Leadership

The Certificate of Achievement in Leadership prepares business, management, and public administration students and practitioners with improved core analytical skills required for approaching organizational challenges holistically, for making better executive decisions, to develop greater awareness of leadership styles and their perceptions by others, and to learn effective ways of designing teams, business operations, management initiatives, and organizational culture and structure.

 

We anticipate an enrollment of approximately 35+ students in the first academic year for the Certificate of Achievement. Of those, based on historic persistence rates, we expect at least 20 students will apply for the CA each academic year. In addition, because the CA is designed to stack into the general AA Management, Leadership pathway. We anticipate 35 AA degree awards for Management – Leadership awards in addition to the CA completers.

Upon completion of the Certificate of Achievement requirements, students will be able to: 

1. Clearly articulate their own leadership capacity based on a thorough examination of personal leadership style, vision, and values.  
2. Discuss and analyze both core beliefs and the origins of their core beliefs. 
3. Support a constructive and innovative team climate. 
4. Recognize ethical and moral issues, identify needed actions, and demonstrate the moral courage to implement them.
5. Demonstrate an understanding of core business principles in the primary areas of leadership and management, organizational behavior, and conflict management.

Transfer to four-year institutions to complete a Bachelor of Science in Management is also an intended goal of this program.

To earn a Certificate of Achievement in Leadership, students must complete 21 specified units, respectively, that prepare them for entry-level management jobs in the leadership occupational cluster, such as: First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers; General and Operations Managers; Managers; Administrative Service Managers; and, Sales Managers.

According to the July 2022 COE Labor Market Analysis for Leadership Occupations, there is a large labor market gap in the Bay region with 16,961 annual openings for the Leadership occupational cluster and 181 annual (3-year average) awards for an annual undersupply of 16,780 students. In the Mid-Peninsula Sub-Region, there is also a gap with 5,185 annual openings and 14 annual (3-year average) awards for an annual undersupply of 5,171 students. The report showed 14,615 leadership openings for students with high school or vocational (certificate) training, and 3,023 with an Associate's degree in the wider region. Leadership skills help move hourly workers to living wages and salaried positions. Further, according to a Burning Glass report, in California, over 162,000 job posts across multiple disciplines listed leadership skills as a key requirement for prospective employees. 

Course	Title	Units	Year/Semester (Y1 or S1)
MGMT 100	Introduction to Management	3	Y1/S1
MGMT 104	Leadership Theory	3	Y1/S1
BUS 205	Business Ethics and Social Responsibility	3	Y1/S1
BUS 401	Business Communication	3	Y1/S1
MGMT 102	Leading Innovative Teams	3	Y1/S2
MGMT 103	Leading for Performance	3	Y1/S2
MGMT 106	Essentials of Negotiation	3	Y1/S2

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No colleges in the immediate service region (Peninsula) for CSM offer similar programs.