Team Leadership Skills Certificate
Team Leadership Skills Certificate
a noncredit Chancellor's Certificate Program
AVAILABLE ONSITE AT YOUR LOCATION
Standout as a team leader by guiding your people to perform at their highest level. As a leader, your people turn to you for their direction, support, and motivation. If they don ’t get it from you, they will move on. Don't lose good people. Let our knowledgeable instructors, with their real-world planning and leadership experience, teach you the art of effective leadership.
Today's employees, both 'Gen X'ers' and 'Baby Boomers' respond to the coach approach rather than an authoritarian approach to leadership. In this program, you will learn how to skillfully communicate with employees to attain superior performance from each of them individually as well as collectively as a team. You will also learn how to competently set goals, manage multiple priorities, and suitably delegate to achieve your desired results. Your success as a team lead depends on your ability to work with and through others. Whether you are a new team lead or have years of experience, you will benefit from this fresh look at how to communicate with, motivate, and lead today's employees.
This comprehensive, competency-based certificate program focuses on skill building and practical applications of the most up-to-date management models. It will give you the confidence and the knowledge you need to be a successful team lead. By participating in this certificate program, you will learn how to:
• plan for success.
• develop a range of strategic leadership styles.
• manage time, projects, and multiple priorities.
• set goals--the right way.
• delegate intelligently.
• lead effective meetings consistently.
• build your team broadly and specifically.
• manage conflict proactively.
• discern and utilize nonverbal cues appropriately.
• initiate and sustain a dialogue when the stakes are high, emotions run strong, and differences are deep.
Who should pursue a Team Leadership Certificate?
- New or recently promoted team leads with less than three years of formal leadership experience
- Experienced supervisors or managers reentering the job market and looking to update their resumes
- Business owners, administrators, or general managers in small to mid-size organizations desiring to increase their knowledge and skill base
- Informal leaders who have an unofficial supervisory role leading teams of coworkers or volunteers
- Individuals whose career plans include becoming a team lead, supervisor, or decision-maker in the near future
Sample Topics
• Planning and Organizational Effectiveness
>> Managing Time and Multiple Priorities
>> Goal Setting, Delegation, and Accountability
>> Managing Projects
>> Leading Effective Meetings• Working with People Successfully
>> Working with Different Behavioral Styles
>> Team Building
>> Managing Conflict
>> Managing the Diverse Workforce• The "Coach Approach" to Leadership
>> Coaching vs. Commanding and Controlling
>> Communication Styles
>> When NOT to Use the Coach Approach
>> Making Points with Brevity and Precision
Certificate Requirements
Complete the 36 hours of training, and you will be awarded 3.6 Continuing Education Units and a noncredit Chancellor's Certificate in Team Leadership Skills by the Chancellor of the University of Missouri–St. Louis.
This page last updated August 21, 2008 .