Leadership and Supervisory
Leaders are grown, not born. Whether you are early in your career and beginning to learn your leadership style or further along and needing to hone your skills, the University of Wisconsin-Parkside's leadership and supervisory training can help. Our trainings will position you to lead with vision in today's diverse and ever-changing business environment and establish yourself as an effective, inclusive leader.
Featured Offering

Leadership Workshop Series
Apr 16, 30, May 14 | 8:30 am-12 pm | Online
Certificate | Shareable Badge
Learn how you can guide and support all members of your team. Get information about how various behaviors impact the workplace and teach your employees the benefits of allowing leaders to guide them with their work. Elevate your skills by taking one of our leadership workshops, or maximize your full potential by completing all three sessions in the series to receive our Tranformational Leadership Certificate and shareable badge!
$99/ea
Proven Outcomes for Participants
Influential Leadership
Influencing others
Building and maintaining relationships
Developing others
Peer Relationships
Purposeful Leadership
Understanding others
Teamwork/Collaboration
Coaching others
Interpersonal effectiveness
Financial Acumen for the front lines
Business acumen
Timely decision making
Self-development
Influential Leadership | Apr 16
Influential Leadership
Apr 16 | 8:30 am-12 pm | 3.5 PDC | Online
This interactive course will introduce you to the concept of Influential Leadership (leadership with no authority) and how it can positively impact the effectiveness of your career and organization. Whether you are an existing or future leader/manager, you will also learn how empowering the workforce to influentially lead will allow them to focus on strategic items while their influential leaders act within leadership boundary conditions that are agreed to by the team.
$99/session for individuals
$89/session for groups
Purposeful Leadership: Leader vs. Manager | Apr 30
Purposeful Leadership: Leader vs. Manager
Apr 30 | 8:30 am-12 pm | 3.5 PDC | Online
This interactive course will help you define the differences between leadership and management behaviors while stressing the importance and desired application of each one. You will come away with increased knowledge in the areas of behavior expectations, behavior goals, and how to create a feedback rich environment amongst the teams or organizations you support.
$99/session for individuals
$89/session for groups
Financial Acumen for the Front Lines | May 14
Financial Acumen for the Front Lines
May 14 | 8:30 am-12 pm | 3.5 PDC | Online
This interactive course will provide you a basic understanding of the operating and leadership behaviors needed to drive profitability in your organization. You will learn how to identify behaviors that impact profitability, identify financial measurement opportunities, apply meaningful metrics, identify support roles and pinpoint desired behaviors that will help to align all employees in the financial success of your organization.
$99/session for individuals
$89/session for groups
Current Offerings
Read about our current open enrollment offerings and register below.
Influential Leadership | Apr 16
Influential Leadership
Apr 16 | 8:30 am-12 pm | 3.5 PDC | Online
This interactive course will introduce you to the concept of Influential Leadership (leadership with no authority) and how it can positively impact the effectiveness of your career and organization. Whether you are an existing or future leader/manager, you will also learn how empowering the workforce to influentially lead will allow them to focus on strategic items while their influential leaders act within leadership boundary conditions that are agreed to by the team.
$99/session for individuals
$89/session for groups
Register
Purposeful Leadership: Leader vs. Manager | Apr 30
Purposeful Leadership: Leader vs. Manager
Apr 30 | 8:30 am-12 pm | 3.5 PDC | Online
This interactive course will help you define the differences between leadership and management behaviors while stressing the importance and desired application of each one. You will come away with increased knowledge in the areas of behavior expectations, behavior goals, and how to create a feedback rich environment amongst the teams or organizations you support.
$99/session for individuals
$89/session for groups
Register
Financial Acumen for the Front Lines | May 14
Financial Acumen for the Front Lines
May 14 | 8:30 am-12 pm | 3.5 PDC | Online
This interactive course will provide you a basic understanding of the operating and leadership behaviors needed to drive profitability in your organization. You will learn how to identify behaviors that impact profitability, identify financial measurement opportunities, apply meaningful metrics, identify support roles and pinpoint desired behaviors that will help to align all employees in the financial success of your organization.
$99/session for individuals
$89/session for groups
Register
Onsite Trainings
In addition to open enrollment options, these trainings and more are available onsite for your organization. View a full list of our available workshops and trainings.
Online Self-Paced Offerings
Course List
- Certificate in Leadership
- Body Language for Leaders
- Introduction to Leadership
- Leaders and Work-Life Balance
- Leadership Assessment
- Leading and Managing Change
- Leading Teams
- Certificate in Management Skills
- A Manager’s Guide to Information Technology
- A Manager’s Guide to Superior Customer Service
- Business Ethics in the 21st Century
- Emotional Intelligence for Managers
- Handling Difficult Conversations in the Workplace
- Handling Difficult Employee Behavior
- Handling Workplace Conflict
- How to Coach
- HR Fundamentals for Managers
- Introduction to Management
- Introduction to Negotiations
- Managing in a Modern Organization
- Managing People
- Managing Remote Employees
- Negotiations: Making Business Deals
- Negotiations: Resolving Disputes
- The Effective Manager’s Toolbox
- Time Management
- Call Center Manager
- Call Center Supervisor
PROFESSIONAL AND
CONTINUING EDUCATION
Mon-Fri | 8 am-4:30 pm
Kenosha, WI 53144
The University of Wisconsin-Parkside is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation in its services, program activities, education, and employment for individuals with disabilities. To request disability accommodations, contact Professional and Continuing Education at least eight weeks in advance at: 262-595-3340 (V), 262-595-2513 (FAX), or email continuing.ed@uwp.edu.
