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  •  ONLINE SHORT COURSE
  •  4 WEEKS (6HRS/WK)
  •  $14,500
  •   OCT 2024 | JUN, SEP 2025
  •  START: 
MBS Leadership Program
Course Description

Grow your leadership capabilities, while strengthening your ability to inspire and foster alignment to achieve strategically thought-out results.

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  •  ONLINE SHORT COURSE
  •  4 WEEKS (6HRS/WK)
  •  $14,500
  •   OCT 2024 | JUN, SEP 2025
  •  START: 
MBS Leadership Program
Course Description

Grow your leadership capabilities, while strengthening your ability to inspire and foster alignment to achieve strategically thought-out results.

Lead and inspire in times of uncertainty

Boost your ability to inspire others and create alignment to drive results, while also learning how to develop and grow your leadership capability.

MBS Leadership Program provides opportunities for mid-to-senior level managers to develop new leadership skills, behaviours and mindsets to navigate complex leadership challenges.

Delivered entirely online, the program is designed to fit into your schedule. With a mix of live sessions, self-paced learning and peer coaching sessions, you will learn how to maximise your impact and drive organisational success across multiple teams and functions.

Introduction to the course

Specifically designed for leaders who are looking to harness their potential and get the most out of their teams whilst navigating through complex challenges with confidence.

Cameron Brooks
Program Director, MBS Leadership Program short course, and Director & Principal Consultant, Ignite Leadership

Who should enrol

Experienced Managers

Leaders who have made the transition from managing individual contributors to managing other managers and/or senior professional staff.

Strategic and Cross-functional Leaders

Leaders responsible for supporting and executing organisational strategy.

Leaders who work collaboratively with multiple peers or across different functions.

Why study the MBS Leadership Program short course?

Enhance your leadership potential 

  • Navigate change and complexity while understanding how it can affect others
  • Evaluate strategic decisions while aligning self-purpose to company objectives

Empower your team

  • Articulate key messages that motivate action
  • Develop yourself and others through coaching and mentoring techniques and frameworks
  • Drive engagement and high performance through empathetic leadership 

Inspire agility through leadership 

  • Develop a paradoxical attitude to control conflicting stresses
  • Exercise power within, outside and beyond organisational boundaries
  • Learn to inspire and influence across all functions and levels in business

What you will study

  • Build self and system awareness to maximise your leadership impact.
  • Clarify what motivates you as a leader to align impact with intent.
  • Align purpose and values to think and act strategically.
  • Analyse priorities to delegate and empower your leaders and teams.
  • Learn to effectively manage, coach and inspire others.
  • Build reflective practice to become more resilient and adaptable.
  • Learn to navigate complexity and lead through uncertainty and drive change.
  • Influence and align effort across teams to navigate complex challenges and drive performance.

This program's online format enabled us to bring together a diverse group of people from not only across Australia but also from other APAC countries like Singapore, Malaysia, to gain insights into the shared challenges and learnings across the world.

Ravina Kumar
Business Operations Manager, Here Technologies

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Ravina Kumar, Operations Manager, Here Technologies

Frequently asked questions

Live sessions are an important and valuable part of the Melbourne Business School Online learning experience. Whatever the form of the live session, whether a lecture, a panel discussion with experts, working through relevant case studies, or receiving a practical demonstration of a tool, each live session is purpose built, interactive and highly beneficial to attend live.

 

We want everyone to be able to participate in our learning community, even if you can't make it to the live sessions. That's why we record all our sessions and make them available to watch later.

 

Please be aware:

  1. dates and times may be subject to change
  2. times given are local Melbourne time.

 

The 2025 live session (90 minutes per week) schedule will appear here when finalised.

No, there will be no pre-course work requirements. There will be an orientation module in the first week of the course, which we strongly recommend you work through to set yourself up for success in the program.

Every short course will start with an orientation module that opens at 3pm (local Melbourne time) on the Thursday prior to Monday’s official course start date.

Melbourne Business School Online will release the first module of the course at 9am (local Melbourne time) on Monday of the course start.

Melbourne Business School Online will accept enrolments up until 12pm mid-day (local Melbourne time) on the Monday (start date).

Melbourne Business School is jointly owned by the business community and the University of Melbourne. Melbourne Business School is the approved provider of a range of University of Melbourne degree programs. This short course is not delivered on behalf of, or by, the University of Melbourne, and does not provide credit towards a University of Melbourne degree program.

Yes, there will be an assessment component which will enable you to further build on your skills throughout the program. The assessment can be submitted within 6 weeks of the final module.  

The course is ideal for experienced managers and senior executives who have already made the transition from managing individual contributors to managing other managers and / or senior professional staff.

Upon successful completion you will receive a Melbourne Business School Certificate of Completion. Your certificate takes the form of a shareable digital badge. This provides you the opportunity to showcase to the world your newly acquired skills and serves as a digital record of your achievement.

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