Overview
Step up with flexible study that fits around your career demands and the accessibility of minimal entry requirements. Explore our learning options below to see what best suits you.
Professional Development Modules
Our Professional Development Modules are grouped by six themes to help you choose your areas of expertise. Each module is a stand-alone course, and you can choose to complete as many or as few as you like. Explore the topic and time-frames that suit you.
Leadership Discovery
Begin your self-awareness journey to develop your leadership skills, enhance communication abilities, and build a performance culture.
Leading Self and Others
What you will learn: Be prepared for the requirement of 21st century leaders to build strong and resilient teams and organisations. Learn personal leadership development strategies and techniques to build capacity in others.
Value for your workplace: Create a strong foundation for your team and organisation.
Communicating for Results
What you will learn: Adapt to the changing workplace with the skills for communicating direction and vision as a leader using key communication elements and strategies.
Value for your workplace: Hold courageous conversations and maintain successful relationships.
Leading for High Performance
What you will learn: As a leader, you need the tools and techniques to build a performance culture to meet today’s global business demands so your team can achieve the next level of excellence.
Value for your workplace: Inspire others to achieve more.
Leader as Coach
What you will learn: Develop the best of contemporary coaching conversation practices to build the capability of your team and your organisation.
Value for your workplace: Develop a systems perspective of leadership development and organisational life, and understand the role of reflective practice and action learning in promoting growth and learning at an individual, group and organisational level.
Leading Teams and Managing Stakeholders
Implement effective strategies for enterprise talent management, build resilient teams, and learn to enhance stakeholder relationships.
Managing Stakeholder Relationships
What you will learn: Mitigate risk, align business goals and achieve the best outcomes for everyone with a strategic approach to your engagement with your stakeholders.
Value for your workplace: Lead your organisation to successful stakeholder relationships.
Leading for High Performance
What you will learn: As a leader, you need the tools and techniques to build a performance culture to meet today’s global business demands so your team can achieve the next level of excellence.
Value for your workplace: Inspire others to achieve more.
Leader as Coach
What you will learn: Develop the best of contemporary coaching conversation practices to build the capability of your team and your organisation.
Value for your workplace: Develop a systems perspective of leadership development and organisational life, and understand the role of reflective practice and action learning in promoting growth and learning at an individual, group and organisational level.
Leading Policy and Strategic Initiatives
Cover all aspects of complex project management, learn to manage risks and implement organisational initiatives in your workplace.
Leading Strategic Initiatives
What you will learn: As a leader, you need the tools and techniques to successfully lead major change projects and new organisational initiatives in your workplace. Enhance your leadership skills so you can face the challenges associated with change.
Value for your workplace: Lead change projects and new initiatives with strategic vision.
Managing Strategic Risk
What you will learn: Develop the knowledge and techniques to effectively manage risk in a complex project using systems thinking and risk analytics for better decision making and better outcomes.
Value for your workplace: Cover all aspects of complex project management with the tools to manage risks.
Managing Sourcing and Contracting
What you will learn: This course guides you through the common types of sourcing and contracting arrangements in complex projects and some of the key issues in structuring contracts so you can influence successful outcomes for your organisation.
Value for your workplace: Build your contracting capability.
Leading Innovation and Change
Develop an innovation and initiative toolkit that enables you to deliver real change through measured action.
Communicating for Results
What you will learn: Adapt to the changing workplace with the skills for communicating direction and vision as a leader using key communication elements and strategies.
Value for your workplace: Hold courageous conversations and maintain successful relationships.
Leading Strategic Initiatives
What you will learn: As a leader, you need the tools and techniques to successfully lead major change projects and new organisational initiatives in your workplace. Enhance your leadership skills so you can face the challenges associated with change.
Value for your workplace: Lead change projects and new initiatives with strategic vision.
Actioning Strategic Innovation
What you will learn: How do you action innovative change in your workplace? Build your innovation toolkit to design, develop and implement initiatives in your organisation and build the capacity for innovation in others.
Value for your workplace: Build an innovation toolkit to create value for your organisation.
Leading in the Public Sector
Fast-track your knowledge and understanding of government structures and processes, for strategic public sector advancement.
Managing Sourcing and Contracting
What you will learn: This course guides you through the common types of sourcing and contracting arrangements in complex projects and some of the key issues in structuring contracts so you can influence successful outcomes for your organisation.
Value for your workplace: Build your contracting capability.
