Graduate Certificate in Business Administration Online

Duration: 6 weeks 

Number of assessments: 3 

Course overview 

The types of challenges that business leaders face today need individuals, including ourselves, to change. Understanding yourself is therefore paramount.  

In this business subject, you will explore your leadership story, philosophy, and areas for improvement. Using a range of current development models, you will deepen your intellectual and emotional self-awareness to help you adapt your leadership style to motivate your entire team. Through reflecting on Harvard Business case studies and other coursework, you will gain the following, work-ready skills, including how to: 

• plan and structure tasks to direct staff 
• engage followers through knowledge of their diverse attributes and motivations 
• manage conflicts to resolve interpersonal problems 
• foster ongoing productive business relationships  
• problem solve and make sound business decisions   
• sustain innovation and production 
• influence multiple stakeholders. 

We will empower you with the skills to assess, evaluate and critically examine leadership approaches that are appropriate to your unique work context and environment, be it person centric, transactional or complex. 

Learning outcomes  

Upon completion of this business course, you will be able to: 

1. critique paradigms of business leadership and management, to address the major organisational challenges in complex and entrepreneurial organisations 

2. evaluate the capacity of a range of leadership models to mobilise people in a changing or innovative environment 

3. critically evaluate the range of communication skills required to effectively lead and manage a diverse workforce 

4. create an action plan for your leadership skill development that includes critical reflection of personal preferences. 

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Duration: 6 weeks 

Number of assessments: 3 

Course overview  

Organisations, economies and societies can’t be prosperous without sound financial literacy. The purpose of this business certificate course is to improve your financial management skills so you can better assess the financial performance of an organisation.  

You will be introduced to the language and key concepts of accounting including:    

• time value of money  
• capital budgeting 
• risk-return paradigm 
• financing capital expenditure. 

You will also grow your hands-on knowledge of balance sheets, cash flow reports, measuring changes in equity and earnings statements.

Learning outcomes 

Upon completion of this business certificate course, you will be able to: 

1. integrate ethical, compliance, and governance obligations of managers in organisations to contextualise managerial roles and responsibilities 

2. investigate the nature and application of the four principal financial statements (i.e. the income statement, statement of financial position, statement of cash flows and statement of changes in equity) to inform managerial decision-making within a business

3. interpret quantitative and qualitative data to assess the financial performance and position of an organisation 

4. prepare budgets to make decisions about planning, controlling and directing activities 

5. apply recognised evaluation methodologies to make capital investment decisions. 

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Duration: 6 weeks 

Number of assessments: 3 

Course overview 

Generating revenue, no matter the source or sector, requires marketing. This course offers an introduction to the purpose, nature and roles of the marketing discipline and how it applies to managers. This business course will equip you with the skills to: 

• evaluate markets 
• uncover consumer and buyer behaviour 
• target specific business opportunities  
• build, manage and measure brand equity   
• plan a marketing mix 
• keep adjacent functions customer orientated. 

In being able to ‘think in marketing terms’, you will be empowered to make better business decisions, adapt to the organisation’s approach to meet objectives and understand its contribution to an enterprise’s activity. You will also learn how to authentically connect with customers in the value exchange that is doing business.  

Learning outcomes  

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:  

1. use appropriate marketing frameworks to analyse the performance and current situation of an enterprise to assist in decision making 

2. examine marketing practices and relevant data to formulate strategic recommendations to improve enterprise performance   

3. evaluate information related to enterprise performance critically to synthesise new knowledge to guide management decisions  

4. critique marketing strategies and communicate issues and problems using relevant theories, concepts and methods.   

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Duration: 6 weeks 

Number of assessments: 3 

Course overview 

An entrepreneurial mindset is now essential for more than just those in the start-up sector. This course will enable you to cultivate and evaluate profitable opportunities, no matter the business setting. The aim of this course is to empower you with the entrepreneurial attitude and skill set, such as: 

• the ability to recognise highly profitable opportunities or emerging business trends 
• generate creative business ideas  
• spearhead a new venture  
• fluid and adaptive decision-making skills 
• the agility to experiment and problem solve 
• the resilience to navigate ambiguity and uncertainty 
• establishing risk tolerance and mitigation 
• embody LEAN principals 
• a strong bias to action. 

The course content will address how these skills can be applied in business as well as community and social settings.  
 

Learning outcomes  

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to: 

1. evaluate the core concepts and theory of the nature of enterprise and entrepreneurship 

2. investigate the various forms and models of entrepreneurship as a process 

3. develop an entrepreneurial mindset considering the influencing factors 

4. integrate innovation as an entrepreneurial process for projects and proposals 

5. investigate the factors that drive opportunity in the entrepreneurial process 

6. critically assess the viability and goals of entrepreneurial projects and proposals. 

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