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Leading Through Challenge - Graduate Certificate

The Leading Through Challenge graduate certificate provides skill development useful to managers who seek to rise to higher levels of leadership. High-level leaders typically encounter challenging situations that require skills in negotiation and mediation, as well as how to manage change and conflict.

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Program Information for Leading Through Challenge - Graduate Certificate

Admissions for Leading Through Challenge - Graduate Certificate

For more information about graduate admissions, visit the graduate admission website. For more information on international admissions, visit the international admission website.

Admission Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university
  • Minimum 2.750 undergraduate GPA on a 4.000-point scale
  • Official transcript(s)
  • Résumé
  • English language proficiency - all international students must provide proof of English language proficiency (unless they meet specific exceptions to waive) by earning one of the following:1
    • Minimum 79 TOEFL iBT score
    • Minimum 6.5 IELTS score
    • Minimum 58 PTE score
    • Minimum 110 DET score
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International applicants who do not meet the above test scores will not be considered for admission.

Application Deadlines

  • Fall Semester
    • Rolling admissions
  • Spring Semester
    • Rolling admissions
  • Summer Term
    • Rolling admissions
Learning Outcomes

Program Learning Outcomes

Graduates of this program will be able to:

  1. Explain growth in self-awareness from completed managerial assessments.
  2. Describe how to lead positive organizational change.
  3. Demonstrate successful negotiation skills.
  4. Demonstrate successful mediation skills.
  5. Describe organizational conflict, organizational culture and collaboration, power dynamics, decision-making and problem-solving in organizations.
Coursework
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Program Requirements

Certificate Requirements

Certificate Requirements
MGMT 64158LEADERSHIP 2
MGMT 64160LEADERSHIP AND ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE 3
PACS 54040NEGOTIATION 3
PACS 58080MEDIATION: THEORY AND TRAINING 3
PACS 60004ORGANIZATIONAL CONFLICT AND COOPERATION 3
Minimum Total Credit Hours:14

Graduation Requirements

Minimum Major GPA Minimum Overall GPA
3.000 3.000
Program Delivery
  • Delivery:
    • In Person
  • Location:
    • Kent Campus
Accreditation for Leading Through Challenge - Graduate Certificate

AACSB, International - The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

Examples of Possible Careers and Salaries for Leading Through Challenge - Graduate Certificate

General and operations managers

5.8%

faster than the average

2,486,400

number of jobs

$103,650

potential earnings

Notice: Career Information Source
* Source of occupation titles and labor data comes from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Outlook Handbook. Data comprises projected percent change in employment over the next 10 years; nation-wide employment numbers; and the yearly median wage at which half of the workers in the occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less.

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