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The Legacee Academy

Work Skills For Individuals & Organizations

Self-Paced Training

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This is ideal for those who value independence — you won’t be bothered with much more than an occasional email. Self-paced Short Courses stay open for four-weeks. Each course has application assignments and you will receive feedback at the end of the course if you do the assignments and exercises. 

What This Format Includes

Self-paced Courses allow you to conveniently access material from your computer, laptop, or iPad.


Each self-paced course includes: 

  • Audio and video recordings.
  • In-depth readings and articles from reputable sources on the Internet.
  • Want to practice? We have sample exercises and assignments in a wide variety of learning formats.
  • You have email support if you need it.
  • Plus, we'll send out at least one email a week. Serious stuff and fun stuff too. 

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  • Enhance Your Relationships: 4 Techniques That Work (Verbal Communication Concentration)

    • 25-Apr-2022
    • 23-May-2022
    • Take on Online Self-Paced Course (For Expertise) OR as Dual Track Coaching (For Skills)
    Register

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     "It's not what you know; but who you know." — American Saying

    This module focuses on a key factor of success — your personal and professional relationships. And of course, you cannot exercise influence if the relationship is not sound. Developing, maintaining and repairing relationships is one thing we never get too good at. 

    Knowing how to relationships present many benefits. To sum up: 

    • Employees all want to work with someone they LIKE, 

    • They only listen to those they TRUST, 

    • They know how to convey a positive FIRST IMPRESSION,

    • They want to work for someone who has CREDIBILITY.

    Access Learning Methods That Work


    Growth Expertise

    • View 8 engaging videos
    • Read 6 carefully chosen articles
      Increase Skills
        • 2 Self-Assessments
        • 2 Practice Assignments
        • 2 Learning Plans
        • 1 Exercise in Critical Thinking




      Choose a Method of Learning

      Want personalized feedback or support? Get instruction from someone skilled at both teaching and coaching. It’s a practical alternative to courses offered at universities —plus you receive a badge and a certificate upon successful completion. Get the theory down the first week practice, focus on skill building the next three. 


      Money Back Guarantee


      You can ask for a refund any time during the first two-weeks of these 30-day programs. 

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    • Face-To-Face: Enhance Your Interpersonal Communication (Concentration: Verbal Communication)

      • 25-Apr-2022
      • 23-May-2022
      • Take on Online Self-Paced Course (For Expertise) OR as Dual Track Coaching (For Skills)
      Register


      "How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things, but by how well we are understood." Andrew Grove, CEO, Intel Corp., One-on-One With Andy Grove, (G. P. Putnam's and Sons, 1987)

      Module Description

      Enhancing the ability to communicate starts with understanding each of the components of the communication process. It means looking at the many sources of misunderstanding that can exist between you and another and taking appropriate action.


      Topics Covered

      • Communication In The Real World

      • Communication Models

      • Sender/Receiver Model

      • One and Two-Way Communication

      • The Full-Duplex Method 

      Would you like us to make this program available before its normal rotation cycle?

      Learning options include:

      a. Enhance Expertise with Self-Paced Learning. Take your time. You have 30-days.

      b. Grow Skills With a Short Course. — Get the theory down the first week and for the next 3 practice your skills — all in a 30-day time frame.

      c. Full Class. Designed for groups rather than individuals, it’s a practical alternative to courses offered at universities. 

      d. Customized. A great option for individuals and groups. Want a learning program that works for you?

      Contact us at info@legacee.com.


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    • Map Your Future Career Roles (Concentration: Skill Mapping)

      • 02-May-2022
      • 30-May-2022
      • Two Learning Options: An Online Self-Paced Course (For Expertise) OR as Dual Track Coaching (For Skills)
      Register

      Dream big dreams; only big dreams have the power to move men’s souls.” — Marcus Aurelius

      Many are the doors of opportunity open to you. But you must imagine yourself stepping through those doors in the future." — M. Johannsen

      Choose Your Roles. You best map out the roles we want to play on the stage of work. For we can be a star, but only if we see it first in your imagination. 

      Future Proof Your Career. Some simply live in the present; but others — they use the present to construct a better future. For example, birds exist day-to-day, but squirrels. They store food in the summer for winter.

      This Course Has You:

      Construct Four Future Roles. A core part of skill mapping is to define the key skill-sets required to play a particular role. But first, you have to define your social roles. Three of them are future oriented, one is related to what you are currently doing.

      Identify Major Trends In Your Future. Futurists have done our work for us. Don't be blind-sided by the forces that will create or destroy careers.

      Exercise Your Imagination. Learn and practice a couple of guided visualization techniques.

      Remember, all great accomplishments start in our minds eye.

