The Advanced Professional Certificate in Strategic Leadership aims to chalk out the role played by the senior leadership in shaping the future of an organization so that learner can be trained as a successful leader of the future.

The course outlines strategies to be implemented to develop leadership that envision the company strategic direction by understanding the dynamics of team building, the concept of bringing people together to work on shared goals and successfully achieve team results.

The learner will learn the strategic visionary direction and its roots in exceptional leadership qualities that create organizational culture and values for an inclusive environment of motivation, achievement and success.

Learning Outcomes

After the successful completion of the certificate, the student will be able to learn:

• What truly is the meaning and importance of leadership
• How to evaluate the role of leaders in strategic direction
• Ten theories of leadership
• Leadership stages and the strategies implemented in each stage
• The relationships between leaders of workgroups, and leaders of the organization.
• The influence of leadership on groups and teams.
• Evaluate the characteristics of an effective workgroup and team. 
• Role of leadership in the strategic management process
• The relevance of internal and external environment
• Importance of a vision and mission statement
• Relationship between corporate objectives and strategies
• Importance of strategy evaluation
• 5-step process to crisis risk assessment
• 3 phases of the change process
• Major reasons for resisting change
• People and task-oriented techniques for overcoming resistance to change
• Explore the exercise of leadership power and influence.
• Review the importance of ethics, values and corporate social responsibilities to an organization’s value.
• Ethical framework for leadership guidance
• Evaluate leadership and sustainability concepts and trends.