The Graduate Certificate in Organizational Leadership provides students the knowledge and capabilities to lead and influence individuals, teams, and organizations.
What You'll Learn
Students graduating with the Graduate Certificate in Organizational Leadership will demonstrate knowledge and the capability to:
- Define leadership and recognize its role in creating personal, team, and organizational change.
- Identify broad leadership behaviors, skills, and styles and assess their likely effectiveness across situations, stakeholders, and interests.
- Recognize the role of organizational systems and culture and design them to support effective change.
- Integrate leadership best practices into their sense of self and enact self-compatible behaviors that are effective, ethical, and capability developing.
Putting Your Certificate in Organizational Leadership to Work
Every indsustry, every business, every field needs a leader. The demand for skilled and intentional leaders is constant and, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, growing. The BLS projects that management positions will grow 9 percent from 2020 to 2030, meaning your talents and interests are in demand.
Highlighting your certificate in organizational leadership on your resume is a great way to stand-out in a crowd. Taking formal classes in leadership can help you understand your distinct style of leadership, identify areas for growth and apply your newfound skills and knowledge to grow as a leader. You'll have an advanced set of practical skills that you honed throughout the projects and experiences that make yp your coursework. Skills in areas like negotiation, team-building and self-leaderships are transferable, and can be applied to whatever career path you are currently in or plan to shift to.