Course

Course Summary
Credit Type:
Course
ACE ID:
DLCR-0033
Location:
Classroom-based
Length:
13 hours
Dates Offered:
Credit Recommendation & Competencies
Level Credits (SH) Subject
Lower-Division Baccalaureate 1 Interpersonal Communication or Organizational Behavior
Description

Objective:

The course objective is to enable students to deepen their self-awareness and examine leadership best practices to become a stronger, more impactful leader. The courses in this certificate program teach specific habits to take charge, embrace wider responsibility, and build a reputation as a powerful and influential leader.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Differentiate between power and authority
  • Maintain their cool under pressure by using a 6-step process
  • Eliminate specific habits that hold leaders back
  • Experience the power of feed forward
  • Apply a 7-step process for succession planning
  • Clarify and simplify the succession planning process by using sample succession plans, sample scripts, and other tools
  • Deliver a message with greater impact by using 7 best practices
  • Demonstrate how presentation structure, content, and delivery together create impact
  • Change behavior without creating resentment by using 9 best practices
  • Give and receive constructive feedback
  • Handle the 9 types of people with difficult attitudes and behaviors
  • Develop strategies to deal more effectively with different emotions
  • Overcome common obstacles to changing for the better
  • Complete a succession plan using the Dale Carnegie Succession Plan template

General Topics:

  • Influence: cultivate power without being intimidating
  • Leadership development: Marshall Goldsmith: what got you here won't get you there
  • Presentation skills: present with impact
  • Succession planning: succession planning for self and managers
  • Mentoring: unleash the power of mentoring in organizations
Instruction & Assessment

Instructional Strategies:

  • Audio Visual Materials
  • Classroom Exercise
  • Computer Based Training
  • Discussion
  • Lectures
  • Practical Exercises

Methods of Assessment:

  • Presentations
  • Quizzes
  • Written Papers

Minimum Passing Score:

70%
Supplemental Materials