Texas Tech University's online Minor in Agricultural Leadership is offered by the Department of Agricultural Education & Communications. This minor allows students committed to other disciplines the opportunity to learn and engage in the study of Agricultural Leadership. The department works closely with the College of Education and College of Media & Communications to offer a valuable degree program.

Agricultural Leadership prepares students to enter a broad array of careers either in the public sector (legislative assistants, agricultural agencies) or private sector (training and development, management or sales in agricultural, food, and natural resource industries)... [-]

As an emerging leader in your organization, you’ve demonstrated the potential to make an outsized contribution. Maximize this opportunity with Developing Yourself as a Leader, a first-of-its-kind program designed to enable high-potential emerging leaders to benefit from live, direct interaction with Harvard Business School faculty and talent development coaches without having to travel to campus and interrupt their work schedules. Anchored by the unique PACE (Pick-Apprise-Collect-Elicit) leadership self-development model, the program will enable you to:

Today, confusion — not a smooth, steady course — often reigns in organizations and businesses. In fact, says Stephen R. Covey, we’re now in a “permanent whitewater world.” Not only are good management skills important, but effective leadership is also vital. Through this course, the 4 Roles of a Leader, participants receive the tools, processes and context to lead successfully, even in times of turbulent change.

What will you learn

This course consists of four sessions conducted one afternoon or evening What you will learn: Using materials created by Franklin Covey, you will learn to apply the four roles of leadership to the workplace.

Every business or organization begins and ends with people - and that's where you come in.Today's competitive marketplace requires human resource professionals to have an expanded role in the organization due to increasing importance of social and relationship capital. Your challenge today is to gain and use influence to become a better strategic partner, to determine where the organization is headed, and to get out in front and use the human resources function to help lead the way.The Leadership Development for Human Resource Professionals program can help you get there.Developed through a collaboration between CCL and the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), this program prepares you to become a more effective leader of people and processes. It focuses on self-awareness, proven methods of building leadership skills, and ways you can positively impact the organization's business strategy.... [-]

Revolutionize the way you think, and results will follow. This seminar offers a unique approach for maximizing your leadership performance - looking beyond two-dimensional maps for increasing productivity to a more holistic view of leadership. During this program you will complete an intensive analysis of your motivations, behaviors, and goals for leadership improvement.

Through an enhanced understanding of the motivations and attitudes that drive you, you become more purposeful and effective as a leader by recognizing what fundamentally drives people and connecting those drives to corporate objectives. This experiential program, taught by Kellogg School faculty in conjunction with leading European professors from the Institut d’Administration des Entreprises in France, is designed to help you escape the yoke of outdated paradigms and tap into your own leadership potential.... [-]

The changing nature of business means every manager will need to update his or her knowledge and skills to remain competitive. Pepperdine will work with your organization to identify specific needs and goals to deliver programs that support your business strategies. Our programs vary in length for maximum flexibility and provide an interactive, stimulating, and relevant learning experience. Programs can be held on-site at your company or at one of the Pepperdine campuses.

Our most popular programs include:Champions of ChangeA nine-month certification program, this offering walks employees through a real-time change management project as they learn how to create, lead, and empower strategic change in their organization.IT EssentialsThis three-day program bridges the gap between management and information technology departments. The goal is to increase understanding of the role of technology in today's business world and how it can catapult business toward accelerated success.... [-]

Competency-Based Learning to Enhance Leadership Skills

This series is designed to build the skills supervisors need most in leading employees to greater individual, team, and organizational performance.

Applied Leadership: Lead from Within (Part I) will develop skills in better communication, identifying roles and responsibilities, interpersonal styles and self management.

Applied Leadership: Lead Great People (Part II) will develop personal effectiveness skills in the areas of creating a motivating climate, leading for growth, and performance management.

Applied Leadership: Lead with Purpose (Part III) will explore skills in customer service, vision setting, problem solving, and process improvement.... [-]

The Extraordinary Leader is designed to help leaders shift their way of thinking about leadership from the conventional idea that leaders are born to the fact that anyone can be a great leader.

What separates an average leader from an extraordinary leader? Internationally acclaimed leadership authority Jack Zenger provides some compelling answers that demystify leadership and explain five key insights that distinguish a truly extraordinary leader from a good or “average” leader.

