Future Management Skills
Overview
This unit aims to provide students with an opportunity to reflect on and develop skills in individual career development and management, as well as more broadly developing organisational capability as an executive or employer who shapes their world. Through simulation or real world experience the student will have the opportunity to develop critical transferrable skills such as communication, critical thinking, basic consulting and research skills, and broad managerial skills, to enhance their power to influence others and to engage meaningfully in diverse existing and emerging work environments.
Requisites
01-June-2025
02-November-2025
Learning outcomes
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
- Demonstrate advanced knowledge of managerial skills including the future of work
- Critically analyse and extend theories for organisational capability development
- Communicate effectively to positively impact personal and team outcomes
- Reflect on and learn from past experience to articulate and implement their professional purpose
- Articulate and demonstrate how advanced digital literacy capabilities can be used to further their career
Teaching methods
Hawthorn
| Type | Hours per week | Number of weeks | Total (number of hours) |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-campus Class | 2.00 | 12 weeks | 24 |
| Online Lecture | 1.00 | 12 weeks | 12 |
| Unspecified Activities Independent Learning | 9.50 | 12 weeks | 114 |
| TOTAL | 150 |
Assessment
| Type | Task | Weighting | ULO's |
|---|---|---|---|
| Assignment | Individual | 20 - 30% | 1,2,3 |
| Portfolio | Individual | 30 - 50% | 1,2,3,4,5 |
| Presentation and Report | Group | 30 - 40% | 1,2,3,4 |
Content
- Professional purpose: personal and business goals, personal branding, reflective writing
- Professional experience: creating value adding outcomes by articulating and shaping business goals and team dynamics,
- Getting others to commit - Negotiation and conflict management
- Sensitivity to the working context: Workplace culture and business ethics
- Aligning and developing personal and organisational capability
- Understanding and harnessing the power of change
- Influencing others through leadership and powerful communication
- Using technology and social media to create individual presence and achieve career outcomes
- Networking, mentoring and the importance of connections and social capital
- Preparing and adapting for future Industrial Revolutions
- Harnessing the drivers behind new technology emergence
Study resources
Reading materials
A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.