Develop in-demand skills aligned with industry best practice you can apply immediately.
Taught by leading experts
Learn from internationally recognised academics and professionals with years of on the ground experience.
Shareable digital certificate
Showcase your capabilities with an industry recognised digital certificate you can share with your professional network. See an example certificate
What you will learn
Gain contemporary skills and knowledge for your job now.
Creative and innovative organisations have a clear competitive advantage in our rapidly changing world.
This course is ideal for leaders and professionals of any sector who want to help their teams and organisations embrace creative change.
It's aligned with the criteria for Australian Human Resource Institute accreditation and the Society for Human Resource Management certification.
Explore individual vs team creativity
Examine theoretical differences between individual and team-level creativity processes. Generate actionable strategies to encourage problem-solving and creativity at both levels.
Discover how leaders can foster creativity and innovation
Understand your role as a leader in fostering a climate of creativity within your team or organisation. Explore the techniques needed to build an environment that's supportive of growth, failure and risk.
Gain tools to drive innovation in your own organisation
Learn how organisations can build innovation into their structure. Explore routines and capabilities that drive innovation, and the role that culture plays in sustaining innovation. Apply your knowledge within your own organisation or team.
More from this series
Take multiple courses to deepen your knowledge or stack towards a full degree.
The Adaptive Leadership series
This series gives leaders and aspiring leaders the core knowledge, skills and tools to navigate leadership opportunities and challenges in the context of digital transformation and dynamic competitive environments.
It's been developed in consultation with leading professional services organisations, major business stakeholder organisations, and human resource management and organisational development practitioners.
Creativity and Innovation is ideal for a diverse range of leaders, aspiring leaders and professionals across sectors, including:
Early-career professionals seeking to build leadership capability and knowledge
Emerging leaders and mid-career professionals wanting to enhance existing leadership skills or match their technical expertise with the leadership capabilities needed to advance to more senior positions
Anyone wanting to build their competence, capability and confidence as they progress through various career stages and changes.
There are no eligibility requirements.
Relevance to your job and industry
This course will equip you with the leadership skills needed to navigate the unique contemporary challenges and opportunities in Australia and globally.
It's been developed in consultation with leading professional services organisations, major business stakeholder organisations, and human resource management and organisational development practitioners.
It's aligned with the criteria for Australian Human Resource Institute accreditation and the Society for Human Resource Management certification.
Skills and learning outcomes
By the end of this micro-credential, you'll be able to:
Demonstrate an understanding of the differences between individual and team-level creativity processes, the organisational attributes that support innovation activity, and the role of leadership in supporting creativity and innovation
Critically evaluate models of creativity and innovation and the contexts in which they might be applied to generate sources of competitive advantage
Generate actionable strategies to promote a culture of problem-solving and creativity at the individual and team levels and which support innovation at the organisation level.
Workload and assessment
This course runs over four weeks.
Your total time commitment is approximately 42 hours, which includes:
9 hours guided learning
13 hours private study
20 hours assessment tasks.
Assessment:
Leadership development activity (60%)
Short-answer and multiple-choice questions (30%)
Discussion forum and webinar participation (10%).
Your digital certificate
Once you've successfully completed this course, you will be awarded your Creativity and Innovation 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.
Pathways to further study
Creativity and Innovation is part of the Adaptive Leadership series, which provides a pathway towards the subject MGMT90264 Adaptive Leadership.
To use Creativity and Innovation in this way, you need to complete all four micro-credentials from the Adaptive Leadership series, in any order you choose, and then apply for credit towards MGMT90264 Adaptive Leadership.
You can use the Managing Teams series in a similar way by completing all four micro-credentials in that series, in any order you choose, and then apply for credit towards the subject MGMT90265 Managing Teams
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.
