Professional & Leadership Development Certificates

MEA’s Professional Development Certificate Series are designed to grow your organization’s talent in a variety of business areas including management, customer service, computer skills, human resources and more.

Continuing education in this planned, modular approach can help prepare your employees to move to the next level in their career path.

MEA Leadership Advantage

Available as individual workshops or in “cohort” series format.

Foundational Leadership Certificate Series

• Successful Communication
• Management Fundamentals
• Basics of Employment Law for Non-HR Professionals
• Managing People through Motivation
• Accountability: Stop the Blame Game!
• Coaching Skills for Managers and Supervisors

Begins September 13 , 2022

Advanced Leadership Certificate Series

• Taking Flight with DiSC
• Conflict Management
• Discipline and Termination Strategies for Managers
• Team Development
• Managing Up the Ladder
• Performance Management: More Than Just an Appraisal

Begins September 13 , 2022

Critical Leadership Certificate Series

• Emotional Intelligence
• Succession Planning
• Harnessing Organizational Politics
• Driving Change
• Critical Conversations: Having the “Hard to Have” Discussions
• Strategic Thinking: Problem Solving & Decision Making

MEA HR Advantage

Foundational Human Resources

1. HR “BOOT CAMP” – Did HR Fall in Your Lap?
2. Basics of Federal Employment Laws
3. Basics of Compensation
4. Essentials of Recruitment, Employment & Retention

+ 1 elective

Advanced Human Resources

1. Effective Employee Relations, Recognition and Performance Management
2. FMLA Administration (Webinar)
3. Progressive Discipline and Termination (Webinar)
4. Compensation Plan Design

+ 1 elective

Strategic Human Resources

1. HR Metrics: ROI for HR Initiatives
2. HR Professional as a Business Partner
3. Building Training from the Ground Up

+ 1 elective

Critical Leadership Certificate Series

1. Emotional Intelligence
2. Succession Planning
3. Harnessing Organizational Politics
4. Driving Change
5. Critical Conversations: Having the “Hard to Have” Discussions
6. Strategic Thinking: Problem Solving & Decision Making