Organizational Development and Leadership Certificate

Engineer Organizational Health

Ready to catalyze positive transformation through a multilayered approach to change in complex business environments? The University of Texas at Tyler’s organizational development and leadership certificate positions you as a strategic, take-charge professional equipped to help your team rise as one toward short- and long-term goals.

Through this flexible program geared toward working professionals, gain a deeper understanding of human resources, organizational behavior patterns and strategies, the dynamics of development and the qualities of effective leadership. Learn from faculty with extensive industry experience in the nationally recognized Soules College of Business. Complete courses online, or join fellow students for evening classes that won’t interrupt your schedule. Strengthen your résumé, competence and confidence for greater impact and expanded job opportunities.

Why Earn an Organizational Development Certificate at UT Tyler?

You believe in the potential of East Texas businesses to lead the way — to be places where each team member and the organization itself reach their full potential. Yet, building environments where everyone can thrive takes a collective approach with skilled and courageous leadership highlighting the way and supporting positive change.

You’re ready to provide that direction. UT Tyler helps you prepare through:

• Expert Faculty: Learn from skilled educators and scholars with real-world experience in business ownership and management. Our faculty influence the field’s pool of knowledge, publishing in journals like “Human Relations,” “Group and Organizational Studies” and the “Journal of Management History.”
• Strong Reputation: Earn a credential from a top-tier program close to home. UT Tyler’s Soules College of Business is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, a recognition earned by fewer than 5% of the world’s business schools.
• Flexible Study Options: Complete your certificate alongside your other responsibilities with online study options and evening classes scheduled to accommodate working professionals.
• No GMAT Required: Apply to the program, and start learning without having to jump through complicated hoops. Just complete the online application, and submit your official undergraduate transcripts.
• Head Start on Your MBA: Are you considering earning an MBA in the future? Apply completed credits toward UT Tyler’s program, and save both time and money.
• Affordability: Get ahead for less. UT Tyler’s competitive tuition rates help boost your qualifications at a price you can afford.

Curriculum

The organizational development and leadership certificate program consists of 12 credit hours (four courses) you can complete in two semesters alongside a full-time job. Examine theory, methods and case studies to gain a practical, focused understanding of the field you can apply right away.

Learn about:

• Strategic Human Resources Management: Discover the role of managers, practices and the overall structure of the HR function in helping a firm reach its strategic goals.
• Organizational Behavior: Apply individual- and group-level analysis to the challenges and process of leading people to align with business objectives.
• Organizational Development: Study theoretical models and intervention examples to gain a broad perspective on the process of development at individual, group and organizational levels.
• Performance Consulting: Build a toolbox of models and techniques for identifying personnel performance gaps and creating interventions to help close them.

Complete the program with:

• A broad perspective on the complex dynamics of organizational development.
• Detailed knowledge of the practices, systems and techniques that drive positive organizational change.
• A grasp of the challenges leaders face in the context of change and how to overcome them.
• A comprehensive understanding of the role of human resources in organizational development.
• Insights, strategies and techniques you can put to use right away in your work for more effective management and leadership.

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What Can You Do With a Certificate in Organizational Development and Leadership?

Prepare to take an active role in business transformation in enterprises of every size through your knowledge of development dynamics and change-navigating methods. Create environments of increased effectiveness where employees find challenging and rewarding work, and the organization as a whole moves toward its goals.

Employers welcome your enhanced expertise for roles like:

• Director of Organizational Development
• Human Resources Manager
• Human Resources Specialist
• Management Analyst
• Organizational Development Consultant
• Organizational Development Manager
• Organizational Development Specialist
• Talent Development Manager
• Training and Development Manager
• Workforce and Effectiveness Consultant

How to Apply

Graduate Admission Requirements

Soules College of Business certificate programs consist of graduate-level coursework and are open to applicants who hold a baccalaureate or advanced degree from an accredited college or university.

To be considered for admission:

• Complete the Graduate School application, and pay the application fee.
• Submit official transcripts for all prior undergraduate-level coursework to the Office of Graduate Admissions.

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Important Dates

April 15

Application deadline for summer admission.

August 15

Application deadline for fall admission.

October 1

The Free Application for Federal Student Aid opens for the upcoming academic year.

December 20

Application deadline for spring admission.