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This program is currently ONLY available as a contracted training for groups / organizations.
Take the Next Step in Your Leadership Journey
To thrive in today’s environment, leaders and their organizations must possess adaptability, resilience, and a growth mindset. The workshops and courses will help you develop vision, acknowledge and recognize the role of organizational culture, create a leadership development plan, create change, strategically align the organization, and communicate more effectively - all to help the organization and our communities thrive.
Whether you need a comprehensive leadership program or to just brush up on discrete skills, you'll find what you are looking for at UW Tacoma.
Which leadership learning route is right for you and your team?
- Individual courses, workshops, and webinars (only available as contracted training): anyone who is interested in building their skills in one or more areas, but doesn’t need a full certificate
- Certificate in Leadership Essentials (only available as contracted training): supervisors, managers, team leads, and aspiring leaders/supervisors
- Certified Public Manager® (available to individuals): public employees looking to cover similar material as the Certificate in Leadership Essentials with a focus on public sector applications and additional content in Lean Six Sigma
Who would benefit from this certificate program and courses?
While workshops, webinars, and courses are valuable for anyone who wishes to grow their leadership skills or those of their team, the Certificate in Leadership Essentials is designed for supervisors, managers, team leads, and those who aspire to those positions. Participating in a leadership development program is a great way to both improve skills, improve team dynamics and employee engagement, and reinforce your organization's commitment to employee growth. It is also a strong companion program to other PDC and Continuum College offerings, such as Project Management, Nonprofit Management, Human Resources Management, and Lean Six Sigma.
What You Will Learn
Participants who complete the Certificate in Leadership Essentials should be able to:
- Articulate their own leadership style, strengths, and areas for growth
- Use an understanding of their communication style, identity, emotional intelligence, and values to work more effectively with others
- Effectively use foundational coaching and feedback strategies while working with diverse teams
- Identify how diversity, equity, and inclusion factor into every level of leadership
- Describe how their work and their leadership fits into the larger picture of the organization or team
Recommended Qualifications
No application is required. Some college experience and/or professional experience is recommended.
Career Outlook
All jobs across all industries and sectors require leadership skills. Often considered "soft skills", surveys and stories about top employers highlight the need for increased leadership skills.
Forbes "The Top 25 Soft Skills Remote Workers Need in 2021 — And 3 Ways to Get Them" by Mark C. Perna
Top Resume "9 Soft Skills Employers Are Looking for in 2021" by Tyler Omoth
COURSES
Leadership of any kind starts with a strong understanding of yourself and how you move through the world. In this course, students will learn how their work styles/personality temperament, emotional intelligence, and combination of identities impacts their leadership journey; explore foundational approaches to leadership; and create a Personal Leadership Development/Growth Plan.
In today's work environment, guiding a group to achieve its goals goes beyond employee collaboration. High-performing teams require meaningful connections and developing strengths that complement each other. Team Leadership is designed to empower students to build exceptionally high-performing teams. Students will gain valuable insights, engage in meaningful dialogue, and work on hands-on applications, scenarios, and strategic analysis.
Upon completion of this course, students should be able to
- Classify the characteristics of high-performance teams
- Identify their personality's relationship to building high-performance teams
- Recognize leadership presence, relationships, and chemistry
- Assess trust and leadership functions
- Describe the five dysfunctions of a team
- Compare and contrast the six types of workplace conflicts
- Apply coaching skills to facilitate individual and team development
- Create a Strategic Action Plan for Team Leadership
Becoming an ethical and effective leader at the organizational level requires more than charisma or business savvy. You must be able to analyze organizational structure and culture, as well as manage change with adaptability and resilience. Participants in this course will examine the ways organizational culture, structure, and strategy are inextricably linked, how to create or foster healthy, adaptive workplace cultures, and methods for both traditional and real-time strategic planning.
Participants will finish the certificate with a capstone leadership project and presentation, completed independently with guidance from a PDC instructor.
*The capstone is the culminating project in the Certificate, so participants must successfully pass Personal Leadership, Team Leadership, and Organizational Leadership before enrolling in the Capstone.
WEBINARS & WORKSHOPS
Designing change that matters and accelerating its integration into a new way of doing business is the centerpiece of this workshop. You'll discover the three phases of transition, the 6Ps of new beginnings, the three questions to ask of any change initiative, effective change communication strategies, and a variety of smart ways to design change with intentionality and care.
In this half-day workshop, participants learn how to set more effective meeting goals, develop best practice agendas, encourage participation, and facilitate difficult group dynamics.
Move from an individual contributor to a "multiplier of others" in this half-day workshop. Participants will learn a framework for creating exceptional performance by defining their role as a supervisor and what they bring to it, delegating effectively, and understanding how to create a motivating environment for employees.
If you've been wondering whether an equity team is right for your organization, this conversation is for you. This one-hour webinar will share a brief overview of how to build a foundation for a successful equity team launch, including the creation of an action plan.
Leaders spend much of their time communicating to execute strategy and address conflicts. In order to resolve these roadblocks to success, leaders need skills to quickly and fairly resolve issues, create win-win results, and reduce the high cost of conflict.
In this 90-minute workshop, participants will take an honest look at DEI efforts that are falling short. They will unpack DEI methods build on quick fixes, explore more meaningful and sustainable strategies, and identify ways to pivot in response to failed DEI efforts.
This half-day workshop gives you the foundation for better communication within your team, reduced conflict, and a stronger commitment to one another's goals.
Establishing community advisory boards (CABs) is a strategy in building a more equitable organization, while being held accountable to the communities most impacted by organizational practices. This 90-minute webinar is a space for organizational leaders to begin exploring the ways a CAB can further their agency's racial equity work.
Sometimes people spend so much time focusing on doing their job they forget about where they are going. During this workshop, participants work with road-tested tools for setting a strategic direction by developing a vision of where they want to be in their career, analyzing strategies and SMART goals, then creating next steps to explore new opportunities.
This 3.5-hr workshop centers how to approach intercultural interactions of all kinds with cultural humility - an approach that requires self-awareness, a growth mindset, and the ability to listen for understanding. Participants will explore ways to build their own cultural humility and integrate it into an everyday practice via interactive excercises.
INSTRUCTOR HIGHLIGHT
Joey Pauley
Teaching a variety of workshops for the PDC, Joey Pauley is a business consultant based in Seattle. He seeks to maximize organizational effectiveness by tapping into peoples’ intrinsic drive and inherent strength; results are increased return on investment of human capital by retaining employees, establishing trust, and managing growth and change
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Please contact us for more information at uwtpdc@uw.edu.
Give us a call at 253-692-4618, e-mail us at uwtpdc@uw.edu or make an appointment to meet at our office at 1551 Broadway, Tacoma. Our office is open from 8:00 a.m. – 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.