Macquarie University
Adapting: Career Development Specialization
Macquarie University

Adapting: Career Development Specialization

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Associate Professor Paul Nesbit
Professor Fei Guo
Dr Alena Soboleva

Instructors: Associate Professor Paul Nesbit

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Specialization - 4 course series

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  • Critically evaluate the process of self-directed personal change and apply it to an area of leadership development.

  • Understand the drivers of stress and strategies to enhance your resilience in dealing with stress.

  • Evaluate career management issues and design a career path that fits personal values, interests, personality, and skills.

  • Critically evaluate the nature of cultural intelligence and apply strategies to develop your cultural sensitivity in managing diversity.

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2 months at 10 hours a week
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Specialization - 4 course series

Build personal resilience

Course 117 hours4.8 (1,505 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Critically evaluate the nature of work stress and approaches to manage stress

  • Reflect on personal sources of stress in the extent of personal resilience

  • Apply strategies and skills for enhancing resilience to a variety of situations when managing yourself and others

Cultural intelligence: Become a global citizen

Course 218 hours4.7 (155 ratings)

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Career planning: Your career, your life

Course 318 hours4.8 (204 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Evaluate current career management issues and their implications on your professional career plans and development.

  • Create strategies and approaches to set new career vision, goals and action plans.

  • Apply knowledge of career models and tools for successful career planning and management.

  • Design a career path that fits personal values, interests, personality, and skills.

Professional development: Improve yourself, always

Course 417 hours4.8 (808 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Critically evaluate the nature of the self-development process

  • Apply skills of self-reflection to enhance self-awareness of development insights about your leadership styles

  • Apply skills of self-reflection to enhance self-awareness of development insights about your abilities and challenges as leaders

  • Apply the self-development process to an area of a personal leadership skill challenge

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Associate Professor Paul Nesbit
Macquarie University
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