UMG8012

Leveraging Team Diversity For Success

Optimising diversity to enhance your team’s success

It is well established that decisions and projects executed by diverse teams deliver better results.

This course will help leaders build and enhance their team’s capacity, as well as identify challenges and optimise team diversity to create an inclusive and effective team. You will learn about diversity of thought, team dynamics and leadership theories.

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:

Synthesise specialist knowledge on team theory to generate an effective approach to a current problem.

What topics will you cover?

What is diversity?
Leadership theories
Team theories
Inclusive leadership

Assessment

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

An analysis of contexts, objectives and strategies to leverage diversity
The optional assessment is due at the beginning of week 7

University level expertise

Bernadette Lynch is a management lecturer at the University of Southern Queensland. Her research interests are in the areas of business education, organisational culture and communities of practice. She was awarded an Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) citation in 2008 with an Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning Team Award.

Course Credit

Unspecified Credit

This Microcredential represents 0.25 units towards 1.0 unit of credit.

The Microcredential can be taken as a stand-alone course. Additionally, it can be combined with other Microcredentials offered by UniSQ 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 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

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Digital Badges

When you successfully complete the assessment, earn credible digital badges you can share online via LinkedIn

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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.

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