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Leading Management Teams

Certificate ID: LMTC01
Form and sustain high-performance teams, transition leaders effectively, and manage team dynamics. Innovate through optimal decision making, implement change successfully, and maximize team member contributions.

Description

With the impending retirement of the baby boom generation and a heightened focus on succession planning, eCornell’s Leading Management Teams certificate is designed to provide leaders with the skills necessary to manage their own career and those of the managers reporting to them.

This six-course certificate series, authored by management faculty at Cornell University, is grounded in research and the authoring faculty’s experience with major corporate clients. The course content is designed to develop practical and applicable skills essential to managers charged with forming and sustaining high-performing teams.

In this series, participants will undergo a 360-degree evaluation linked to Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management Leadership Model. The results will be used to create a Leadership Development Plan which is integral to managing your own and your direct reports’ career development. In addition, participants will engage in content addressing the following topics:

Leadership transition
Managing team dynamics using the “three-wave pattern” model
Generating new ideas for innovation in their organization
Using both informal and formal mathematical methods for optimizing decision making
Mastering organizational change tactics in the context of a management team
Maximizing team member contributions and improving team interactions

Who Should Take This Certificate?

This certificate series is designed for managers at all levels of the organization, especially those who are responsible for leading, or aspire to lead, high performing management teams. It is also appropriate for managers who have recently assumed or expect to assume increased management responsibility.

Enrollment

To register, contact an Enrollment Counselor at info@ecornell.com or 1-866-326-7635 (+1-607-330-3200 from outside the United States).

Certificate programs are eligible for eCornell Payment Plans. Discounts are available for military personnel, veterans, and Cornell University Alumni. eCornell programs are not eligible for financial aid or federal Pell Grants. Contact an enrollment counselor for more information.

Courses in this Certificate

Understanding Team Dynamics
- If organizations are to remain productive and maintain a competitive advantage in this fast-paced, constantly changing, global economy, it is essential that they understand how to create and utilize effective work teams at all levels of the organization. When well managed, teams improve productivity, innovation, and the likelihood of success. Ineffective teams lead to frustration and the loss of time and productivity.
  In this course, participants will explore the dimensions and inherent benefits of a well-organized, synchronized team and how to develop a systematic and concrete approach to organizing individuals into a highly effective, productive, and cohesive work force.
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Managing Strategic Change
- With emerging technologies and expanding global marketplaces, it is imperative that organizations become highly proficient in driving their change agenda. Whether diversifying, downsizing, merging, reorienting business, or developing new management structures, organizations must be able to effectively carry out change initiatives to remain productive and competitive.
  In this course, participants learn to assess organizational readiness and their own ability to facilitate change. Working with a comprehensive organizational change scenario, this experiential exercise provides an opportunity for participants to learn by doing and to assess their own effectiveness in facilitating change.
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Executive Decision Making
- In today's competitive business climate, it is imperative that executives know how to make key decisions quickly and decisively. Strategic decisions often entail considerable risks and can have long-range implications for the organization. In this course, participants will learn how to apply formal decision-making processes in order to reduce risk and choose the best course of action for their organization. They will learn methods and techniques for making critical decisions in a challenging environment with limited time and resources. This course focuses on how to maximize available assets, identify risks and obstacles, and gather the necessary data for an informed decision-making process.
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Leading Through Creativity
- Organizations that understand the creative process and foster this with employees find themselves at the top of their industry. They know how to harness the creative power of their workforce to develop new products and services. The creative process that leads to this type of innovation is often veiled in mystery and the misconception that one must be gifted to be creative. Creativity, however, is as much a matter of technique as intelligence. In this course, participants will learn a series of individual and group techniques designed to cultivate organizational creativity and the development of new ideas. Participants will learn to enhance their capacity for creative thought and will be able to use their abilities to develop their organization's ability to be innovative, resulting in increased market share and profit.
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Unlocking Your Leadership Potential
- Leaders are not born; they are developed. This course helps managers identify and enhance the particular leadership style that matches their personal strengths. By providing participants with a range of assessment tools, including an online 360-degree evaluation, this course builds critical leadership competencies essential to career development and advancement. Linked to Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management Leadership Model, the online 360-degree evaluation is designed to identify participant’s management strengths and weaknesses. Participants will create a Leadership Development Plan designed to guide their career development.
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Overcoming Challenges to Leaders and Their Teams
- As managers take on new roles and responsibilities, the risks and consequences of failure become much greater. In this course, participants gain skills in identifying and overcoming the obstacles and pitfalls they may face at different stages of their careers.Participants revise an existing personal Leadership Development Plan to guide them through leadership transitions and make them more effective managers and members of their organizations. (Participants must bring a completed personal leadership development plan to the course—either one they created in LSM509, Unlocking Your Leadership Potential, or one they’ve created in their workplace.) They also develop strategies for helping their team of direct reports grow and change when faced with new assignments.
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Accreditation

Participants who successfully complete all six course in this certificate series will receive a Certificate in Leading Management Teams from Cornell University.

ACE CREDIT Recommendation

The American Council on Education recommends this Certificate Program for 3 semester hours in Leadership or Management in the upper division baccalaureate degree category.

HRCI Recertification

The courses in this certificate series have each been approved for six (6) recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR, and GPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute. Most courses have been approved for six (6) Strategic Management recertification credit hours toward SPHR and GPHR recertification. See individual course descriptions for more information. Please contact the Human Resource Certificate Institute (HRCI) for further information about certification or recertification.

Technical Requirements

With all eCornell courses, access is easy. Participants only need a computer and an Internet connection. To view specific technology requirements, visit our Technology Requirements page.