Leadership Development Certificate

Learning and discerning your role as a professional is key to understanding how training, development, and learning are different modes for the field of leadership development. This course explores trends, challenges, and your role in the field of leadership development.

.This course supports the design of leader education with a focus on adult development and adult learning approaches.  Understanding how to design leader development programs through the lens of adult development and learning rather than adult education can enhance the qualitiative growth of a leader's ability to be effective.

.This course focuses on the development, delivery, and evaluation of leader development programs. Through the cycle of assesment, challenge, support, and evaluation, the intersection of leader and adult development and learning how to lead are designed, delivered, and evaluated.

This course focuses with identifying major risks that organizations face, the sources and reasons for these risks, and alternative strategies to reduce risk to insure continuity and sustainability.  The course will utilize case studies to help students better understand the concepts of risk management.  Students will be asked to draw upon their own experiences in the class. 

In this course students will examine the history of leadership theory to understand its development and to explore the future of leadership study. Additionally, students will also explore the nature and charactership of leadership addressing the key question, What is leadership? This course utilizes an interdisciplinary approach in its survey of leadership issues, incorporating historical, political, literary, scientific, sociologically, and theological prospecitves.

Provides a conceptual basis for managers to interpret, assess, and influence human behavior in an organization. Analyzes the interaction of individual, group, and organizational dynamics that influence human behavior in organizations and determines appropriate management approaches to foster a productive work environment. Examines a variety of theories, models and strategies used to understand motivation and individual behavior, decision making, the dynamics of groups, work teams, communication, leadership, power and politics, conflict resolution, work design, organizational structure and culture, and managing change.

This course sets the topics of management, finance, marketing, and other aspects of business decision making in a global context.  The course focuses on theoretical aspects (theory of international trade and finance) as well as applied aspects (overcoming cultural barriers, dealing with a different legal environment and standard systems) of international business.  Some other topics covered in class include: export and import strategies, international accounting issues, foreign exchange, and international labor relations.

This class provides a framework for understanding the importance of business ethics and corporate responsibility. The aspects of leadership, compliance and decision making in organization will be studied, along with the potential conflicts between, and impacts on the stakeholders of an organizaiton. This course will examine the relationships between business and society, considering the ethical questions and implications involved. Students will become involved in the local business community through off-campus visits and explorations of various business- community partnerships in the area.

Social Entrepreneurship is an intense introduction and immersion into the development and implementaion of social entrepreneur enterprises. We will introduce students into the development of social entrepreneurial projects/enterprises, managing social entrepreneurial projects/enterprises, and expanding social entrepreneurial projects/enterprises.

This course invites students to explore the mindset of creativity and innovation with the application of creativity and innovation into the organizational and the entrepreneurial process. We will explore a variety of ways for students to increase their creativity and innovation in their professional roles. We will study companies which are creative and innovative and we will study companies who failed to be innovative and creative.

In this course, students will learn practical applications of Management, Leadership and Supervision theory. Practical applications begin with identification of problems and opportunities in a format that allows systematic solutions. The course is based on Kotter's concept of the difference between leadership and management dimensions and utilizes real world challenges to design systematic plans of improvement.

This 5 week program is designed to create personal change, evolve self-knowledge and expand your world-view. Expect change to occur in how you lead and how you work, not matter what your business. This educational and experiential course will provide a peer to peer learning cohort; deliver practical tools to use every day; and explore transformational change plus evolutionary change through self-knowledge.