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Leadership Development Certificate

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The number one reason new managers and leaders fail is that they did not receive training to help them understand the complexity of their new role.

» Program Overview

Developing critical leadership skills can make the difference between success and failure in the workplace. This leadership development workshop series leading to a certificate in leadership will teach new, recently promoted and experienced managers the skills needed to perform effectively and successfully as leaders.

 

Participant Benefits
  • Expert Leadership Training and Coaching
  • LTU Leadership Certificate
  • Small Class sizes – 20 student max
  • 1.5 CEU Credits or 15 SCECH CEU Credits

 

Dates
Spring 2025

Thursdays, 4:30 PM – 7:30 PM

January 23    |    January 30    |    February 6    |    February 13    |    February 20


 

PROGRAM COST

$1800


LTU ALUMNI, FACULTY, STAFF & STUDENTS PAY

$1500


ALL WORKSHOP MATERIALS INCLUDED

 

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» Curriculum

Session #1
Self-Awareness, Reflection, Global Leadership, and Valuing Diversity

Session Outcomes:

  • Introductions and overview
  • Contrast leadership and management
  • Identify the skills and competencies associated with effective leadership
  • Understand how self-awareness and reflection develop leadership skills
  • Global leadership and leading in today’s global work environment
  • Valuing diversity
Values, Ethics, Credibility, and Effective Communications

Session Outcomes:

  • Recognize how values and cultural differences shape perceptions and judgments
  • Honor the differences in others’ fundamental values and beliefs
  • Create and sustain an ethical work climate
  • Build credibility skills and trusting relationships
  • Enhance communication and active listening skills
  • Apply assertiveness skills
  • Learn effective delegation skills
  • Share outcomes of leadership development planning exercises and discuss key findings with clas
Leading Groups & Teams, Managing Conflict, and Motivation

Session Outcomes:

  • Compare and contrast effective and ineffective teams
  • Learn how to lead teams and groups for successful outcomes
  • Understand conflict and strategies for managing conflict
  • Demonstrate effective meeting management skills
  • Understand the importance of motivation and ways to promote performance
  • Apply motivation practices to improve employee productivity and satisfaction
  • Share outcomes of leadership development planning exercises and discuss key findings with class
Attitude, Stress & Change, and Emotional Intelligence

Session Outcomes:

  • Assess individual attitudes, negativity patterns and self-defeating behaviors
  • Understand how change triggers stress and negativity in work-related situations
  • Identify the symptoms and sources of stress
  • Learn effective stress management techniques
  • Define emotional intelligence (EI) and the benefits of developing EI
  • Assess current emotional intelligence skills
  • Apply EI principles to better manage emotions and optimize performance
  • Share outcomes of leadership development planning exercises and discuss key findings with class
Learning from the Dark Side of Leadership, and Diagnosing & Addressing Performance Issues

Session Outcomes:

  • Understand the differences between destructive leadership, managerial incompetence and management derailment
  • Recognize dark-side personality traits and learn how to overcome them
  • Learn how to diagnose and address employee performance issues
  • Share outcomes of leadership development planning exercises and discuss key findings with class
  • Conduct leadership workshop series wrap-up and complete course evaluation

» Faculty + Staff

» Document Viewer

Use Your Cell Phone as a Document Camera in Zoom

  • What you will need to have and do
  • Download the mobile Zoom app (either App Store or Google Play)
  • Have your phone plugged in
  • Set up video stand phone holder

From Computer

Log in and start your Zoom session with participants

From Phone

  • Start the Zoom session on your phone app (suggest setting your phone to “Do not disturb” since your phone screen will be seen in Zoom)
  • Type in the Meeting ID and Join
  • Do not use phone audio option to avoid feedback
  • Select “share content” and “screen” to share your cell phone’s screen in your Zoom session
  • Select “start broadcast” from Zoom app. The home screen of your cell phone is now being shared with your participants.

To use your cell phone as a makeshift document camera

  • Open (swipe to switch apps) and select the camera app on your phone
  • Start in photo mode and aim the camera at whatever materials you would like to share
  • This is where you will have to position what you want to share to get the best view – but you will see ‘how you are doing’ in the main Zoom session.