Certificate in Organizational Leadership
These three courses together comprise an expanded in-depth version of our Leader Accelerator/Corporate Edition. While retaining the attributes that make our Corporate Edition so successful (coaching, action learning, and 360 Leadership Style inventory), participants in this totally online series will also learn the theory behind the program’s effectiveness.
This nine credit hour sequence is transferrable into any of The Chicago School’s online-blended master’s degrees, and by special arrangement with Baker College in Michigan, is transferrable into their online MBA program.
EIO525 Management and Leadership
Management and leadership is the heart of organizational life. This course examines how managers and leaders create results by empowering culture and organizational commitment. It leads with the premise that there is no ideal leadership style and that an effective style depends upon realistic assessment of the organizational life cycle, culture, and market environment. Students apply management and leadership theory to their own work environment, evaluating how specific situations can be effectively addressed. (3 credit hours)
ELA526 Developing Others and Achieving Results
Participants in the Leader Accelerator Program learn and apply leadership skills at the personal, interpersonal, and organizational levels through developing and executing an Action Learning Project at work. They are supported by online discussions, selected readings, interactive workshops, and professional coaching. To integrate the experience and allow for skill generalization, participants write an integrative literature review to support the methodologies used in their action learning project that includes a critical after-action report. Theories of leadership, motivation, team dynamics, organizational development, and diversity management are explored and applied. (3 credit hours)
EIO555 Organizational Team Dynamics (Blended; 3 Semester Hours)
This course explores organizations at the team level, examining the relationship between employees and teams and organizations and teams. Students practice assessing and facilitating team processes to maximize productivity and results for members and stakeholders. It addresses how to get things done when teams lack leadership or authority. Supporting topics include how to build teams, how to manage meetings, how to build relationships beyond the team, and how to keep teams effective over their life span. The course uses real-time teams, both virtual and face-to-face. (3 credit hours)
What our participants have said
“The 360 was a fantastic tool! I was able to have seven people give me feedback, and I got a broad range of areas to take a look at. In the feedback I'm seeing where I do some things too much. I like how the manual breaks it down so you can build on your strengths. One thing that stuck with me in this course from the discussions was that you have to make a conscious effort to take the time in your work day to work on the things you want to improve. This course has made me accountable for all of this. Investing time in my people has a huge payoff on my projects. One of my direct reports is growing by seeing how what I'm doing to help him develop makes his work time more productive.” Tom Luzar, Construction Project Manager
"I learned to act on what I know. The feedback I got from my direct reports helped boost me out of complacency. Now I'm doing different things with them, and I most certainly know that they are responding positively. I learned that some of my people did not function the way I wanted them to because they weren't getting the leadership from me to be empowered. That's all changing. I learned to push them more and make them more accountable-and I have to be more accountable to hold them accountable." Valerie Burgest, Director, County Health Program
