Leadership Accelerator
Accelerate your growth as a leader and increase your contributions to your organization.
Through acquired knowledge and experiences from classes and coaching, you will obtain increased and/or accelerated opportunities for career growth. You will also develop your skills to effectively lead across your organization and develop a greater capacity for strategic decision-making, enabling you to think faster and more creatively.
- High-potential, primarily mid-career leaders with approximately 5-15 years of work experience in any type of organization
- Particularly well-suited for leaders in manager, director or similar roles as you prepare to move into greater levels of responsibility and scope
- Non-UB students
- Hybrid (some requirements may be fulfilled online)
- Non-credit-bearing (you will not earn university credit)
- In addition to the micro-credential, you will receive a certificate of completion
- Attend in person, or view online, all of the six four-hour instructional sessions
- Complete six hours of leadership coaching over the course of the program by a combination of in-person and video-conference meetings
- Develop a Personal Leadership Development Plan to enhance your strengths and address leadership gaps based on feedback data and working with your leadership coach
- Establish an Action Learning Project to demonstrate your new and/or improved leadership behaviors, learned through your classwork and the interactive feedback/coaching process
- During the final class session, you will provide a verbal report regarding your chosen Action Learning Project
- Career management
- Critical thinking/problem-solving
- Leadership
- Professionalism
- Teamwork/collaboration
Categories above are based on key competencies from the National Association of Colleges and Employers.
Program Contact
Center for Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness
UB Downtown Gateway
77 Goodell St., Suite 201
Buffalo, NY 14203
Email: mgt-cloe@buffalo.edu
Phone: 716-645-2235