Build core leadership skills
Gain practical coaching and feedback
Create a career impact action plan
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A transformative program designed for new and emerging leaders. Develop the skills to lead teams effectively, communicate with authenticity and align personal aspirations with organisational strategy. Includes personalised coaching and real time feedback to accelerate growth.
Who will benefit
Course is suitable for
This course empowers emerging leaders to step confidently into leadership roles. Through a dynamic mix of coaching, experiential learning and communication practice, you’ll develop the mindset, behaviours and practical tools to lead high performing teams and influence with impact.
Gain clarity on the leadership mindset and build the confidence to lead teams and drive impact in your organisation.
Learn communication, feedback and motivation techniques essential for effective team leadership.
Align team culture with strategic goals and build a roadmap for success using proven frameworks.
Get tailored feedback through 360 assessments and coaching to accelerate your growth.
Comprehensive feedback tools and experienced coach-led debriefs help you identify growth areas and strengthen impact.
Hands on learning with reflection, group discussion and peer coaching to apply insights in real time.
Master tools to communicate vision, manage crucial conversations and motivate high performing teams.
Conclude with a personal development plan backed by frameworks like the 4Ds and ACT Model.
Equip yourself with a practical leadership toolkit designed to deliver lasting impact. Through expert coaching, proven communication strategies and high-performance frameworks, you’ll build the confidence and capability to lead effectively, inspire your team and drive meaningful results.
You'll discover how to coach and lead high-performing teams, build confidence in your leadership approach, adapt to change with resilience and communicate with clarity and impact. You'll also apply practical frameworks to boost team effectiveness and drive your own leadership growth.
Course delivery
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This course is delivered across four full days.
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- Successfully navigating leadership transitions - Contemporary challenges in management and leadership |
- Models of team effectiveness - Understanding your strengths and styles in the team (Team Management Profile debrief) |
- Wellbeing at work - Specific strategies for supporting wellbeing and performance at work – for self and team |
- Strategic leadership for growth change and innovation - Influence and leading change - Communicating for change - practice |
- What it takes to learn leadership - The critical role of feedback - 360 feedback debrief |
- Strategic leadership - What’s your role in strategy? - Setting clear and compelling direction – practice |
- Leadership challenge activity – practicing being effective leaders, followers, team members with real leadership scenario | - Small group coaching session 2 – communication practice, peer feedback and clarifying action plans |
| - Leadership communication – authenticity, presence and impact | - Strategic stakeholder management - Network analysis - Crucial conversations - practice |
- Leadership challenge activity debrief - Leader as coach - Practicing coaching skills |
- Putting it all together - Developing your own best operating rhythm and reflective practice |
| - Leadership communication - practice | - Small group coaching session 1 – addressing specific individual development areas | - 5D’s of Effective Management – Direction, Do, Dump, Delegate, Develop - Authentic leadership – clarifying your leadership values and motivations |
- Personal development action planning - Group close and celebration |
By completing this course, you will receive a verifiable digital badge issued by AGSM, certifying your achievement.
The Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM) will formally recognise your commitment to professional development and lifelong learning with the Certificate in Executive Management and Development (CEMD). The CEMD is a flexible program that allows you to build your leadership capabilities through stackable learning.
A CEMD is a unique pathway to future study that can directly contribute to accelerating the attainment of an AGSM MBA or Graduate Certificate if you choose to embark on this journey in the future. Each time you complete a short course with the AGSM, we’ll award you with CEMD points. CEMD points can be collected and stacked together to create a unique professional development pathway that works for you and your specific career goals.
Once you collect 12 points over a period of up to 4 years you will be awarded the CEMD. The CEMD is a specialised credential and can contribute to 2 course credits towards our AGSM MBA and Graduate Certificate qualifications.
This flexible model supports continuous learning and creates a recognised pathway from short courses to postgraduate qualifications at UNSW's AGSM.
Next steps
Enrol now in Emerging Leader Program via the AGSM Navigator portal.
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