Earning Criteria

• Module 1 - Strengths Finder - This module focuses on identifying and building on the strengths of leaders. Learners explore the Clifton StrengthsFinder tool and how it can be applied, comprehend their own StrengthsFinder profile and how to use it in a leadership context, apply their profile in team-based homogeneous and heterogeneous groupings, and identify complementary strengths that will produce the best outcome for the organization.
• Module 2 - Leadership Styles – Learners identify their leadership style is and how it can be used, discuss the context where the style can be used to optimal effect in a leadership setting, and apply their style in team-based homogeneous and heterogeneous groupings.
• Module 3 - Emotional Intelligence – Leaners explore what explore emotional intelligence is and how it compares to other forms of intelligence, comprehend how emotionally intelligent leaders model such behavior in the workplace, and be able to apply personal and social competence, self-awareness and self-management and social awareness and relationship management.
• Module 4 - Team Building – Learners use Patrick Lencioni’s Five Dysfunctions of a Team as the basis for conversation to distinguish effective teams from poor ones, explore techniques to overcome challenges in managing and forming common dysfunctions in their teams including: absence of trust, fear of conflict, lack of commitment, avoidance of accountability, and inattention to results.
• Module 5 – Communication – Learners explore techniques to improve their communications skills and will craft an action plan to measure progress in the following areas: oral communication, written communication, electronic communication, and effective meetings.
• Module 6 – Coaching – Learners will explore the basics of leadership coaching and its applicability in the nonprofit world, understand how they might apply a coaching dynamic in their own workplaces, model a simple coaching conversation, and prepare a coaching plan for their teams.