Graduate Certificate in Leadership
Waverly, USA
Graduate Certificate
DURATION
1 year
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
STUDY FORMAT
Distance Learning
Key Summary
The graduate leadership certificate is designed for working professionals and provides a deep foundation of problem-based learning about leadership from many different perspectives. The program is entirely online. Participants can expect to finish the program in approximately one year. Credits may be applied to additional graduate work.
Courses
6 course credits:
- LDR 490 Orientation to Leadership and Online Learning
- LDR 500 Leadership Intensive Seminar: Integrating Mind, Body, Spirit
- LDR 510 Leadership Project Development
- LDR 520 Leadership History and Theory
- LDR 540 Leading Organizational Change and Innovation
- LDR 575 Applied Leadership Project
- LDR 600 Portfolio Summary and Leadership Intensive
Note:
The graduate leadership certificate is designed as an online program that includes two brief three-day, online intensive experiences at the start and end of the program.
The certificate program can be applied to any field and is designed to help individuals explore how they are called to lead and can enhance their own ability to navigate personal leadership challenges. All participants will be mentored and will receive a high level of faculty support as they progress through the program.
Program Benefits
- Advance your career
- Earn a credential
- Create a summative portfolio of work
- Earn credits toward a master's degree
- Grow leadership abilities
- Sharpen professional skills
- Collaborate with a faculty mentor
- Complete the program in 12 months
Wartburg College defines leadership as “taking responsibility for our communities and making them better through public action.” Community, in this context, can be broadly defined to include an employment community, a spiritual community, and a geographic community, etc. Understanding the relationship of your role in various communities is critical for personal satisfaction and effective leadership.
Upon completion of the graduate certificate, the learner will have demonstrated the following abilities and attributes:
- Express a personal leadership identity, maximizing personal effectiveness.
- Analyze complex environments and the need for change.
- Evaluate the role innovation and entrepreneurship play in organizational effectiveness within economic, social, and political environments.
- Develop knowledge, skills, and commitments that foster stewardship of human and material resources.
- Translate the leadership development process through the creation of a portfolio reflective of the leadership journey.
- Articulate reflective analyses on what it means to live a life of purpose, distinguishing a life of success and a life of significance.
