Leadership Evening Certificate Program
Course Code: PDP 5127
It has been said that managers are deployed while leaders deploy themselves. Managerial leaders are also confident decision-makers, and good decision-makers can be a company’s competitive advantage. In today’s environment, there is a worldwide need for corporate leadership in every industry who can build organizations that are fast, flexible, healthy, ethical, and responsive.
This program is uniquely designed to help leaders to be get ready for their new challenges and responsibilities. You will discover the heart, soul, and mind of true leadership. You’ll learn what people expect from and respect in leaders. You’ll explore leadership roles as strategist, change agent, coach, manager, communicator, mentor, and team member. And you will learn how to develop your unique leadership style for maximum impact.
Northeastern University’s Leadership Certificate is an intensive and practical evening program offered over 12 weeks (3-hour evening sessions). Discover why true leadership involves inspiring others to tread new territory with you to optimize your company’s performance and why you must be an instrument of innovation and change. Here is your opportunity to learn how to identify and manage your leadership challenges through practical and proven-in-action techniques, in-class exercises that allow you to try out new ideas, and shared insights with your seminar leaders and peers.
You will evaluate and strengthen your current leadership practices and learn to adapt to the challenges of modern business leadership. You will learn to approach leadership as a collaborative process between leaders, their employees, and others in the organization. The class format is highly interactive requiring a high level of participants’ involvement. Through individual assessment and feedback, minilectures, class discussion, experiential exercises, coaching, peer interaction, and a team project, the Leadership Certificate program cuts deeply into the most compelling questions of leadership and creates a clear pathway of action for applying learning toward effective, engaging leadership.
Who Should Attend
• High-potential managers and mid-level executives seeking new managerial skills
• Professionals that need a broader business perspective
• Managers who need to increase the independence and/or creativity of employees
Program
Class 1 The New Science of Leadership
• Defining the New Dimension: why shift and what to?
• Exploring the principles and facts of the New
Science of Leadership
• New perspectives on how organizations really work
• Raising the ceiling of potential to new heights
• Introduce Learning Teams
Class 2 The New Role of the Leader
• Definition/Importance of a leader’s role
• Self-Assessment (Skills/Style)
• Tailoring style to the situation
• The role of emotional intelligence
Class 3 Inside-Out: The Personal Side of Leadership
• Exploring your impact
• What unique strengths and talents do you bring?
• Creating a personal style and intention
• Working with emotional intelligence
Class 4 Systemic Thinking
• Departure from cause and effect to holistic view of interconnectedness
• Examining how underlying structure and mental models make up a system
• Finding the highest leverage system shift
Class 5 Creating Context to Inspire and Guide Action
• Clarifying vision and expressing intent
• Collaborative methods to create shared understanding
• Tapping into your unique talents to inspire commitment
• Providing key principles to guide forward action
Class 6 Creating a Collaborative Team Culture
• Elements of culture
• Principles of self-organization
• Using intention to develop a culture on purpose
• Raising awareness to drive clarity, alignment, and movement
Class 7 Utilizing Structure
• Language, processes, and practical tools to enable order to emerge from chaos
• Concrete applications to shift unspoken norms to agreed to operating modes
• Using structure to drive behavior which increases performance
Class 8 Communication
• Strategic communication for influence and desired impact
• Interpersonal communication
• Levels of listening
• New approach to giving and receiving feedback in a learning organization
Class 9 Outside-In: Leveraging Talents and
Strengths of the Organization
• Select and distribute work based on talent
• Define the right outcomes
• Motivate by focusing on strengths
• Build and develop capacity
Class 10 Collaborative Coaching
• Use of coaching to consistently deepen the learning and forward the action at multiple levels
• Encourage critical thinking, self-discovery, and ongoing learning
• Create a lasting shift in organization culture and performance
Class 11 Creating Sustainable Momentum and Flow
• Making better decisions on a daily basis
• The role of synchronicity in organization achievement
• Leveraging conditions and resources in the moment
Class 12 Key Nuggets to Applied New Generation Leadership
• Integrated view of the key strategies for applied new generation leadership
• Personal commitment and organizational planning
• Learning team presentations
Requirements to earn Certificate
• Miss no more than 1 class night
• Payment made in full
• Access to e-mail to communicate with NU staff
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Dates / Locations
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Fees
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Instructor
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