Leadership

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. 

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.