Leading Teams
Become a confident, effective and responsible leader with the skills to genuinely inspire your team. Currently only available for organisations. Register individual interest below:
Leading Teams
$1350.00 AUD (inc GST)
What you will learn
Gain contemporary skills and knowledge for your job now.
As we work through a time of flux, understanding how to manage team culture and dynamics is more crucial than ever.
This course is ideal for leaders of any sector looking to create a team culture of respect, safety and innovation.
Foster a fearless culture
Understand the benefits of a culture in which team members feel free to speak candidly, question, learn, and experiment. Learn how to adopt leadership practices that ensure psychological safety for your team.
Address team dynamics and conflict
Interrogate the causes and consequences of challenging team dynamics. Analyse and explain team member characteristics and cultural context, as well as strategies to address conflict.
Use shared leadership to increase trust
Learn how sharing leadership responsibilities among team members elevates accountability, trust, and professional growth. You'll work on an intervention to share leadership within your own team.
Watch this short video to discover more about the course.
What people are saying
Hear how micro-credentials have helped advance careers and why these skills matter to your industry.
All the concepts I gained, including the value of communication, leadership styles, psychological safety, and team culture were directly relevant to my workplace situation. There was also reassurance from the course that the strategies I had already implemented were the right ones.
— Micro-credential learner, April 2025
The structured content, the emphasis on collaboration, group discussions, and assessments that really put learning into practice showed me that this course was both dynamic and relevant.
— Micro-credential learner, April 2025
More from this series
Take multiple courses to deepen your knowledge or stack towards a full degree.
The Managing Teams series
This industry-aligned, research-led series is designed to equip you with the skills needed to lead with confidence. You'll feel ready to face challenges and opportunities in organisations across the Asia-Pacific region.
It's been developed in consultation with leading professional services organisations, major business stakeholder organisations, and human resource management and organisational development practitioners.
Explore more from the Managing Teams series:
- Effective Leadership Communication (Micro-credential)
- Effective Negotiation (Micro-credential)
- Performance Management (Micro-credential)
Fees
For individuals
To take Leading Teams as a stand-alone micro-credential, you'll pay the normal course price.
$1350.00 AUD (inc GST)
Please contact Student Support to discuss discounts and payment options for University of Melbourne staff or alumni, or to pay by invoice.
For teams
If you have three or more team members who are keen to upskill with Leading Teams, get in touch to discuss pricing. For large groups, we can also deliver and contextualise this course exclusively for your organisation.
Pricing on request
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Course details
Want to know more about micro-credentials? See our Frequently Asked Questions
This micro-credential is ideal for a diverse range of professionals aiming to develop leadership capabilities and knowledge.
This includes emerging leaders and those seeking to develop their leadership skills to match their technical expertise, with the aim of advancing into more senior positions.
It's suitable for professionals from a broad range of sectors, including business services, manufacturing, health, NGOs, education, hospitality and aviation.
There are no eligibility requirements.
This course has been developed in consultation with leading professional services organisations, major business stakeholder organisations, and human resource management and organisational development practitioners.
Curriculum is based on real-world needs. You'll gain skills and knowledge that are immediately applicable to your current role.
By the end of this course, you will have enhanced communication skills as a leader, aligned with industry best practice. You will be able to:
- Analyse and explain causes and consequences of challenging team dynamics, drawing on theories and evidence on psychological safety and shared leadership
- Evaluate suitable team leadership practices based on considerations of team task, members characteristics, and cultural context
- Formulate and justify a plan for integrating evidence-based team leadership practices in your workplace.
This course runs over four weeks.
Your total time commitment is 34 - 42 hours, which includes:
- Guided learning
- Self-directed learning
- Assessment tasks.
Assessment:
- A summative analysis of all topics and a critical evaluation of your personal-professional practice (60%)
- 2 x written assessments articulating what you’ve learned in the modules and evaluate personal-professional practice (30%)
- Discussion participation and webinar attendance (10%).
Leading Teams is part of the Managing Teams series, which provides a pathway towards the subject MGMT90265 Managing Teams.
To use Leading Teams in this way, you need to complete all four micro-credentials from the Managing Teams series, in any order you choose, then apply for credit towards the subject MGMT90265 Managing Teams.
You can use the Adaptive Leadership series in a similar way by completing all four micro-credentials in that series, in any order you choose, then apply for credit towards the subject MGMT90264 Adaptive Leadership.
Adaptive Leadership
Managing Teams
This is a highly flexible course designed to provide you with a rich and effective learning experience.
It includes a combination of live webinars, online lectures, skills development exercises, case studies and scenarios, contemporary readings and resources, facilitated group discussions, and hands-on workplace interventions.