Leadership Essentials

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Program Description

Develop your skills as an emerging business leader to help drive individuals, teams and your company to success with SAIT’s Leadership Essentials program. This program is designed to help you increase innovation and collaboration by developing new skills for managing the unique needs of individuals and teams.

Sharpen your ability to integrate emotional intelligence, empathy and ethics into everyday problem solving and decision making, as you grow your management competencies in marketing, finance, communication, negotiation, conflict and change management.

Through practical learning, real-life scenarios and case studies, you will discover and apply new ways of thinking and communicating as a leader. You will complete the program with the skills and confidence to positively influence the people you lead and ready to make an impact on the future of your organization.

Abbreviated Program Description

Develop your skills as an emerging business leader to help drive individuals, teams and your company to success with SAIT’s Leadership Essentials program. Sharpen your ability to integrate emotional intelligence, empathy and ethics into everyday problem solving and decision making, as you grow your management competencies in marketing, finance, communication, negotiation, conflict and change management. You will complete the program with the skills and confidence to positively influence the people you lead and ready to make an impact on the future of your organization.

Program Overview

Your Career

This program is designed to assist supervisors and middle-managers to increase their productivity in the workforce as well as enable them to progress into senior level management positions.

Student Success

There is a direct correlation between the time and energy invested to the amount of success achieved.
Remaining focused and diligent with coursework is important for success in completing the program.
Learners with strong time-management and discipline have a greater propensity to succeed.

Credential

After successfully completing this program, learners will receive a Certificate of Achievement in Leadership Essentials.

Program Code

LDRE

Admission Requirements

There are no requirements for entering this program.

Program Outline

Program Duration and Courses

This program is comprised of 15 courses delivered over a total of 203 hours.

ACCT 104 - Accounting and Finance for Non-Accountants Formerly ACCT 208
COMM 196 - Communicating Effectively Formerly COMM 218
HREL 100 - Emotional Intelligence Formerly HREL 211
LDSH 003 - Working Effectively in a Diverse Workplace Formerly LDSH 206
LDSH 004 - Managing Change Formerly LDSH 208
LDSH 008 - Influence Matters Formerly LDSH 242
MGMT 142 - Conflict Management Formerly MGMT 217
MGMT 143 - Negotiation Skills Formerly MGMT 208
MKTG 124 - Marketing for Managers Formerly MKTG 218
ORGB 101 - Understanding Change Formerly ORGB 218
ORGB 104 - Team Building Formerly ORGB 228
WRIT 100 - Business Writing for Results Formerly WRIT 208

Program Outcomes

Demonstrate skills and strategies that inspire employee engagement and stable work environments built on trust, compassion and innovation.
Incorporate ethics, problem solving techniques and workplace dynamics into an effective decision making process.
Integrate coaching and motivational strategies with emotional intelligence to create a work environment in which individuals thrive.
Discover the characteristics of high-performance teams that embrace diversity and overcome barriers to achieve corporate goals.
Manage conflict, negotiation, change and other challenging situations effectively using emotional and social intelligence.
Exemplify assertive behaviours that promote respect of self, others and the needs of a business.
Communicate effectively using multiple styles and mediums for diverse work environments and a wide range of circumstances.
Write clear messages using plain language appropriate for different forms of written media.
Create a marketing plan, for a proposed product or service that includes strategies for product, promotion, distribution, pricing and measurements for success.
Analyze financial information to assess profitability of a company or to manage cash flow and financial performance.