Campus Human Resources is pleased to announce the 2025-2026 Management Development Certificate Course Schedule.
The certificate program is designed to help management-level UCLA employees enhance effectiveness in their current roles and prepare for future leadership opportunities. The Management Development Certificate supports UCLA’s workforce planning objectives, enhances retention of high-potential professionals, and positions managers for success. In addition to learning management theory, participants work with peers, team members, their own managers, and other colleagues on application of new skills to real-world scenarios.
Managers in roles classified at the following levels (including equivalent IT and academic classifications) are eligible to enroll:
- Career Tracks: MGR1 through MGR4
- Career Tracks: Professional 4 and 5
- MSP – all levels
- PSS-5 through PSS-7
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.
Individual courses may be taken without pursuing a certificate. The Management Development Certificate is earned by successful completion of 10 courses – six required and four electives. Courses may be completed in any order.
Several of the courses are delivered live and the remainder are self-paced. The live courses in the series are highly participative – attendees interact with the facilitator and each other in discussions and activities in large-group and small-group/breakout settings. The self-paced courses in the series leverage e-learning and other online content as well as interaction with team members, the participant’s own supervisor, and other colleagues in order to complete the coursework.
Also available is the Enhanced Management Development Certificate which is earned by successful completion of the Management Development Certificate plus seven additional electives.
Registration for the courses is conducted via the UC Learning Center. Instructor-led workshops will primarily be held online, and early registration is encouraged. For more information about the Management Certificate Development Program, please go to: https://chr.ucla.edu/management-and-supervision/management-development-certificate.
The course names and availability for 2025-2026 are found below.
*An asterisk indicates required certificate program courses
| INSTRUCTOR-LED COURSES: | CLASS DATE(S): |
| Addressing Challenging Employee and Labor Relations Issues* | September 23, 2025 |
| Assessing and Improving Management Skills (2 parts)* | October 9 and November 20, 2025 |
| Influential Leadership* | November 4, 2025 |
| Employee Engagement (2 parts)* | January 8 and January 22, 2026 |
| Assessing and Improving Management Skills (2 parts)* | February 5 and March 12, 2026 |
| Developing Others | February 12, 2026 |
| Creativity and Innovation | March 17, 2026 |
| Leading Change | April 9, 2026 |
| Addressing Challenging Employee and Labor Relations Issues* | April 21, 2026 |
| Influential Leadership* | May 14, 2026 |
| Employee Engagement (2 parts)* | June 11 and June 25, 2026 |
| Boosting Poor Performance | July 9, 2026 |
| Building Effective Partnerships with Faculty | August 6, 2026 |
| Understanding Compensation & Salary Administration | TBD |
| SELF-PACED COURSES: | |
| Adaptive Leadership | Click Here |
| Building Trust for Effective Management* | Click Here |
| Coaching for Improvement | Click Here |
| EDI in Management: from Ideas to Action* | Click Here |
| Leading High-Performance Teams | Click Here |
| Recognizing and Resolving Workplace Conflict | Click Here |
| Strategic Focus | Click Here |
* Indicates required Certificate Program courses
Additional details are available in an eBrochure in the Related Links section below. Registration for workshops is conducted via the UC Learning Center and is on a first-come first-served basis. If a class session is full, it is recommended to join the waiting list – additional learners are occasionally able to be admitted into a session, and additional sessions of a class may be added if a sufficiently large waiting list develops.
Please contact learning@chr.ucla.edu with questions regarding questions you may have including requests for exceptions to the certificate’s eligibility scope.
