Hey, you. Welcome to a unique experience, the leadership and disruption course. Let us start with a real story. Last March, Mary was recognized by her director and after five years of work, she was promoted to global leader. She will lead a competent team of people based in different countries and therefore, with different cultures. It's a real disruption for her. New challenges, remote connection and much to do. She is admired by her colleagues and always delivered the results. However, there is a new scenario. She needs to know how to lead the group. She needs to know how to motivate other people, communicating goals, maintaining the balance between personal and professional life, giving constant feedback to optimize the performance of each member of the group and delegating properly. Whoof, there are many challenges. Mary needs to learn how to be a good leader. Is there any coincidence with your career and hers? Did you feel like identified with her needs? Do you want to know how you can be a better leader, leading in a connected world, solving challenges and dealing well with people to reach new levels of performance?, congrats, you made the best decision coming to our course. My name is Alfredo Castro. I am the professor who will guide you along this journey. It's a pleasure to welcome you. This course has been designed to help developing leaders like you, using a three step model that I call lab: learn, apply and benefit. We will navigate the challenges of our time and have insights on business disruptions. Fantastic, isn't it? Along the next four modules, we will discover practical ways to be a better leader. The first module is called disruptive leadership. We will cover topics like, how to use the lab model, learn, apply, benefits. How to understand the great resets process. What are the new competencies for a leader. Especially, for those who lead in hybrids or remote environments. We will understand how to elaborate our leadership brands and how to craft good stories, that will engage team members. When we start the second module, lifelong learner, we will work on very important topics for a leader in order to answer some quick questions. For example, how to expand our self-knowledge and take care of the personal and professional life balance, really important. Another question, how can we establish priorities? How can we develop different styles on leading people? Let's learn together how we can better understand the person in the mirror. How to put our oxygen mask first. The third module, will focus on communication and managing the team. It's titled, "what do they need". This shows that the modern leader will invest efforts in engaging the team members and obtain results in this new scenario. The new leader needs to act as consultant for the team. We will address interesting aspects, not only for subordinates, but also how we can influence peers, managers and stakeholders. It is important to balance what I call, the what and how. Why is it, so important to preserve the culture of the company? It's important to balance what and how, that is, the leader must guide the employee in what to do and how we should do it. Wait and learn on this, on the third module. It will be very interesting to learn how to provide quality feedback. I will show you the SBI model. In the third module, we will get to know the art of leadership. That is, three pillars that should guide you as a leader. The fourth module will be titled, future is now, and will show how leaders should rethink about the new competencies of leadership and adopt a disruptive attitude. We will learn how to create the future, discussing innovation and transformation, agile leadership and the digital posture of the leader of the future. It will be very important that you attend all the four modules, because the whole course has an integrated, interesting, updated, and practical design, so that when you complete it, you will be able to apply the lab, that is, in addition to learning, we will apply and obtain benefits in our day to day. This is a different course. It's not just about learning theories, not just about learning the ideas of others. It's also about applying the concepts I will share. Congratulations, you are already learning and reflecting on the new leadership skills for the coming years. To successfully complete this first lab, I want to show you how this concept can be practical and impact you as a leader. After watching this video, I would like to encourage you to study the readings we prepared for you. We will get together on the next lab titled, "Ahead of the game, " see you there.
