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Essential soft skills for the workplace

Professional Certificate in
Leadership Essentials
RITx

What you will learn

  • Enhance and tailor written, verbal, and non-verbal communication to various workplace audiences, including managers, co-workers, direct reports, and clients.
  • Improve critical thinking and listening skills to respond to the needs of various constituents in workplace settings.
  • Develop skills in leadership, problem-solving, conflict management, and other critical group dynamics.
Expert instruction
3 skill-building courses
Self-paced
Progress at your own speed
2 months
4 - 6 hours per week
Discounted price: $537.30
Pre-discounted price: $597USD
For the full program experience

Courses in this program

  1. RITx's Leadership Essentials Professional Certificate

Meet your instructors
from Rochester Institute of Technology (RITx)

Keri Barone
Principal Lecturer and Director of Events for the School of Communication
Rochester Institute of Technology
David Neumann
Professor, School of Communication
Rochester Institute of Technology
Elizabeth Reeves O'Connor
Principal Lecturer
Rochester Institute of Technology

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Program endorsements

CoreCentric Solutions, Inc.

At CoreCentric Solutions, Inc., we’ve found that one of our key differentiators in the marketplace is our people, and more specifically, their broad range of skills. The employees who advance our organization and their own careers not only possess a high level of proficiency in their unique role, but are also adept at what are referred to as “soft” skills like leadership, critical thinking, communication, and collaboration. Truly agile organizations and professionals recognize the importance of these skills.The Leadership Essentials Professional Certificate provides accessible, practical instruction on how a professional in any field can add these skills to their “toolbox” of capabilities.

Badal Wadia , CEO, CoreCentric Solutions, Inc.

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Discounted price: $537.30
Pre-discounted price: $597USD
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