Effective Leadership Communication is designed for a diverse range of leaders, aspiring leaders, and professionals, including:

• Early-career professionals seeking to develop their leadership ability and knowledge
• Emerging leaders wanting to enhance their skills
• Those seeking to enhance their leadership capabilities to complement technical knowledge and expertise to advance into more senior leadership positions
• Anyone wanting to build their competence, capability and confidence as they progress through various career stages and changes.

Relevant sectors include, but aren't limited to, professional and business services, manufacturing, health, NGOs, education, hospitality, 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 and you complete the course with highly applicable skills and knowledge.

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

• Analyse and explain the effectiveness of written, verbal, and non-verbal leadership communication, based on theories and evidence on cognitive processing, social identity formation, and social learning
• Evaluate suitable leadership communication practices to influence followers and other stakeholders, in a variety of settings and communication channels
• Formulate and justify a plan for integrating evidence-based leadership communication practices in the workplace.

This course runs over four weeks.

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

• 9 contact hours
• 13 hours self-study
• 20 hours assessment tasks

Assessment:

• Summative analysis of all topics incorporating a critical evaluation of personal-professional practice (60%)
• 2 x written assessments articulating learned modules and evaluating personal-professional practice (30%)
• Discussion participation and webinar attendance (10%).

Once you've successfully completed this course, you will be awarded your Effective Leadership Communication 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.

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

To use Effective Leadership Communication in this way, you need to complete all four micro-credentials in 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.

Adaptive Leadership

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

Managing Teams

• 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.

This micro-credential does not expire.