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How to Navigate the Course Layout

How to Get the Most Out of This Course

Course Introduction and Overview

How to Navigate the Course Layout 

Let me show you the most effective way to navigate your course. Now, if the course you're currently on isn't the one that I'm using as an example here, don't worry. Because all of our courses follow the same structure and that structure is that they typically have three layers.

First layer is the course itself, and we are on the course homepage right now. This is what you'll see when you're logged in. If you're not logged in and you come to the course page, you'll see the course sales page, and we're not asking you to buy it again.

You just need to log in in order to see and access the course content. So we have the course itself. Then we have modules, each of which contain individual lessons. Each module has its own overview page, and you'll see when you navigate through to a module that it will show you the individual lessons in that module.

And then each lesson has its own page that contains the lesson content, usually in the form of a video. A transcript that you can download and some lesson resources here. Now, in terms of getting around, you can just go back to the course homepage and navigate from here. Use this as your starting point each time you want to navigate. But most people use the flyout menu, which is up here to the left, and this menu will show you the whole of the course structure.

Here are each of the modules, as we talked about, and it will always open at the point that you're at. This case is here, and you can use this to move in between individual lessons, modules, et cetera, as you wish. You can open and close the menu using this icon here. You've also got the option of using the breadcrumbs at the top to navigate. And finally, in each lesson, there's a previous lesson and a next lesson link for you to use.

In terms of actually working your way through the content, you really have got three options. One is perhaps the most traditional way, which is just to work through lesson by lesson, go to each lesson's homepage, consume the lesson content usually in the form of a video, download the transcript, if you wish, just open up here and you can read it on screen or you can download it using the link, which is at the bottom of every lesson. You can also download that lesson's worksheet, the worksheet, if there is one, just for that lesson. And then if there are additional resources, they'll be here on this page and then you can move straight on to the next lesson.

So that's consuming on a lesson by lesson basis. Another option is to consume the content on a modular basis. If you go to a module's overview page, it has the lessons underneath if you want to do the lesson by lesson approach.

But also each module has the full module's content. All of the lessons in the video here, we tell you what length it is, so that if you would prefer to take it in one setting, you can do so. And you'll find that there are scrubbers, marker scrubbers here that will let you jump from lesson to lesson if you wish.

So that's consuming on the module level, and you want to do that. You can download the whole of the lesson worksheets as a single module workbook on the link that you'll find on the module page. Or I, I only really recommend this for our shorter courses. Is you can take the entire course from the home screen, from the course's homepage. Now, like I say, if the course is more than about 30 minutes long, I don't recommend it, but you can do that and you can download the full course workbook and the full course transcript from the homepage.

Now, what do we recommend? My personal preferences and my suggestion is download the complete workbook from the course homepage, but then start working through lesson by lesson. That way you won't miss out on any of the additional resources that we have on each lesson page. And also we've broken the material down in a way that lends itself to better learning by going from lesson to lesson.

So print the whole of the workbook from the course homepage, and then consume the material lesson by lesson. Finally a word about using the workbook. Now, whether you download the complete workbook from the course homepage, which we recommend, or you download it module by module, or even lesson by lesson, the content is exactly the same.

Doesn't change whichever format you download, and the individual content for each lesson follows the same pattern. You'll have a little bit of work we encourage you to do before you take the lesson. This helps you test your presuppositions about the topic that we're going to talk about. Then some work to do as you consume the actual lesson itself, and then some reflection for you to spend time on after the lesson.

So there's a, before the lesson, during the lesson, and after lesson structure to most of the worksheet content. And while you can, if you wish, print the workbook out and work with a paper and pen, this is a fillable PDF, so you can actually work with it digitally and put whatever you want to say right there and you can learn to spell as well on screen. And just to be careful, what I like to do, if I'm going to pause for a while and come back a little later, I like to just hit Command S, Control S if you're on a Windows computer and save my work before closing the workbook down.

How to Get the Most Out of This Course

Hi, and welcome to How to Be an Exceptional Visionary Leader. I'm Les McKeown and I'll be taking you through today's course. But before we jump into the detailed content, let me take just literally a few minutes to share with you five things which taken together will greatly enhance the quality of the outputs and results you get from this course.

Now, if you've taken other courses with us and you've seen this slide before, then feel free to skip right through because it's exactly the same for every course. But if this is the first time that you've seen this, then please invest the next few minutes. Like I say, it'll radically enhance your results. So five things. First of all, my name is Les McKeown, as I said, but that's enough about me for right now.

Rather than have you listen to me explain who I am and why I'm qualified to deliver this content to you, we put a separate short course on your course dashboard where you can go and hear more than you probably need to know or want to know about me and about Predictable Success. So that's right on your course dashboard waiting for you. The second thing is this: if somehow or other and I'm not too sure how it would happen, but I'm told it does, you've arrived at this course without taking the Predictable Success Leadership Styles quiz.

In other words, if you're not aware of the Visionary, Operator, Processor, Synergist model that we're going to be talking about, then invest the four to five minutes it takes to take the quiz. It's free. It literally will just take you a few moments. You'll get your results instantly. You'll also be sent an email with a link to a more detailed PDF, and just investing the time to read that will really, really massively increase what you get out of today's course.

So if somehow you haven't taken the quiz, find the link on this page and go take it. Then come right back here. Thirdly, we're going to talk here about what we call your base Style. That's the single one of the four Styles that you scored most highly on. Now, that's the primary, most important lens to look at your leadership Style through is what is your base Style, but it is just a starting point.

Those other three Styles do impact how you show up as a leader. So take this course as a starting point and use the additional resources that we have for you at the end to go deeper and to learn how to leverage not just your base Style, but how you show up with the other Styles as well. And all of that is going to become much clearer as you work through this course. The fourth point is a corollary of point 3, which is this: because I'm talking about your Base Style, the single Style that you scored most highly on in this course, I'm going to use a lot of generalizations.

You'll hear me say that Visionaries are like this, that Processors don't enjoy doing that, that Operators will always X, Y, Z, and Synergists will never A, B, C, but those are generalizations and of course none of them apply all of the time to everyone. That's the nature of generalizations. The flip side of that means that there are many cases in which what I'll share may not apply to you, and I don't want you to trip up if and when that happens.

So if you hear me say that a certain Style does this, likes this, enjoys this, and you think that's, that's not really me, that's fine. We're none of us cookie cutters, we're none of us exactly the same as other people. Thank goodness. So as with any course, take what works, leave what doesn't. Don't get tripped up by applicable generalizations that don't work for you.

And finally, let me share with you that there'll be quite a lot going on screen during this course. There's a visual learning element to it. Now, while you can consume the course podcast style, just listening to the audio, heck, you could even just read the PDFs.

You are not going to get anything like the sort of rich learning experience that you will get if you just invest the time to, at the very least, sit in front of your phone, preferably use a tablet or your desktop and engage with the visual element as well. So with all that said, let's jump into how to be an exceptional Visionary leader.

Course Introduction and Overview

So with all that said, let's jump into How to Be an Exceptional Visionary Leader.

You've taken the quiz and the Visionary leadership Style of the four - Visionary, Operator, Processor, Synergist - is the one that you scored most highly on, and we're going to take you through three modules:

First of all, we're going to enhance your understanding of what the Visionary leadership Style is. Then secondly, I'm going to share with you what I call the Exceptional Visionary Leaders Toolkit, and then thirdly, we're going to provide you with some additional resources that help you dive deeper into your Visionary Style and how to get the best out of it.