Leading in the Government Context
What you will learn: Public sector managers need to understand the context within which they operate to achieve the best outcomes. Learn to deliver public value through reform and critically analyse current frameworks to create value for your department.
Value for your workplace: Fast-track your understanding of government structures and processes.
Stewarding Public Funds
What you will learn: Develop the right financial capabilities to make informed financial decisions. Learn to assess the financial health of projects and initiatives to achieve better outcomes for your organisation.
Value for your workplace: Strategically manage your organisation’s funds for better outcomes.
Leading in Complexity
Develop systems thinking skills and master data analysis to face complex, multi-faceted business problems, today and tomorrow.
Systems Thinking for Leaders
What you will learn: Develop systems thinking skills that enable leaders and managers to work with others on the complex, multi-faceted business problems of today and tomorrow.
Value for your workplace: Equip leaders and managers with a foundational knowledge related to systems methodologies as well as a toolkit of models and thinking frames.
Managing Sourcing and Contracting
What you will learn: This course guides you through the common types of sourcing and contracting arrangements in complex projects and some of the key issues in structuring contracts so you can influence successful outcomes for your organisation.
Value for your workplace: Build your contracting capability.
Enterprise leadership for your organisation
Enterprise Leadership Modules deliver many measurable outcomes for organisations. These include helping to build leadership capability, techniques for solving complex problems, raising staff engagement, building trust, increasing staff retention, and more. We can design and deliver tailored, in-house learning solutions for groups of employees or a particular division of your organisation, to help you achieve your specific business objectives.
Join a growing community of leading Australian organisations creating results-driven learning solutions with QUT, in industries including government, financial and professional services, health and community, construction and mining, retail, education, agribusiness, and more.
To learn more about corporate packages, or get started as an organisation, click below.
How it works
Flexibility is the key. You can choose to complete as many modules as you like, with each one targeting the areas most relevant to your own workplace context. Choose whichever modules or topics you feel will lead you to the promotion or career advancement you are seeking.
Learning is delivered in an interactive, facilitator-led, blended environment combining face-to-face workshops, workplace challenges, and online learning. This means you can build your knowledge while growing your professional network and applying your learnings in the real-world.
Each module can also be supplemented with an optional Credential unit, giving you a pathway to a Graduate Certificate in Business, an MBA, or an Executive MBA.
To find out more see the 2024 timetable here
* To attain this qualification, you must complete two CORE modules (Leading Self and Others; Actioning Strategic Innovation) plus any two ELECTIVE modules.
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Enhance your real world experience and career potential.
“My study has been really helpful to come up with solutions to some of those problems that we’re facing….(to) find ways to adapt and really move forward.”Meg Purtell,
ABC Radio news producer/presenter and lifelong learner -
Just keep on learning.
“The key thing I took away from the course is (that) strategy is about focus. What is your business going to focus on? That was the key insight for me going through the program.”Ryan McKergow,
Enterprise Leadership -
Future-proof and invest in yourself.
“This study has enabled me to get to the next step in my career and stand out from others when applying for new positions.”Esther Murphy,
Enterprise Leadership, Graduate Certificate in Business and MBA -
A steppingstone to future learning.
“The program appealed to me because the subjects are provided in two parts – an award module and active learning module. This set-up provided me with an opportunity to ease back into study, and gave me with a steppingstone to future learning … maybe even a masters!”Kristen Walker,
Enterprise Leadership, Graduate Certificate in Business
What the Leadership Program can do for you
Expand your skills and knowledge
Our carefully constructed Professional Development Modules are designed to deliver potent, strategic, and easily-consumed learnings to build your knowledge and skills. Investigate real-world case studies and scenarios under the watchful eye of expert educators and amongst a cohort of like-minded go-getters.
Flexible learning online or in person
Enjoy a wide range of interactive online and downloadable content, including video lectures, live polls, and more. Interact with your peers and educators through class-wide forums that encourage original thinking and problem-solving. Learn what it takes to drive transformative change in your organisation through internal and external insights, and leadership frameworks.
Professional pathways to certificates or MBA
QUT’s Enterprise Leadership Professional Development Modules can act as your first step towards higher qualifications. Each module has the option of being completed with an additional credential unit. This provides you with the accreditation needed to go towards the completion of a Graduate Certificate in Business, an MBA, or an Executive MBA. A credential is an online award extension unit, equal to 12 credit points.