People and Business Leadership Essentials
Certificate of Completion

Effective leadership empowers productive people.

Upgrade your leadership skills while boosting your company’s recruitment and retention. Build up your real-world management skills to be an effective manager in your organization. You’ll master the essentials in two 6-week, 4-credit courses built to be accessible to you as a busy, working adult, with a mobile-first course design and respect for your time.

Certificate courses are designed and delivered in the next-generation Blackboard Ultra learning management system and taught by experienced professors.
Engage in weekly discussions with your classmates and get hands-on experience finding solutions to real business management and leadership problems.
Learn on the go, when needed, with our mobile e-Learning app.

Here's the Bellevue University advantage:

The People and Business Leadership Essentials certificate was developed to enhance real-world skills and knowledge to be a manager and leader within your organization. The certificate will use an innovative case-study approach to provide introductory business and leadership topics and tools to navigate as a manager.
The completion of this certificate sends an important signal to your organization that you are committed to developing a skillset that not only helps you personally grow, but also helps your organization grow.
While enrolled, students will have unlimited access to a world-class e-Library to access books, learning resources, and support from Bellevue University librarians.

Here's what you'll get out of it:

In Business Management

Business Management will enhance your real-world management skills and knowledge to be an effective manager and leader within your organization. A successful business is powered by strong leadership and productive employees. Learn how to define primary management functions, plan, prioritize, organize, control and evaluate the factors that impact sales, identify how different business departments contribute to overall performance, margin and inventory scoring and how to positively contribute to organizational goals.

In Business Leadership

Business leadership will introduce you to the study of leadership—focused on building a strong team morale and enhancing your skills to be an effective leader. As a leader of your organization, it is important to have clear and concise communication, be able to identify and apply decision types and decision-making methods. Recognize the appropriate use of conflict management styles, in order to maintain a positive leadership mindset and the ability to drive engagement and performance. Be able to recommend leadership techniques for leading yourself and others effectively. Learn how to motivate a team, develop and engage employees and how to properly exchange information to improve effectiveness.

Military Preferred (Active Duty and Spouses Only)

Active duty members of the United States Military, National Guard, Reserve and Coast Guard (and their spouses) who choose this Certificate of Completion are eligible for a tuition rate of $250 per credit hour for all courses in their certificate program.

Curriculum

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To effectively manage a successful business and lead a team of productive employees requires evidence of strong management and leadership skills. Management includes planning, prioritizing, organizing, controlling and evaluating the factors that impact sales, margin and inventory performance. Management also includes an understanding of the leader-manager role in articulating and forwarding organizational goals.

By the end of the course, learners will be able to:

Define the primary management functions.
Describe how different business departments contribute to overall performance.
Identify decision types and decision-making methods.
Recognize the appropriate use of conflict management styles.

Top skills acquired in this course include:

Management
Management Effectiveness
Business Concepts
Problem Solving
Decision Making

The course introduces learners to the study of leadership, the role of the leader in business contexts and the skills necessary to create strong morale and lead team performance.