What is the Graduate Certificate in Executive Leadership?
The Graduate Certificate in Executive Leadership (GCELead) allows you to combine any four courses (within the GCELead program list) to create a qualification that will meet your leadership development needs as well as addressing your organisation's strategic imperatives.
Features and benefits of studying at UQ Business School Downtown
This premier UQ Business School location is in the heart of the Brisbane CBD and is equipped with state-of-the-art teaching and learning facilities. The Graduate Certificate in Executive Leadership (GCELead) provides a space in today's fast-paced business environment in which to reflect on your own leadership style, engage with your peers, and critically review a range of management issues.
Guaranteed quality
UQ Business School's accreditation with the peak bodies in management education (EQUIS accreditation) is your guarantee of quality. UQBS was the first school in Australia to earn both accreditations and must continue to meet high standards and a rigorous peer review regime to retain accreditation.
Accelerated delivery
Our Executive Education programs are designed for intensive delivery over four and a half days in a single week. This format enhances learning and minimises the impact on your work. Proven, effective learning model
Our learning model is highly participatory using a mix of guest speakers, case studies, team work, simulations, presentations, experiential learning, and site visits to give you a fresh perspective on contemporary leadership issues. Courses are structured to help you develop knowledge and skills that can be applied immediately in your own organisation.
Convenient location
Executive Education programs are taught in a convenient citycentre location with wireless internet, laptop-friendly desks, and sophisticated audio-visual facilities.
Who should undertake the Graduate Certificate in Executive Leadership?
The Graduate Certificate in Executive Leadership is designed for managers looking for ways to enhance their content knowledge and skills in key areas of contemporary leadership. Whilst it is desirable to hold a tertiary/bachelor's degree, appropriate management experience may allow non-graduate entry.
Program structure
The range of Executive Education courses available allows you to select the content areas that will most benefit your organisation
strategically.
Courses are taught by some of the best-qualified academics in the country alongside industry experts. UQ Business School's
research and consulting record ensures the freshest insights on contemporary and emerging issues.
Organisations are invited to customise a program of professional development tailored towards their needs by selecting any four
courses from the following indicative list:
Valuing Human Capital
This course will equip participants with the ability to generate high impact changes in attitudes, beliefs and behaviours among strategic leaders. It will allow participants to integrate their role with the strategic needs of the organisation, linking content with context and applying it to the workplace.
The Leadership Challenge
This course is designed to enhance your personal leadership style and to support your leadership journey. Participants will re-examine how strong leaders build culture and align it with strategy to effectively transform organisations.
Strategy in Action
This course will equip participants with the ability to prepare their organisation for turbulence, strengthening the link between strategy and the business model. It will allow participants to develop and implement high impact changes in the workplace which link futures thinking with strategy as a way of providing clear direction and purpose for their organisation.
Strategic Marketing and Communication
This course will enable managers to adopt a strategic approach to marketing and implement successful marketing strategies. The course focuses on application of marketing theory to practice employing concepts and strategies relevant to today's business world.
Learning Organisations
This course will enhance your understanding of the learning organisation, and how to build and sustain cultures that support discovery and renewal. In a highly integrated way, the course provides participants with the latest thinking about how we can promote cultures where people connect and build upon each other's ideas to benefit individuals, teams and organisations.
Negotiating Skills for Today
This course will enable managers to understand the principled model of negotiation and to communicate more effectively in transactions. Designed to introduce models and theories of business communication and negotiation, this course focuses on the practise and application of specific negotiating skills in conflict resolution.
Corporate Sustainability
This course will enable managers to understand the challenges and opportunities that exist for business by designing a strategic approach to sustainability. The course will explore key issues such as the impact climate change and emissions trading will have on corporate strategy, analysing the business case for corporate sustainability.
Innovation Leadership
The purpose of this course is to equip managers with the skills necessary to lead innovation for sustainable competitive advantage. The course is based on international best practice in innovation leadership and presents an integrated framework from leading edge strategic management and innovation ideas.
Making Financial Management Work
This course covers core concepts essential for effective corporate financial decision-making. In doing so, the course examines the principal decisions confronting the financial manager of a firm, namely the acquisition and utilisation of funds for profit, and adding value to the firm.
Accounting in a Governance Framework
This course provides managers with an effective model of Accounting and Governance for effective decision making. It involves compiling & interpreting financial information about an enterprise & its activities as a basis for strategic decision-making.
