Certificate in Leadership

Lesson 1
Certificate in Leadership Module 1 - Introduction to Leadership
• Leadership and explain its importance
• The better-known leadership theories (Fiedler's contingency theory; Path-goal theory; Vroom-Yetton-Jago theory)
• Leadership versus management and administration
• The role of leadership in setting the ethical tone for an organization
• The principles for building an ethical culture
• How leadership requires setting an ethical example
• How leaders can deal with ethical lapses
• The role of leadership during an ethical crisis
• Ethical principles to workplace scenarios
• The positives and negatives surrounding charismatic leadership
• The importance of training, learning, and role-playing in leadership
• Seven bases for leadership
• Why formal authority alone does not guarantee leadership
• Nine key qualities for leadership
• Five central skills needed for effective leadership and explain ways to strengthen or develop those skills in a leader
• The role of leadership in shaping an organization's culture

Certificate in Leadership Module 2 - Leaders and Work-Life Balance
• Major sources of work-life balance conflict
• The myths about work-life balance including the "make time later," division of labor, and "quality time" myths
• Strategies to achieve balance, including balancing by week, over a year, and via a short career
• Ways to maintain work-life balance
• What defines personal fulfillment
• Significant elements that play a role in a leader's life
• Nine ways of viewing life's choices
• A Personal Work-Life Balance Plan

Certificate in Leadership Module 3 - Leading Teams
• Key characteristics and types of teams
• Benefits and challenges of empowered teams that leaders need to be aware of
• Differences in the primary and secondary roles filled by empowered teams and team leaders
• Key sources of motivation for empowered teams
• Tuckman's model of team development
• Key qualities and skills of a team leader
• The value of using the "checklist for team leaders"
• Suggested approaches for managing conflict in teams
• The different approaches needed for leading virtual teams

Certificate in Leadership Module 4 - Leading and Managing Change
• Organizational change and the forms it can take
• Kotter's Eight Step Process recommended for implementing change successfully
• Lewin's model of change and discuss its limitations
• Factors a leader or manager can employ to promote change
• The change initiative planning process
• The role of a leader in communicating change
• Methods to foster participation
• The underpinnings of resistance to change and how to overcome it
• Other models of change management (ADKAR, GE CAP, Cisco Change Roadmap)
• Change management models to specific scenarios
• Strategic change and mastering a changing environment