LSM509

Unlocking Your Leadership Potential

Identify your strengths and weaknesses using a 360-degree evaluation and create a personal leadership development plan. Lead by using your strengths to further both your organization and your career.

Description

Leaders are not born; they are developed. This course helps managers identify and enhance the particular leadership style that matches their personal strengths. By providing participants with a range of assessment tools, including an online 360-degree evaluation, this course builds critical leadership competencies essential to career development and advancement. Linked to Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management Leadership Model, the online 360-degree evaluation is designed to identify participant’s management strengths and weaknesses. Participants will create a Leadership Development Plan designed to guide their career development.

Who Should Take This Course?

This course is invaluable for managers at all levels looking to assess their strengths and weaknesses as a leader, and those members of an organization who wish to grow into more effective leaders.

Course Format

eCornell takes a problem-based approach to learning, and our courses are built around realistic case studies and scenarios. All courses are self-paced, and are facilitated by an eCornell instructor, who leads the online discussions and is available to answer any questions about the course content.

This course is based on an online 360-degree assessment, which must be completed prior to the course start date. Three weeks prior to the start of the course you will be asked to nominate up to ten colleagues to complete online assessments of your leadership capabilities. Your Leadership Assessment will be available during the first module of the course and will form the basis for the creation of your Leadership Development Plan.

This course contains the following modules:

• The Successful Leader
  • Leadership Models
  • Derailment
  • Calibration
• The Leadership Development Plan
  • Getting Feedback
  • Analyzing Feedback Data
  • Writing the Leadership Development Plan

Authoring Faculty

Michael J. Hostetler, Lecturer of Leadership

Sponsoring School

Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management

Total Learning Time

Approximately five to six hours over a period of two weeks.

Certificate Information

This course can be applied toward the following certificates:

• Business Leadership Skills
• Leading Management Teams

ACE CREDIT Recommendation

This course contributes to an eCornell Certificate Program that has been recommended for college credit by the American Council on Education's College Credit Recommendation Service (CREDIT). Please refer to the Certificate information page for additional details.

HRCI Recertification

This course been approved for six (6) Strategic Management recertification credit hours toward SPHR and GPHR recertification and six (6) recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR, and GPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute. Please contact the Human Resource Certificate Institute (HRCI) for further information about certification or recertification.

Project Management Institute Professional Development Units

This course qualifies for 7.75 Professional Development Units (PDUs) from the Project Management Institute (PMI) for Professional Project Managers (PMPs) seeking ongoing education and professional development for continuing certification. eCornell is a Global Registered Education Provider of PMI. PDUs are designated as Category 3.