This Melbourne MicroCert is designed for a diverse range of professionals seeking to develop their leadership ability and knowledge.

You might be an emerging leader, seeking to enhance your leadership capabilities to complement technical knowledge and expertise, or someone wanting to advance into more senior leadership positions across any sector or organisation.

The course is also suited more broadly to anyone wanting to build their competence, capability and confidence as they progress through various career stages and job changes.

There are no eligibility requirements.

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.

By the end of this course, you'll have enhanced your leadership capabilities. You'll be able to:

• Explain how personal leadership impacts organisational performance, both positively and adversely
• Identify leadership challenges and evaluate personal response strategies to overcome these challenges within their teams and organisations
• Appraise opportunities to effectively manage limited time and resources, including personal resources (psychological wellbeing, resilience, cognitive load) to enable them to engage in sustainable and effective leadership.

This course runs over four weeks,

Your total time commitment is approximately 42.5 hours, which includes:

• 9 hours guided learning
• 13.5 hours private study, including discussion forums and readings
• 20 hours assessment tasks.

Assessment:

• A leadership development activity (60%)
• A short-answer and multiple-choice questions (30%)
• Discussion forum and webinar participation (10%)

Once you've successfully completed this course, you will be awarded your Personal Effectiveness 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.

Personal Effectiveness is part of the Managing Teams series, which belongs to our Leadership suite of Melbourne MicroCerts.

This suite provides a pathway to the Master of Professional Management. To use Personal Effectiveness this way, you need to complete four Melbourne MicroCerts from the Leadership suite, in any order you choose, and then apply for credit towards the masters.

You can also take Personal Effectiveness as a stand-alone course.

Leadership suite

This suite of Melbourne MicroCerts includes the Adaptive Leadership and Managing Teams series.

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 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.