NSLAA Leadership Course layout

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Organizations need leaders who know how to listen, mentor and develop others.  Servant leaders know how to grow teams, understand others and utilize leadership styles to maximize the potential of those they lead and serve. 

Certified Servant Leader training courses are offered by training teams and requires learning key terms and ideas, reading assignments to prompt critical thinking, and reflecting on your unique leader/follower experience. 

Using a flipped classroom approach, extensive group discussion of the leader tasks and supporting concepts is the key element of the learning experience.

 Certifications are not just based on exam grades. Each course has a set of rubrics that grade student on discussions, participation, written, oral and presentation skills.  The instructors of CSL courses want students to show how they apply what they learn as much as much as what they can remember.  Leadership is people and these courses are graded within a group dynamic to judge understanding of servant leadership. 

• Factual knowledge is knowing what terms and ideas mean. You will gain competence in this knowledge dimension by learning applicable definitions, meanings, and specific details. The key terms and ideas covered in each module provide the foundation for understanding associated concepts.
• Conceptual knowledge is knowing the interrelationships among key terms and ideas. You will gain competence in this knowledge dimension by learning how key terms and ideas function together to form a concept; by learning classifications, categories, and principles; and by learning theories, models, and structures. The concepts covered in each module provide the foundation for understanding associated leader tasks.
• Procedural knowledge is knowing how to implement processes and carry out procedures. You will gain competence in this knowledge dimension through your experience implementing subject-specific skills, techniques, and methods; through your experience determining when to use appropriate procedures; through your experience discovering or revealing something through detailed examination; and through your experience making judgments and decisions based on given criteria and standards. The leader tasks covered in each module are essential to building and leading  teams.