of challenges. Even the most outstanding individual contributor can struggle as they unpack their new role and tackle their increased responsibilities. In this course, learn how to support and inspire new leaders as they make this critical transition. Leadership expert Sara Canaday shows how to identify the unique perspectives and challenges of your new managers, set the expectations for their transition, provide coaching and support, and cultivate…
Managing new leaders comes with a unique set of challenges. Even the most outstanding individual contributor can struggle as they unpack their new role and tackle their increased responsibilities. In this course, learn how to support and inspire new leaders as they make this critical transition. Leadership expert Sara Canaday shows how to identify the unique perspectives and challenges of your new managers, set the expectations for their transition, provide coaching and support, and cultivate the right conditions to help them succeed.
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Transition from Manager to Leader
LinkedIn Learning
Much like management, leadership is a skill that can be taught. In this course, executive coach Sara Canaday shares proven strategies to help you shift your mindset from manager to leader. To begin, you'll learn how to enhance your personal growth by practicing self-awareness and emotional intelligence, developing an executive presence, and becoming a thought leader. Next you'll learn how to expand your perspective from local to global, innovate by viewing challenges with a fresh lens, and…
Much like management, leadership is a skill that can be taught. In this course, executive coach Sara Canaday shares proven strategies to help you shift your mindset from manager to leader. To begin, you'll learn how to enhance your personal growth by practicing self-awareness and emotional intelligence, developing an executive presence, and becoming a thought leader. Next you'll learn how to expand your perspective from local to global, innovate by viewing challenges with a fresh lens, and improve your decision-making skills. Lastly, you'll learn how to cultivate and nurture a stellar team: attract top talent, inspire your team with broad-based support, and explore tactics for creating rapport and building meaningful relationships. Each chapter of this course is coupled with a coaching story that shows you how to apply these concepts to real-world situations.
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You - According To Them: Uncovering the blind spots that impact your reputation and your career
T&C Press
If you’ve ever worked in an organization of any size, you’ve probably seen it: the talented geniuses with all the right credentials who don’t really seem to be going anywhere in their chosen careers. Sometimes that “talented genius” is us, and we are hard-pressed to understand what’s blocking our ability to advance.
In her powerful book, You — According to Them, Sara Canaday draws on her years of corporate experience and work with thousands of leaders to not only explain WHY smart people…If you’ve ever worked in an organization of any size, you’ve probably seen it: the talented geniuses with all the right credentials who don’t really seem to be going anywhere in their chosen careers. Sometimes that “talented genius” is us, and we are hard-pressed to understand what’s blocking our ability to advance.
In her powerful book, You — According to Them, Sara Canaday draws on her years of corporate experience and work with thousands of leaders to not only explain WHY smart people can end up with stalled careers, but also HOW they can fix the problems (or avoid them in the future). The timing for this insight couldn’t be better, given today’s increasingly competitive work environment.
Courses
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360-Degree Feedback
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Balancing Multiple Roles as a Leader
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Coaching Skills for Leaders and Managers
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Counterintuitive Leadership Strategies for a VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous) Environment
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Managing Experienced Managers
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Managing High Potentials
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Managing New Managers
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Managing Technical Professionals
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Organizational Culture
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Taking Charge of Your Leadership Conversations
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Transitioning from Manager to Leader
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Transitioning from Technical Professional to Manager
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Understanding the Leadership Behaviors That Can Sabotage Your Success
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