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The 6 Critical Practices for Leading a Team™

The 6 Critical Practices for Leading a Team™

Program Overview

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Leaders at every level are being asked to deliver more, faster—often with stretched, disengaged teams.

Based on the #1 bestselling business book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, this renowned personal- and interpersonal-development solution is trusted by millions worldwide.

In an era of accelerating technology and advanced AI, human skills—how we work alone and together—are more important than ever. Having a comprehensive framework to help everyone gain and improve these essential abilities is critical to achieving organizational success.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People course equips learners with foundational human skills like emotional intelligence, proactive problem solving, and self-leadership. Tailored for today’s evolving workplace, the 7 Habits unleash profound growth at every level.

Free Guide

Too Much Disruption, Too Little Leadership

A Brief Guide to Principles From the Bestselling Book

The 6 Critical Practices for Leading a Team has evolved to meet the reality of leadership today.

The solution to current leadership challenges won’t be found in additional headcount, budget, or meetings. It’s in the day-to-day leadership habits that build connection, create alignment, and inspire execution.

Whether in the C-suite or on the front lines, today’s leaders all need the core people skills to manage teams adeptly, drive engagement, unlock high performance, and sustain superior outcomes. We help organizations make effective leadership consistent and scalable, so strategy turns into results through your people.

Practice 1

Align Purpose & Performance

Ensure your team feels motivated to contribute their best efforts by helping them understand how their role and goals connect to a compelling, meaningful purpose.

Practice 2

Communicate as a Coach

Tap into your people’s potential by asking, listening, and guiding them to become independent thinkers and problem-solvers by building capability, trust, and ownership.

Practice 3

Delegate to Elevate

Leverage everyone’s strengths, bridge gaps, assign stretch work, and establish accountability to help team members build autonomy and essential skills for success.

Practice 4

Use Feedback as Fuel

Create a powerful learning engine with a proven feedback framework that helps leaders and teams accelerate performance together.

Practice 5

Gain, Don’t Drain, Energy

Become a self-renewal role model for your team by eliminating common energy drainers and embodying revitalizing behaviors for long-term effectiveness.

Practice 6

Leverage 1-on-1s to Win

Using what you’ve learned, hold high-value 1-on-1s consistently with each team member to strengthen relationships and drive clarity, commitment, and sustained results.

Why These 6 Practices?

Research shows that these practices sit at the intersection of leadership behaviors that:

  • Drive impact by improving both team engagement and performance for better organizational results.
  • Address common leadership challenges to bridge gaps, reduce variability, and prioritize true effectiveness over mere efficiency.
  • Scale results that strengthen teams and speed execution without adding headcount, budget, or meetings.
  • Build long-term habits and develop consistently great leaders across your organization.

Most leadership failures begin at promotion.

When high performers are promoted, they often don’t know how to translate their individual contributions into leadership success. Organizations often expect these new leaders to achieve results without dedicated training and development—making it the most failure-prone period in a leader’s career.

Moving from the “I succeed when I deliver results” mindset to “I succeed only when my team succeeds” approach requires intentional, foundational shifts. FranklinCovey’s new module, Leading Beyond Yourself, equips new and emerging leaders with the skillsets and mindsets to embrace their new role with confidence and accelerate trust, engagement, and performance in their teams.

Delivery Solutions

Public Program

  • Training sessions whereby participants are from multiple organizations but in the same class.
  • You can enroll your employees in a live in-person or live online public workshop.

In-House Training

  • Exclusive training for your organization with standard content or tailored content to fit your needs in a live in-person or live online inhouse training.

Client Certification

  • For organizations seeking cost-effective ways to implement solutions involving large populations of managers and frontline workers, FranklinCovey certifies on-site client facilitators to teach our content and adapt it to their organization’s needs.

FranklinCovey All Access Pass Options

Personal Effectiveness Pass

Instill habits of effectiveness in every individual and build the power skills that will drive your organization forward.

Sample courses include:

  • The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People®
  • The 5 Choices to Extraordinary Productivity®
  • Project Management Essentials for the Unofficial Project Manager®
  • Leading Customer Loyalty
  • And more

All Access Pass

Develop exceptional leaders who see their potential and bring people together to drive breakthrough results. Includes everything in the Personal Effectiveness Pass, plus exclusive courses and content to build essential leadership skillsets and mindsets.

Sample courses include:

  • Leading at the Speed of Trust®
  • The 4 Essential Roles of Leadership®
  • 6 Critical Practices for Leading a Team®
  • And more

All Access Pass Plus

Use a common execution framework to mobilize large groups of people to achieve critical business metrics. Includes everything in the All Access Pass, plus exclusive courses and content to drive crucial sales outcomes.

Sample courses include:

  • The 4 Disciplines of Execution®
  • Leading Customer Loyalty®
  • Strikingly Different Selling®
  • And more

Equip your leaders to achieve outstanding results.

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