Certificate in Organizational Leadership and Ethics
A six-workshop series combining knowledge, interactive discussion, and skill-building exercises to help participants learn the essentials of ethical leadership.
The Certificate in Organization Leadership and Ethics (COLE) is a series of eight 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.
COLE workshops can be taken in any sequence over a five-year period. Faculty and staff can take one or more of these workshops based on interest. To receive a certificate, individuals must complete six workshops. Participants are expected to track their own progress and use the online COLE Completion Form to report completion of required courses. COLE consists of the following eleven workshops offered on a rotating basis each fall and spring:
- The Role of Mentoring in Leadership
- 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 (formerly Managing Incivility and the Bystander Effect in the Workplace)
- The Changing American Workplace: Rights, Responsibilities, and Challenges
- Silence (Not Golden): Dissent and Consensus in the Workplace
- Holding Difficult Conversations
- Managing Remote and Hybrid Work
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.
