EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

A Certificate in Leadership

MODULE TOPIC LEARNING OBJECTIVES
1 Orientation Ice Breaker Simulation
2 Leadership Versatility  Gain better understanding of how differing styles, experiences, cultures and motivational needs affect performance. Assess personal leadership style, explore and differentiate characteristics of effective leadership, management and followership.  
3 Financial Budgeting: Allocation
of Resources
Learn the value of appropriate allocation of resources to ensure quality performance.
4 Coaching For Improved Performance How to create an environment in which you get the best out of your employees (using Gallup engagement research) and how to have difficult performance based conversations with them when they don't live up to the expectations - using a five step coaching model.
5 Difficult Conversations Provide mediation skills for leaders to navigate manager/employee disputes. Enable participants to recognize the early signs of conflict that exists and learn a process for resolving conflicts while building constructive work relationships.
6 Creating Development Plans Writing effective performance plans.
7 High Performance Teams General model of team effectiveness and a discussion of team leadership roles.
8 Balanced Scorecard: Performance Metrics Identify strategic indicators that help create value, measure segment performance through the use of ratio analysis, and integrate the balanced scorecard approach with economic value analysis. 
9 Leveraging Human Resources Present a vision of the role HR can play in organizations. Discuss how to align HR practices with organizational strategy. Learn the importance of infrastructure.
10 Strategic Decision Making Problem Solving/Decision Making and Innovation focuses on how to lead groups through the process of making decisions when we have emotionally charged issues, difficult groups, or just need to make sure we have thorough exploration of the issues. The benefits of the process are that we create and even playing felid ensuring buy in of the decisions and decreased time in the process. This also includes some specific techniques for generating innovation and creativity in the idea generation process.  
11 Leading Change Focuses on the predictable human dynamics of dealing with change. The emphasis is to provide 5 tangible tools to mitigate the resistance to change and to minimize the impact of change on productivity.  
12 Integration of Learning Class Project Presentation

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