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Certificate in Leadership

What is leadership and why is it important? How does a leader encourage change without triggering fearful resistance? What are the key elements to leading an effective team? What is the role of charisma in leadership? How can a leader achieve work-life balance? This suite of courses addresses all of these questions and many more.

Based on D. Quinn Mills' book, Leadership: How to Lead, How to Live, a text used at Harvard Business School, the courses in this suite offer advice on leadership that can help you stand out as a leader among your peers. Video segments introduce Dr. Mills and other leaders who discuss such issues as how leaders become leaders, leadership ethics, and the differences between leaders, managers, and administrators.

Each 3 to 5 hour, self-paced course offers an assortment of interactive exercises, videos, selected readings, case studies, and self-assessments that will engage you and help you consider how your own attitudes toward leadership might promote or impede your leadership success.

Upon successful completion of all courses in this certificate program, you can download and print a Certificate of Completion.

Courses included in this certificate program are listed at the bottom of this page.

  • Key Features
  • Expert-supported
  • Mobile-friendly
  • Accessible
  • Badge and credit-awarding
  • Games & Flashcards
  • Video content
  • Real-world case studies
  • Audio-enabled in app

Refund Policy
You may request a refund up to 5 days from the purchase date. The registration fee will only be refunded if less than 10% of each course in the certificate has been completed. Completion percentage can be viewed on the Course Progress page from within the course.

Notes
All courses in this certificate have an "Ask the Expert" feature, which submits your questions directly to an expert in the field you are studying. Questions are answered as quickly as possible and usually within 24 hours.

This course does not require any additional purchases of supplementary materials.

Learners must achieve an average test score of at least 70% to meet the minimum successful completion requirement and qualify to receive IACET CEU credit. Learners will have three attempts at all graded assessments.

Courses included in this suite:

  • Body Language for Leaders
  • Introduction to Leadership
  • Leaders and Work-Life Balance
  • Leading and Managing Change
  • Leading Teams

Body Language for Leaders

At the core of strong leadership is the ability to communicate effectively. But many leaders focus solely on their spoken words while ignoring the impact of their nonverbal cues, including facial expressions, hand gestures, body movements, and eye gaze. By understanding the impact of body language, leaders can learn how to communicate in a way that builds and sustains positive relationships with employees, clients, and business partners. This course will provide leaders with tips for reading body language and using it to exude both strength and warmth. The course also addresses gender stereotypes and cross-cultural body language and explores the role of body language in virtual communication.

  • Dates: Open Enrollment
  • Duration: 90 Days
  • Time: 3 hours
  • Location: Online
  • Course Fee: $79.00 USD
  • CEUs: .3 CEUs | 3 PDUs Total PMI PDUs/Contact Hours: 3 Leadership: 2 Technical: 1 IACET CEUs: .3
  • Code:01-PRO-MALA-ON

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Introduction to Leadership

No matter your age or what phase of your career you're in, leadership is a crucial skill on the path to success. This course examines how to be a successful (that is, effective) leader. This course asks the crucial questions about leadership in today's organizations: What is leadership and why is it important? What does effective leadership require? What is visionary leadership? What is the role of charisma? What is the difference between managing, administering, and leading? This course offers a balance of the theory of leadership with some real-world application to help you develop this critical skill for personal growth and success. This course is based on D. Quinn Mills' book, Leadership: How to Lead, How to Live, a text used at Harvard Business School. Excerpts of the book are made available via PDF download and no additional purchase is required.

This course is based on D. Quinn Mills' book, Leadership: How to Lead, How to Live, a text used at Harvard Business School. Excerpts of the book are made available via PDF download and no additional purchase is required.

  • Dates: Open Enrollment
  • Duration: 90 Days
  • Time: 5 hours
  • Location: Online
  • Course Fee: $79.00 USD
  • CEUs: .5 CEUs | 5 PDUs Total PMI PDUs/Contact Hours: 5 Leadership: 5 IACET CEUs: .5
  • Code:01-PRO-MALA-ON

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Leaders & Work-Life Balance

Why can it be so difficult to balance our work with our personal lives? And can these pressures be managed in a way that can make you more successful at both? Yes. This introductory course is meant for anyone who recognizes work-life balance as a skill and wants to improve their ability to create this balance. This course looks at methods and techniques to reconcile work and family. You will also consider the question of personal fulfillment and the needs and demands of leadership.

  • Dates: Open Enrollment
  • Duration: 90 Days
  • Time: 3 hours
  • Location: Online
  • Course Fee: $79.00 USD
  • CEUs: 3 CEUs | 3 PDUs Total PMI PDUs/Contact Hours: 3 Leadership: 1 Technical: 2 IACET CEUs: .3
  • Code:01-PRO-MALA-ON

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Leading & Managing Change

Whether adopting new technology or adapting to a drastic shift in an organization's core focus, change is a constant in any successful business. Managers play a fundamental role in successful effecting changes across an organization, and meanwhile, humans, by nature, will often resist change out of fear of the unknown. This introductory course addresses the key issues managers face in a dynamic environment. By understanding the steps in effecting change and how to overcome resistance, a manager can successfully lead change at various levels of an organization.

  • Dates: Open enrollment
  • Duration: 90 days
  • Time: 4 hours
  • Location: Online
  • Course Fee: $79.00 USD
  • CEUs: .4 CEUs | 5 (ISC)2 CPEs | 4 HRCIs | 4 PDUs HRCI Credits: 4 Type: Specified - Strategic Business Total (ISC)2 CPEs: 5 Group A: 0 Group B: 5 Total PMI PDUs/Contact Hours: 4 Leadership: 1.75 Strategic & Business Management: 0.5 Technical: 1.75 IACET CEUs: .4
  • Code: 01-PRO-MALA-ON

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Leading Teams

Leading a team through any task or project requires special skills, and an understanding of the team dynamic and politics. This introductory-level course for managers or anyone interested in leading teams, addresses the key issues surrounding leadership in a team environment. Why is leadership important to team success? What is required of a team leader to lead his team effectively? This course considers how team leaders must account for the special and unique circumstances of working in a team, where responsibility, accountability, communication, and leadership are shared.

  • Dates: Open Enrollment
  • Duration: 90 Days
  • Time: 5 hours
  • Location: Online
  • Course Fee: $79.00 USD
  • CEUs: .5 CEUs | 5 (ISC)2 CPEs | 5 PDUs Total (ISC)2 CPEs: 5 Group A: 0 Group B: 5 Total PMI PDUs/Contact Hours: 5 Leadership: 4 Technical: 1 IACET CEUs: .5
  • Code:01-PRO-MALA-ON

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