Strategic Management
SPS Certificate website: https://sps.northwestern.edu/undergraduate-certificate/strategic-management/
The Strategic Management certificate is designed for individuals who are looking to build, refine, and strengthen their strategic management capabilities. Students learn how organizations adapt to change and the ways effective leadership and management drive success in a dynamic business world. With this certificate, professionals develop communication and strategic skills that enable them to thrive within modern organizational structures.
Strategic Management Courses
ORG_BEH 307-DL Leadership Principles (1 Unit)
This course introduces the theory and practice of leadership: the capacity to mobilize group resources to affect fundamental change in organizations. Topics include understanding organizations as complex social systems; the difference between leadership and managerial authority; navigating the politics of competing factions within organizations to achieve shared goals; emotional intelligence and the role of building and maintaining relationships of trust to drive optimal performance and continuous improvement; and the role of leadership in creating an environment in which risk-taking and innovative solutions are encouraged, learned from, and rewarded. The classroom, as well as students' experiences, will serve as foundational learning and ultimately become case studies in leadership.
ORG_BEH 310-DL Organizational Change (1 Unit)
In-depth investigation of the forces driving organizational change and their impact on people and structure.
ORG_BEH 367-DL Strategic Planning and Management (1 Unit)
Concepts of strategic planning applied to various types of organizations.
ORG_BEH 368-DL Project Management (1 Unit)
Foundations of leading and managing projects in increasingly VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) environments. Three domains, leading and managing self, people, and business are covered.