Advanced Leadership Certificate

Overview:

Take your leadership skills to the next level with the Advanced Leadership Certificate.

Join a cohort of professionals on a life and career changing journey to develop and enhance the skills and competencies that define what it is to be a strong leader. This program takes an immersive look at both your personal and professional leadership paths and leads to powerful insights.

Discover your unconscious bias, how to nurture empathy and quality relationships, improve team building and strategic thinking, and manage stress and increase resiliency. Your leadership transformation will be enhanced by one-on-one professional coaching, the EQi 2.0 assessment tool that dives into Emotional Intelligence, along with in-depth classroom learning and cohort support.

Certificate highlights:

• EQ-i 2.0 assessment
• One-on-one coaching
• Co-hort learning
• Journey mapping and action planning
• Immediately applicable skills

The certificate is comprised of a kick-off session, five modules and closing presentation that are scheduled bi-weekly in a single semester. Students complete the certificate in four months as a class from start-to-finish and must commit to all of the dates.

Students who complete the Advanced Leadership Certificate gain in demand skills and become University of Regina Alumni.

Course Descriptions

Advanced Leadership Kick-Off (Required) - Sep 28 8:30am-12:00pm

Module 1: Discover Your Potential -  Oct 10-11 8:30am-12:00pm
Understanding yourself is an important step to becoming a better leader of others. In this module, you will learn to distinguish between your core and aspirational values. As you explore your unconscious bias and consider your leadership blind spots, you will learn how to become a more authentic leader by leveraging your emotional self-awareness. You will reflect on where you have come from, what you have learned along the way, and how to apply this as you define your ideal future state as a leader. Your enhanced self-awareness will provide the foundation for heartfully engaging in the succeeding modules.

Module 2: Express Your Vision - Oct 23 and 25 8:30am-12:00pm
Now that you are more comfortable with your authentic self, the focus turns to developing a personal vision and goals. As you become aware of patterns, you will apply self-perception to shift the balance of power from old internal thoughts to a new more self-aware and assured internal state of thinking. You will practice using self-perception to assertively express thoughts and feelings and consider how others view the situation. You will also learn how to communicate your feelings in constructive and socially acceptable ways while recognizing how to balance your independence to gain empowerment without alienating others. By the end of the module, you will have a personal vision and the skills to practice building your self-esteem, self-confidence and assertiveness techniques.

Module 3: Inspire Impact -  Nov 7-8 8:30am-12:00pm
Learn how to build more meaningful relationships in a way that builds trust, loyalty and motivation. You will discover the impact your communication style has on others and whether you are achieving the results you intend. You will learn to appreciate the importance of an empathetic leader; recognizing and acknowledging the emotions of others and how to effectively manage your emotions in response. By the end of the module, you will appreciate the importance of being a socially responsible leader, and inspiring others towards a greater purpose for your organization or community.

Module 4: Choose With Purpose - Nov 27-28 8:30am-12:00pm
Apply a decision framework for next steps in your personal leadership journey. You will discover how your individual approach to risk influences your decision-making process. As part of the module, you will become familiar with decision analysis and problem-solving frameworks to gain skill and comfort in making strategic decisions. You will practice adopting alternative perspectives as a means of understanding innovation and anticipating risk. By the end of the module, you will have defined your next steps and an appreciation of how transformational leadership can improve the quality of team decision-making.

Module 5: Achieve Resilience - Dec 11-12 8:30am-12:00pm
Is stress something to worry about or can it be a tool to improve performance and help you accomplish more? This module helps you to identify and manage triggers of stress in yourself and others. You will gain an understanding of leadership and workplace factors that influence individual stress and learn how your personality can impact your perceptions of stress, and your approach to managing it. You will learn coping approaches, along with strategies to improve personal resilience. By the end of the module, you will be able to recognize different approaches to stress management and coping, how resilience is created, and some of the more successful approaches to managing stress in everyday life.

Closing Meeting: Journey Map Presentations -  Dec 19, 8:30am-12:00pm

Requirements:

• Meetings and Modules: 5 modules (two half days each) and 2 meetings (each a half day) for kick-off and closing
• Number of hours: 45.5 class hours + take home work
• Achievement: Advanced Leadership Certificate
• Note: The Professional Leadership Certificate is no longer a prerequisite

*Students must commit to all modules days.*

*Note: Tuition, Books and Supplies, Health and Dental amounts are approximate, based on last year's program and may change at anytime.

Notes:

*GST and PST will be added to the tuition cost.

Note: all Professional Development Certificates are non-credit/non-academic and do not offer course credit at the Universities, Sask Polytech, or other academic institutions.

PLEASE NOTE: This course is not eligible for a T2202A tax slip.  Courses must be a minimum of 10 hours classroom study per week for a minimum of 3 consecutive weeks to qualify.