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In today's complex and rapidly evolving business landscape, leadership is more crucial than ever. Effective leadership is essential for navigating sustainable development, rapid technological advancements, changing work practices and labour markets, environmental and social crises, rapid transformation, shifting consumer expectations, and unpredictable market dynamics.
Discover the art and science of leadership with the Graduate Certificate in Leadership and Organisational Capability. This course is designed to cultivate your leadership potential and empower you to become an exceptional leader in today's dynamic business landscape.
This course consists of 4 units, currently available on a part-time enrolment basis only, with flexible learning options available.
Key contacts
| Current student enrolment questions and advice | UConnect |
| Course Coordinator | Dr Toby Newstead |
Course objectives
The Graduate Certificate provides a transformative learning experience, broadening your perspective and deepening your critical understanding of leaders and their pivotal role in fostering organisational capability. This course equips you with essential skills to navigate complexity in today's business environment. You will gain valuable insights and the confidence to challenge conventional methodologies, embracing innovative and agile approaches to achieve organisational success and deliver stakeholder value. Throughout the course, you will explore topics such as communication and performance, power and influence, organisational behaviour, and informal leadership, gaining a comprehensive understanding of the complexities of leadership.
Through live case studies, guest lectures, simulations, and peer-to-peer learning, you'll examine and evaluate diverse approaches to leadership, including Indigenous, ethical, and character-based perspectives. Using flipped classroom methods, you'll have the flexibility to access learning materials at a time that suits you, allowing for deeper exploration of key topics during interactive online tutorials and immersive face-to-face workshops. You'll be encouraged to share your experiences in discussions and contribute to co-creating knowledge about various aspects of leadership.
Learning outcomes
Practical experience
Throughout this course, you'll be deeply engaged and frequently exposed to industry-relevant, practical business and organisational issues. Live case analysis, industry visits, peer-to-peer learning, and masterclasses will all provide opportunities to link theory to practice, ensuring your learning is theoretically rigorous and practically applicable.
Career outcomes
Leadership is increasingly recognised as a key differentiator for high-performing teams and organisations. Graduates of this course will possess the knowledge, skills, and capabilities to lead effectively across a broad range of industries and sectors. You'll learn how to refine and enhance both your own leadership potential and that of others. You'll graduate prepared to embed ethical and contemporary leadership practices within and throughout your organisation, fostering enhanced individual and organisational capability.
Completing this course will equip you for roles such as:
- General manager
- Executive team member
- Team, department, or sector leader
- Internal or external leadership development practitioner
- Human resource professional
Course structure
To graduate from the Graduate Certificate in Leadership and Organisational Capability, you must satisfactorily complete 50 credit points of study from the core units listed below in the schedule.
Please note this course is currently available on a part-time enrolment basis only.
Core Units
The role of leaders and the function of leadership has been the focus of scrutiny for many years. It could be argued that this scrutiny has been amplified in recent times due the recent crises associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
| Online | Semester 1 | ||||
View all details for BMA613 Leading Capability Development in Organisations
The development of organisational capability via formal and informal leadership is often diminished due to ineffective processes or misaligned culture. Leaders therefore must be cognisant of how processual tools at their disposal can generate appropriate responses to internal and external…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
| Online | Semester 1 | ||||
View all details for BMA614 Leadership, Process and Capability
Examination of the role and nature of leadership as a practice, as behaviour and as a suite of capabilities has been reignited in the wake of responses to the current COVID-19 pandemic. However, critique of leaders and the role they…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 2 | ||||
| Online | Semester 2 | ||||
No organisation operates in a vacuum. Developing an appreciation of global issues and the capacity to determine regional or local consequences for organisations is imperative for good leadership and appropriate management. Leaders, therefore, must be cognisant of contemporary issues that…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 2 | ||||
| Online | Semester 2 | ||||
View all details for BMA726 Contemporary Issues in Organisational Leadership
Entry requirements
For Domestic students
Applicants with higher education study
To be eligible for an offer, you must have:
- A completed AQF7 Bachelor Degree or above, or approved equivalent, in any discipline.
An equivalent qualification from an overseas institution is as assessed by the University with reference to the equivalencies identified by the National Office of Overseas Skills Recognition (NOOSR).
Applicants with work experience
To be eligible for an offer, you must have:
- At least three (3) years’ management experience.
To be eligible for the degree, you need to provide evidence that shows your work experience meets the minimum requirements. This includes submitting a copy of your CV and two letters of reference from your line managers or equivalent positions. The minimum level of management experience required is supervisory, team leader, or business manager experience. If you have worked as a sole trader or consultant, you must provide a copy of your CV and two testimonials or references from clients that provide evidence of capability consistent with the entry requirements.
Credit transfer
Graduates of the Tasmanian Leaders Program (https://www.tasmanianleaders.org.au/) will receive credit for one 12.5 credit point unit, BMA726 Contemporary Issues in Organisational Leadership, with the Graduate Certificate (C5X).
Articulation
Students who successfully complete the Graduate Certificate in Leadership and Organisational Capability are eligible for credit of up to 50 cp into 37O2 Master of Business Administration (Executive), subject to the approval of the MBA Director and meeting the admission requirements for that course, particularly the requirements of work experience.
Fees & scholarships
Domestic students
Cost shouldn’t get in the way of you studying.
Commonwealth supported places (CSP) are available for this course. For eligible domestic undergraduate students, this means your fees will be subsidised by the Australian Government. You’ll only need to pay the student contribution amount for each unit you study within the course.
You can find the student contribution for each unit of study on the individual unit pages. The units for this course are found in the course structure section.
You may also be able to defer payment of the student contribution amount by accessing a HECS-HELP loan from the Government. If eligible, you’ll only have to pay your tuition fees once you start earning above a specific amount.
Further information on student loans and a CSP eligibility checker can be found at Australian Government Study Assist.
Further informationDetailed fee information for domestic students including the Student Services and Amenities Fee (SSAF) is available at Scholarships, fees and costs.
Scholarships
For information on general scholarships available at the University of Tasmania, please visit the scholarships website.
How can we help?
Do you have any questions about choosing a course or applying? Get in touch.
- Domestic
- 13 8827 (13 UTAS)
- International
- +61 3 6226 6200
- Course.Info@utas.edu.au
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