Creating Leadership Development Programs Certificate

• Use the ATD leadership development model to create a leadership development program.

• Ensure alignment of a leadership development program to an organization’s culture, vision, mission, and goals, as well as competencies, customers' requirements, and business needs.

• Select and implement appropriate learning methods.

• List content and competencies that must be included in a leadership development program.

• List observable behaviors that display a leader’s ability to demonstrate the competencies.

• Discuss a hierarchy of competencies and content for entry, mid-level, and executives.

• Utilize process planning checklists and other job aids to create a leadership development program.

• Measure and link the value of a leadership development program to an organization’s bottom line.

• Implement questionnaires, assessment methods, and self-evaluation tools presented in the leadership development program.

• Incorporate best practices in leadership needs assessments, implementation, and when identifying high potential candidates for leadership programs.

• Discover the components of planning, designing, and sustaining best-in-class leadership development programs.

• Directly align leadership development programs to your organization’s culture, goals, vision, and mission.

• Review the latest research and trends on leadership development and compare best practices against your organization’s current approach.

• Access dozens of ready-to-use tools and templates to support your design work.

• Earn an industry-recognized ATD certificate and digital badge.

This program is ideal for participants with backgrounds in learning design who have a business need to develop leaders and create effective leadership programs. The program focuses on understanding and applying best practices in developing a leadership development process, including designing learning experiences that nurture new leaders. This program is not a leadership course in and of itself.