Next-Level Leadership

Catalog description

Advancing a career requires developing and exhibiting next-level leadership skills. Technical and management skills that lead to success in the early stages of a career are not enough to continue advancement into senior leadership positions. Focuses on the skills that will drive getting a desired job and advancing a career. Often referred to as interpersonal skills or emotional intelligence--EQ as opposed to IQ--these skills are what employers and recruiters focus on when hiring and promoting. Higher EQ has been found to have many key benefits to both individuals and organizations, including: communicating more effectively across the organization; better collaboration, resulting in high-functioning teams; building positive and supportive connections; and creating a more resilient and supportive culture. This course shows how leveraging a higher EQ provides benefits such as: improving resilience through effectively managing stress and anxiety; managing conflict by enhancing skills such as assertiveness, listening and empathy; addressing workplace culture, such as biases and microaggressions; and building and exhibiting self-confidence, in part through executive presence. Uses lectures, class discussions, self-assessments, simulations and interactive exercises to help students become more self-aware of the skills needed to develop to advance careers. Students understand themselves better and are given access to tools and techniques to learn needed skills and develop an action plan. The EQIP (EQ Improvement Plan) helps students grow EQ and build next-level leadership potential.