      Choose a Method of Learning

      a. Self-Paced Learning. Enhance your expertise. Take your time — you have 30-days.

      b. Short Course Coaching. Want personalized feedback or support? Get instruction from someone skilled at both teaching and coaching. It’s a practical alternative to courses offered at universities —plus you receive a badge and a certificate upon successful completion. Get the theory down the first week practice, focus on skill building the next three. 


      Money Back Guarantee.You can ask for a refund any time during the first two-weeks of  these 30-day programs.


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    • What You Need To Know About Resilience (Concentration: Resilience & Mastery Practices)

      • 09-May-2022
      • 06-Jun-2022
      • Take on Online Self-Paced Course (For Expertise) OR as Dual Track Coaching (For Skills)
      Register



      Anything really worth doing, is going to be difficult. 

      And since most everyone will face difficulties at some point of life, it is important to understand how resiliency works and how mental toughness can be enhanced.

      Learning Objectives

      • What resilience is — what it isn't
      • What it takes to increase your mental toughness
      • Why all great success rests on a foundation of resilience
      • The nature of control in achieving success — both internal locus and external.
      • How not to respond to adversity—the trap of learned helplessness.
      • Take assessments, perform exercises and do application assignments


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    • Motivation Essentials: Three Must Learn Work Needs (Concentration: Motivation at Work & (Concentration: Verbal Communication & Leadership Skills)

      • 16-May-2022
      • 12-Jun-2022
      • Take on Online Self-Paced Course (For Expertise) OR as Dual Track Coaching (For Skills)
      Register



      This is the basis for McClelland's Acquired Needs.   He only focused on three where should learn more about:

      • The need for power,
      • The need for affiliation, and
      • The need for achievement.

      These are powerful enough that they will drive your choice of careers and ultimately influence the degree of success you have in the world. But we see people using their jobs as a means of satisfying these needs in the world to work. Discover more about these three very important needs in video one. 

      Video 1: Three Critically Important Needs You Need to Understand (Time 12:15) 


      The remaining three videos will tell you more about each of these needs -- needs that you see operating in the real world.

      Video 2: Need ForAffiliation  (Understanding The Nature of Affiliation) (Time: 5:50)

      To the chagrin of the economists and the ire of the CFOs, people don't exist just to pump out as much work that they can to satisfy the greed of the stockholders. They also use work to satisfy social needs—their need for affiliation.

      Of course, some are low on the affiliation scale and they like nothing better than to be left alone. This is sometimes referred to as having a high need for autonomy. However,  those who are high on affiliation needs will choose jobs and careers but have lots of people around.

      People charge them up. People get them motivated. It's all about having friends.

      Need for affiliation is one of the most important of all the needs we possess. There is no more psychologically damaging punishment than to isolate someone from others. It’s important to understand this need since it drives choice of careers and whether you are happy doing what you are doing.

      Video 3: The Need For Power (All About Power: Why You and Others Find is so Seductive) (Time: 33.40)

      What is it about power? Those that have it want more. And those who don't have it, want it. Having power makes many people feel good. And so they spend their life continually seeking more of it.

      You might call power seductive, you might call this need self-reinforcing;  you might hate it, or you my love it but you can never ignore it. Some people believe that to really understand bureaucratic organizations, you must discover how those higher up in the dominance hierarchy exercise power.

      Honestly, most people have a distaste, a revolution toward power. Until that is, you get some. They one finds out that you really like it. Not just like it, but really want more. Power is not inherently bad, it is not essentially good, it all depends on how you choose to exercise it.

      Video 4: The Need For Achievement (Time: 36:50)

      It has long been known that one of the most important learned needs you can develop is achievement motivation. Not only is it associated with success as an entrepreneur, it is also a major component of emotional intelligence

      Achievers drive themselves to greater levels of accomplishment. Find out more about what it is and discover six techniques that you can use to influence his development for the thought, the prior to the development of money there is the drive to achieve. This presentation covers foundation techniques to increase this type of motivational force.
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    • Be a Star Manager and Leader on the Stage of Work (Concentration: Leadership Skills)

      • 16-May-2022
      • 13-Jun-2022
      • Take on Online Self-Paced Course (For Expertise) OR as Dual Track Coaching (For Skills)
      Register


      Image by: A. Savan. Notice that the leader is out front, providing direction to those following.

      "You cannot manage men into battle. You manage things; you lead people." — Grace Hopper, Admiral, U. S. Navy (retired), Nova ( PBS TV), 1986

      To succeed you have to play two roles on the stage of business: manager and leader. For these two roles you want to be a star, a bit player.

      Yet many b-schools fail to clearly distinguish between these two vital roles. On the play of life, you are stuff with an ambiguous role. These professors typically say that leadership is just a small subset of management (called directing), and that people want to be managed. Such a lie. People don't want to be managed; but if you lead them, they will follow you anywhere.

