FSDP: Certificate in Organizational Leadership and Ethics

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The Certificate in Organization Leadership and Ethics (COLE) is a series of nine workshops that are designed for supervisors and administrators who want to maximize their ability to have impact as ethical leaders within their unit/department or overall workplace. This workshop series combines knowledge, interactive discussion, and skill-building exercises to help participants learn the essentials of ethical leadership. Participants will learn competencies that include skills for building and maintaining a responsible workplace, responsible use of power and authority, enhancing productive work team performance, and developing talent through the use of tools such as mentoring.

Watch this video for a brief overview of the COLE series!

COLE consists of the following nine workshops offered through the Faculty and Staff Development Program (FSDP) on a rotating basis each fall and spring. To receive the certificate, individuals must complete six of the nine workshops. Participants should track their own progress and report completion of required workshops to Organization Development using this COLE Completion Form.

  • Mentoring and Leading Others
  • Situational Leadership: Adapting Your Leadership Style for Optimal Results
  • The Ethical Use of Power
  • Solving Problems and Ethical Dilemmas
  • Principles and Practices of Servant Leadership
  • Leadership and Effective Talent Development
  • Building Social Capital by Managing Relationships, Conflict and Incivility in the Workplace
  • The Changing American Workplace: Rights, Responsibilities, and Challenges
  • Silence (Not Golden): Dissent and Consensus in the Workplace

Workshops can be taken in any sequence over a five-year period. Faculty and staff can take just one or more workshops based on interest. 

Who Should Attend: Faculty and staff who are supervisors or administrators or those who have made the transition from technical or administrative positions into managerial career paths where effectively managing people is part of competency development and overall effectiveness

The Certificate in Organizational Leadership and Ethics program is co-sponsored by the David Berg Center for Ethics and Leadership in conjunction with the Office of Human Resources at the University of Pittsburgh.

Situational Leadership: Adapting Your Leadership Style for Optimal Results

Presenter: Sandra Brandon, Leader-Strategy & Innovation 
   Academic and Research Services and Technology
   Office of the CIO

Date: Wednesday, December 13, 2023 
Time: 1-4 p.m.
Location: 531 Alumni Hall, in-person
Materials Fee: $30 (departmental account number is requested during registration)

This workshop is designed to equip leaders with the knowledge and skills to assess and adapt their leadership style based on the unique needs and capabilities of their team members. Effective leadership is not a one-size-fits-all approach, and this workshop emphasizes the importance of tailoring leadership strategies to match the specific situation and the readiness level of those being led. Participants will learn how the Situational Leadership concepts can be used to build cohesive, high-performing teams. 

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Leadership and Effective Talent Development

Presenter: Debbie Good, Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs and Clinical Professor of Business Administration
   Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business and College of Business Administration

Date: Wednesday, November 8, 2023
Time: 9 a.m.-noon
Location: 531 Alumni Hall, in-person
Materials Fee: $30 (departmental account number is requested during registration)

This workshop combines knowledge, interactive discussion and skill-building exercises to help participants understand the “art” and the “science” of developing talent, the ethical use of rewards, recognition and incentives in the workplace, and how to lead people through change, transition and chaos. 

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The Changing American Workplace: Rights, Responsibilities, and Challenges

Presenter: Paul Klein, Clinical Associate Professor of Business Administration
   Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business and College of Business Administration

Date: Wednesday, November 29, 2023
Time: 8-11 a.m.
Location: 531 Alumni Hall, in-person
Materials Fee: $30 (departmental account number is requested during registration)

This workshop examines the evolving workplace, looking at both legal and ethical dimensions of the world of work. A problem/case oriented approach is used to consider some of the most confounding challenges we face in the workplace today. Participants will explore legal requirements that define our rights and responsibilities and how to navigate the many moral dilemmas for which the law does not provide clear guidance, only the minimum standard of behavior for which it was intended.    

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