Certificate in Leadership Development (Online at your own pace)
Especially geared for future leaders in the Gen Y generation (born 1980-1999), the certificate provides how-to practical information on advancing your leadership potential and making a difference in both the workplace and in society. Find out what it takes to become an effective leader. Discover your style of leadership. Discuss task completion, building relationships with your subordinates, becoming socially perceptive to changes in the workplace, utilizing your emotions in a positive and effective manner, and addressing challenging goals. Then learn the unspoken secrets that leaders know and the strategies they employ/exhibit in for influencing others. Leadership skills are acquired and learned. You can become a leader if you know the do’s and don’ts; what to say, what not to say; what to do, what not to do. At the end of completing the three course certificate, come away with a new understanding, new toolbox of leadership skills, and the information to move your leadership development into high gear.
Courses (click links for course details):
- Leadership Principles
- Developing Your Leadership Skills
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Developing Your Professional Career
Courses are online and asynchronous, meaning students may login to the classroom anytime during the course session, day or night, 24/7. For more information, go to our Online Professional Development Certificates & Courses FAQ
Class details:
| Leadership Principles | ||
Unit 1: What leaders do and believe
What Leaders Believe Attributes of leaders: what characteristics leaders have that others don’t What leadership experts say about leadership |
Unit 2: Recognizing your leadership style
The Philosophy of Leadership Leadership Models Leadership is made, not born |
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Unit 3: The vision thing
Deciding where you want to go Creating your vision Making others believe in your vision |
Unit 4: The power of empowerment
Why Gen Y and Z demand empowerment The risks and rewards of empowerment Ways to empower others |
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| Developing Your Leadership Skills | ||
Unit 1: Making leadership happen
What Leaders Believe Attributes of leaders: what characteristics leaders have that others don’t Making it happen: becoming a leader Leadership procedures and processes, how leaders work |
Unit 2: Attending meetings: Where the action is
The dynamics of meetings Recognizing the players in a meeting How to study. The unspoken cues of body language, silence, objections Studying/Reading the leader in a meeting |
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Unit 3: The secrets of leading successful meetings
The 5 Secrets of leading an outcome oriented meeting Getting something passed Understanding meeting procedures: Bob’s Process Model |
Unit 4: Change: How to influence others
Delivering the case Gaining support, before, during, and after meetings Taking leadership |
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| Developing Your Professional Career | ||
Unit 1: Mapping your career for success
Setting and monitoring your career goals Establishing a mentor partnership as a start in your professional career |
Unit 2: Developing your professional career through non-verbal communication
Conveying the right message with your body language Writing what you think Haptics – Using touch to convey non-verbal communication How to understand others non-verbal communication |
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Unit 3: Image is everything
What you wear can determine where you go How to determine if your image is headed in the right direction How your communication and your image should agree with each other |
Unit 4: Using social media to help developing your professional career
How to use Social Media to create a professional online presence How to avoid negative images trap that many people fall victim to on Social Media |
William A Draves
William A. Draves is one of the foremost authorities in the world on teaching online. More than 6,000 faculty and teachers have taken this course. He did his graduate work in education, with an emphasis on adult education, from The George Washington University in Washington DC.
Draves has taught for over thirty years, including teaching at the graduate level. His books include "How to Teach Adults," the most popular book ever written on the subject, and "Energizing the Learning Environment."
He has been interviewed by Wired.com, The New York Times, NPR, NBC Nightly News, Washington Post, Virtual University News, Chronicle of Higher Education and other national media.
Draves is author of the book, "Advanced Teaching Online," which is used as the text book for this course. This course is part of the Certified Online Instructor (COI) designation, the most recognized certification for online teaching in higher education.
Tawanda McLaurin
Tawanda McLaurin is a dynamic leader serving in leadership positions in education and as a facilitator of Professional Development and IT courses at the local college. She believes that each individual has what it takes to reach their goals and helps individuals create roadmaps for success.
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Online registration is overInstructors:
- William A Draves
- Tawanda McLaurin
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