This course helps leaders formulate, implement, and evaluate sound strategic plans to achieve long-term organizational objectives. After completing this course, participants should be able to:

• Describe a strategic planning process and explain strategic focus
• Relate UCLA’s mission and vision to their department operations
• Perform a S.W.O.T. analysis
• Identify strategies for implementing strategy-related goals

This course counts as an elective course toward the Management Development Certificate. It may also be taken individually without pursuing the certificate.

The courses in the Management Development Certificate suite are targeted for managers in particular job classifications. This course is open to UCLA staff and faculty managers in roles with payroll titles classified at the following levels (including equivalent IT and academic classifications):

Roles currently classified under the Career Tracks system:

• MGR1 through MGR4
• Professional 4 and 5

Roles still classified under the pre-Career Tracks system:

• MSP – all levels
• PSS-5 through PSS-7

(Note, roles classified at Career Tracks Supervisor/SUPV levels — i.e. job titles that end in SUPV 1 or SUPV 2 — are generally not eligible to take this course.)

Supervisors who are not classified at the levels above but who have attained the Supervisory Leadership Principles Certificate – Enhanced and the Supervisory HR Principles Certificate are also eligible to enroll.

For additional information please visit the Management Development Certificate.

Please contact learning@chr.ucla.edu with any questions regarding requesting exceptions to this eligibility scope.

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This self-paced course will open in the Bruin Learn Platform. Use your UCLA Single Sign-On ID to log in.