ESSENTIAL LEADERSHIP SKILLS
Master the Daily Challenges of Leadership with Proven Tools & Strategies
A comprehensive toolkit of 32 lessons to help you handle any leadership challenge—people, processes, and performance—so you can lead with confidence and effectiveness. Intended as a supplement course for our Truby Management Leadership Course but can also be purchased alone.
Leadership is not just about strategy—it’s about people. Every leader faces daily challenges, from managing difficult personalities to handling conflicts, improving performance, and making tough decisions.
The Essential Leadership Skills course is your practical guide to overcoming these challenges. Designed as an add-on to our core leadership training, this course equips you with time-tested tools, methodologies, and strategies to address virtually any leadership obstacle.
Whether you’re leading a small team or an entire organization, these skills will help you navigate real-world situations with clarity, confidence, and control. And if you’re working toward becoming a Truby Certified Master Leader (CML), this course is one of three required to earn your certification.
What You’ll Learn:
Master Conflict Resolution – Learn to address disagreements effectively, fostering a collaborative team environment.
Handle Difficult Employees – Strategies to manage low performers, passive-aggressive behavior, and challenging personalities.
Optimize Meeting Management – Run efficient, productive meetings that lead to real results.
Strengthen Strategic Thinking – Develop and implement plans that drive success while adapting to unforeseen challenges.
Course Content
This course includes 32 concise and comprehensive lessons covering a wide range of essential leadership skills, equipping you to handle both everyday challenges and complex situations with confidence.
Each lesson is designed to provide practical, actionable strategies to improve team performance, communication, conflict resolution, decision-making, and more. Key topics include managing difficult personalities, running effective meetings, handling performance issues, and developing strategic thinking. These lessons serve as a vital resource for any leader looking to strengthen their ability to navigate people and process challenges, ensuring long-term success in any leadership role.
Lesson Topics
- Power in a Uniform (8:04)
- Ensure You Communicate Clearly (2:31)
- Leadership vs. Management (2:31)
- You Can’t Fail (4:44)
- Get What You Expect (3:25)
- Systems Thinking (18:23)
- Five Leadership Traits (5:14)
- Five Things Leaders Manage (2:05)
- Delegation (9:20)
- Creative Flexibility (7:08)
- Appreciation/Acknowledgement (13:07)
- Four Reasons for a Lack of Follow-Through (4:00)
- Never Fire Anyone Again (10:38)
- Passive Aggressive Behavior (3:27)
- The Problem Slayer (3:35)
- Championing (4:37)
- Mind Shifts (4:59)
- Conflict Management (30:23)
- Meeting Management (7:30)
- Building a Task Team (8:35)
- The Psychology of Play (5:09)
- Learned Helplessness (8:48)
- Trust and Accountability (19:39)
- Hiring Right (8:29)
- Onboarding (6:57)
- Marketing Model (11:47)
- The Peak-End Rule (6:27)
- Formula for Building Relationships (7:11)
- Zero Tolerance for Deviation (3:21)
- ROI Thinking (2:40)
- The ENORMOUS Cost of Waste (22:00)
- Danger of Discounting (11:15)
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$149 per year for the Essential Leadership Skills Course
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$495 per year for the Complete Leadership Bundle (3 Courses)*
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The Complete Leadership Bundle includes the Truby Management System Leadership Training Course, the Essential Leadership Skills Course (shown here), and the Leader’s Well-Being Course.

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Meet Bill Truby
Course Instructor
Truby Achievements, Inc. is the culmination of Bill Truby’s life work. Over 40 years of learning has brought this company to a seasoned maturity in how it brings success to leaders. Joann Truby’s contribution began over 20 years ago and propelled the company into greater insights and abilities. Together, these co-founders lead a team of people who find immense pleasure in helping others be successful – in personal life, relationships, and business.
Bill brings the background of common-sense learning (being raised on a cattle ranch) a B.A. in Theology, M.A. in Psychology, been a practicing MFT (Marriage and Family Therapist) and nearly 30 years of real-world-experience business practice to the table. Joann brings a lifetime of being an athlete, having been a multi-year, national champion in artistic roller skating, then holding many roles in the fitness industry, including management, personal training, program development, and an instructor.
These multiple perspectives and backgrounds synergize to bring an amazingly simple, yet powerful tool and team leadership training that has been proven over and over to give stellar success. In short. We’ve done it. Multiple times. In real word situations. And our passion is to share these success principles with you.

If you always do what you’ve always done…you’ll always get what you’ve always gotten!
If you want to be a truly effective leader, you need more than just a system—you need the skills to handle the real-world challenges that come with leading people and managing processes. Essential Leadership Skills gives you the 32 critical lessons that equip you to navigate conflict, improve communication, develop strategic thinking, and inspire high performance.
Leadership is a skill that can be learned, refined, and mastered—and this course gives you the tools to do just that.
Still unsure? Our course comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee—so you can enroll with confidence.
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