(1) Gain an appreciation for and learn how to optimize one’s response as a leader to the challenging VUCA+ conditions now operating in the world.
(2) Identify one’s own primary career anchors and leadership goals as a way in which to navigate future leadership decisions on your own behalf as well as that of your organization.
(3) Identify and learn how to leverage the dynamics operating in all organizations as complex systems.
(4) Gain an appreciation for the characteristics of premodern, modern and postmodern organizational forms and determine how to best provide leadership in your own organization and collaborate with other organizations given this appreciative perspective.
(5) Gain skills and knowledge in understanding the lessons to be learned from organizational narratives about the dynamics and powerful (though often unacknowledged) assumptions held by those working in the organization.
(6) Gain knowledge of and learn how to readily make use of work in five domains of planning and problem-solving.
(7) Gain knowledge of four leadership styles, the way they operate in an organization, and the preferences you have regarding these four styles.
(8) Gain knowledge of the four spans that must be considered in the design of individual jobs and teams, identifying the ways in which these designs can be functional and dysfunctional.
(9) Identify and learn how to diagnose the major parameters of team functioning and determine how to best provide leadership in the facilitation of teams in your own organization.
(10) Identify one’s own primary interpersonal needs and the interpersonal needs of those with whom you work as a way in which to navigate future team functioning in your organization.
(11) Gain knowledge regarding alternative strategies for making teams in your own organization more effective.
(12) Learn how to be more effective in engaging difficult conversations and working with diverse populations within and outside your own organization.
(13) Learn how to recognize and work with challenging polarities in your own organization.
(14) Learn how to integrate and engage the lessons learned and skills gained in this program at all levels: organizational, team, interpersonal and intrapersonal.
For Whom is This Certificate Program Intended?
The tools and strategies introduced in this program are often intended for one audience: the leader in an executive position in a large organization. However, our program is intended for a much broader audience We wish to work not only with men and women who are in formal positions of leadership in an organization, but also other members of an organization who seek out or find themselves in position of leadership under conditions of complexity, unpredictability and turbulence.
Those who head committees on a local school board or who are Distinguished Engineers in a software company – with no direct authority over others—are leaders to whom people look up. A finance professional who takes the responsibility to raise attention about ethical conflicts is a leader, as is the supervisor who must inform a subordinate of his unsatisfactory performance. These people, along with formal titular leaders, must perform, make many decisions, and align values in meeting their civic or professional responsibilities. This program identifies ways in which each of these leaders, formal and informal, can best be supported by coach-based tools and strategies.
What Has to be Accomplished to Receive a Certificate as a Coach-Based Leader?
First, it is important to note that the certificate is being awarded by a graduate school that has been in existence for 40 years and has awarded more than 600 Masters and Doctoral degrees during this period of time. The certificate being awarded in this program, thus means something. It has credibility.
In order to become certified a program participant must not only attend and actively participate in all mode one and mode two activities, they must demonstrate effective use of the tools and strategies being presented–as outlined in the list of program outcomes. In support of the successful achievement of these outcomes and completion of requirements for the certification, a supervised practicum is required. This practicum takes place during a six month period following termination of the three mode program. Typically, the supervision for this practicum is being offered by the facilitator of the participant’s mode two salon. Details regarding this practicum will be provided during an orientation program in which all registrants are invited to attend prior to the start of the formal program.
Note: program participants do not have to work toward a certification, but can instead complete the program (without the practicum) on behalf of their own ongoing professional development.