Based on the book of the same name by Zenger and Joseph Folkman, this two-day program will change the way you think about leaders. It challenges the conventional wisdom that great leaders are “born.” Forget whining about how your colleague had all the “advantages.” Learn why and how anyone can be a great leader! And then learn how to do it.... [-]

OverviewDesigned for high-potential managers headed for senior executive positions, this program provides an overall picture of effective leadership at both the organizational and interpersonal level. Participants will take away the concepts and tools they need to step up to the next level of organizational leadership.

WHo Should AttendParticipants in this program should be those with leadership ambitions and high potential for senior leadership positions. Executives from all functional areas and especially middle managers with increasingly broad responsibilities are best suited for this program. Individuals who have reached the country manager level and need to broaden into general managers or general managers who need to hone their leadership skills may also wish to consider the Senior Executive Leadership Program in Asia.... [-]

This team development design enables teams and other work groups to develop a shared vision, amend strategy, and plan for creating beneficial change in the group based on common and corporate values. This program provides the tools and techniques to blend individual strengths, build teamwork, solve conflict, and manage change.

A powerful team building process for existing management teams that focuses on the dynamics of the group as a whole, and also provides one-to-one coaching for each team member in order to:

The rules of effective leadership change when entering the global environment of virtual communication, cultural differences, and conflicting needs and requirements. This action-oriented experience offers techniques for managing people from different cultures in order to work together more effectively on a day-to-day basis. Based on a behavioral simulation that takes place at multiple sites in real time, it provides an opportunity to practice new skills in a realistic setting with colleagues from around the world.

At the conclusion of this experience, you will be able to:

* Make the transition from focusing on shop floor and technical issues to thinking more about the business * Initiate lean manufacturing practices to lower costs and do more with less * Quickly and accurately assess a plant, service, or operation * Measure performance by financial and nonfinancial standards * Align manufacturing and operations with other business functions

Who Should Attend The Leadership in Plant Operations program has been designed to serve the development needs of manufacturing and operations managers at the plant management level, as well as those who plan to move up to the plant manager level within the next several years. Participants are typically line or staff managers, with five to ten years of manufacturing or operations-related experience, who are being groomed for higher-level postions within their company's supply chain.... [-]

Gain an increased awareness of your own and others’ needs and a deeper understanding of your leadership potential to make a profound change in the way you lead. Dr. Deepak Chopra offers an entirely new approach to the exciting possibilities of leadership, extending his ground-breaking books on success that combine spiritual wisdom with modern dynamic psychology.

Dr. Chopra defines the leader as the heart and soul of any group and explains how leaders and followers experience predictable responses to competitive situations, which drive every decision we make. Great leaders, therefore, must have a conscious understanding of how these responses affect their decisions.

The program offers insights into group dynamics, loyalty, creativity, vision, security, and achievement with the conscious intent of bringing out excellence at every level.... [-]

In today's increasingly complex business environment, having an effective strategy process has never been more important. Unfortunately, the strategy process in many companies is broken, leading to mediocrity, commoditization and 'me too' competition, none of which drive superior performance. Columbia Business School Executive Education's Creating Strategy is designed to enable participants to create robust strategies even when faced with the uncertainty so common in business today.

This intense three-day program will teach you the concept of Strategic Learning - a comprehensive approach to developing the 'killer competencies' every company needs for success today: developing insight; creating laser-sharp focus; aligning and energizing the organization; executing quickly and effectively, and constantly renewing the strategy. You will apply strategic learning to actual business cases and to a 'focal case' of your own choosing, giving you the opportunity to begin the process of solving a real strategic issue for your organization.... [-]

Building platforms for success is critical in today’s changing business environment. This program will equip managers to effectively manage their work and relationships to be more productive in contemporary organizations.

They will learn to manage cross-functional, cross-organizational relationships, develop social capital, and create and manage organizational strategic partners.

Participants will also gain an understanding of how a savvy manager transitions to a leadership role and how to create an environment where creativity is the norm.

After Attending This Program You Will:

-- Be better equipped to know what needs to be accomplished in "getting the job done."... [-]