The Leadership Development Certificate Program (LDCP) will guide you to successfully develop leadership development programs to lead sustainable change and develop high potential leaders in your organization. You\'ll learn how to plan, design, and implement a program to support leaders to achieve greater success.

This LDCP Certificate Program focuses the processes needed to develop leaders in their current role and future roles. Through our hands-on, learning approach of the LDCP program participants demonstrate practical application, and identify tools and processes that allow them to apply skills learned immediately.

This course is offered in online and classroom formats.

This workshop focuses on building leadership bench strength to impact an organizations bottom line. Participants will be exposed to a blended approach to leadership development consisting of assessment instruments, structured experiences, coaching, simulation activities, and case studies.

Course Topics:

• Session 1: Introduction to Leadership Development
• Session 2: Defining Leadership Development Strategies
• Session 3: Identifying Best Practices in Leadership Development
• Session 4: Designing Leadership Development Program Strategy
• Session 5: Creating Behavioral Assessment Tools and Analyzing Development Needs
• Session 6: Developing Competency Models and Development Activities
• Session 7: Implementing the Leadership Development Program
• Session 8: Analyzing the Results of the Leadership Program
• Session 9: Conducting the Annual Talent Review

Benefits:

• Gain experience in Leadership Development
• Enhance your credibility as a leadership development professional
• Build a business case for leadership development
• Provide the expertise to design a leadership development program

Who should take this course?

• Business Leaders and Managers - who want to learn how to learn how to develop others to achieve organizational goals and increase effectiveness.
• Human Resource Professionals - who want to introduce Leadership Development in their relevant organization or to coach & develop others.
• Organization Development Specialists - who want to expand their skills for larger and longer impact in the area of Leadership Development.
• Learning and Development professionals - who want to lead change and improve individual, team and enterprise-wide performance in organizational settings.
• Independent Coaches / Consultants - interested in getting a professional certification and strengthening their Leadership Development Knowledge & skills.

What you will learn:

• Gain an overview of leadership development practices.
• Identify leadership development strategies.
• Recognize research-based models and best practices for leadership development.
• Enhanced your credibility as a leadership development professional .
• Build a business case for leadership development.
• Develop and implement a leadership development program.
• Select assessment tools and defining competencies, analyze data and debrief results to create development plans.
• Develop Implementation plan to effectively development plans and develop leadership development activities.
• Provide coaching and feedback.
• Facilitate the annual talent review.
• Conduct post Implementation measurement and follow-up.

Certificate Requirements

• Completion of eight courses in the certificate program.
• Completion of the Leadership Development Competency Assessment and Individual Development Plan outlining the developmental goals.
• Demonstrate proficiency as a leadership development expert.  
• Demonstrate proficiency in implementing leadership development tools & techniques.
• Complete relevant assignments.

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