usq logo
  • About us
  • All courses
  • Contact
  • FAQ
UPC5011

Connecting With Audience

Adapting professional communications for stronger results

A professional communicator understands how to connect with their audience.

This course will help you understand your audiences, including both internal and external stakeholders. It will look at how you communicate to colleagues, staff and management, as well as how to target your ideal clients, sponsors and shareholders. You will develop a clear understanding on the starting point of communication, and how to adapt your messages to suit.

This course has a four-week teaching period requiring a total of approximately 40 hours of learning. All course learning materials are available on demand.

About the course
What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you'll be able to:

  • Evaluate target audiences to create specific communication outcomes
  • Apply specialist communication skills to professionally manage effective messages in a variety of contexts
What topics will you cover?
  • Understanding your audience
  • Audience analysis
  • Audience strategies
  • Communicating with content
Assessment

To be eligible for a digital badge for this course, you will need to successfully complete an assessment which includes:

  • Audience profiles
  • Evaluation
  • A communication strategy
  • This optional assessment is due at the beginning of week 7
University level expertise
Dr Caryn Coatney is a Journalism Lecturer at the University of Southern Queensland. Dr Coatney has been an investigative news journalist in Australia and internationally and worked in many fields of communication extensively. Her journalism research has won global awards and has been published in peer-reviewed journals and books. She has completed a Research Fellowship at the Australian Prime Ministers Centre in the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House, Canberra. Dr Coatney has a PhD (Journalism), Master of Arts (Research and Coursework - Journalism) and Bachelor of Arts (Honours in both English Literature and History).
Course Credit
Unspecified Creditarrow
This Microcredential represents 0.25 units towards the 1.0 full unit course of credit.

Connecting with Audience can be taken as a stand-alone course. Additionally, it can be combined with the Microcredentials offered below to achieve a total of 1.0 unit of credit. Partial credit cannot be awarded. To be eligible for credit you must successfully complete a stack of UniSQ Microcredentials that, when combined equal 1.0 unit of credit. 

The other three Microcredentials in this stack are:

  • UPC5012 Generating Social Media
  • UPC5013Creating Credible Content
  • UPC5014 Crafting Professional Publications


In order to be eligible to apply credit to a program you must first meet all program admission requirements and successfully complete four UniSQ UpSkill courses from the same course stack. The combined stack of Microcredentials can be used to apply for unspecified credit towards a program, provided the program rules allow it. To apply credit, you must first meet all of the program admission requirements and there must be elective space within the program and approval from the Program Director.

ProficientUPC5011
Connecting With Audience

100% online

4 weeks

There are no intakes available

A $790
icons of digital badges
Digital Badges
When you successfully complete the assessment, earn credible digital badges you can share online via LinkedIn

Related offerings

The University of Southern Queensland acknowledges the traditional custodians of the lands and waterways where the University is located. Further, we acknowledge the cultural diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and pay respect to Elders past, present and future.
Copyright © University of Southern Queensland 2024
CRICOS: QLD 00244B, NSW02225M TEQSA: PRV12081