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Leading

Human Resource Management and Leadership

Richard Claydon, Jaco Lok, Rebecca Mitchell, Arabella MacPherson, Edward Wray-Bliss, Abas Mirzaei, Dr Richard Claydon, Professor Jaco Lok, Professor Rebecca Mitchell, Associate Professor Edward Wray-Bliss, and Dr Abas Mirzaei

Become an adaptable leader, ready to face the challenges of the disrupted workplace. This Specialization will equip you with the skills to lead and navigate the ever-changing global environment we now work in. Through four themed courses you will: learn how to motivate staff with meaningful work (Become a Meaning Maker); better enable your organization to deliver on its strategic objectives (Know Your Organisation); harness your team’s diversity and use teamwork to innovate and increase your organization’s output (Know Your People), and strengthen your personal leadership skills (Adapt Your Leadership Style).

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Four courses

Organisational design: Know your organisation

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How do you lead when today’s work environment is so competitive and complex? This course will prepare you to tackle this challenge. You will examine organisational culture, structures, and systems, before building on your knowledge and taking a more strategic perspective.

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Organisational behaviour: Know your people

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Organisations have changed and now, more than ever, personnel management is crucial to organisational success. In this course, you’ll explore concepts, theories, and methodologies to help you navigate and optimize your work environment.

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Adapt your leadership style

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Why are organizational misbehaviours such as cynicism, apathy, bullying and disengagement increasingly prevalent in the workplace? This course examines these tensions and how transformational, authentic and inclusive leadership styles offer an alternative to the more autocratic, job-centred and controlling leadership styles of the past.

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Visionary leadership, identity & motivation: Become a meaning maker

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When faced with complexity, how do you envision the future? How can you deliver on your vision to drive positive change? In this course, you will explore how leaders can create a compelling vision and communicate it, and how they create meaning and make work more meaningful. You will look at the role the brain and the body play in processing meaning, and how this can inspire your employees to follow you and your vision.

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Learning objectives

Analyse how to motivate staff with meaningful work
Understand how to enable your organisation to deliver on its strategic objectives

Examine the ways you can harness your team’s diversity and use teamwork to innovate and increase your organisation’s output
Evaluate leadership theories and develop your personal leadership skills

Analyse how to motivate staff with meaningful work
Understand how to enable your organisation to deliver on its strategic objectives
Examine the ways you can harness your team’s diversity and use teamwork to innovate and increase your organisation’s output
Evaluate leadership theories and develop your personal leadership skills

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Time

72 hours

Level

Intermediate

Via

Coursera

Institution

Macquarie University

Instructors

Richard Claydon

Jaco Lok

Rebecca Mitchell

Arabella MacPherson

Edward Wray-Bliss

Abas Mirzaei

Dr Richard Claydon

Professor Jaco Lok

Professor Rebecca Mitchell

Associate Professor Edward Wray-Bliss

Dr Abas Mirzaei

Level

Intermediate

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