Leadership

Skilling America is a professional development initiative for Navigators to uniformly guide and unlock access to better jobs and mobility for their clients. Skilling America delivers valid and reliable learning and credentials, tools, and best practices in Navigation. Through the platform, users can develop the necessary competencies to lead efforts and to follow practice through to success for their own growth and development, the clients they serve, students and working learners, and communities. The Leadership Certificate is awarded to individuals after successful completion of the Skilling America Leadership course. Course competencies include: 1. Using domain knowledge to inform interactions with various stakeholder groups. 2. Inspiring stakeholders to develop and implement solutions to problems. 3. Developing techniques to facilitate meetings with stakeholders to achieve a common purpose. 4. Explaining how critical thinking skills inform decision-making and problem solving. 5. Learning techniques to shift the center of gravity of leadership communication from formal, structured message passing to joint sense-making and relationship building.