The Training and Development CAGS prepares individuals to identify emerging workplace/workforce issues and to translate these issues into effective, comprehensive action-oriented learning agendas for their organization. This CAGS opportunity is aligned to the Training and Development Leadership specialization.

TDL7000 - Human Performance: Paradigms and Possibilities

In a time when the job marketplace is more volatile than ever, recruiting and retaining quality workers and providing a spirited and productive workplace has never been of greater importance. In this course, Learners examine major marketplace issues that impact human performance. Various paradigms are highlighted to demonstrate effective and efficient training models with an eye toward liberating human performance potential. Note: First course for Learners pursuing a specialization in Training, Development & Leadership.

TDL7001 - Workplace/workforce: Creating Common Ground

This course provides each Learner the opportunity to explore and examine the various trends and issues impacting the workplace. Longevity, diversity, generational differences, alternative household configurations and “higher purpose” workplace trends are investigated. The Learner identifies the key components of workforce/workplace alignment as organizations move toward creating “common ground” for all workers. A critical analysis of the learner’s organization’s responses to these trends is conducted.

TDL7002 - Strategic Links for Successful Training

In today’s organizational environment of tighter budgets and accountability, stakeholders increasingly want to know the end results of training initiatives in the organization. What and how did a training program enhance organization’s performance and impact the bottom line? This course provides Learners the opportunity to investigate the critical components of successful training by exploring strategic internal and external organizational links.

OL7003 - Leadership for Excellence

This course is for learners who understand that striving for leadership excellence is a journey. It is a life journey predicated upon studying, practicing, and developing leadership skills and competencies. This process involves an intensive examination of their personal and organizational leadership abilities and capacities. It is also highly recommended that Learners take OL7003 as their first course of study if they are pursuing a specialization in OL. In this course, Learners will deepen their philosophy of leadership which serves as the “touchstone” for applying the knowledge and skill sets they acquire through this course and other courses within the OL specialization. The development and implementation of leadership concepts, applications, and frameworks to drive leadership performance for excellence are highlighted. The continued and increasingly successful application of the knowledge, tools, skill sets, and perspectives that have been learned will be emphasized.

OL7005 - Ethical Leadership

Leadership is not an event, but is a process that takes time. It involves not thinking, acting, and communicating in an ethical fashion. Likewise, there is no one single absolute point of view to be uncritically adopted and unquestioningly followed. Regardless of what type of organization a person serves, frequently they find themselves having to make tough decisions that may be in conflict with their own set of values. Schools for example, are dedicated to the well being of children, yet students have virtually no voice in what happens there. For this reason, the leader's conduct must be deliberately moral and ethical. In this course, Learners gain a deep understanding of the complexity of such moral dilemmas through critical analysis and application of ethical principles. Both hypothetical and real ethical scenarios and decisions will be critically considered and discussed with the focus on the Learner building practical decision making skills in the organizational environment and the understanding the criteria by which the soundness of those decisions are to be judged. Interpersonal dynamics operating within an organizational structure and the systemic nature of such structures is examined. Students examine their own ethical profile, and how it impacts their communication with individuals and groups. This includes oral, print and electronic communications.

OL7007 - Leader as Coach

As organizations are increasingly called upon to be responsive and visionary, leaders are being called upon to use a broader repertoire of skills to maximize the human potential within the organization. Coaching skills and the theories from which they derive draw upon such interdisciplinary fields as organizational development, humanistic psychology and dialogue and systems theory. Through coursework, course readings, case analyses, field experience and personal reflection, Learners will examine in-depth coaching principles and theories and their applications in leadership roles. This course incorporates the Learner's experiences and observations regarding leadership from their personal and professional experiences and current work setting.