Principles of Leadership Excellence

The Principles of Leadership Excellence Certificate Series (PLX) is a 12-day comprehensive leadership development program. The goal of PLX is to provide you with opportunities to learn the skills, behaviors, and knowledge needed for effective, successful leadership.

See the course descriptions in the Module Overviews section below.

Knowing that the most effective leaders have a clear understanding of themselves, our leadership model takes an inside-out approach.

1. Reflect and learn about yourself.
2. Learn to apply methods to your own work.
3. Use your knowledge to connect with others and apply leadership principles within the context of your organization and the surrounding community.

In this certificate series, you will build upon 18 leadership competencies. You will learn how to communicate well with your team and respond when challenges arise. And you will learn to make changes and adjustments so you don’t lose sight of your goals.

This series is based on adult learning principles.

• Interactive learning teaches you how to be a better leader through self-assessment, skill practice, group discussion, and application to your day-to-day work.
• You’re encouraged to create connections with fellow participants between sessions - an online community life-line.
• Engage with our instructors, who have real-world leadership experience in a variety of industries.

MRA encourages you to take the series in sequence because skill sets in each session build upon what is learned in the previous session. Review each course description below in the Module Overviews.

1. Vision and Strategy
2. Performance Management
3. Managing Relationships
4. Talent Management
5. Ethics and Integrity
6. Communication
7. Innovation
8. Political Savvy
9. Team Building
10. Diversity
11. Adaptability and Agility
12. Motivation
13. Problem Solving
14. Conflict Management
15. Delegation
16. Self-Assessment
17. Trust and Authenticity
18. Change Management

This certificate benefits newly appointed supervisors, managers, and other professionals. Experienced supervisors who have not had formal management training, as well as staff with management potential who do not yet hold a leadership or management role, find this series invaluable.

See the course descriptions in the Module Overviews below.

To help get the most out of this training experience for your employee, MRA offers a Manager Coaching Guide. This premier tool was designed to maximize your leaders' productivity and help their learning "stick". The coaching guide follows the classes in the series and includes an overview of what was covered in the class, as well as some coaching questions for discussion. We also offer a brief video that explains the best use of the guide. To order, contact Registrations at registrations@mranet.org or 800.488.4845.

2020 Schedule

Register for the Entire Series

View the course descriptions in the Module Overviews section below.

• Website
• Game 
• Intersession & Intermodule Work
• Website Instructions