- Type Validation
- Level Intermediate
- Time Months
Leadership Transformation
Issued by
Grand Valley State University
The badge is for leaders interested in developing a results-oriented management plan to lead organizations through uncertainties in the workplace. Badge earners developed a personal model of leadership behavior by examining one's own strengths, weaknesses and purpose and are able to identify strengths and gaps in building a high-performance team, make decisions to impact bottom-line financial results, drive results by optimizing organizational performance and lead organizational change.
- Type Validation
- Level Intermediate
- Time Months
Skills
Earning Criteria
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Module 1-Introduction to Becoming a Transformational Leader: Lead Yourself First: Topics include the connection between personality and leadership, overcoming leadership bias through the use of MBTI, how to lead others by first leading yourself and the the neuro-psychology of leadership.
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Module 2-Building and Leading High-performance Teams: Topics include high-performing teams are RARE in workplaces...why?, what's broken and how do I fix it? and what's next?...developing an action plan.
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Module 3-Understanding How Decisions Impact Bottom-line Financial Results: Topics include the principles of finance, learning the key tools in financial management and analyzing investment decisions.
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Module 4-Driving Results by Optimizing Organizational Performance: Topics the challenges to establishing a culture for optimizing operational performance, the identification and applications of different approaches, tools, and techniques to optimizing operational performance, the importance and process of establishing a metrics that accurately measures operational performance over time.
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Module 5-Leading and Managing Organizational Change and Complexities: Topics include differentiation between leading and managing, leading organizational change, the role of agility in organizational change and the importance of strategy in change initiatives.
Standards
This program meets accreditation standards for the intersection of academic and professional engagement.