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ALD Leads Certified is an online leadership and career development series offering 12 courses that cover essential competencies for the 21st century. Participating will help you set yourself apart and jumpstart your journey for career preparedness and success.

Each course includes a popular leadership speaker discussing why proficiency in a particular competency is important. Examples, evidence, and strategies for becoming more skilled and knowledgeable are covered in an engaging manner.

Alpha Lambda Delta has partnered with Lead365 in the development of this certificate series. Lead365 is a premier collegiate leadership organization dedicated to advancing leaders through a national leadership conference, awards, and scholarships.

Successfully complete 10 out of 12 self-paced courses and receive a nationally-recognized ALD Leads Certified / Leads365 Certificate of Completion. Average individual course length is approximately 45 minutes. When you complete a minimum of 10 courses and are ready to receive your Certificate of Completion, email eileen@nationalald.org. Please indicate your name as you'd like it on the certificate and your college/university. A certificate will be emailed to you within a week of receiving your notice of completion.

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Capacity Building

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This course will offer strategies for increasing your ability to run your day so your day doesn’t run you.  Learn how asking personal questions on a daily basis can help you maintain your energy and happiness.  These strategies can have a profound impact on your leadership and influence.

Communication Skills

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Become more proficient at communication in a variety of situations.  Getting right to the heart of effective communication, learn definitions of the most commonly used (and misused) types of communication and the accompanying predictable outcomes.

Confidence

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Give your self-confidence the boost it needs. Connect achieving your purpose to your level of self-confidence.  Wonderful examples of how to build your self-confidence are provided along with thought-provoking questions.

Decision Making

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Effective decision-making is deciding what you are going to do on an emotional and cognitive knowing level. This course highlights the significance of making decisions on a daily basis and knowing how to determine which decisions matter most.

Excellence

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Learn how to recognize excellence in yourself by asking, “What’s the evidence of excellence?” You’ll break down what constitutes excellence in twelve dimensions and answer compelling questions that are known to foster improved control over the advancement of one’s excellence.

Goal Setting

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“Assess, address, and re-assess” underscores the process of goal setting.  In an engaging manner you will be challenged to create a feeling of accomplishment and learn strategies for prioritizing and accomplishing your goals.

Listening Skills

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This undervalued and overlooked skill can be improved with a better understanding of the key role listening plays in leadership success. Learn about the harmful outcomes of failing to hear others and improve your proficiency at listening.

Networking

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This course encourages the competency of networking by pointing out the many benefits and advantages. Learn the differences between introverts and extroverts and the impact on networking proficiency.  Detailed strategies for improved skills are offered for each type of personality.

Resiliency

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Become more proficient at overcoming setbacks and turning them into set ups for success. Strategies (and supporting stories) underscore what it takes to move forward and push through difficult times. Learn about grit and growth vs fixed mindsets.

Self Understanding

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Learn about aligning one’s actions and personal values and why this competency is so relevant to enhanced leadership effectiveness.  Insightful strategies for gaining more self-understanding are presented with challenges around testing actions against values.

Social Media

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This course addresses the effective use of social media for success in life and offers examples of how to best communicate your leadership brand. Learn the value of being savvy in how you use your online presence to communicate and make connections.

Strategic Planning

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This course will bring clarity to the definition of “strategic planning” by encouraging you to connect the “how” of your plans to the “why” of your plans.  You'll learn why strategic planning is a competency essential to big and small goal obtainment.

About The Series:

The Certificate Series is a collection of 12 “mini-courses” on important leadership and career preparedness competencies. The competency definitions, provided by Dr. Corey Seemiller, author of The Student Leadership Competencies Guidebook (Jossey-Bass, 2014) have been developed from years of research analyzing learning outcomes in all accredited academic programs in higher education. The results: essential leadership competencies for the 21st century. Additional curriculum content was informed by the Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education, CAS Standards for Leadership Education and Development.

Completion of the series will help ALD members develop the competencies necessary for chosen careers and enhance one’s ability to reflect and apply learning in future academic, professional, and life contexts.

Each course in the series is anchored by a brief video presented by popular leadership speakers who are engaging and informative.

The series is self-paced with the option to complete as many of the courses as desired. Students completing 10 of the 12 will receive a Certificate of Completion, issued jointly by Alpha Lambda Delta and Lead365.

Alpha Lambda Delta is pleased to partner with Lead365, a premier collegiate leadership organization that plans conferences for college students, new professionals, and leadership educators. They develop leaders who make a difference 365 days a year. Lead365 created the anchoring videos, and supplemental material was developed by Eileen Merberg, Executive Director of Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society. Eileen spent over 25 years creating leadership curriculum and teaching leadership courses at three U.S. colleges and universities.

Additional curricular support provided by:

  • Dr. Travis L. Martin, Administrator, First-Year Courses & Learning Communities, Eastern Kentucky University

  • Andrea Newman, Student Success Coach for Career Services, Genesee Community College

  • Dr. Thomas C. Priester,  Vocational Rehabilitation Supervisor, Cazenovia Recovery Systems

  • Bradley Taylor, Director of Alumni Engagement, High Point University