Change Leadership

Identify opportunities for change, negotiate support, and implement the initiatives. Ensure successful implementation by managing conflict, organizing resources, motivating and directing, and developing political and organizational agility.

Enrollment Information

Description

Cornell University's Certificate in Change Leadership prepares managers to both create change in their organizations, and sustain momentum for that change over the long-haul.

Every day, a leader with a good idea fails in their ability to implement change in their organizations. Most leaders fail because they can't get beyond vision. They rely too heavily on a good idea and a charismatic personality. The courses in the Certificate in Change Leadership series, part of eCornell's Proactive Leadership program, are based on Professor Samuel Bacharach's acclaimed books Get Them on Your Side and Keep Them on Your Side. Proactive Leadership leverages Professor Bacharach's decades of research, teaching, and expertise in organizational change, negotiation, conflict resolution, and organizational behavior, with a hands-on, in-the-trenches approach to getting things done in organizations. Proactive leadership is about both getting people and/or groups on your side AND sustaining momentum by keeping them on your side.

Leaders who succeed are those that mobilize people in pursuit of a common and directed course of action. They recognize that a good idea is not good enough; you need to influence key organizational stakeholders to support an initiative. The first four courses in the series are dedicated to the leadership process of converting an idea into action. These courses will help you to develop the political competencies of influence, negotiation, and organizational awareness in order to identify opportunities for change, negotiate support for an initiative, and mobilize action to ensure that your change initiative is implemented.

Successful leaders also have the capacity to "go the distance." They keep projects, initiatives, and people moving ahead in spite of emerging obstacles and uncertainties. The last two courses in the series focus on establishing and sustaining the four dimensions of momentum to ensure long-term success. The courses will help you to develop the managerial competencies of organizing resources, motivating and directing others, managing performance and achievement, leading through culture, managing conflict, and developing political and organizational agility.

Who Should Take This Certificate?

This certificate is designed for managers and leaders at all levels of public, private, and not-for-profit organizations who want to create and sustain change in their organizations.

Accreditation

Participants who successfully complete all six courses in this certificate series will receive a Certificate in Change Leadership from Cornell University.

Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) will give .6 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) to each student who successfully completes each course. Students can apply to the ILR school for the CEU units after they have successfully completed the courses.

HRCI Recertification

The courses in this certificate series have each 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.