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

Leading Teams to Success (MGT8037)

Leveraging Team Diversity to Success can be taken as a stand-alone course, or it can be completed as one of four Microcredentials that stack together for credit for the one unit course Leading Teams to Success (MGT8037).

The other three Microcredentials in this stack are:

UMG8011 Walking into a Toxic Team
UMG8013 Cultivating a Global Mindset for Team Success
UMG8014 Empowering Teams for Creativity

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.

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Digital Badges

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

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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