Article 
Self-Assessment 
Video 
Skill Bites
Mini-courses for members
Guided bite-sized courses designed to help you master essential management and career skills.
What are Skill Bites?
A collection of mini-courses designed to guide you through specific pain points of management and leadership. Each Skill Bite is between six and ten sessions long with each session taking 10-15 minutes to complete.
You can make commitments to implement what you’ve learned, and, at the end, take a quiz to see how much your skills have improved. Plus, on completion of each Skill Bite, you’ll also receive a digital badge so you can show off your new knowledge and skills to your network!
You can make commitments to implement what you’ve learned, and, at the end, take a quiz to see how much your skills have improved. Plus, on completion of each Skill Bite, you’ll also receive a digital badge so you can show off your new knowledge and skills to your network!
Our New Better Manager Skill Bites
Delegation
Over these six sessions, you’ll learn how to overcome any obstacles or reluctance to delegating and how to choose what tasks to delegate, who to delegate to, and how.
Modeling Inclusion
Learn how to model inclusion by making time for others, cultivating an open and accessible attitude, recognizing the value of diversity, and putting inclusive solutions into practice.
Empathy
Over these seven sessions, you’ll learn how to Improve your listening skills, to pick up on non-verbal clues from others, build trust and develop your self-awareness.
Building Trust With Your Team
To manage a team well you need to inspire trust. Without it, your people will shrink from new challenges, struggle to step out of their comfort zone, and stop short of achieving their full potential.
Goal Setting With Your Team
In these seven sessions, you'll learn how to set goals with your team.
Developing Social Sensitivity
In these six sessions, you'll learn how to deepen your emotional intelligence by developing "social sensitivity".
Active-Empathic Listening
In these seven sessions, you'll learn how to develop to "active-empathic listening" - a key skill in the workplace.
Building a Coaching Culture
In these eight sessions you'll discover essential skills to help you build a coaching culture in your team.
Recognition
In these seven sessions, you'll learn how and why to recognize positive behaviors in your team.
Empowering Employees
In six sessions, you'll explore how to create a productive, innovative and high-performing team.
Transparent Communication
Find out how transparent communication can boost engagement, trust and performance in these six sessions.
Self-Awareness and Self-Regulation
In these seven sessions learn how to develop your self-awareness and regulate your emotions to rise to management challenges.
Read the research behind our Better Manager Skill Bites
Our short courses are evidence-based, covering the top skill areas identified in our latest research report, Building Better Managers, as the most in-demand for managers in 2024.
More Skill Bites courses
Collaboration
A nine-session course that will give you the knowledge, skills and confidence to collaborate successfully.
Stress Management
Over nine sessions, you’ll explore powerful tips and techniques for identifying and managing stress.
Critical Thinking
In ten sessions you’ll develop analytical and observational skills that will help you understand how to make objective, evidence-based decisions.
Giving Feedback
If you want to discover how to give great feedback and how to follow up effectively, this eight-session Skill Bite is for you.
Problem Solving
Learn how to overcome challenges in this nine-session Skill Bite.
Resilience
Discover the tips and techniques to bounce back and start to face the challenges that life throws at you with confidence in this nine-session course.
Earn and collect digital badges
We’ve partnered with Credly, a leading Open Badge platform, to provide you with a digital version of your Skill Bites credential. Download your badge and showcase what you’ve accomplished to colleagues, managers and your social media network.
Join Mind Tools
With membership comes access to management and leadership resources including articles, expert interviews, book insights, infographics, videos, our Skill Bites courses, Pain Points Podcast and more.
