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Resilient Leadership (BUSA90516)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 6.25Not available in 2024
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: 30 January 2024
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: 30 January 2024
Assessment
| Description | Timing | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
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
| Day 2 | 10% |
An essay analysing an adverse life event and applying the learned concepts of resilience
| 4 Weeks after the end of teaching | 80% |
Executive Summary that translates the key insights from the essay into a format that is compelling for board/executive-level colleagues
| 4 Weeks after the end of teaching | 10% |
Last updated: 30 January 2024
Dates & times
Not available in 2024
Time commitment details
85 hours.
Last updated: 30 January 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
A study guide with readings and cases will be provided before the commencement of the subject.
- Links to additional information
Last updated: 30 January 2024