To fulfill the requirements for the Certificate in Organization Dynamics and Leadership, students complete six courses / 18 credits: three from the Required Core Courses and three electives. A letter requesting the Certificate in Organization Dynamics and Leadership is required when all six courses / 18 credits have been completed. All credits in the Certificate in Organization Dynamics and Leadership Program are transferable to the Master’s Degree.
Admission Requirements
Those with a B.A./B.S.
A completed application form which can be downloaded fro www.sju.edu/graduateapp .
A $35.00 non-refundable application fee.
Official transcripts of all coursework from each undergraduate and graduate institution attended.
A letter of intention outlining the candidate’s professional goals and educational objectives for attending the program of their choice.
A current resume detailing professional work experience.
Two letters of recommendation.
Those with a M.A./M.S.
A completed application form which can be downloaded fro www.sju.edu/graduateapp .
A $35.00 non-refundable application fee.
Official transcripts of all coursework from the graduate institution attended.
A letter of intention outlining the candidate’s professional goals and educational objectives for attending the program of their choice.
A current resume detailing professional work experience.
Two letters of recommendation.
Three Required Core Courses (CPODL)
TOD 4165 Organization Change, Culture and Learning 3 Credits
This foundation course provides the conceptual framework for all the other courses in the concentration. Course focuses in understanding the critical leadership characteristics and competencies required for guiding organizations through strategic and operational change initiatives. Relationship between cultural issues and successful change implementation is explored. Students learn how to close the gap between knowing and doing through specific teaching and learning strategies.
TOD 4175 Facilitative Leadership and Organization Development 3 Credits
Course presents an overview of the fundamental competencies of facilitative leadership and their relationship to guiding organizational change. Practical skills and approaches are studied such as individual behavior change techniques and strategies, influence methods in dealing with people and teaching approaches. Integrated approach is emphasized that connects the critical leadership characteristics with facilitative leadership competencies.
TOD 4155 Strategic Leadership 3 Credits
Course emphasizes the integration of leadership thinking and behavior with strategic planning process. Students have an opportunity to review work projects and understand how internal as well as external communications impacts their ability to implement projects as they were planned. Students attend a skill weekend were they reflect on the assumptions underlying their leadership actions. Specific strategies are considered and students begin to consider new ways of looking at leadership and their behavior in order to successfully implement strategies.
Choose Three Specialized Electives (CPODL)
EDU 4315 Interpersonal Relations 3 Credits
A study of the dynamics of interpersonal, intragroup, and intergroup relations. Emphasis will be placed on the teaching / learning process as well as the counselor / client relationship. A variety of instructional approaches, including lectures, discussions, and group activities will be utilized to develop interpersonal skills.
HED 4825 Leadership Principles 3 Credits
An introductory course to acquaint the learner with needs and roles in supervisor activity. Management styles, functions, and analysis, as well as behavioral theory, are evaluated. Planning and decision making, dealing with change process, motivation, coaching and counseling techniques, performance appraisal, and control are a few of the topics covered.
HED 4855 Stress and Crisis Management 3 Credits
Study of health problems related to stress and exploration of methods to reduce the impact of stressors to improve bio-psychosocial health. Demonstrates how to identify, isolate, and mange a crisis and how to foresee future crisis, as well as how to develop contingency plans. Physiology of stress, relaxation, biofeedback, fear control, and cognitive reacting are skills studied in relation to stress management.
ORG 7025 Career Development 3 Credits
Course provides students with a basic understanding of the career development field. A general overview of theories, practice and research will be conducted. In addition, topics such as assessment, gender, choice, interventions and career management are discussed.
ORG 7035 Laboratory in Leadership Psychology and Team Development 3 Credits
Course presents the practical tools necessary to measure and evaluate the effectiveness of change programs. A specific technology is presented in a step-by-step approach, which links the collaborative consulting process with performance assessment. The course focuses on increasing the student’s ability to communicate and work with leaders in their organization.
TOD 4135 Performance Consulting 3 Credits
Course presents the practical tools necessary to measure and evaluate the effectiveness of change programs. A specific technology is presented in a step-by-step approach, which links the collaborative consulting process with performance assessment. The course focuses on increasing the student’s ability to communicate and work with leaders in their organization.
TOD 5205 Conflict and Negotiation 3 Credits
The course involves students in a process that includes research, conflict analysis and communication. Modeled in part upon the Harvard Negotiation Project’s Getting to Yes methodology, the course also involves newly emerging practices that challenge the notion of argument and encourages exchange between disputing parties. The focus of the course is to help students hear and understand one another’s stories who are embroiled in a conflict.
TOD 5215 Creative Problem Solving and Critical Thinking Skills 3 Credits
Critical thinking – reflecting on the assumptions underlying our actions and considering new ways of looking at the world and living in it – is an essential skill for adults in complex times. Critical thinkers do not passively accept what they read; rather reflect to see new alternatives. Course is a comprehensive guide for helping adults learns how to make worthwhile contributions at work and influence those around them. Students have an opportunity to identify and overcome personal and organizational barriers.
TOD 5245 Coaching and Mentoring Skills 3 Credits
Interactive course focuses on increasing the student’s ability to communicate and influence leaders, peers, participants and clients. Specific topic areas include giving and receiving feedback, identifying and understanding communication style preferences, learning how to listen for the “real issues,” coaching and influencing skills and corporate mentoring programs.
TOD 5295 Implementing Change 3 Credits
Course aids students in designing and effectively implementing change programs and projects while achieving and sustaining performance. Students have an opportunity to create change models and processes form both experience and research. Major issues impacting change will be discussed. One major aspect of the course is to understand resistance and learn techniques to overcome resistance to change. Models, processes and issues focus on corporate, group and the individual level.
TOD 5255 Working with Groups 3 Credits
Course focuses on working within groups to explain the major concepts in group dynamics and learning skills / techniques to work more effectively with groups. Areas of discussion include advantages and disadvantages of problem solving in groups, identifying constructive and destructive group behavior, mechanics of participation, function of group norms in group process, influence and power in groups, stages of group maturity and roles taken by group members.
