This week, Dr. Henry Cloud is introducing a new FREE podcast Leadership University with Dr. Henry Cloud. The podcast is a companion to Leadership University, Henry’s subscription-based digital training resource for leaders.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH2HG__Dcaw
“No, I have not started a college or a degree program,” I replied to someone who inquired about the Leadership University platform. I was trying to solve a different problem.
Leaders often talk to me about the development needs of their team members. One common frustration was people who had competency gaps in their leadership backgrounds, experience, modeling, or training. In fact, it seemed like some of the most gifted people in a particular area of focus could turn out to be some of the worst leaders. So, how could this be?
Most organizations do some form of leadership development, but it is often patchworked and piecemeal. Some people are highly developed: they have gone to lots of experiences, workshops, coaches, or had great mentoring. Others had very little. Across an organization, skill development was not cohesive or systematic. Department leaders often did not feel confident about the leadership competencies of everyone under their watch.
About the same time that I was seeing the scope of this need, technology was getting to the point where creating leadership development for individuals and teams could be done utilizing more effective, scalable, digital methods.
So, I had a dream.
I wanted to take the same leadership development information and experiences and processes that I deliver in person to my client companies, and make them available to businesses and ministries everywhere in a scalable form to anyone.
I have built the curriculum to cover both sides of the leadership spectrum: the hard skills of leadership and the soft skills as well. Leaders, from the lowest rungs in organizations to the highest, always need both sets of competencies.
Leaders need hard skill competencies such as:
- how the science of vision clarity drives performance,
- successful ways of engaging talent,
- how to practically design and implement metrics and accountability,
- And more.
These hard skills are needed from the assembly line all the way to the executive levels. When you get everyone at every level understanding what it means to create a “desired future”, and then know how to execute it, you have an organization that is moving forward to making vision a reality.
But you need more than that: you must also have leaders that possess the “soft skills” that make all of that work:
- the ability to build trust,
- confront others well and have difficult conversations,
- to be good listening leaders in ways that build the performance of others,
- And more.
Leadership is always both sides: the technical side of leadership, and the personal and interpersonal competencies. I wanted to make a comprehensive, easily delivered program that organizations of any size could implement. And that is what Leadership University does.
The Leadership University product is available via subscription, though each module can be purchased a la carte. But in addition to the product, we wanted to be able to supplement the content with regular doses of leadership insight and inspiration. And to expose a wider audience to these kinds of leadership ideas. So we decided to create a podcast!
Creating this podcast has been thrilling. One of the most exciting things is that it has allowed us to give you direct access to not just our own thoughts, but the thoughts of our brilliant guests, who we are sure you will find uniquely inspiring and motivating.
I believe you will find it to be a source of new energy and new intelligence — two of the fundamentals for needed improvement.
Leadership University, in product and podcast form alike, takes information, relationships, experiences and structure (the four pillars of development) and creates a learning path designed to build leadership competencies.
I hope you enjoy these offerings and find them helpful! Click here to learn more and subscribe.
God Bless,
Henry
Dr. Henry Cloud
Clinical Psychologist & Acclaimed Leadership Expert | Leadership UniversityAnnouncing a New Podcast: Leadership University with Dr. Henry Cloud
Published September 28, 2016TOPICS IN THIS ARTICLE
Leadership DevelopmentLeading YourselfThis week, Dr. Henry Cloud is introducing a new FREE podcast Leadership University with Dr. Henry Cloud. The podcast is a companion to Leadership University, Henry’s subscription-based digital training resource for leaders.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH2HG__Dcaw
“No, I have not started a college or a degree program,” I replied to someone who inquired about the Leadership University platform. I was trying to solve a different problem.
Leaders often talk to me about the development needs of their team members. One common frustration was people who had competency gaps in their leadership backgrounds, experience, modeling, or training. In fact, it seemed like some of the most gifted people in a particular area of focus could turn out to be some of the worst leaders. So, how could this be?
Most organizations do some form of leadership development, but it is often patchworked and piecemeal. Some people are highly developed: they have gone to lots of experiences, workshops, coaches, or had great mentoring. Others had very little. Across an organization, skill development was not cohesive or systematic. Department leaders often did not feel confident about the leadership competencies of everyone under their watch.
About the same time that I was seeing the scope of this need, technology was getting to the point where creating leadership development for individuals and teams could be done utilizing more effective, scalable, digital methods.
So, I had a dream.
I wanted to take the same leadership development information and experiences and processes that I deliver in person to my client companies, and make them available to businesses and ministries everywhere in a scalable form to anyone.
I have built the curriculum to cover both sides of the leadership spectrum: the hard skills of leadership and the soft skills as well. Leaders, from the lowest rungs in organizations to the highest, always need both sets of competencies.
Leaders need hard skill competencies such as:
These hard skills are needed from the assembly line all the way to the executive levels. When you get everyone at every level understanding what it means to create a “desired future”, and then know how to execute it, you have an organization that is moving forward to making vision a reality.
But you need more than that: you must also have leaders that possess the “soft skills” that make all of that work:
Leadership is always both sides: the technical side of leadership, and the personal and interpersonal competencies. I wanted to make a comprehensive, easily delivered program that organizations of any size could implement. And that is what Leadership University does.
The Leadership University product is available via subscription, though each module can be purchased a la carte. But in addition to the product, we wanted to be able to supplement the content with regular doses of leadership insight and inspiration. And to expose a wider audience to these kinds of leadership ideas. So we decided to create a podcast!
Creating this podcast has been thrilling. One of the most exciting things is that it has allowed us to give you direct access to not just our own thoughts, but the thoughts of our brilliant guests, who we are sure you will find uniquely inspiring and motivating.
I believe you will find it to be a source of new energy and new intelligence — two of the fundamentals for needed improvement.
Leadership University, in product and podcast form alike, takes information, relationships, experiences and structure (the four pillars of development) and creates a learning path designed to build leadership competencies.
I hope you enjoy these offerings and find them helpful! Click here to learn more and subscribe.
God Bless,
Henry
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Dr. Henry Cloud
Clinical Psychologist & Acclaimed Leadership ExpertLeadership University
Dr. Henry Cloud is an acclaimed leadership expert, clinical psychologist and New York Times best-selling author. His 45 books have sold nearly 15 million copies worldwide. He has an extensive executive coaching background and experience as a leadership consultant, devoting the majority of his time working with CEOs, leadership teams and executives to improve performance, leadership skills and culture. Dr. Cloud founded and built a healthcare company starting in 1987, which operated inpatient, and outpatient treatment centers in forty markets in the Western U.S. There, he served as Clinical Director and principal for ten years. In the context of hands-on clinical experience, he developed and researched many of the treatment principles and methods that he communicates to audiences today. After selling the company, he devoted his time to consulting and coaching, spreading principles of hope and life-change through speaking, writing and media. Throughout the same years and until the present, he has devoted much of his career to leadership performance and development, blending the disciplines of leadership and human functioning to helping CEO’s, teams, organizations and family entities. His book, Integrity, was dubbed by the New York Times as “the best book in the bunch.” In 2011, Necessary Endings was called “the most important book you read all year.” His book Boundaries For Leaders was named by CEO Reads in the top five leadership books of its year. His newest book, The Power of the Other, debuted at #5 on the Wall Street Journal bestseller list. Dr. Cloud’s work has been featured and reviewed by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, Publisher’s Weekly, Los Angeles Times, and many other publications. Success magazine named Dr. Cloud in the top 25 most influential leaders in personal growth and development, alongside Oprah, Brene Brown, Seth Godin and others.
Years at GLS 1996, 2005, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2021