Course description
This course focuses on developing an understanding of ‘the why and how’ of effectively leading others, creating the team conditions for creativity, and innovative thinking and building personal leadership skills that support high-performing team practices.
These practices include:
- • effective communication skills
- • understanding and resolving conflict in the workplace
- • how to build skills in others
- • how to delegate and empower others
- • how to enact processes for working in teams.
Leading Teams is delivered as online sessions and self-directed online learning through the Canvas platform.
Scheduling is mindful of adequate screen breaks and a range of participants’ workplace contexts.
Course outcomes
By the end of this program participants will be able to demonstrate their growth in knowledge and skills and will:
- gain understanding of team dynamics
- gain understanding of leadership to build effective, high-performing teams
- enact leadership across the workplace
- build capacity in team members to lead in your local context
- gain knowledge and understanding of styles and attributes of leadership
- understand and utilise a range of team processes and protocols to support effective team practices.
Australian Professional Standards
- Standard 6 – Engage in professional learning
- Standard 7 – Engage professionally with colleagues, parents/carers and the community