Learn About Leading Staff and Volunteers

Posted: June 1, 2023

By: College of Arts and Sciences


Leading Staff and VolunteersNPLR 5830: Leading Staff & Volunteers

Seattle University's Master of Nonprofit Leadership is offering this three-credit course* to nonmatriculated students. 

High-performance management of organizations and demands intensive development of human relations skills. Building these skills requires deep self-reflection on leaders’ identity and bias as well as an ability to critique existing systems and make change collaboratively to eliminate the impacts of bias, racism and other forces of oppression in their organizations.

This course teaches essential leadership, management and team skills through a combination of readings, self-reflective techniques, group problem-solving, discussion and casework.

Upon completion of the course, you will be able to:

  • Build and support diverse and inclusive teams of staff and volunteers. 
  • Assess yourself, your organization and team for practices and biases that inhibit high-functioning, inclusive and diverse teams. 
  • Understand trends and best practices in Human Resources and how to start building better, more equitable practices.
  • Develop reflective leadership skills and practices to position you to lead effectively through changing times.  

E-mail cgerman@seattleu.edu to apply and register. 

*Graduate level tuition is $722 per credit.