Graduate Program Certificate:
Strategic Leadership
Learn the skills, principles, and traits that successful leaders all share.
Leadership is both an art and a science. As a manager, the ability to motivate and positively influence others is central to both personal and career success. The Strategic Leadership Certificate examines productive leadership in its many facets, through the study of evidence-based approaches for motivating individuals and teams.
As organizations continue the trend of flattening hierarchies and expecting more people to lead, the skills taught in this module become even more critical. Pursing this module puts you in a unique position to help any organization that you join. It includes hands-on training in:
- Conflict resolution
- Negotiation
- Transformational leadership
- Encouraging innovation
- Driving positive organizational change
Because this leadership module does not focus on specific career tracks or positions, it is ideal preparation for anyone who dreams of a C-suite career managing and leading others.
Career in Strategic Leadership
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Courses
This course examines major concepts, theories, processes, and practices associated with conflict analysis, resolution, and negotiation. Within an interactive learning environment, emphasis is placed on preparing for and analyzing conflict and negotiation situations, developing various goals of conflict management and negotiation, learning principles of constructive and destructive communication, assessing biases and barriers to effective conflict resolution and negotiation, and reflecting on these processes for managerial growth and development. This course is designed to address a broad spectrum of conflict resolution and negotiation problems that are faced by managers and professionals. Moreover, we will combine the theoretical concepts from class with applications, so you can understand why and how things work in context. Successful completion of this course will enable you to recognize, understand, and analyze essential concepts in conflict resolution and negotiation.
This course focuses on the process by which managers sense and respond to change. It emphasizes proactive, planned, and managed change that can involve the adaptation of structure and policy, as well as the influence of underlying system of beliefs, values, and attitudes. The course includes an examination of leadership climate, organizational culture, and individual resistance as factors influencing the change process and comparison of the efficacy of possible interventions.