      A depiction of elements of project management. Image by: alphamu57

      The truth is, both roles are critically important ones for success in business and government. People need someone to lead them, just as much as they need an effective manager. 

      Yet, too many suffer under incompetent managers and leaders who simply are bosses who throw their authority around. 

      But there is a huge difference between functioning as a manager and acting like a leader. You can't lead people the same way you would manage time, resources on the balance sheet or expenses on an income statement. 

      Discover what these are. Find out more about how to play each role so you too can be a star on the stage. 


      Mulbery Street, New York City, circa 1900

      Learning Objectives

      • Know the major functions, skills, and responsibilities associated with functioning as an effective manager.
      • Discover the major focus areas and behaviors associated with being an effective leader.
      • Dispel your confusion — understand the fundamental differences between being a leader and a manager.
      "Managers have subordinates—Leaders have followers." — Murray Johannsen

      On Expertise Development (Level I Learning)

      • Major Learning Formats: a. Full Classes and b. Short Courses

      • The Five Concentrations of the Legacee Academy 
      • A Sample Short Course: From Tough as Nails Sample Structure  

      On Skill-Based Learning (Level II Learning)

      • Turn Theory Into Skills: Dual Track Learning (Article and Video)

      • Discover Skill-Based Learning: Program Overview

      • Overview: Getting From Novice to Mastery

      • Skills Mapping: How to Define the Skills Needed for Future Success
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    • The Heroes Way: The Must Know Patterns Underlying Major Achievements (Concentrations: Dare & Transformational Leadership)

      • 06-Jun-2022
      • Take on Online Self-Paced Course (For Expertise) OR as Dual Track Coaching (For Skills)
      Register

      If you act to change the existing order of things, you are on the Quest of Heroes.

      Pallas Athena statue, in front of the building of the Parliament in Vienna, Austria. Image by: Zebulon.

      This gives you a great and noble purpose, to fundamentally make your world a better place. For in the structure the hero's journey, we see our own struggles to achieve. 

        Learning Objectives
        Level I Learning: Expertise
          • Identify the essential elements needed to move from average to great.
          • Delve into the power of myth to understand the challenges you will face.
          • Get inspiration from the Hero archetype in the great stories from the past 
          • Understand the Four Core Competencies of Transformational Leaders
          • Know why transformational leaders and Great Founders need to act less like managers and more like heroes.
          Level II Learning: Skills
          • Assess where you are on your Quest
          • Choose your path, construct your vision for what you will do next
          • Find two heroes that will serve as an example and source of inspiration
          • Delve into identifying flaws limiting your success



          Want personalized feedback or support? Get instruction from someone skilled at both teaching and coaching. It’s a practical alternative to courses offered at universities —plus you receive a badge and a certificate upon successful completion. Get the theory down the first week practice, focus on skill building the next three. 



          We all face a choice, to strive to do something great or to die forgotten. For Heroes do great things. And because they do great things, they will not die forgotten. 

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        Experience a Self-Paced Learning Module

         
        • All Sections
        All sections have graphics to make them visually pleasing. Most of these are great paintings from some of the grand masters. Many contain quotes.
        • Section I: Objectives
        This sets the scope for the module. 

        Description. Most modules have a description, a set of objectives (both Level I and Level II) and readings from a text.

        Learning Outcomes. There are two types. One is expertise or level I learning. The section are the skill one can develop. 

        • Section II: Contents
        Standard content items include:
        The Lecture. Normally, and, of course, videos. L

        ecture materials from experts in the field or video content created by academy instructors. Of course, we TED or carefully vetted videos from 

        Podcasts. We can also hear some of the greatest experts in the world appear on audio, many of which are published authors. 

        Readings. These are more than than the first three articles on a Google search, they are carefully chosen to  
        • Section III: Exercises and Application 
        What separates a course from a book are the exercises and application assignments. Exercises are usually posts worth sharing. Both are important for they form the basis for skill building.
        • Section IV: For More Information
        More articles, videos and resources designed to add to your expertise. 

        We also add fun material and content that is just plan interesting.  


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        Steps

        a. Choose a role or map your skills on the stage of business (Optional but highly recommended)

        b. For Expertise, choose your Concentration, Full Class, or self-paced module.

        c. For Skills, decide on either Dual Track Coachingor Impact Coaching. Contact us to coordinate on module(s).

        Enrolling


        This part of the process is easy. It's like buying any product by credit card for the first time. 

        Steps:

        1. Choose a public program on this site OR contact us for customized training. 

        2. Register and pay for the course of learning.

        3. Fill Out Your Profile.

        4. Stay on top of the orientation emails you will receive. 

        Learning


        Engage in the training program for thirty-days 

        Finally, reflect on experience to develop lessons learned. 

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