Cost:
Certificate: $3,700 - $3,900
Webinars & Workshops: $100 - $350
Completion Time:
Certificate: 6 – 12 months (90+ Instructional Hours)
Webinars and Workshops: 2 – 7 hours
Learning Formats:
In-person / Face-to-Face / Campus Course
Online with Real-Time Classes
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?
- Individual courses, workshops, and webinars: anyone who is interested in building their skills in one or more areas, but doesn’t need a full certificate
- Certificate in Leadership Essentials: supervisors, managers, team leads, and aspiring leaders/supervisors
- Certified Public Manager®: 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
- Essentials of Management Program (UW Tacoma Milgard School of Business): mid-level managers seeking a stronger foundation in current business theory and practice, managers who have experience in one area and desire exposure to other areas to qualify for positions of increased responsibility, technical experts making the transition into management roles
Who would benefit from this certificate program and courses?
While workshops, webinars, and courses are open to anyone who wishes to grow their leadership skills, 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 your skills and ensure your resume reflects your commitment to growth. It is also a strong companion program to other PDC offerings, such as Craft Brewing, Project Management, Nonprofit Management, Human Resources Management, and Lean Six Sigma.
What You Will Learn in the Certificate in Leadership Essentials
The Certificate in Leadership Essentials has four required courses (Personal Leadership, Team Leadership, Organizational Leadership, and Leadership Capstone) and an additional 21 hours of electives from the Leadership Webinars & Workshops.
Courses and workshops can be taken in any order except for the Capstone, which must be taken last. We recommend beginning with Personal Leadership, so that your increased self-awareness and understanding of your personal leadership style can guide your work in the rest of the program.
Participants who complete the full 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
Common Foundation, Customized by You
Our flexible program allows you to focus on the topics you are most interested in as well as build a solid foundation in core leadership principles. As we build out our catalog, more pathways will become available.
Sample Pathways
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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
CERTIFICATE PROGRAM
The Certificate in Leadership Essentials includes four core classes (Personal Leadership, Team Leadership, Strategic Leadership, and the Capstone) and is rounded out with an additional 21 hours of electives from the Leadership Webinars & Workshops. Courses must be completed within a two-year period.
CERTIFICATE COURSES / STAND-ALONE COURSES
These courses make up the backbone of the Certificate in Leadership Essentials. Each course may also be taken individually, except for the Capstone.
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.
Great leaders know how to transform a group of individuals into a cohesive, high-performing team focused on accomplishing a shared mission. Participants in this course will learn how to build highly effective teams by examining, analyzing, and applying a variety of interrelated topics to maximize positive group dynamics and team performance.
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.
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
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
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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.
