Performance Management - micro-credential

What you will learn

Gain contemporary skills and knowledge for your job now.

Effective leaders know that genuinely supporting people means going beyond the annual performance review.

This course is ideal for leaders from any sector who want to give better feedback and genuinely empower and motivate their team.

Understand how to set goals that motivate people

Explore the different ways in which employees are motivated. Harness evidence-backed techniques to help your team set realistic but challenging goals.

Gain techniques for giving better feedback

Refine the art of constructive criticism and gain actionable strategies for giving - and receiving - more valuable feedback.

Cultivate a coaching mindset

Learn how to enhance your emotional intelligence, communication and interpersonal skills. Discover how adopting a coaching mindset can help you better support and lead others.

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:

• Explore the different ways in which employees are motivated, including the benefits and consequences of goal setting
• Generate actionable strategies for giving and receiving constructive feedback
• Apply major theories and models that help enable the action of others, including effective coaching principles and approaches to supporting others to achieve goals.

This course runs over four weeks.

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

• Guided learning
• Self-directed learning
• Individual or group-based experiential tasks
• Assessment tasks
• At least one Zoom meeting with your tutor.

Assessment:

• In-module written assessment tasks (30%)
• Discussion forum and webinar participation (10%)
• A leadership development activity proposal (60%).

Once you've successfully completed this course, you will be awarded your Performance Management 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.

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

To use Performance Management 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 the four micro-credentials from 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.