Top Managers understand and practice the organizational tools needed to manage organizations effectively and efficiently.  Learners will study effective implementation, delegation, decision making, and strategies for conducting effective meetings.

This course includes the following video learning sections:

  • How to Assure Effective Implementation
  • How to Delegate
  • How to Make Decisions Correctly
  • How to Make Decisions as a Team
  • How to Run Effective Meetings

Learners will interactively experience video lectures from Dr, Ichak Adizes, review related articles, supported reading, review a summary of each video and be challenged with a knowledge check for each section.

Ultimately, learners will pass a module exam to earn a Completion Badge.

Collect all six module badges to earn an Adizes Certificate of Completion for the Top Leadership Training Course.


Based on the book Management/Mismanagement Styles by Dr. Ichak Adizes, this course introduces several key concepts of the Adizes Methodology for Organizational Transformation; Complimentary Teams, Management Styles and Roles of Management. Learners will gain an understanding of the four primary management styles, learn to identify them and then practice the fundamentals of building highly effective teams with the Adizes concept of Coalesced Authority, Power and Influence (Capi).

This course includes the following video learning sections:

  • Management and Mismanagement Styles
  • Which Complementary Teams Work Well
  • “Deadwood”
  • How to Work with a Producer/Lone Ranger
  • How to Deal with an “A” Type
  • How to Work Well with an “Arsonist”

Learners will interactively experience video lectures from Dr, Ichak Adizes, review related articles, supported reading, review a summary of each video and be challenged with a knowledge check for each section.

Ultimately, learners will pass a module exam to earn a Completion Badge.

Collect all six module badges to earn an Adizes Certificate of Completion for the Top Leadership Training Course.


The world is in a constant state of change, and organizations need to be able to adapt to change in order to survive.  This course discusses organizational mission and structures.  Organizations need to ask themselves key questions such as: What business are we in? Are we in the right field? Should we remodel the business in response to change? Learners will understand and practice developing a mission statement and consider organizational structures and talent resources needed to achieve that mission in relation to their position on the Corporate Lifecycle.

This course includes the following video learning sections:

  • How to Define an Organization Mission
  • What is First: Strategy or Mission?
  • Is Your Company Structured Right?
  • How to Structure a Small Company
  • Accountability
  • How to Hire the Right People

Learners will interactively experience video lectures from Dr, Ichak Adizes, review related articles, supported reading, review a summary of each video and be challenged with a knowledge check for each section.

Ultimately, learners will pass a module exam to earn a Completion Badge.

Collect all six module badges to earn an Adizes Certificate of Completion for the Top Leadership Training Course.


All organizations have lifecycles. Learners will learn to identify lifecycles, differentiate between them and understand that some problems and opportunities are normal or abnormal for an organization at any given position on the Corporate Lifecycle Curve. Understanding an organization's position in its lifecycle will empower managers to communicate, structure and reward their organization effectively. The Adizes Method teaches the tools needed to identify and resolve abnormal problems in the right sequence and at the right time.

This course includes the following video learning sections:

  • How to Start a Business
  • The GoGo Company
  • From Entrepreneurship to Professional Management
  • How to Get Out of the Founder’s Trap
  • The Aristocratic Company
  • Signs of Organizational Aging
  • Rejuvenating an Aging Company

Learners will interactively experience video lectures from Dr, Ichak Adizes, review related articles, supported reading, review a summary of each video and be challenged with a knowledge check for each section.

Ultimately, learners will pass a module exam to earn a Completion Badge.

Collect all six module badges to earn an Adizes Certificate of Completion for the Top Leadership Training Course.



With a clear understanding of what management actually is, and what it means “to manage”, This course discusses additional management concepts, uncovers and disputes common misunderstandings about management, and introduces the Adizes concepts of Mutual Trust and Respect and Differing Perceptions.  It is recommended that learners complete Leadership Training Module one - “What is Management?” prior to taking this course.

This course includes the following video learning sections:

  • Management Myths I
  • Management Myths II
  • Perceiving Reality
  • How to Build a Culture of Mutual Trust & Respect
  • The Secret of Success of Any Organization

Learners will interactively experience video lectures from Dr, Ichak Adizes, review related articles, supported reading, review a summary of each video and be challenged with a knowledge check for each section.

Ultimately, learners will pass a module exam to earn a Completion Badge.

Collect all six module badges to earn an Adizes Certificate of Completion for the Top Leadership Training Course.


Learners will understand what it really means to “manage” and learn how to manage. The Adizes “functionalist” approach to management is explained. Management training learners will gain new insights, communication skills and practices needed to manage their departments and organizations effectively and efficiently. What is the role of conflict in management and how can one use it as a constructive resource? Learners will study environmental change, the nature of problems and opportunities, what it means to manage well, what makes up an ideal executive and what is a leader?

This course includes the following video learning sections:

  • What is the Problem?
  • What is Management?
  • What Does it Mean to Manage Well?
  • The Ideal Executive
  • What is a Leader?
Learners will interactively experience video lectures from Dr, Ichak Adizes, review related articles, supported reading, review a summary of each video and be challenged with a knowledge check for each section.

Ultimately, learners will pass a module exam to earn a Completion Badge. Collect all six module badges to earn an Adizes Certificate of Completion for the Top Leadership Training Course.