Leadership Certificate

College of Business

Degree: Certificate
Major: Leadership
Hours: 15

leadership

Delivery Options:

On-Campus       Online

Leadership Certificate Overview

Lamar University's Leadership Certificate graduate program will help you develop leadership qualities that are essential for success. You will learn how to create high trust organizational culture, develop a shared organizational purpose, unleash the full potential of human capital and align systems to support your organization's purpose.

Five courses are required to graduate and no GMAT is required. Students must obtain a 3.0 GPA for the courses with a “C” or better in each Leadership class. 

This this certificate, you will gain understanding of the most valuable leadership practices to achieve extraordinary results and develop skills important for the effective management of change. 

Online Leadership Certificate

Leadership Courses You May Take

Personal Leadership: Stephen Covey's book, "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People," serves as the foundation for this highly interactive course. You are provided a strong understanding of the content. The course fosters personal and professional growth, and empowers more meaningful relationships, and productive collaboration, increases productivity and results in a healthy work/life balance. 

Team Leadership: This course teaches Franklin/Covey's "Leadership: Great Leaders, Great Teams, and Great Results." Unleash the talent and capability of your teams by carrying out the four imperatives of Great Leaders. This course will help you learn how to build credibility and trust with others, define your team's purpose and align it with the organizations goals, and encourage growth and responsibility of the unique talents of your team.

Strategic Leadership: Using Franklin Covey's "The Four Disciplines of Execution," you will act as managers creating actual work plans. The outcome of this course is to identify the most important goals for each manager and team to pursue, then to create measures and identify the key activities that will predict goal achievement. 

Leadership and Negotiation: This course focuses on the development of negotiation and versatile leadership skills important in the effective management of change. Through role playing exercises, tapes, diagnostic tools, you will learn theory and build skills necessary for meeting objectives and providing leadership in diverse groups and organizations.

Employment Law: Historical interpretations and present provisions of regulations governing: labor and common law; state and federal statues; Fair Labor Standards Act; Worker's Compensation; Social Security liability; United States Department of Labor; social legislation and fair employment practices.

Career Paths for Leadership

Companies look to leadership development programs to seek out and inject high performers into their workforce and deepen their pool of potential senior managers. They want hard workers and they want results. Successful graduates emerge with several key assets unique to leadership students: a network of senior leaders, visibility into multiple parts of the company and a clear view of where opportunity is and how to get it. Throughout your program, you will be expected to drive your own career development and continually prove yourself, because individuals with an entrepreneurial spirit and an internal drive towards results have been the most successful.

Primary Careers

Senior manager, general manager, human resources manager

Career Areas

  • Management
  • Human resources
  • Recruitment
  • Consulting
  • Sales and promotion
  • Healthcare and pharmaceuticals
  • Industry and manufacturing

Median Salary

$133,200

Types of Employers

  • Financial companies
  • Insurance companies
  • Advertising and PR firms
  • Industrial companies
  • Corporate, mid-level and small business
  • Government agencies

Meet the Faculty

Faculty Member NameSoumava Bandyopadhyay
Program Director
Robert NicksJeff Dyson
Program Director
Tilisa ThibodeauxMelissa Baldo
Professor