Webster University: Leadership Continuum Certification

The Leadership Continuum Certification

This innovative professional certificate program is designed to enrich your participant’s ability to become a gifted lifelong learner and effective leader at any level within your organization. It is a catalyst for participants to assess, review, and create new skills and competencies that increase their value to your organization.

Methodology
The threads woven throughout these seminars empower participants to expand their ability to find meaning and insight in a wide array of learning experiences. Each session encourages exploration of new approaches on how to think about personal leadership styles and skills. They will come away with alternative views of how their perceptions and insights impact those they lead and influence.

Your organization will work with professional learning advisors to determine the scope of the program based upon your organizational needs and cultural environment. Your company will have the opportunity to select a defined number of partial and/or full-day seminars from an extensive menu of topics. Each seminar chosen is then developed with either an artistic or pragmatic framework.

Please contact us to receive a brochure that provides detailed information on the Leadership Continuum Certification and outlines the full array of offerings available. The Center for Professional Development, in concert with your key organizational development experts, assembles a complementary team of experienced and specialized learning coaches and speakers that complement your organizational style and culture to customize a program to specifically address your organization's organizational strategies to meet your customer's needs and expectations.

The following menu illustrates the breadth of courses from which your organization will select the seminars. From the final list, our course developers and learning coaches will work with your corporate leaders to customize the designs to maximize alignment with your mission, values, and goals.

*Seminar*	*Key Learning Objective*
The Empowering Leader: Generating Commitment	Investigate empowerment critical success factors and organizational potential and pitfalls inherent in empowerment strategies.
The Decisive Leader: Taking Knowlege-Based Risks	Define and analyze steps within an integrated decision making and risk mitigation process and discuss approaches to mitigate risks within that framework.
The Multi-Dimensional Leader: Defining the Strengths and Potential with an Organization	Identify the strengths and vulnerabilities within an organization and evaluate how to leverage these factors within the roles a leader takes at personal, team, organizational and/or community levels.
The Language of Leadership	Discuss the powerful implications of how language, both spoken and unspoken, catalyze or impede success at work, home, and in the community.
The 24/7 Leader: Understanding and Balancing the Demands of Reality	Evaluate the art and possibilities of managing time and resources effectively to benefit the individual and their organization, family, and/or community.
The Understood Leader: Navigating the Communication Maze	Review and discuss effective listening skills with a focus on the power of influence and the implications of building and sustaining trust. Discuss cultural and generational differences.
The Confident Presenter: Being Heard with Style	Understand and practice how to self-evaluate presentations based on criteria for the creative design and effective delivery.
The Universal Leader: Mapping and Leveraging Your Value Stream	Discuss the concept of “value stream” and how the competency of networking can be used to build relationships throughout the value stream at a personal and/or organizational level.
The Leader Advocate: Caring for the Individual and the Organization	Identify the differences between being a “supervisory referee” and a “leader advocate” and how advocacy can be used to effectively manage and defuse difficult conversations.
The Resourceful Leader: Generating Power through Diversity	Examine the various philosophies and approaches to tap into the richness of local and global diversity found in ideas, people, and perspectives.
The Perceptive Leader: Identifying and Retaining Talent	Determine how to identify talent needs and align them with current and incoming personnel. Create a benchmark of critical success factors within your organization to keep those who are vital to your organization’s success.
The Enlightened Leader: Knowing When and How to Change	Review a streamlined process-based methodology for change management and assess how to design an efficient meaningful change strategy.
The Persuasive Leader: Influencing to Enable Solutions	Discuss the art of influence and how it can be used in a wide variety of situations to negotiate and lead individuals and teams to a common good.
The Creative Leader: Designing and Moving Toward New Horizons	Discuss the paradigms of creativity and what needs to be done to promote “creativity rich” environments at personal and organizational levels.
Narrative Storytelling: Crafting the Leadership Message	Identify, discuss and practice how to communicate the value of using stories and the classic “elevator speech” to enroll, engage, and inform in an organizational setting.
Learning Styles: Navigating Vulnerabilities into Strengths and Growth	Discuss current learning styles and identify how to communicate, assess and sustain the power and value of life long learning.
Journaling: Observing and Exploring Pathways to Inner Awareness	Offer perspectives and techniques on the skill of observation and journaling as a way to reflect on and deepen learning experiences and observations.
Mind Maps: Networking Ideas and Concepts	Explore and experiment as to how one can convert complexity into workable graphic models that generate new meanings and insights.
Leadership Values: Framing an Organization’sCultural Architecture	Discover and assess the importance of historical and contemporary events that influence the shaping of an organization’s, and its leaders’ foundations—their values and cultural “footprint”.
Healthy Lifestyles: Making and Maintaining Choices	Assess the organizational impacts of a healthy workforce including the discussion of a roadmap to craft healthy choices for a leader and their organization.
Socratic Dialogue: Building Bridges that Connect Ideas	Outline, practice, and assess the importance and results of engaged discussions through the use of Socratic dialogue methodologies.
Mentoring and Coaching: Creating New Possibilities for Self and Others	Understand the differences and similarities between the competencies of mentoring and coaching including a discussion of the responsibilities of being a mentor and/or coach.
Questions: Opening Paths for Knowledge and Wisdom	Discuss the various types of questions and how they can be used in various settings to build a leader’s knowledge base and understanding of others.
Appreciative Inquiry: Discovering More Possibilities than You Thought Possible	Define the differences between scientific methodology and appreciative inquiry and discuss how to maximize the qualities of each to broaden one’s perspectives on how to craft new solutions.
Literary Connections: Making Learning Accessible	Discuss the relevance of various literature styles (the classics, contemporary fiction, business books, and weblinks) to create opportunities for discussions of ideas and development.

Please contact us for an initial consultation to explore customized solutions to your specific business leadership needs.