Elena Botelho on the Secrets to Career Success

Description

What gets people to the top of an organization has less to do with pedigree than most of us assume. In this Expert Series course, Elena Botelho draws on the CEO Genome Project, a ten-year study of thousands of leaders, to describe what high-performing CEOs do differently. The first section clears away common myths about who becomes a CEO. The next four lessons take one behavior each: deciding quickly, adapting before a crisis forces you to, being reliable on small things as well as large, and engaging people in a way that moves them. The final section covers three career moves that get people ahead faster, the three stages of a typical path to the top job, and six hiring mistakes to avoid when building a team.

Botelho presents all nine lessons on video. Each lesson adds a short reading with flashcards and reflection prompts, and some end with a check on what you have learned.

About the expert

Elena Botelho is coauthor, with Kim Powell, of The CEO Next Door: The 4 Behaviors That Transform Ordinary People Into World-Class Leaders. The book grew out of the CEO Genome Project, a ten-year study of thousands of leaders. In the opening lesson she describes arriving in the United States from Russia in 1990 and learning English by studying the best communicators she could find, the approach she later applied to studying CEOs.

What you’ll be able to do

• Recognize the common myths about who becomes a CEO and why the research does not support them
• Make decisions faster by using a framework, deciding less, and learning from the ones that go wrong
• Look for the next change while things are going well, including building an inspiration cabinet outside your company
• Build a record of reliability through daily habits and a clear understanding of what others expect of you
• Find the point on the niceness curve where being liked and getting results both hold
• Choose career moves that speed progress, such as taking the role nobody wants or stepping into a smaller job to build new skills
• Avoid the six safe bets, such as hiring a clone of yourself, that lead leaders to pick the wrong team

Who it’s for

Anyone with ambitions to lead an organization, and managers who want to know which habits are worth building now. It is also useful if you are about to assemble a team of your own.

What’s inside

10 lessons, self-paced:

1. Welcome
2. Busting Myths About CEOs
3. Decisiveness
4. Adapting Proactively
5. Relentless Reliability
6. Engaging for Impact
7. Career Catapults
8. Is Your Career on the Right Track?
9. 6 “Safe Bets” to Avoid When Building a Team
10. Summary

What you get

• 365 days of access from the date of purchase
• A certificate of completion when you finish the course
• Your place is saved, so you can stop and come back whenever you like
• Works on a computer, tablet or phone

You can also get this course, and every other course in the library, with All Access for $99.99 a year.