Strategic Organizational Leadership
Overview
This course helps professionals develop a tool kit they can apply as a leader at work today to become a highly productive and inspiring leader of tomorrow. You will gain the tools needed to create an organization that values learning and promotes diversity, equity, inclusion, and innovation, and welcomes change. Great leaders influence and can help employees be more responsive, creative, and proactive, given the right set of leadership tools and techniques.
63.25 PDUs | 8 Continuing Education Units
80 Military Clock Hours | 10 Military Clock Hours Per Week
Who Should Register?
Strategic Organizational Leadership is designed for business leaders, mid- to upper-level managers, entrepreneurs and individuals aspiring to leadership positions.
Course offerings and associated prices are subject to change without prior notice. Pricing for multi-course certificate programs varies depending on course selection. View the Professional Education Catalog for more information on the courses and programs.
What You’ll Study
- Defining yourself as a leader
- Finding your authentic leadership voice
- Building diverse and inclusive teams
- Ethical and moral leadership
- Strategic planning, goal setting and evaluation
- Inspiring Organizational Vision and Excellence
- Dealing with conflict: challenging situations and difficult people
- Your personal leadership journey
Curriculum
8 Week Course
Defining Yourself as a Leader
- Leadership versus management
- The key traits and styles of leadership
- The definition of “strategy”
- The experience of shifting from technical expert to strategic leader
Finding Your Authentic Leadership Voice
- Inspiring engagement through a shared vision
- The importance of storytelling
- Comparing and contrasting strategies for building support for projects and plans
- Strategies for managing laterally and up
- Building rapport versus networking
- Multitasking
Building Diverse and Inclusive Teams
- A team-oriented approach to leadership
- Strategies for building diverse and inclusive teams
- Engaging strengths and working across differences
- Learning from multigenerational team members
Ethical and Moral Leadership
- Leading with a clear moral compass and value proposition
- Defining and setting leadership values and goals
- Leading with integrity
Strategic Planning, Goal Setting and Evaluation
- Aligning mission, vision, and strategy
- The process of strategic planning
- The dynamics of organizational change
- Strategies for leading change
- Evaluation plans and processes
Inspiring Organizational Vision and Excellence
- Sources of power a leader has
- Elements and skills needed to inspire vision and a positive culture
- A “coaching” approach to management and leadership
- Ways to promote innovation, creativity, and collaboration
Dealing with Conflict: Challenging Situations and Difficult People
- The sources of conflict in an organization
- The importance of giving and receiving feedback
- High-performing v. dysfunctional team behaviors
- Approaches to managing conflict
Your Personal Leadership Journey
- Clarifying your leadership philosophy and purpose
- What is your passion?
- A personal strategic plan
- Learning and resilience
- Leadership and wellness
If you’re going to pay by credit card, you can either get started with installment payments or pay in full. Just let your enrollment representative know the option that works best for you.
Corporate Tuition Assistance
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Corporate TA
Corporate tuition assistance is paid by your employer. You will need to provide appropriate forms for processing, prior to enrollment. Subject to employer benefit policies.
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Deferred Corporate TA
Pay tuition now and have your employer reimburse you. Additional documentation will be needed to process this payment. Subject to employer benefit policies.
Military Benefits
Active Duty
Villanova offers a 15% savings, per certificate course, to active-duty servicemembers, Guardsmen and Reservists (upon verification of military status).
Veterans
Villanova offers a 15% savings, per certificate course to veterans (upon verification of military status). You may also use your Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) education benefits for many of Villanova’s 100% online non-credit programs, based upon your individual eligibility.
Spouses and Dependents
Villanova offers a 15% savings, per certificate course, to active-duty servicemembers, veterans, Guardsmen, Reservists and their spouses and dependents (upon verification of military status).
This reduction is valid off the standard tuition fee rate of the listed courses offered by Villanova University with online administration by Bisk. This reduction is not stackable with other reductions, and you may not use this reduction in conjunction with other reductions.
