Leadership Development Program

The Leadership Development Program (LDP) is designed for potential or existing supervisors and/or managers. The LDP will prepare the employee for the high level of technical proficiency required to manage and operate effectively within the organization.

A certificate in Leadership is presented by Columbus State University Leadership Institute to those who complete the LDP Section 1 & LDP Section 2 courses.

This certificate acknowledges that the individual is a professional with a solid grounding in many of the techniques used by the most successful leaders to manage the workplace. You will have been given the opportunity to successfully:

• Lead, facilitate and contribute to effective work groups and teams.
• Enact strategy, including management of contingencies, emergent strategies, and other modifications to existing plans.
• Identify, assess, and develop appropriate responses to operational and implementation risks.
• Identify, plan, budget and initiate projects and monitor project performance.
• Create a shared vision and mobilize energy toward goal achievement; manage organizational change and com-munication; overcome resistance to change.
• Recognize diversity and its layers; identify barriers and challenges to managing diversity and be able to implement best practices; understand the difference between affirmative action and diversity management; manage the effects of diversity in small groups.