Certificate in Leading Collaboratively in a Complex World
Type: Credit-based
Offered by: Faculty of Management
Coordinator: Heather Swinamer, MBA Program Manager, heather.swinamer@dal.ca
Overview:
The Leading Collaboratively in a Complex World Certificate is designed to enable students to enhance their leadership management capabilities and to become exceptional leaders in a broad range of organizations. Upon completion of the certificate, students will have a comprehensive knowledge of fundamental and contemporary leadership theories, enhanced by the ability to creatively integrate leadership around current issues of managing people, leading change, and developing personal and professional competencies in a variety of challenging contexts.
Students who complete the certificate will:
1) Gain command of the key leadership requirements for leading in today’s highly complex, highly collaborative, highly demanding organizations;
2) Build core leadership skills for crafting effective and ethical work relationships that foster both organizational success and contributor wellbeing;
3) Identify and gain capabilities for addressing the systemic challenges underrepresented groups face as leaders;
4) Address the increasing demands for creating organization actions that are sustainable socially, environmentally, and collectively; and
5) Enhance capacity for leadership confidence, resilience, and adaptability required for leading responsible, community-responsive, organizational forward movement.
Admission Requirements / Eligibility:
Students must be registered in the Master of Business Administration (MBA) program at Dalhousie University.
Certificate Requirements:
There are 9 credit hours required for this certificate:
BUSI 5602.015 Environment, Society, and Governance
BUSI 6992.015 Building Business Relationships
BUSI 6993.015 Leading in Complexity
BUSI 6999.015 Leading Change
BUSI 6998.03 Building Collaborative Capacity*
*This course serves as a capstone to this certificate. As such, it should be completed after, or concurrently with, the other required courses for this certificate program.
Please note in-progress students who have completed a cross-listed course equivalent to one listed above may have that course count towards the certificate requirements.
Application of Credit Hours Towards Other Degree Requirements:
Courses completed as part of this certificate may be double-counted towards the requirements of the MBA degree, subject to approval by the student’s supervisor and graduate coordinator in their primary degree program. Courses not approved to count towards the primary degree requirements will result in additional tuition fees on a per-course fee basis.
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