Curriculum

A Competitive Advantage You Can Take to Work

Our students acquire the tools to enhance their emotional intelligence and improve their leadership style. The Conscious Leadership and Team Management certificate program will help you demonstrate why you can be trusted, manage threat perceptions, and boost your team’s engagement, motivation, and performance.

By attending this program, you will learn to:

Devise strategies for applying leadership and management skills to overcome complex problems and challenges
Demonstrate an understanding of emotional intelligence and how to apply the concept to encourage growth
Recognize the role of psychological capital in leadership development as well as its impact on responses to organizational change
Understand the characteristics of effective, high-performing teams
Identify the stages of team development and issues that can dismantle team performance

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Conscious Leadership Program Structure

The program consists of two required courses with a flexible sequential course progression
Students can complete the certificate in as little as three months to three years
Class sizes range from ten to twenty students per course
Classes are offered remotely with live, interactive, synchronous sessions

Online course format

Each course is six weeks in length
All online courses start on a Monday with a full week of self-study activities in Canvas, our learning management system
Weekly self-paced learning and materials are time-sensitive and must be completed within required timeframes
Weekly self-paced learning in Canvas leads to one synchronous session per week
When registering for a course, "Online self-paced" refers to the course's beginning and end dates, "Online fixed dates" refer to synchronous sessions.
Synchronous sessions are conducted through Zoom
Attendance to synchronous sessions is mandatory

Core Courses

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Leading from Within

LEAD11000 | Online | 6 weeks

Leaders exist at all levels of an organization, but what are the essential traits and behaviors of these individuals that foster high performance? Effective leaders practice self-assessment to know their behavioral and emotional style to better manage teams and individuals by being collaborative, communicative, resilient, and mindful. This allows them to connect meaningfully with others to not only manage stress, but also boost morale and performance.

This course provides the opportunity to explore the core skills and techniques that are crucial to effective leadership and management. Additionally, you will begin a personal journey of identifying your natural strengths, style, and values—necessary to foster resilience and emotional intelligence within yourself and across your organization. Leadership and management concepts, over time, can be mastered by leaders committed to self-improvement and willing to practice.

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Achieving Leadership Success Through Team Optimization

LEAD12000 | Online | 6 weeks

Strategic leaders in today’s complex organizations understand that harnessing the power of their team’s unique skills and talents is far more productive than honing in on individual contributions. In order to accomplish this, effective leaders must have the ability to communicate effectively, build relationships, influence without authority, and demonstrate their ability to adapt and succeed during turbulent times. The certificate in Conscious Leadership and Team Management is grounded in evidenced-based leadership theory and management principles, which are easy to understand and immediately applicable.

In this course, you will practice skills that foster adaptive and resilient teams to generate an environment of creativity and innovation. Specific skill areas include engaging and motivating others, enhancing performance, coaching techniques, and resolving conflict.

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