Leadership: Northern Kentucky University, Greater Cincinnati Region

Leadership and management courses offer resources for both new and seasoned leaders to become more adept at developing employees, inspiring and guiding teams, managing change, and effectively influencing stakeholders across an organization.

This curation includes NKU Select courses, which provide a more in-depth series of professional development and separate pricing structure, as detailed on the description page.

Agile Leader Training
Explore the neuroscience of change and develop a practice to be prepared for changes in your career.

Building High-Performing Teams
Understand the problems that hurt productivity, and learn the tools for creating positive change.

Business Growth Strategy
Determine how to build value through innovation and acquisitions.

Converting Challenges into Opportunities
Explore left- and right-brain thinking, analyze problems, spur creativity, and implement innovative ideas for your workplace.

Critical Thinking Skills for the Professional
With massive changes in our world, your skills as a critical thinker and problem solver need to be further developed now more than ever.

Cultural intelligence: Become a Global Citizen
People with high ‘cultural intelligence’ are good at spotting cultural differences and adapting their behavior accordingly.

Developing an Agile Team
Explore what influences human behavior in teams by looking at social psychology.

Effective Problem-Solving and Decision-Making
Learn how to use analysis, synthesis, and positive inquiry to address individual and organizational problems and develop critical thinking skills.

Fundamentals of Organization
Explore the main concepts of organization, with a strong practical orientation: illustration of typical organizational problems through real corporate examples will be used.

How to Manage a Remote Team
Learn and apply remote work best practices, build your remote work policy, and prepare your team for success.

Leadership and Emotional Intelligence
Investigate the different components of emotional intelligence at work.

Leadership and Management Courses
As part of the NKU Select professional development series, this class will help you quickly master modern tools and techniques to become a more successful leader. Sharpen your leadership skills in just one month!

Leading Teams: Developing as a Leader
Learn about the “head and heart” of everyday leadership by exploring dynamics of individual and group decision making and the challenges of managing motivation.

Leading Transformations: Manage Change
We live in a globalized world of continuous change. Your ability to successfully manage change will allow you to have a positive impact on your work and your life.

Managing Talent
Learn best practices for selecting, recruiting, and onboarding talent.

Managing as a Coach
Learn what coaching is and how to differentiate between it and the other myriad roles managers are expected to perform.

Managing the Organization
Become a better manager by fully understanding the complexities and challenges associated with managerial life in organizations.

Organizational Behavior: How to Manage People
Through the study of organizational behavior, we can gain insights into what makes people tick within a work context.

Personal Leadership Development: Planning and Leading High Performing Teams
Build your own plan that you can put into practice immediately and realize goals within the next two years.

Personality Types at Work
This course is specifically designed for the job seeker, a team member or a manager to leverage modern soft skills in today's workplace.

Self Awareness and the Effective Leader
Examine your own strengths and learn ways to use them in a leadership role.

Strategic Organization Design
Get introduced to new topics and modules with real world examples and opportunities for student interaction.

Strategic Planning and Execution
Learn the pillars of strategy execution: analysis, formulation, and implementation as well as how to use the 4A model to effectively approach strategy execution.

Strategies for Effective Engagement
Get exposed to a variety of tools used to engage stakeholders, collect data, and more deeply understand the community.

Sustainable Business: Big Issues, Big Changes
Look at some of the big issues companies are fixing: climate change, water, worker satisfaction and supply chain issues.

The Power of Team Culture
Learn how to recognize aspects of team culture of which most people are typically unaware.

Transformational Leadership for Inclusive Innovation
Learn to be an inspiring and effective change-agent and develop a toolbox of leadership skills for building and managing diverse teams.

Women in Leadership: Inspiring Positive Change
Engage in purposeful career development, take on leadership for important causes and improve workplaces and communities for all.