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Influential Leadership

These Influential Leadership courses are designed to help aspiring and current leaders.

These courses will help you to build skills, knowledge, and mindset necessary to lead effectively in today's rapidly changing business landscape.

You will learn how to manage and guide employees in a positive environment and how to inspire and motivate them.

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Micro-credentials are short, concentrated groups of courses that are really flexible. You can take as many as you like, in any order, and because they are asynchronous you can take them at any time it suits you. You will be awarded a badge for each individual course, once you have completed all four courses you will gain your micro-credential.

The cost for each individual course listed below is $60. For more Information email: training@portagecollege.ca or call 780-623-5631 or toll-free at 1-888-745-0719.

Course Listing

Course ID: 

Name: Appreciative Inquiry

Course Outcomes:

  • Define appreciative inquiry.
  • Think in positive terms and avoid thinking negatively.
  • Encourage others to think positively.
  • Recognize positive attributes in people.
  • Create positive imagery.
  • Manage and guide employees in a positive environment.

Hours: 6

Credits: N/A

Delivery: Asynchronous Online Micro-credential

Cost: $60

Micro-credential Badge: Upon completion of this course you will be awarded a Portage College Micro-credential badge.

Timelines: End of the academic year, June 30th

Register for this course: training@portagecollege.ca or call 780-623-5631 or toll-free at 1-888-745-0719.

Course ID: 

Name: Leadership and Influence

Course Outcomes:

  • Define “leadership”.
  • Explain the Great Man Theory.
  • Explain the Trait Theory.
  • Describe Transformational Leadership.
  • Understand the people you lead and how to adapt your leadership styles.
  • Explain leading by Directing.
  • Explain leading by Coaching.
  • Explain leading by Participating.
  • Explain leading by Delegating.
  • Conduct a personal inventory.
  • Create an action plan.
  • Establish personal goals.

Hours: 6

Credits: N/A

Delivery: Asynchronous Online Micro-credential

Cost: $60

Micro-credential Badge: Upon completion of this course you will be awarded a Portage College Micro-credential badge.

Timelines: End of the academic year, June 30th

Register for this course: training@portagecollege.ca or call 780-623-5631 or toll-free at 1-888-745-0719.

Course ID: 

Name: Women in Leadership

Course Outcomes:

  • Discuss the barriers women face in entering leadership positions.
  • Describe the importance of developing women as leaders.
  • Determine steps your organization can take to foster women as leaders.
  • Outline the benefits of developing women as leaders.
  • Apply the principles of fostering women leaders to your own organization.

Hours: 6

Credits: N/A

Delivery: Asynchronous Online Micro-credential

Cost: $60

Micro-credential Badge: Upon completion of this course you will be awarded a Portage College Micro-credential badge.

Timelines: End of the academic year, June 30th

Register for this course: training@portagecollege.ca or call 780-623-5631 or toll-free at 1-888-745-0719.

Course ID: 

Name: Servant Leadership

Course Outcomes:

  • Define servant leadership.
  • Outline the characteristics of servant leadership.
  • Recognize the barriers to servant leadership.
  • Be a mentor and a motivator.
  • Practice self-reflection.

Hours: 6

Credits: N/A

Delivery: Asynchronous Online Micro-credential

Cost: $60

Micro-credential Badge: Upon completion of this course you will be awarded a Portage College Micro-credential badge.

Timelines: End of the academic year, June 30th

Register for this course: training@portagecollege.ca or call 780-623-5631 or toll-free at 1-888-745-0719.

We acknowledge that Portage College’s service region is on the traditional lands of First Nation Peoples, the owners of Treaty 6, 8 and 10, which are also homelands to the Métis people. We honour the history and culture of all people who first lived and gathered in these lands.
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