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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.

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-trust environments. Download now: 10 Phrases Leaders Use to Build Trust with Team Members

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 both leaders and team members to build a culture of trust.  Download now: 6 Ways Your Leaders Can Build Trust and Avoid Breaking It

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, trust-based communication, and master the art of empathetic listening. Download now: 6 Communication Practices to Build Trust and Inspire Your Team

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 calculated risks, and transform managers into leaders. Download now: 7 Steps to Create an Environment of Trust on Your Teams

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 attributes for building a high-trust organizational culture. Download Now: 7 Ways to Build Trust Between You and Your Team—A Toolkit for Leaders at All Levels 

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 Agility Advantage: 4 Steps to Respond to Change and Achieve Consistent Business Results

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, former FranklinCovey chief people officer, to talk about organizational missions, visions, and values, and how they influence culture and results. 3 Steps to Build a Culture Where Teams Thrive: Download and share our guide and help your organization align its culture and values with what’s best for its people.

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 discuss strategies to overcome it. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: A Brief Guide: Download our guide for a summary of principles and practices that can help you cope with Change in resilient, creative ways.

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 about how leaders can help teams approach this common hurdle. Manage Your Time Like a Pro: 7 Tips for Doing What Matters Most: Hard-working professionals should be spending more time on their long-term goals. We can help.

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 talk about how a leader can focus on multiplying their strengths and recharging their approach to leading others. 40 Back-pocket Questions to Unleash Your Team’s Intelligence: The best leaders are curious. But they don’t just ask a lot of questions. They ask the right questions—the kind that focus their team’s brainpower on the right problems.