Courses
This leadership course provides a practical framework to help leaders navigate complexity, make better decisions, and deliver consistent results.
The world is changing at an unprecedented pace. Every day, leaders face decisions and challenges they have never encountered before. What worked yesterday may not work tomorrow. The pressure to perform is constant, and the consequences of misalignment are immediate.
The 4 Essential Roles of Leadership® course equips leaders with four essential roles that are predictive of sustained performance. By learning to lead themselves and their teams in alignment with these roles, leaders create clarity, build accountability, and translate strategy into measurable results—even in uncertain conditions.
The 4 Essential Roles of Leadership®: Leadership Course Overview"
Trust starts with a leader’s own character and competence—the credibility that allows leaders to intentionally build a culture of trust.
Effective leaders create a shared vision and strategy and communicate it so powerfully that others join them on the journey.
Leaders must not only think big, but also execute their vision and strategy all the way through to completion with and through others.
Effective leaders develop the leadership potential in others and improve performance through consistent feedback and coaching.
Leaders promoted into mid- to senior-level roles often struggle to deliver the next level of organisational results. What drove success as an individual contributor does not automatically translate into effective leadership. Greater scope, complexity, and strategic accountability require a different set of behaviours.
Experienced leaders need a practical leadership course that provides a clear framework for prioritising what matters most, aligning teams around strategy, and sustaining execution under pressure. They also need structured, application-focused sessions that allow them to work on real business challenges—not abstract theory—using multiple learning modalities that accommodate demanding schedules.
The Research and the Solution
Extensive research into what organisations require from leaders today and in the future revealed a consistent pattern. High-performing organisations need leaders who can:
The 4 Essential Roles of Leadership® course develops these capabilities within a practical framework. It defines the essential leadership roles that, when consistently practised, enable leaders to create clarity, build trust, execute strategy, and develop the talent around them.
This leadership course is included in the FranklinCovey All Access Pass®. This pass provides your organization unlimited access to all of our content, whenever and wherever you need it.
Dynamic education and development, available online from any location.
Expert education and development delivered face-to-face.
Content available to your people anywhere, any time.
PepsiCo Foods North America desired consistent leadership training with content that progressed over time. Curating content from FranklinCovey’s All Access Pass®, they launched their CORE Leadership program to build empathic leaders at all levels of their organization.
Vibe Group is a fast-growing IT staffing consultancy. Starting from two founders in 2011, they rapidly grew to 300+ internal and 1,000 external employees today. See how they partnered with FranklinCovey to scale up their learning and development program to support this rapid growth.
SM Energy is focused on increasing engagement and retaining talent through creating a culture of personal leadership. With the help of FranklinCovey’s All Access Pass®, leaders are talking a new language, building collaborative relationships, and discussing how to achieve goals more effectively.
A global staffing and recruiting company is focused on creating a framework to enhance their culture. With the help of FranklinCovey’s The 4 Essential Roles of Leadership™, employees from around the world are learning a common language, finding common threads, and getting to know and understand each other.
Use this guide to help your leaders identify their current approach to change and adopt a productive mindset.