Intrapreneurship Fundamentals - micro-credential

What you will learn

Gain contemporary skills and knowledge for your job now.

Large organisations need employees who are innovative and equipped with the skills to generate, popularise and implement game-changing ideas.

The ability to attract and retain high-potential employees by developing their intrapreneurship skills can boost retention and stimulate growth at key career junctures.

Delivered by experts in their field and co-designed with Telstra, this 100% online micro-credential empowers teams with the knowledge needed to develop big ideas that drive business growth.

Discover how to sell your ideas in a large organisation

Learn how to socialise ideas that increase buy-in from project stakeholders. You'll gain skills to confidently create persuasive, fact-based narratives that align with current and future business objectives.

Learn to turn big ideas into viable opportunities

Explore three critical elements of the innovation process that are essential for transforming ideas into commercially viable opportunities: desirability, feasibility, and viability. Understand how these concepts intersect to drive ideas forward.

Use self-reflection to manage risk and develop resilience

Gain skills to build the resilience and self-awareness needed to pursue a career as an innovator in your organisation. You'll practice using reflective learning to drive personal growth and develop behaviours and mindsets that are conducive to innovation.

Develop and pitch your own innovation

Work on your own project to build fundamental skills and social capital. You'll draw on the key concepts covered in this course to pitch an idea for your current organisation and gain valuable feedback from your peers and expert course facilitator.

This micro-credential is for group bookings of five learners per organisation. It is suitable for emerging leaders 2-5 years into their careers, and senior employees who want to make a lasting impact in their organisation. It is particularly useful for professionals working in product management, marketing, finance, operations and logistics and IT/technical roles.

This micro-credential has been co-designed with the Head of Innovation at Telstra and their learning design team. A focus group of corporations who participate in the University of Melbourne's Innovation Practice Program has also reviewed the syllabus. Together, this ensures learned skills and knowledge are directly applicable to the real world.

Learners in this course will also have an opportunity to develop their own innovation, building the skills needed to be a successful intrapreneur in their current organisation.

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Create and iterate a narrative that demonstrates understanding of the overall innovation and intrapreneurship process, and key steps involved, including ascertaining whether an idea is feasible, viable and desirable
• Establish practice of self-reflection to facilitate the development of innovative mindsets and behaviours.

This course is taught over eight weeks.

Your total time commitment is approximately 42 hours, which includes:

• 12 hours guided learning (which includes one hour of asynchronous engagement and one hour of synchronous engagement per week)
• 30 hours self-learning and assessment.

Assessment:

• Business case narrative (80%)
• Reflection on building innovation capabilities (20%).

Once you've successfully completed this course, you will be awarded your Intrapreneurship Fundamentals Melbourne MicroCert. This digital certificate will warrant the achievement of knowledge, skills and capabilities outlined in the learning outcomes. It may also include artefacts (such as videos and written material) related to both experiential and work-integrated learning, including translatable assessment that is practical to your professional life. You can also share your Melbourne MicroCert digitally and via social media by adding it to your personal platforms, such as LinkedIn. See example certificate.

This online course is highly practical and built around projects you are passionate about. You will take an existing idea and work in teams to develop it and overcome challenges. This will allow you to understand, explore and practice the essential requirements and skills needed for a successful innovation - from selling your idea to execution.

There is no set expiry date.