Course Offerings
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St. Catherine University offers high-quality professional development courses to corporate partners who want to support their employees’ further education and create a company culture of continuous improvement. These programs, designed and delivered by experienced faculty, expand in-demand skills and knowledge in a variety of areas.
By partnering with St. Kate’s, organizations provide a pathway for employees to become better at what they do, as well as prepare them for higher positions and more responsibility. Find your next leaders and build a smarter, more flexible workforce with an acclaimed university that has a well-earned reputation for rigorous and rewarding academic programs.
Course Offerings From St. Catherine University
St. Kate’s course offerings are designed with working professionals in mind. Each program helps professionals develop the diverse set of skills needed to create and manage high-performing teams. These programs are typically asynchronous and last 36 to 45 hours. They are available for all types of organizations, including private businesses, public agencies and nonprofits.
Leadership
Develop knowledge and skills needed to navigate leadership in times of rapid change and unpredictability. Apply theories to create innovation-focused teams, develop techniques to think strategically, and evaluate how leadership style impacts social capital and employee buy-in.
Learning Outcomes
- Apply leadership theories to create innovation-focused teams.
- Develop techniques to think strategically and deliver results.
- Evaluate how leadership style relates to social capital and employee buy-in.
- Integrate creative and adaptive strategies that promote positive change.
Learn to use the tools needed to manage, develop and optimize diverse teams. Develop strategies for high-performing teams, evaluate collaboration skills for team building and analyze how leaders play a role in conflict management.
Learning Outcomes
- Develop strategies for high-performing teams.
- Evaluate collaboration skills for team building.
- Analyze the role leadership style plays in conflict management.
- Create and maintain an organizational culture of diversity and inclusion.
Learn the foundational skills needed for effective leadership in every type of organization. Evaluate your own leadership strengths and opportunities, as well as develop key individual awareness, style and communication skills.
Learning Outcomes
- Evaluate personal leadership strengths and opportunities for leadership success.
- Develop successful strategies for recruitment, selection, performance evaluation, and leadership development.
- Develop individual awareness, style, and communication skills that influence outcomes.
- Analyze ethical dilemmas within organizations.
Learn to adapt the communications strategies needed to successfully lead diverse, data-rich teams. Develop an understanding of what drives high-performing teams, as well as how to develop effective communication strategies.
Learning Outcomes
- Assess your own personal communication style.
- Evaluate how your own personal biases affect your ability to communicate within a team.
- Analyze the role our dispositions play in team building and conflict management.
- Develop strategies to become an effective communicator within and among data-rich teams.
Nursing and Healthcare Leadership
Develop the skills needed to become effective leaders and advocates. Evaluate how leadership strengths support successful teams, and develop the individual awareness and communication skills that improve quality and safety of healthcare systems.
Learning Outcomes
- Evaluate how personal leadership strengths can support the success of team initiatives.
- Develop individual awareness, style, and communication skills that foster intra- and interprofessional dialogue aimed at improving the quality and safety of healthcare systems.
- Assess ethical dilemmas with an eye toward promoting a culture of relationship-centered care.
- Develop effective strategies to create change in complex healthcare delivery systems.
Develop the knowledge and skills needed to implement organizational change in highly complex situations. Apply leadership theories to create teams capable of working creatively and ethically in a healthcare environment.
Learning Outcomes
- Apply leadership theories to create teams capable of responding creatively and ethically to ambiguity in the healthcare environment.
- Develop techniques to think strategically and deliver results that leverage emerging trends and research.
- Evaluate how leadership style can influence the creation of social capital and employee buy-in.
- Integrate creative and adaptive strategies that promote continuous improvement in health outcomes and patient safety.
Learn to intentionally manage, develop and optimize diverse teams. Analyze the role leadership style plays in creating a culture of diversity and inclusion, and examine the value of diverse perspectives in creating better health outcomes.
Learning Outcomes
- Analyze the role leadership style plays in creating and maintaining a culture of diversity and inclusion.
- Examine the value of diverse perspectives in supporting the optimization of health outcomes.
- Integrate collaboration skills for team building that emphasize cultural competence.
- Develop strategies to create and maintain a just culture conducive to safety and quality across systems.
Learn the healthcare standards of best practice with application to how they support clinical or fieldwork experiences which include planning, prebriefing, facilitation, debriefing and evaluation. Explore how healthcare simulation standards of best practice apply to the facilitation of clinical/fieldwork experiences.
Learning Outcomes
- Explore how healthcare simulation standards of best practice apply to the facilitation of clinical/fieldwork experiences.
- Implement healthcare simulation standards of prebriefing, facilitation cueing, and debriefing strategies to support clinical/fieldwork activities.
- Value evaluation strategies to create sustainable partnerships.
Leveraging Data
Understand how to interpret data from a variety of sources, as well as how data is collected, analyzed and communicated. Distinguish between data, information and insights and understand how to use data to better understand consumers and markets.
Learning Outcomes
- Distinguish the differences between data, information and insights.
- Demystify data tools, reporting and analysis within the organization.
- Synthesize qualitative data to uncover business-relevant customer insights.
- Interpret data visualizations and communicate the stories they tell.
Learn to gather, analyze and interpret data with a focus on making better business decisions. Establish foundational knowledge related to analytics and the leveraging of data trends to support development of business growth strategies.
Learning Outcomes
- Establish foundational knowledge related to analytical thinking and data-informed decision making.
- Understand how many different (and sometimes conflicting) stories can be told with the same data.
- Leverage data trends to develop growth strategies for new and emerging markets.
- Develop a compelling evidence-based story, culminating in specific recommendations for senior leadership.
Digital Badging From St. Kate’s
St. Catherine University focuses on providing professionals in your organization the tools needed to expand their knowledge and skills, making an impact on your organization. St. Kate’s also gives professionals a way to display their newly earned credentials with digital badges as part of all its Continuing Education offerings. Digital credentials allow learners to highlight their skills. They can be used on social media sites, as well as on company websites. These digital badges contain verified metadata that describes the employee’s qualifications and the process required to earn them.
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