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Online Microcredential in Business & Management
Change Tools
Build your knowledge, practical skills, and use of tools to manage or lead workplace change
Duration
6 weeksCost
$1,014
Influence and guide workplace change
This stackable short course (microcredential) enables you to understand workplace change issues, create a plan that is realistic and achievable, and use appropriate tools for managing and contributing to the change process.
What you’ll learn
In this stackable short course (microcredential), you’ll:
- Select and apply a range of change tools based on an understanding of a situation, and the role and purpose of each tool.
- Plan how to facilitate change across an organisation using appropriate communication principles, channels, and messaging for stakeholders.
- Create a basic change management plan that considers different types of change, identifies key change roles, and sets realistic expectations and achievable goals.
How you’re assessed
Produce a plan for a specific change project in your own workplace (or a selected workplace agreed with the educator) including selecting appropriate tools, a roadmap with a timeframe for your change and other required components.
Document your plan either in a business report (2500 words), PowerPoint slides (maximum 30 slides with detailed notes) or self-recorded video (20–25 minutes).
Co-designed with industry
This industry-led stackable short course is co-designed with Gilbert Kruidenier from Kruidenier Consultancy. Together, we’ve designed a course where you’ll gain skills that you can apply immediately in your workplace.
Stackable or standalone
This microcredential can be completed to receive a standalone credential or stacked together with related stackable microcredentials to build towards a full postgraduate Deakin degree later.
What skills will you learn?
- Utilise change principles
- Create change plan
- Develop change visualisation
- Select change tools
- Apply change tools
- Manage stakeholder communication
- Manage change process
- Measure change
What you will achieve
By the end of the microcredential, you’ll be able to...
- Distinguish fundamental change tools, which can be applied within organisations.
- Create a basic change management plan that considers different types of change, identifies key change roles and sets realistic expectations and achievable goals.
- Select and apply a range of change tools based on an understanding of a situation, and the role and purpose of each tool.
- Create a basic communications plan that raises organisational change awareness through effective use of channels and messaging to stakeholders.
- Educate others in change principles, engage with and influence stakeholders, and visualise the change across various audiences.
Are you eligible for this microcredential?
To be successful we recommend you are proficient in English and have a minimum of an undergraduate degree in a related field or significant work experience.
This microcredential is available ‘on demand’, as such it is open in 6 week learning periods. Learners can commence at any time and complete in a minimum 6 weeks, or maximum 6 month period. The opportunity to join live sessions and assessment windows are provided regularly to ensure all learners receive the same level of support.
Is this microcredential right for you?
This microcredential is designed for managers and leaders responsible for bringing about change in organisations – whether to roles, systems, cultures, ways of working or processes.
This microcredential can be stacked together with related Deakin stackable short courses (micro-credentials) to build towards full postgraduate Deakin degrees:
- Graduate Certificate of Business Administration
- Master of Business Administration
To claim credit towards a degree at Deakin University, you must pass the assessment and meet all entry requirements relevant for the course you’re applying
Syllabus
What happens before, during, and after your microcredential
Before learning
You’ll have access to the welcome area to introduce yourself and familiarise yourself with the microcredential structure and course materials.
Course
From 29 Nov 2021
Change Tools
Discover practical and proven tools for addressing a variety of change management scenarios in the workplace.
6 weeks
10 hours per week
After learning
You’ll receive a statement of completion from FutureLearn and digital certificate from Deakin University.
What you will receive
0.5 Deakin Credit Points at Postgraduate level from Deakin University
You’ll receive a digital Credly badge worth 0.5 postgraduate level credits. With these credits, you can build towards a degree from Deakin University.
Find out how credits work and where you can use them in our FAQs.
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Additional benefits
Complete your course within 6 weeks, including the assessment, or take extra time and use the regular assessment submission windows to complete within 20–26 weeks of your enrolment.
What is a microcredential?
Microcredentials are designed to upskill you for work in rapidly-growing industries, without the time and cost commitment of a full degree. Your microcredential can stand alone as an independent credential, and some also offer academic credit to use towards a degree.
Learn online with expert instructors
Complete online courses led by experts over multiple weeks with a dedicated group of professionals.
Complete project-based assessments
Test your understanding with online tutor-marked assessments and exercises.
Earn a professional credential
Finish your learning and pass your assessments to gain an accredited credential.
Advance further in your career
Use your microcredential as evidence of your specialised skills and progress further in your industry.
Career-focused learning by Deakin University
Deakin University is one of Australia’s largest universities with more than 61,000 students and over 15,000 online.
Established
1974Location
Melbourne, AustraliaWorld ranking
Top 280Source: QS World University Rankings 2021
Delivered by experts
Gilbert is a change management consultant who enjoys building capability and mindsets for change and communication that give people and organisations confidence in uncertain times.
Learning on FutureLearn
Your learning, your rules
- Courses are split into weeks, activities, and steps to help you keep track of your learning
- Learn through a mix of bite-sized videos, long- and short-form articles, audio, and practical activities
- Stay motivated by using the Progress page to keep track of your step completion and assessment scores
Join a global classroom
- Experience the power of social learning, and get inspired by an international network of learners
- Share ideas with your peers and course educators on every step of the course
- Join the conversation by reading, @ing, liking, bookmarking, and replying to comments from others
Map your progress
- As you work through the course, use notifications and the Progress page to guide your learning
- Whenever you’re ready, mark each step as complete, you’re in control
- Complete 90% of course steps and all of the assessments to earn your certificate
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When would you like to start?
We aim to run our microcredentials every few months. Join on the date that suits you or register to hear about future runs and updates.
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FAQ
We can accept payments made by card (Visa, Mastercard and American Express) or PayPal via our online system.
You will have 14 days from the day the course starts to apply for a refund. If this Microcredential has any non-refundable costs they will be stated in the ‘Overview’ section above. You can find more information in our cancellation and refund policy.
Microcredentials are designed to fit around your life and timezone.
There may be live events as part of your studies, but these will be recorded and can be watched afterwards if you aren’t online for the live broadcast.
No, microcredentials are designed to be taken anywhere in the world. You won’t need the right to study in the country where the university offering the microcredential is based.
This microcredential can be stacked together with related Deakin stackable short courses (micro-credentials)
- Foundations of Innovation
- Innovation and Organisational Change
- Innovation and Leadership
- Innovation and Ideation
- Design Thinking
- Managing your Message
- Beyond Compliance
- Being Board Savvy
- Digital Transformation Leadership
- Project Management
- Work and Wellbeing
To build towards full postgraduate Deakin degrees:
- Graduate Certificate of Business Administration
- Master of Business Administration
This microcredential has been developed by Deakin University at an AQF9 (Masters level) standard and provides Credit into a range of degrees.
As there is no standard for credit in Australia, at Deakin University this credential equates to half a point of academic credit, equal to half a unit of postgraduate study.
Want to know more? Read the microcredential FAQs, or contact us.