Leadership Skills: In the knowledge economy, it is incumbent upon the individual to take responsibility for personal skills development. More than technical skills, it is leadership skills that determine your effectiveness on the job, and in turn your earning power.

As jobs get outsourced to lower cost regions, we believe it will be the mastery of leadership skills that will determine whether a job is retained locally or outsourced. Note that leadership skills are not just for executives any more. Leadership competencies include the ability to vision, inspire, lead, persuade, manage, communicate, network, demonstrate integrity, and so on. If you set yourself the target of spending even ten minutes a day on such development, from our experience of working with hundreds of individuals, you'll demonstrate a noticeable improvement in your proficiency in leadership skills within six months. Your earning power and value to your organization will increase accordingly.

The Leadership Competencies Development Portal is a comprehensive resource comprising text, audio, and video modules developed by Online Training Partners Inc.

Learning at our portal is accomplished by reading articles written by top experts and thought leaders or by viewing short video clips. Tap our interactive tools, quizzes, book excerpts and reviews, blogs and discussion forums. Or download podcasts to your mobile device to view or listen to the resource at a later time.

We also have over 600 formal learning modules embedded in these leadership competency development pages, based on books by over 200 leading authors in the fields of business, management, sales, marketing, finance, and personal development. These learning modules take anywhere from five minutes to an hour to complete.

Expand your job capabilities by exploring new competencies such as Embracing Sustainability, Leading from the Heart and other titles.

New content is continually added to our Portal ensuring that each subsequent visit should yield fresh perspectives on a topic.

Each competency has the following discussion items -

1. Definition (of the competency)

2. Key Behaviors (that demonstrate mastery of the competency)

3. Overview - a quick 15 minute guide to the competency

4. Detailed courseware (takes anywhere from 2 to 20 hours to complete depending on your proficiency in the competency)

5. Assessments and quiz

6. Glossary

7. Inspirational Quotes

8. Book excerpts and reviews

9. Podcasts

10. Blogs

11. Discussion Forums

12. Ask an Expert (connect with a mentor on a competency)

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Target Audience: This content is appropriate for leaders, executives, managers, professionals, teachers, and especially entrepreneurs. Many startups fail because entrepreneurs do not appreciate the value of good leadership skills, resulting in dissension, lack of trust, strife, poor morale, and high turnover. Whereas organizations may provide employees with some of the learning material included here, entrepreneurs are at a particular disadvantage in not having access to such content for an affordable fee.