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FREE ONLINE LEARNING

Leadership Essentials Certificate

Advance your leadership and people management skills in this first ever, free certificate program designed for individuals at all leadership levels within a nonprofit, government, non-governmental, education, or humanitarian organization as well as those interested in becoming leaders.

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Assessment-based Certificate Program • 4 Hours • English • Free

What You Will Learn

In this certificate program, you will learn eight principles to advance your leadership and people management skills. This training provides videos contextualized to the humanitarian and nonprofit sector, insights from leaders around the world, and resources to put the principles into practice.

 

This program breaks the eight principles into three courses and an exam based on Jim Morgan's booklet, Applied Wisdom for the Nonprofit Sector: Eight Practical Insights for Leaders. 

  • Cultivating Culture: Shaping a positive, resilient, impactful organizational culture

  • Respect and Trust Your People: Fostering respect and trust with your staff and volunteers

  • Bad News is Good News: The power of listening for and quickly responding to bad news

  • Use Your Radar: Identifying external factors that may impact your organization and how to manage and adapt

  • The Whole Job: Building and funding your organization’s capacity

  • Prioritize and Focus: Establishing and focusing on your organization’s top priorities

  • Take Action: Implementing ideas and managing obstacles

  • Advance Accountability: Delegation and fostering personal accountability for tasks and decisions 

  

The courses, exam, badge and certificate are 100% free and available in English with French, Spanish, and Arabic coming soon.

 

After you create your free DisasterReady account, search for Leadership Essentials Certificate to start learning.

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Learner Review

"This training is an essential value addition to other leadership trainings. It adds more theories and practices on the usual tasks of leaders including planning, organizing, staffing, directing, communicating, reporting, monitoring, evaluation, accountability, learning and review."

Gerard N.

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About Us

DisasterReady.org is an online learning platform built to better prepare humanitarian and development professionals for the critical work they do by providing high-quality, relevant online learning resources at no cost. DisasterReady is available in English, Arabic, French and Spanish and is a signature program of the Cornerstone OnDemand Foundation—the charitable arm of Cornerstone.

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