Department website: https://www.atu.edu/orgstudies

The Certificate of Proficiency in Professional Leadership (CP-PL) is a dynamic program designed to cultivate essential skills necessary for tomorrow's leaders. This certificate offers experiential, project-based learning to sharpen your ability to communicate effectively, lead teams, engage stakeholders, and build leadership capacity. The CP-PL can be an add-on credential for current students, as well as a stand-alone credential for currently employed individuals seeking an opportunity to enhance their leadership for career growth and mobility.

This program is 100% online.

Learning Goals

• Leadership - Theory, Context, and Application
• Leadership – Organizational Culture, Equity, Inclusion, and Social Responsibility
• Leadership - Leading People, Organizations, and Communities

Vision

To offer innovative, workforce-relevant credentials that prepare individuals to lead effective organizations in a dynamic world.

Mission

The Organizational Studies program believes education is the gateway to professional and personal goal fulfillment. We provide accessible, flexible, and high-quality learning opportunities in an engaging, supportive environment. We empower individuals with the knowledge and skills necessary to face complex organizational challenges, develop leadership capacity in self and others, and drive meaningful change in organizations and communities. Through innovative, experiential learning experiences, we support lifelong learning and career advancement for individuals from diverse personal and professional backgrounds.

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
OL 3023	Professional Communications	3
OL 3133	Principles of Personnel Management	3
OL 4443	Professional Leadership	3
OL 4543	Workplace Supervision	3
OL 4343	Community Development	3
or OL 4643	Organizational Globalization and Diversity
Total Hours		15

1. Leadership - Theory, Context, and Application - students will describe, analyze, evaluate, and apply leadership theories in various and diverse contexts; students will demonstrate basic competencies in leadership and supervision, including skills in oral and written communication, ethical problem solving, research, and evidence-based decision-making; students will apply HROD concepts to selection and hiring.
2. Leadership - Organizational Culture, Equity, Inclusion, and Social Responsibility - students will define organizational culture, articulate a vision of social responsibility, and demonstrate the ability to act on this vision for the betterment of local, state, national, and global communities through collaboration and ethical leadership; students will evaluate personal power and positionality, demonstrate openness to diverse perspectives, and model effective intercultural communication skills; students will examine dynamics of power and privilege, and evaluate points of view in solving complex interpersonal and organizational problems.
3. Leadership - Leading People, Organizations, and Communities - students will explain the importance of motivation, empowerment, persuasion, and ethics in leadership; students will demonstrate the ability to effectively function in multiple roles as part of a team and community; students will apply concepts of community development; students will analyze and evaluate their role of leadership in nonprofit organizations and community building.

For program assessment visit: https://www.atu.edu/assessment/program_assessment.php