The Hub Programme - Africa International University

AIU Certificate Programme in Leadership and Governance

Certificate in Leadership and Governance is designed for emerging leaders within various sectors. This program will develop your personal eﬀectiveness and leadership capacity in the context of current structural and professional change in one’s profession. It will promote one’s critical reflective skills on leadership, change and partnership. It will advance the students’ knowledge of interpersonal communication, innovation, critical evaluation, informed risk-taking and problem solving, grounded on ethical principles and evidence-based practice of leadership and governance.

This Programme is designed to accelerate the development of promising senior public service leaders who need to broaden and deepen their operational insight, if they are to lead eﬀectively in a complex and dynamic world. Specialized Certificate in Executive Leadership and Governance requires completion of 24 credit hours (6 courses).

Program objectives

To develop student competencies in the discourses of leadership and governance.
Apply leadership and governance theories in their practical leadership situations.
Account for various leadership and governance knowledge areas, skills and competencies and demonstrate the utility value of these in practical experience.

Program Expected Learning Outcomes

Produce students with transformative leadership and good governance ability in organizations both locally and internationally.
Inculcate leadership values and competencies at the workplace. Tap and develop talents within organizations.
Develop innovative, creative and entrepreneurial leaders to serve in the public, private and civil society sectors.
Produce candidates with ability to initiate an eﬀective governance framework in organization

Program Course descriptions

Emotional Intelligence in Leadership

This course examines the foundation for emotional intelligence, emotional intelligence competencies, and skills, change management with emotional intelligence, transforming organizations with emotional intelligence, stress & stress management with emotional intelligence, tools and strategies for improving one’s emotional intelligence, and tools and methods for measuring and improving emotional intelligence.

Styles of Leadership in Governance

Interface between leadership and governance, common leadership styles, using appropriate styles in diﬀerent circumstances, leadership style as a leader’s approach to providing direction, leadership style as a means of implementing organizational plans, and leadership style as a means of motivating people, leadership styles and improved governance structures.

Foundations of Life and Mission in Leadership

Understanding the foundations of leadership, the moral foundation of leadership, four cornerstones: truth-telling; promise-keeping; fairness; respect for the individual, building a strong foundation for leadership: self-awareness; learning agility; communication; influence, exploring experience as a foundation for the mission, exploring the Bible as a foundation for mission, the Spirit in Mission.

Self-leadership in Governance

Paradigm shift in our knowledge and thinking about leadership, self-awareness and self-knowledge, Self-leadership as a valuable concept that requires an interest in internal governance, governance as the process of interactions through the laws, norms, power or language of an organized society over a social system, the skill set of self-governance, optimizing motivation in self-leadership, elements that shape and define leadership in the twenty-first century, self-leadership as the practice of intentionally influencing our thinking, feeling and actions, self-awareness, self-confidence and good governance

Servant and Transformational Leadership

Paradigms of leadership, defining servant, leadership, defining transformational leadership, principles of servant leadership, principles of transformational leadership, integrating servant and transformational leadership values and vision in servant and transformational leadership, servant leadership in public sector governance, transformational leadership in public sector governance, Pros and cons of servant leadership and transformational leadership, the merits of trust in leadership.

Ethical Judgement in Professional Leadership and Governance

Defining ethical theory, the essence of ethical leadership, practical leadership ethics, ethical judgement and moral intuition, models of ethical decision-making about actions being right or wrong, moral judgments about people being good or bad, moral judgments about traits of character, concepts of honesty, integrity, trust and fairness as critical to ethical leadership, how ethical leadership make ethics a clear and consistent part of leadership, the governance role of the governance professional, the strategic role of the governance professional, the administrative role of the governance professional, the governance eﬀectiveness and process role of the governance professional.