Professional Certificate
Rapid change and complexity are increasingly inherent to industry and organisations. Managers of today and tomorrow need to navigate this complexity, make agile decisions, lead the right change, do more with less, and enable their teams to achieve their best performance.
The Professional Certificate in Leadership equips managers from across diverse industries to be high performers. This program develops the core competencies of contemporary management and leadership:
The Professional Certificate in Leadership is delivered online. It focuses on global best practice, multi-disciplinary approaches to management and leadership, is applicable across all industries, and uses real life case studies. Graduates develop an advanced knowledge of core aspects of modern team management, and leadership in complex and changing organisational and industry environments.
Learners in the Professional Certificate in Leadership will develop an in-depth understanding of advanced leadership theories, models, and practices, and how these theories can be applied to individuals, teams, and organisations to optimise well-being and performance.
You will critically reflect on your own personal leadership practice and leadership capabilities and understand the effectiveness of these practices and capabilities for different organisational contexts. You will compare and evaluate diverse practices of leading self, leading others, and leading an organisation to develop solutions for the complex leadership challenges of contemporary workplaces.
You will enhance your communication capacities to transmit relevant knowledge, skills and ideas to colleagues and/or stakeholders - internal and external to your organisation - in ways that engage, inspire and motivate.
Through this course, your will develop and demonstrate both initiative and judgement to support and contribute to colleagues' workplace well-being and performance - developing teams to be high-performing.
The Professional Certificate in Leadership is taught in intensive mode. It is a graduate coursework degree consisting of 2 subjects, normally taking 1 year of full-time study or part-time equivalent. Advance Standing of 50% (12.5 credit points) will be granted to cognate applicants who have a relevant undergraduate degree to be credited the following groupings of four MicroCerts - to reduce the expected duration to 6 months (2 terms):
Advanced Standing: MGMT90265 Managing Teams
MGMT90264 - Adaptive Leadership
Undertaking leadership training early in an individual's career can positively influence their leadership skills at every level of an organisation. We also know that management and leadership skills are most effectively learned through structured or formal programs, which integrate problem-based projects.
Consisting of two subjects, the Professional Certificate in Leadership equips managers from across diverse industries to be high performers. Students will be equipped to step up and improve their capabilities to become high performers. Graduates develop an advanced knowledge of core aspects of modern team management and leadership in complex and changing organisational and industry environments.