Certificate in Leadership and Organization Development

Imagine a workplace where you hear this:

“Wow, we went from 220 grievances on the floor to less than 10 in a year. The primary difference is people now know how to work the small issues with each other so they do not become big issues.”

“I can't believe it, we have solved a 20 year problem and are maintaining the progress, plus we no longer just blame the other organization that we have to work with!”

“That IT implementation was the best I have ever seen!”

Do those statements sound like your workplace? If not, they could be. These are real situations that happened because of LIOS trained employees.

Program Description

The Leadership Institute of Seattle is a school based in the Applied Behavioral Sciences. Our Certificate program in Leadership and Organization Development is designed to give students the skills they need to meet their challenges. It is created for anyone who regularly works with groups and wants to increase their capacity to positively influence and lead. This includes managers at all levels, organization development practitioners, community organizers, and all manner of change leaders.

LIOS teaches models, skills, and tools in an experiential, hands-on group learning environment to more easily and reliably transfer learning into practice. Students learn by doing rather than just thinking. The program is competency-based, meaning students must demonstrate mastery of skills to pass. One of the fundamental methods we use to accomplish this is our unique “T-group” which uses Ron Short’s innovation of a fishbowl that was adapted for use in organizations by Robert P Crosby and used throughout his career to achieve extraordinary business results in a variety of settings.

The Leadership and Organization Development certificate program is practitioner-driven and specifically designed with a focus on business results, giving participants practical workplace tools and the skills to immediately apply them. Our program is built in the tradition of foundational Organization Development (OD) principles which prepares participants to lead their organizations to reach greater business functioning, obtain measurable goals, and develop people at the same time.

Participants gain lifelong use of self skills, interventions, and systemic frameworks to become truly unique and successful practitioners or leaders.

LIOS students learn powerful skills in:

By the end of the program, participants will:

Accelerate use of self skills
Acquire a set of OD interventions including:

- Conflict resolution (between people or groups)

- Group development (bosses with direct reports)

- System-wide project planning

- Culture change strategies (whole organization change)

Complete a case study project focusing on a current change

Course Information

The Leadership Institute of Seattle's Certificate in Leadership and Organization Development is a 6 module experiential learning based program that accommodates organization’s schedules and ensures learning happens face-to-face in small group settings. Each participant brings a mission critical project or initiative to use throughout the program to ground the learning, ensure transfer to their organization, and keep the focus on real world scenarios.

The program consists of 248 credit hours. The program contains 6 modules spread over a total of 31 days at 8 hours per day. Each module is a week-long immersion and occurs approximately every 6 weeks.

Program Schedule – Cohort Dates

Module 1 - Feb 11-16, 2024

Module 2 - April 1-5, 2024

Module 3 - May 20-24, 2024

Module 4 - July 8-12, 2024

Module 5 - Aug 19-23, 2024

Module 6 - Sep 23-27, 2024

Tuition & Fees:

Total cost of training including tuition, fees, deposits, and other charges necessary to complete:

Application fee - $50
Tuition - $15,000
Workbooks - $150

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Certificate in Leadership and Organization Development

Program Description

Course Information

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