Designed for:

Recent college graduates entering the workforce and all high-potential leaders seeking to advance to management.

The Emerging Leader track addresses basic skills while concentrating on education and development for professionals on the lower end of the career ladder. This program can propel new and high-potential employees who have successfully demonstrated leadership qualities by helping to fill in their capability gaps and developing the skills needed to advance to higher levels of leadership.

 

Core Courses of Study

 

Do you want to set yourself apart from the crowd and move up in your organization? Are you willing to invest time, thought, and feeling into becoming an individual that your company views as a contender for added responsibility and promotion? Every organization, big or small, recognizes the need for strong leadership competencies and capabilities. If you are on the path toward moving up the ladder of your organization, this course will help you gain a greater understanding of what it takes, and how to make the most of your potential to get there.

Unlike past generations, most starting out in the workforce today must prepare themselves for multiple careers. The goal is to collect excellent education, productive work experiences, and the courage to be independent and flexible in the coming twenty or thirty years of your professional life. As you plan for the future, it is important to identify your spike, which is the area where you choose to be among the best and excel. In this program, you will learn how to build your spike, discover your own leadership style, and make an action plan with your employer.

 

A big part of reaching the right decision is developing a thought process that allows the individual to achieve the best possible solution, rather than just settling for the first solution considered. This course will teach you to analyze options, consider consequences, and equip you with the framework for developing the right habits for effective decision making. You will come away from this course with an understanding of your own decision-making process and tools to help you improve this competency.

 

As you move forward to leadership roles in your organization, it will become evident that your effectiveness as a leader is directly tied to your ability to function in a diverse environment. This interactive session explores the fundamentals of diversity in the work place. It moves beyond the obvious – race, gender and ethnicity – and examines how our stereotypes and biases affect the decisions we make, the relationships we develop, and the way we resolve conflict with others.

Electives: (3 hours) 
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