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Resilient Leadership (BUSA90516)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 6.25On Campus (Parkville)
About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
- Timetable(opens in new window)
Contact information
July
Melbourne Business School
T: +61 3 9349 8788
E: programs@mbs.edu
W: mbs.edu/education-development/execeducation/specialist
Overview
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Economic uncertainty on a global scale means today’s business environment is constantly evolving. Organisations face frequent setbacks and fresh challenges. Leaders are required to adapt rapidly to change, manage setbacks constructively and successfully handle adverse events.
Resilience is the ability to function at normal and healthy levels in the face of adversity. It is more than simply ‘bouncing back’, it is the capacity to maintain growth through hardships and emerge from challenges stronger than before.
Resilient Leadership equips you with practical tools and strategies for successfully guiding your organisation through difficult times. You will be able to recognise neurobiological responses to stress, understand how thoughts affect emotional reactions and develop key coping strategies for yourself and others.
Intended learning outcomes
On successful completion of this program, participants should be able to:
- Understand crucial factors in resilience for leadership
- Use specific tools to assist in the development of a challenge mindset
- Explain the effects of stress and understand appropriate behaviours and coping strategies.
- Explain how a team can employ strategies that increase human capital and enable them to tackle challenges constructively.
- Understand how to respond effectively to difficult leadership situations that make healthy attributions that promote emotionally competent responses.
- Develop some resilient behaviours necessary to lead a team
Generic skills
- Critical thinking and problem solving skills
- Self-reflection skills and emotional intelligence
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Assessment
Additional details
- 250 word Reflective diary completed toward the end of the second day (30 minutes); delegates to note down the two key ideas from the preceding two days that resonate most with their current challenges and to explain the reasons for these to a learning partner (with the partner to reciprocate). Due end of second day (10%).
- A 2000 word essay analysing an adverse life event and applying the learned concepts of resilience. Due four weeks after end of program (80%)
- 250 word Executive Summary that translates the key insights from the essay into a format that is compelling for board/executive-level colleagues. Due four weeks after end of program (10%).
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Dates & times
- April
Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 16 hours Total time commitment 85 hours Teaching period 2 April 2019 to 3 April 2019 Last self-enrol date 2 April 2019 Census date 12 April 2019 Last date to withdraw without fail 26 April 2019 Assessment period ends 2 May 2019 - July
Principal coordinator Jill Klein Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 16 hours Total time commitment 85 hours Teaching period 23 July 2019 to 24 July 2019 Last self-enrol date 23 July 2019 Census date 9 August 2019 Last date to withdraw without fail 9 August 2019 Assessment period ends 23 August 2019 July contact information
Melbourne Business School
T: +61 3 9349 8788
E: programs@mbs.edu
W: mbs.edu/education-development/execeducation/specialist
Time commitment details
85 hours.
Additional delivery details
This subject is a quota subject and places are limited. Students may provisionally enrol via the Student Portal, but places are not guaranteed until selection is completed. You will be notified in writing by the Student Centre if you are selected.
The students will be selected on the first come, first served basis. If any student is approaching the course completion date, s/he will get priority in enrolment.
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
A study guide with readings and cases will be provided before the commencement of the subject.
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Specialist Certificate in Leadership Course Specialist Certificate in Leadership (Professional Services) Course Specialist Certificate in Executive Leadership - Links to additional information
Last updated: 3 November 2022