Program Overview

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Centre for Continuing Education

The Centre for Continuing Education at the University of Sydney offers a diverse range of professional development short courses. These courses are designed to enhance career prospects and provide opportunities for personal growth.

Course Subjects

The Centre offers courses in various subjects, including:

• Business and management
  • Business communication
  • Business strategy
  • Business writing
  • Cultural competence and diversity
  • Finance
  • Leadership
  • Management
  • Organisational psychology
  • Sales and customer service
• English
• HSC preparation (years 10-12)
  • HSC biology
  • HSC business studies
  • HSC chemistry
  • HSC economics
  • HSC English
  • HSC mathematics
  • HSC physics
  • Year 11 (Revision)
  • Years 10-12 study and essay skills
• Humanities and culture
  • Creative writing
  • Music
  • Philosophy
  • Psychology
• Information technology
  • Adobe
  • AI and machine learning courses
  • Data analysis and analytics
  • Google
  • Microsoft
• Language
  • Arabic
  • Brazilian Portuguese
  • Chinese
  • French
  • German
  • Greek
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Spanish
• Marketing
  • Digital marketing
  • Marketing communications
  • Product development
• Project management
  • Agile methodology courses
  • Change management for projects
  • Stakeholder and people management
  • Technical project management skills

Leadership Strategy for Organisational Transformation Course

This two-day course is designed to empower leaders to explore their leadership strengths and discover how to leverage them to drive commercial growth, customer-centricity, team performance, innovation, and change.

Course Details

• Duration: 2 sessions, 16 hours total
• Next date: 24 February 2026
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• Next class mode: Face-to-face (venue TBA)
• Cost: A$1,170.00 - A$1,270.00

Course Information

Being a leader that drives growth in today's complex world requires a clear sense of purpose, self-awareness, strategic thinking, and a human-centred approach to innovation and change. This course aims to:

• Explore your leadership strengths and understand how these can be applied to inspire and motivate others
• Develop a range of leadership skills that are particularly helpful in driving commercial growth and positive change in organisations
• Identify a range of tools and approaches that can be used to develop a compelling and robust growth strategy that is centred on the needs of customers and partners
• Explore the theories and frameworks required to develop an effective change plan that ensures the necessary support and engagement from all key stakeholders

Outcomes

By the end of this course, you should be able to:

• Develop a deeper understanding of your leadership strengths and how these can be used to drive growth and build high-performing teams
• Use a range of strategy tools to inspire new thinking and create a compelling growth and customer-centred strategy
• Understand the success factors that enabled growth in a range of different organisations
• Build your understanding of human-centred design approaches and how they can help drive innovation and growth through a focus on the customer and other key stakeholders
• Develop your change leadership capability through an exploration of leadership models and relevant case studies
• Develop a robust change plan that enables you to secure the necessary engagement and support from all key stakeholders

Content

The course covers the following topics:

• Exploring your leadership strengths
• Developing a compelling growth strategy
• Developing human-centred solutions and cultures
• Building change leadership capability to facilitate growth
• Developing and executing a robust change plan

Intended Audience

This course is suitable for leaders seeking to build their leadership capability in a changing market context. It is equally valuable for individuals in both the private sector and the public sector, as well as those in purpose-driven organisations who aspire to lead in a manner that drives positive change and effective engagement among customers, partners, and employees.

Delivery Style

Coursework consists of a combination of mini-lectures, interactive experiences, and practical exercises. These exercises include collaborative group work based on case studies.

Delivery Mode

The course is delivered face-to-face over two days.

Materials

All course materials are provided electronically (via Dropbox).

Organisational Training

For groups of six or more, courses can be delivered to your team with the option to tailor content.

Related Courses

• A Toolkit for New Managers Course
• Business Storytelling Course: Presenting and Communicating with Impact
• Emotional Intelligence Course
• Leadership Course
• Leadership Course: Leading Self, Others and Teams
• Performance Management Course: Enhancing Team Success
• Team Managers and Leaders Course: Essential Skills
• Women in Leadership Course: Foundation Skills

Meet the Facilitators

• Trena Blair
• Lindley Edwards

What Others Say

The Leadership Strategy for Organisational Change course was fantastic. The frameworks and tools were practical, the real-life examples were insightful and thoughtful, and the tutor was knowledgeable and generous with her discussion. I have actionable learnings that I can apply to my career.

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