Build the credibility, trust, clarity, inspiration, support, and responsibility required to lead effectively.
List Price: $250 (Save $151)
Course
With Sim Sitkin
Professor of Leadership, Management & Public Policy, Duke UniversityCo-Creator of The Six Domains of Leadership Model
List Price: $250 (Save $151)
of Duke research
self-paced
1 model
Whether you're entering your first management role, leading across functions, or carrying enterprise-level responsibility, the course gives you a common language for examining and improving your leadership.
Most leaders get here the same way: they were good at the work, so someone handed them a team. What comes with the title isn't feedback on how you actually lead — it's a guess.
"The Six Domains of Leadership Model gives you specific, research-based results you can incorporate into your behavior to solve the problems you're facing right now."
— SIM SITKIN · DUKE UNIVERSIT
CO-CREATOR OF THE MODEL
Explore six interconnected domains that explain how leaders establish credibility, build relationships, create clarity, raise aspirations, help others succeed, and exercise responsibility.
People listen to you because they trust your capabilities and qualities.
People rely upon you and are willing to be vulnerable to your decisions and actions.
Members of the organization feel they are part of a community and not just a collection of individuals.
People on your team consistently try to go beyond the established standards and goals, embracing a sense of challenge and opportunity.
People on your team are willing to take personal initiative when appropriate, and to defer to or involve others when that is more appropriate.
Organizational members take ownership of the mission, live the organization's values, and contribute to its success.
Why We Created The Six Domains of Leadership
How the Six Domains Fit Together
Why Should Others See You as Credible?
Why Should Others Trust You?
How Do You Help People Make Sense of the Organization?
How Do You Raise Aspirations?
How Do You Energize Action and Help Others Succeed?
How Do You Model Stewardship for the Organization?
Measure Where You Stand Today
Turning The Six Domains of Leadership into Daily Practice
Each lesson connects leadership research to recognizable workplace challenges — helping you move from understanding the model to applying it in conversations, decisions, and relationships.
Fundamentals for Leaders is built to be applied immediately — not just watched. Every lesson closes with a reflection prompt you can act on the same day.
Turn self-awareness into action — see your patterns as a leader, and know exactly what behaviors to adjust first.
Lead across all Six Domains of Leadership, not just the one or two that come naturally to you.
Build stronger, more collaborative teams by closing the gap between how you intend to lead and how it actually lands.
Lead with responsibility, inspiration, and support at the same time — instead of trading one off for another.
Walk into a coaching conversation ready, with shared language and a clear starting point.
Take The Six Domains of Leadership 360° Survey with the model already in hand, so the results mean something the moment you see them.
In Fundamentals for Leaders, expert Sim Sitkin draws on over two decades of research on trust, risk, and organizational behavior to provide a practical executive framework.
His work on leadership and control systems has been applied across top boardrooms and classrooms, from IBM to Duke Medical Center. This course offers a structured approach that enables leaders to evaluate their everyday behavior and pinpoint exactly where to make meaningful changes.
Krzyzewski University Professor of Leadership, Professor of Management and Public Policy, Duke University
Co-Creator · Six Domains of Leadership
Founding Partner · Delta Leadership, Inc.
Director · Duke Behavioral Science & Policy Center
Founding Faculty Director · Duke Center on Leadership and Ethics
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His research focuses on leadership and control systems and how they shape an organization's capacity for change and innovation. He's widely known for his work on how formal and informal control systems affect risk-taking, accountability, trust, learning from failure, and innovation.
He holds a BA in psychology from Clark University, an EdM in education from Harvard University, and a PhD in business from Stanford University.
Consulting & executive education for: ABB, Alcoa, American Airlines, Cisco Systems, Compaq, Corning, Credit Suisse First Boston, Deutsche Bank, Duke Medical Center, Ericsson, GlaxoSmithKline, IBM, Lenovo, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Red Hat Software, and others.
Learn directly from the co-creator of The Six Domains of Leadership Model, and start applying a more complete, evidence-based approach to leadership today.
List Price: $250 (Save $151)
Fundamentals for Leaders is self-paced — start today, move at your own speed, and revisit any lesson as often as you'd like. The $99 launch price is available for a limited time; the course then returns to its list price of $250.
31 lessons · ~2–3 hours · hosted on Thinkific
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Good to Know
Completely self-paced. 31 short lessons, roughly two to three hours total, hosted on Thinkific — go at your own pace.
No. Fundamentals for Leaders is the starting point — no prior exposure to the model is needed.
You'll get a clear next step toward The Six Domains of Leadership 360° Survey, and — if you'd like — a path to connect with a coach.
No. It's built for leaders at every level, plus coaches who want a shared framework to use with clients.
That's exactly who Fundamentals for Leaders is built for. The model isn't a personality test or a label — it's a set of behaviors across six domains that can be learned and strengthened, regardless of where you're starting from.
It's built for exactly that constraint. Each lesson is short and self-contained, with a reflection prompt you can act on the same day — you don't need a free weekend to get value from it.
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