Special Topics in Contemporary Leadership
It is possible to create or modify a course to suit an organisation's own professional development needs, and to custom build a program to reflect the needs and interests of each individual business.
UQBS Staff
Professor Tim Brailsford
Professor Tim Brailsford - Tim is Professor of Finance and Foundation Head of the UQ Business School. His interests include corporate & investment valuation and investments & funds management.
Professor Victor Callan
Victor is Professor of Management at UQ Business School and Leader of the Management Cluster. His interests include organisational change and leadership.
Associate Professor Andrew Griffiths
Andrew is an Associate Professor at UQ Business School. His interests include the impact of climate change on business strategy and managing corporate sustainability change.
Dr Jason Hall
Jason is a Lecturer in Finance at UQ Business School. His interests are corporate & investment and valuation & investments and funds management.
Mr Tim Kastelle
Tim is a Lecturer in Innovation Management at UQ Business School. His interests include applying evolutionary economics to the management of firms.
Professor Peter Liesch
Peter is Professor of International Business at UQ Business School and Leader of the Strategy cluster. His interests include firm internationalisation.
Mr Jim Nyland
Jim is the Director of Executive Education at the UQ Business School. His interests include organisational learning and managing change in higher education.
Dr Polly Parker
Polly is Director of the MBA at UQ Business School and a Senior Lecturer. Her interests include HRM/Leadership, organisational dynamics and managing change.
Dr Neil Paulsen
Neil is a Senior Lecturer in Management at UQ Business School. His research interests are inter-group perspectives on organisational dynamics & change, leadership and innovation.
Dr John Steen
John is a Lecturer in Strategy at UQ Business School. His interests include innovation strategy & leadership & firm internationalisation.
Dr Bob Westwood
Bob is Reader in Organisation Studies at the UQBS. His interests include the dynamics of change, organisational power and politics and the management of creativity and innovation.
Professor Ken Wiltshire
Ken is the J. D. Story Professor of Public Administration in the UQ Business School. His interests include firm internationalisation.
Adjunct Professor
Dr John Cole
John is the Assistant Director General, Environmental Protection Agency, Queensland, responsible for its non-regulatory Divisions.
Industry Fellows
Mr Phillip Keslake
Phillip has been a Partner in Raeburn Keslake International since 1983. His practitioner experience includes 20 years of international consulting at the highest level.
Mr Greg Latemore
Greg is the Founder of GL Latemore & Associates Pty Ltd. He is an organisational and management consultant with over 25 years of consulting experience.
Ms Tessa Raeburn
Tessa was recently the Director of a blue chip, multinational company with specific responsibility, as HR Director, for setting global HR strategy.
Visiting Academic
Professor Marie Wilson
Marie is Professor of Management and Head of Management and International Business at The University of Auckland Business School.
Special Contributors
Mr David Burrell
David is the Founder of LDKS Consulting having previously held positions as senior HR Director, Strategy setting and Leadership roles in Australasia, Latin America, Asia and Europe.
Mr Kevin Hendry
Kevin is the Director of StratBoard and has extensive experience as a strategy and governance consultant, and senior manager in several countries in the Asia Pacific.
Enrolment
Duration: 0.5 years full-time
Up to 3 years part-time
Note: Successful completion of the Graduate Certificate in Executive Leadership may allow you to articulate to other UQ Business School programs including the Master of Business or MBA program.
Entry requirements
Bachelor's degree in any field (with an overall GPA equal / above 4.0 on a 7 point scale) or at least seven years of relevant work experience.
How to apply
Download the application form "Application for Postgraduate Coursework" and forward to the Manager, Student Administration, UQ Business School, The University of Queensland, St Lucia QLD 4072.
Supporting documentation is required for all applications. Please ensure that you have included this information when you submit your application.
Due dates
Semester One applications close 31 January
Semester Two applications close 30 June
Fees
For information on fees go to the fees calculator at http://www.uq.edu.au/study/.
Note: All tuition fees are reviewed on an annual basis and may be subject to change.
Credit and exemption
Applicants may request credit or exemption for prior studies. Rules on credits and exemptions are set out in the UQ Business School Postgraduate Handbook.
Course Brochure
For more information please download the course brochure (PDF).
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