Managing Stakeholders and Sustainability micro-credential

What you will learn

Gain contemporary skills and knowledge for your job now.

As business organisations around the globe face sustainability-related issues, many are struggling to balance short and long-term objectives to overcome these challenges.

This micro-credential is ideal for professionals seeking foundational concepts and practical tools for implementing a stakeholder-oriented, sustainable business strategy in an organisation.

Examine the practices of leading stakeholder-oriented organisations

Evaluate real-world organisations to examine how leading corporations and global business associations maximise value for all stakeholders while addressing sustainability issues.

Explore stakeholder relationship management

Unpack the dimensions of stakeholder relationships and analyse the complexities of stakeholder interests and well-being. You'll examine key examples of effective stakeholder management strategies from the world of business and discuss the importance of issues management as a trigger for future stakeholder actions.

Produce a stakeholder materiality matrix

Gain a detailed understanding of how to use a materiality matrix model to improve business strategy and consistently meet the expectations of your stakeholders. Delve into data-driven materiality assessments and learn how to identify key sustainability issues. You'll have the chance to apply what you learn to your organisation.

Managing Stakeholders and Sustainability is designed for a diverse range of professionals seeking to contribute to the stakeholder-oriented, sustainable business goals of their organisation.

You might be seeking to lead the sustainable business strategy at your organisation or to advance your career through an expanded understanding of stakeholder management and sustainability practices.

The course is also suited more broadly to anyone wanting to develop their critical thinking about societal and ethical issues in organised settings.

There are no eligibility requirements.

This micro-credential has been developed in close consultation with industry, including in-depth consultations with the Chief Sustainability Officer at Australia Post and the Executive Director of the United Nations Global Compact Network Australia.

It will equip you with foundational concepts and practical tools for implementing a stakeholder-oriented, sustainable business strategy in your organisation.

By the end of this micro-credential, you will be able to:

• Explain the dimensions of stakeholder relationships and develop a stakeholder map
• Apply the concept of stakeholder issue materiality and undertake a discovery process to create a stakeholder materiality matrix

This micro-credential runs over four weeks.

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

• 5 hours of guided learning
• 12 hours of independent study
• 25 hours of assessment tasks.

Assessment:

• Stakeholder map and written report (50%)
• Stakeholder issues materiality matrix and written report (50%).

Once you've successfully completed this course, you will be awarded your Managing Stakeholders and Sustainability 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.

Managing Stakeholders and Sustainability is part of the Corporate Sustainability Series of micro-credential. It can be taken as a standalone course or complemented with any other micro-credential in the Corporate Sustainability Series.

This series includes:

• Foundations of Sustainable Business
• Sustainability Reporting Frameworks

In our innovative online environment, you'll learn alongside a diverse range of industry professionals, and be guided by leading practitioners. Instructors will facilitate discussion and answer questions during webinars, focusing the course on real-world settings and examples. Learning will be supported by text, video and/or audio-based methods.

There is no set expiry date