Leading Teams micro-credential

What you will learn

Gain contemporary skills and knowledge for your job now.

As we work through a time of flux, understanding how to manage team culture and dynamics is more crucial than ever.

This course is ideal for leaders of any sector looking to create a team culture of respect, safety and innovation.

Foster a fearless culture

Understand the benefits of a culture in which team members feel free to speak candidly, question, learn, and experiment. Learn how to adopt leadership practices that ensure psychological safety for your team.

Address team dynamics and conflict

Interrogate the causes and consequences of challenging team dynamics. Analyse and explain team member characteristics and cultural context, as well as strategies to address conflict.

Use shared leadership to increase trust

Learn how sharing leadership responsibilities among team members elevates accountability, trust, and professional growth. You'll work on an intervention to share leadership within your own team.

This micro-credential is ideal for a diverse range of professionals aiming to develop leadership capabilities and knowledge.

This includes emerging leaders and those seeking to develop their leadership skills to match their technical expertise, with the aim of advancing into more senior positions.

It's suitable for professionals from a broad range of sectors, including business services, manufacturing, health, NGOs, education, hospitality and aviation.

There are no eligibility requirements.

This course has been developed in consultation with leading professional services organisations, major business stakeholder organisations, and human resource management and organisational development practitioners.

Curriculum is based on real-world needs. You'll gain skills and knowledge that are immediately applicable to your current role.

By the end of this course, you will have enhanced communication skills as a leader, aligned with industry best practice. You will be able to:

• Analyse and explain causes and consequences of challenging team dynamics, drawing on theories and evidence on psychological safety and shared leadership
• Evaluate suitable team leadership practices based on considerations of team task, members characteristics, and cultural context
• Formulate and justify a plan for integrating evidence-based team leadership practices in your workplace.

This course runs over four weeks.

Your total time commitment is 34 - 42 hours, which includes:

• Guided learning
• Self-directed learning
• Assessment tasks.

Assessment:

• A summative analysis of all topics and a critical evaluation of your personal-professional practice (60%)
• 2 x written assessments articulating what you've learned in the modules and evaluate personal-professional practice (30%)
• Discussion participation and webinar attendance (10%).

Once you've successfully completed this course, you will be awarded your Leading Teams micro-credential. 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 micro-credential digitally and via social media by adding it to your personal platforms, such as LinkedIn. See example certificate.

Leading Teams is part of the Managing Teams series, which provides a pathway towards the subject MGMT90265 Managing Teams.

To use Leading Teams in this way, you need to complete all four micro-credentials from the Managing Teams series, in any order you choose, then apply for credit towards the subject MGMT90265 Managing Teams.

You can use the Adaptive Leadership series in a similar way by completing all four micro-credentials in that series, in any order you choose, then apply for credit towards the subject MGMT90264 Adaptive Leadership.

• Ethical Judgement
• Personal Effectiveness
• Leading Change
• Creativity and Innovation

• Effective Leadership Communication
• Leading Teams
• Effective Negotiation
• Performance Management

This is a highly flexible course designed to provide you with a rich and effective learning experience.

It includes a combination of live webinars, online lectures, skills development exercises, case studies and scenarios, contemporary readings and resources, facilitated group discussions, and hands-on workplace interventions.

There is no set expiry date.