Leadership Development and Organizational Change

Ready to make a difference in your union, organization or company? Earn your certificate and build essential leadership, negotiation and communication skills with convenient and flexible online courses. This certificate program is an affordable and rapid-results educational experience that provides skills essential to success in your organization.

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Register for Labor Leadership Skills Certificate Program - Online

This course, part of the Online Labor Studies Program, focuses on how to develop skills to improve the effectiveness of your communication relationships and enhance the quality of your life. The class will be highly participatory and include the most crucial readings on effective communications for working people.

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Register for Effective Communications At Work

Lead With Influence. Drive Change. Achieve Results.

In this active learning environment, participants apply concepts through group exercises, case studies, skill-building and more. The program methodology promotes on-the-spot feedback and coaching from faculty and peers. Real-time classroom interaction provides opportunities to understand different approaches to situations.

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Register for HR Leadership: Enhance Your Influence and Impact

For anyone who wants to improve oral presentation skills and overcome reluctance to speak in public and gain tools for more effective presentations. This online workshop is part of the four-course Labor Leadership Skills Certificate Program and participants do not have to be online at a specific time.

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Register for Effective Communication (online)

Performance enabling organizational design is both an art, and a science. Today’s HR practitioners are expected to hone consulting and analytical skills and strike a balance between a facilitative and expert role to create alignment between components of the organization and the organization’s strategic goals. Change usually has organization design implications, and organization design inevitably results in change.

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Register for Organization Design and Enabling Change

Emotional Intelligence (EI) is the ability to harness emotions in sensing, understanding and responding adeptly to social cues in the surrounding environment. Measure your current EI level and receive coaching to improve it. Learn to use your EI to interact with others, solve problems and achieve higher performance.

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Register for Emotional Intelligence: An Edge for Leaders

Master communication and leadership skills to effectively manage employees, establish priorities and delegate responsibilities. Building awareness of team dynamics and how to engage employees through group problem-solving and decision-making. Become an effective leader with the ability to develop productive relationships and ensure alignment and collaboration.

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Register for Leadership Skills for Success: Engaging Employees and Building Teams

Build skills for developing impactful and engaging coaching conversations that improve team performance. Establish an understanding of when feedback discussions need to transition to a coaching relationship. Review theories for changing behavior, the importance of trust, crucial coaching elements and formulating successful development plans to enhance performance and build potential.

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Register for Feedback and Coaching: Facilitating High Impact Discussions

Labor History can be understood from the perspectives of both union history and the social, cultural, and political life of workers. Here we explore not only union organizing, collective bargaining, and labor legislation, but also what workers thought, how they work and lived, and their impact on the larger society.

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Register for Labor History

Effective leaders are organizational innovators and change agents. Today’s leaders are faced with complex, ambiguous and diverse work environments. This workshop explores how the leader as a “Visionary Change Ambassador” can become a stronger advocate for employees in a way that drives positive change in a multi-generational workplace.

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Register for Managing Change in a Multi-Generational Workplace