Online Course – Google Certified Professional Specialization in Human Resource Management and Certified Professional Specialization in Leadership, Macquarie University

Prepare yourself for the future of work. Our guide guides individuals and organizations to adapt, compete, and succeed in a complex global environment.

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Professional Certificate

Intermediate level

No prior knowledge required

Time to complete the course

7-day free trial

No unnecessary risks

Skills you will acquire in the course

  • Be a flexible leader
  • Motivate your team to do meaningful work
  • Empower the organization to meet strategic goals
  • Utilize team diversity and improve collaboration
  • Strengthen personal leadership skills
  • Develop and evaluate strategies for dealing with leadership and organizational challenges

What you will learn in the course

Courses for which the course is suitable

  • Team Manager
  • Project Manager
  • Human Resources Manager
  • Strategic Manager
  • Leader in the organization
  • Organizational consultant
  • Change Manager
  • Organizational Development Manager
  • Collaboration Manager
  • Training and Development Manager

Internship – a four-part course series

Become a flexible leader, ready to face the challenges of the changing workplace. This specialization will equip you with the skills to lead and navigate in an ever-changing global environment.

Courses

  • Motivate your team in meaningful work (be a meaning creator)
  • Empower your organization to meet its strategic goals (Know your organization)
  • Take advantage of your team’s diversity and improve collaboration (know your people)
  • Strengthen your personal leadership skills (adapt your leadership style)

Hands-on Learning Project

In each module, you will explore how organization science can help solve real-world leadership and organizational challenges. You will learn to develop and evaluate strategies that can help ensure that you, your people, and your organization can adapt, compete, and succeed.

Details of the courses that make up the specialization

Organizational Design: Get to Know Your Organization

Course 1
19 hours
4.9 (1,611 ratings)

What you’ll learn

  • Define the key organizational capabilities required for a company’s positioning strategy as a basis for leading the organization.
  • Assess the degree of alignment between core capabilities and organizational architecture
  • Identify the organizational mismatch issues that a leader needs to prioritize
  • Develop and present concrete recommendations for organizational change

Skills you will gain

  • Value chain
  • Organizational Leadership
  • Change planning
  • Organizational coordination

Organizational Behavior: Know Your Employees

Course 2
19 hours
4.8 (1,398 ratings)

What you’ll learn

  • Explain how people can compete on a variety of attributes
  • Analyze the implications of diversity in jobs
  • Explain the driving characteristics of work and apply them to job design
  • Analyze the role of team dynamics in performance evaluation

Skills you will gain

  • motivation
  • Diversity and inclusion
  • communication
  • Human Resources (HR)

Adjust your leadership style

Course 3
31 hours
4.8 (936 ratings)

What you’ll learn

  • Critically evaluate the similarities and differences between leadership theories
  • Examine the complexities and challenges that may require changes in leadership styles
  • Analyze how collaborative leadership forms may enable or inhibit collaboration

Skills you will gain

  • communication
  • Employee management
  • Leadership development

Reinforcement Leadership, Identity, and Motivation: Become Meaningful Receivers

Course 4
29 hours
4.8 (799 ratings)

What you’ll learn

  • Evaluate approaches to impact and creating meaning at work
  • Evaluate and implement approaches to creating meaning at work
  • To situate discussions about meaning-making within broader social contexts

Skills you will gain

  • motivation
  • communication
  • leadership
  • Branding management