Mission-Focused Leadership Certificate Program

Mission-focused leaders are practical idealists who address challenges by facilitating trusting, supportive environments while keeping bottom line needs in mind.

 

The Mission-Focused leadership program invites participants to re-examine inborn gifts and strengths and develop new skills. At its core, the program is based on building confidence in an emerging or seasoned leader's personal passion and sense of mission as a foundation upon which to build new skills -- so needed in this crossroad moment of personal, organizational, ecological and economic history. 

Please inquire about individual, group, senior and student tuition fees.

The Practice of Mission-Focused Leadership: This course will highlight and appropriate your uniqueness and special gifts as a Mission-Focused Leader. Reflection time is provided for new knowledge, tools and techniques where values, gifts, talents and conflict management tools will be explored.  Leadership arises from personal integrity, mission and skill building for career and life empowerment. Mission-Focused Leaders are focused, effective, have personal integrity and a desire to empower their followers while leading a balanced, fulfilled life. 10 hours

 

Writing a Personal Mission Statement: Individual work, scheduled at participants’ convenience. An individualized process and framework offered for emerging and seasoned leaders to become aware of core gifts and talents and form a one-sentence mission statement to articulate how one can make a difference in the world.10 hours

 

Leadership Coaching: 10 hours of individual coaching to integrate training with personal challenges.

New Perspectives on Stress, Conflict and Diversity: An introduction to the interpersonal skills of Mission-Focused Leadership:  Gain new tools to address feelings and emotions -especially stress, conflict, self-defeating and culturally insensitive behaviors - in personally restorative and life-giving ways. 10 hours.

Designing and Implementing Interventions for Community, Institutional and Global Change:  Leadership and Conflict Management Strategies for Local and Global Challenges. The Mission-Focused Leader learns how to introduce and sustain change in a resistant system using theoretical and practical skills to create peaceful, ethical, just, humane, culturally sensitive, and sustainable structures and frameworks. The course offers experiential learning as a way to integrate conceptual learning, engenders a cross-sectoral approach to intervening in crises.15 hours

Practicum: Individual work, under the guidance of Virginia Swain and scheduled at participants’ convenience. All learning from previous programs is applied to a personal or interpersonal challenge. Participants receive individual mentoring integrating the teachings, skills, and the leader's mission statement into their life, work, and relationships.15 hours

 

Completion of the Mission-Focused Leadership Program enables the graduate to apply to the Reconciliation Leadership Certificate Program.

This program is a service of Excelsis, Tiverton, RI, and the Institute for Global Leadership.