Graduate Certificate in Leading Resilient Enterprises

Unit 1: Systemic and Complexity Thinking and Practices

• Understanding methodologies and approaches in systemics
• Exploring complex issues through systemic processes
• Systemic thinking to enhance enterprise resilience
• Engaging diverse perspectives in management
• Designing a systemic intervention
• Promoting participatory leadership in issues of change and development

Unit 2: Innovation for Sustainability

• Unlocking innovation potential
• Experience-based vs. information-based decision making
• The sustainability and resilience connection
• Becoming an internal change agent
• Creating entrepreneurship and creative thinking
• Explore vs. exploit
• Management system design
• Stakeholder engagement strategies
• Optimisation of operations
• Moving from ‘responsive’ to ‘innovative’
• The importance of the finish line

Unit 3: Sustainable Leadership

• Paradigms of leadership
• The sustainable leadership pyramid
• A long-term perspective on enterprise
• People-centric leadership behaviours
• Workforce engagement
• Collective leadership and devolved decision making
• Enabling culture
• Knowledge retention and sharing
• Continuous people development
• Practical ethics
• Considered organisational change
• Vision and values

Unit 4: Strategy for Resilience

• Applying frameworks for the development of strategies
• Enhancing enterprise resilience through stakeholder engagement and cross-sector partnerships
• Exploring strategic resilience options between opportunity and risk
• Applying broader concepts of systemic thinking
• Crafting flexible long-term resilience plans and scenarios
• Mastering an enterprise resilience problem – the intellectual process