GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP
Total Credit Hours: 15
Program Length: As little as 8 months
The Executive Leadership graduate level certificate will help prepare managers or future managers to be effective leaders in today’s contemporary, global organizations. Emphasis is placed on applied, practical projects while focusing on topics facing today’s leaders in human resources management, change management, decision making, communication, and diversity issues that include generational differences.
- Certificate completion in as little as 8 months
- Transfer all credits toward the M.S. in Management degree at SC
- Nonprofit, regionally accredited
Recently ranked for being one of the Top Accredited Online Colleges, Southwestern College offers quality online degrees to adult learners. With courses taught by expert faculty and access to a variety of student resources, SC learners are provided with the tools and flexibility needed to succeed in their education while preparing for professional advancement.
ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Anyone interested in completing the Executive Leadership Certificate may complete a Southwestern College Professional Studies Graduate Application for Admission. The five courses comprising the Executive Leadership Certificate can be completed in eight months or less in convenient six-week classes with no prerequisites. Individuals completing the Executive Leadership Certificate at Southwestern College may apply all of these 15 credit hours earned toward a Master of Science degree in Management or a portion of the credit hours towards a Master of Business Administration or a Master of Science in Leadership.
CORE MAJOR REQUIREMENTS
MBA500: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
This course covers models and theories of behavior, and human resources management concepts and processes as they apply to managing individual and work‐group behavior in organizations. Organizational behavior topics include leadership, motivation, and teamwork. Human Resource management topics include human resources strategy, selection, performance evaluation, reward systems, and employee development. Heavy emphasis will be on the strategic implications of these topics. Cross‐Listed with MGMT500.
LEAD520: Leadership Coaching
The course will help students coach, mentor and empower future leaders. The course will review coaching theories and models as well as the theoretical and applied aspects of teamwork. Participants will focus on building the skills of collaboration. Participants will articulate a personal leadership development plan.
LEAD565: Knowledge-based Leadership
The course will cover the integration and alignment of strategic planning, mission, vision with goals and objectives to position organizations to transition to a knowledge‐based environment. Participants will develop a plan for capturing “tribal knowledge” and using that knowledge to create and communicate a shared vision.
LEAD560: Leading Change in Organizations
Participants will learn to navigate the world of needs assessment tools in order to build an organization’s ability to operate on the consistent generation of information. Systems used to analyze information and implement change resulting from data will be covered through case studies, individual and group exercises. Participants will develop practical tools for engaging people at all levels of an organization through inevitable change.
MGMT505: Project Management Fundamentals
In this course, concepts, theories, principles and practical application of project management tools will be applied to real business situations. A critical analysis of tools and techniques that are available to aid project managers will be performed, with a view of the potential disconnect between these tools and real‐world projects. Specific tools, including the Balanced Scorecard, Monte Carlo simulations, and stop‐light charts, will be utilized.
Please note this graduate certificate program is not eligible for financial aid.