The business and leadership skills certificate is designed to prepare students for front-line supervisory positions requiring more analytical, cross-functional, and leadership abilities.

This certificate is offered by BYU-Idaho, with support and resources from BYU-Pathway Worldwide.

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Why choose this certificate?

Business and leadership skills will prepare you with the organizational, management, and communication skills needed to effectively facilitate change and improvement within any organization. These will lead you to improved decision making, strategic planning, and collaboration for business and leadership pursuits.

BYU-Pathway has found that certain combinations of certificates lead to better job opportunities. Most degrees have a recommended plan of certificates that will help students increase their income and improve their employment possibilities.

Potential Employment

The jobs students may qualify for depend on their chosen certificates. Opportunities include:

Team lead (customer service, social media)
Account supervisor (sales)
Assistant manager (retail, marketing)
Shift supervisor (hotels, operations, production)

Essential Knowledge and Skills

Outcomes

Create professional spreadsheets to visualize and solve business problems.
Measure the financial and ethical performance of a business by analyzing financial statements and related disclosures.
Manage an online-simulated business, focusing on making data-driven management decisions.
Learn to lead change within an organization through motivation, organizational design, communication, decision making, and team/group behavior.
Provide marketing insights and recommendations to management using consumer research, consumer segmentation, segment targeting and product positioning, new product development, marketing strategy, branding, pricing, and distribution.

Certificate of Business and Leadership Skills

Program Requirements

This certificate builds into the Applied Business Management degree.

This is an advanced certificate. Prior to working on this certificate, you must complete any introductory certificate listed as part of the Applied Business Management degree.

Certificate

12 CREDITS

Associate

60 CREDITS

Bachelor's

90–96 CREDITS

Certificate of Business and Leadership Skills

Course Code

Course Name

# of Credits

ACCTG180

Survey of Accounting

ACCTG180 — 3 credits

Survey of Accounting

This course is an introduction to financial and managerial accounting principles with exposure to basic accounting statements and processes and management applications. The class is intended for non-business majors and certain specialized business programs. This course does not fill any major requirements for accounting majors.

BUS115

Business Applications

BUS115 — 3 credits

Business Applications

Students will acquire, develop and apply intermediate spreadsheet analysis skills in a business context as well as demonstrate basic database use. After individually completing spreadsheet tutorials and assignments, students will then develop and apply their skills in business projects and exams. The projects and exams, which are designed to be realistic and representative of business activities students might encounter in the workplace.

BUS321

Organizational Leadership

3 credits

BUS321 — 3 credits credits

Organizational Leadership

This course incorporates Organizational Effectiveness at three levels: individual, group, and organizations. Students will examine these areas: motivation, team, group behavior, organizational design, structure, culture, communication, leadership, decision making, and managing change

ECON100

Essentials of Economics

ECON100 — 3 credits

Essentials of Economics

This introductory course in economics covers the essential topics of the economics discipline such as the behavior of consumers and businesses in a market economy, the health of an economy and how economic gains are realized. Analytical tools are used to study production decisions under non-competitive markets to competitive markets. Economic measurements are presented to analyze the health of an economy.

FIN300

Business Finance

FIN300 — 3 credits

Business Finance

In this finance course you will learn to understand and read financial statements, including the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement. You will use case studies to dive into how various areas of business relate to the financial statements to understand the impact of levers in the business and how they impact financial outcomes. You will use financial models to experience how decisions in product design, marketing, and supply chain management can impact financial results in order to make better decisions within a business.

For questions about this program, contact BYU-Pathway Support