$2,988.00

START DATE	Enquire now
MODE	Online
DURATION	7 wks
COMMITMENT	Avg 10 hrs p/w

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Become a creative, critical and strategic thinker with a short course designed to level up your analytical skills. This UTS Open microcredential will equip you with a structured approach to complex problem solving in the digital era, preparing you to add value in your current and future roles.

About this microcredential

Complex problem-solving has been identified as one of the top three future of work skills. This highly interactive microcredential will prepare you to become a structured thinker and planner who can design, develop and apply solutions to wicked challenges.

Under the guidance of world-leading academics in the UTS Business School, you’ll learn to use the transdisciplinary problem-solving tools and techniques employed by the world’s top management consultancies including McKinsey, BCG and Bain. You’ll explore the fundamental concepts of structured thinking and planning and the biases that impede effective decision making, gaining the skills to construct structured narratives that provide a blueprint for success.

By the end of the course, you’ll be ready to develop realistic and achievable solutions within any workplace environment.

Key benefits of this microcredential

In this microcredential you will:

Apply structured thinking and planning tools to identify challenges and create solutions
Enhance your research skills to critically assess different data types to gain in-depth insights relevant to specific challenges
Improve your problem-solving skills as you gain the tools for structured analysis
Construct and effectively communicate a strategic and persuasive argument for a specific audience.

This microcredential aligns with the 3 credit point subject, Structured Thinking and Planning (26844) in the Executive MBA

This microcredential may qualify for recognition of prior learning at this and other institutions.

Who should do this microcredential?

This microcredential is suitable for professionals across a wide range of industries with an interest in consulting, problem solving, analysis, persuasive communication, and critical and creative thinking, including:

leaders with an interest in operational and strategic planning and management
marketing and sales professionals seeking evidence-based decision-making skills to better serve their clients
entrepreneurs and start-up employees with an interest in effective data gathering and analysis
information technology professionals, product developers and product managers who want to create strong feedback loops between product users and improvement initiatives
other professionals looking to develop their consulting skills in order to address external or internal consulting needs.

Price

Full price: $2,988 (GST free)*

Special price: $2,391 (GST free)* Special price offer ends one month before the course commences.

*Price subject to change. Please check price at time of purchase.

Discounts are available for this course. For further details and to verify if you qualify, please check the Discounts section under Additional course information.

Enrolment conditions

Course purchase is subject to UTS Open Terms and Conditions.

COVID-19 response

UTS complies with latest Government health advice. Delivery of all courses complies with the UTS response to COVID-19.

Additional course information

Course outline

This course is structured into five modules. Each module includes self-study materials and facilitated online sessions

Module 1 – The nature of and need for structured thinking
Module 2 – The biases that affect problem solving and strategic communication
Module 3 – Tools for structured analysis and problem solving in the context of complex problems
Module 4 – Constructing structured narrative and implementation roadmap
Module 5 – Structured thinking and problem solving in the context of wicked problems

Course learning objectives

By the end of the course, you will be able to/This course is designed to provide you with

Critically evaluate the need for structured thinking
Construct and effectively communicate a strategic narrative
Assess situations to use structured thinking when solving complex issues

Assessment

Assessment task 1: Individual project plan (Individual) - Weighting: 40%
Assessment task: Students submit a project plan outlining the challenge they work on, the type of data they gather, a plan for how they analyse the data, and a project management plan with key milestones.

Length: up to 15 slides

Assessment Criteria:

Demonstrate skills to define complex challenges
Develop research and project management skills

Assessment task 2: Individual project (Individual) - Weighting: 60%

Assessment task: Students complete a project focused on analysing and developing a plan for addressing a complex challenge within their organizational environment. They submit a structured report outlining analysis, insights, and supporting evidence. The report is designed as a structured and persuasive pitch and presented via a short video.

Length: up to 30 slides, 3 min recorded video pitch

Assessment Criteria:

Demonstrates skills in structured analysis
Develops realistic and achievable course of action
Information is communicated effectively for specific audience

In order to pass this course, participants must complete both assessment tasks and achieve an overall mark of 50 and above (minimum Pass). The weighting for each assessment task is indicated in brackets.

Discounts

Discounts are available for this course as follows:

Bulk Enrolment Discount 5%
- 2-3 Enrolments in Business School Microcredentials (Same Person or Small Team)
UTS Alumni Discount 5%
Bulk Enrolment Discount – 3-4 Enrolments in Business School Microcredentials (Same Person or Small Team) 10%

Discounts cannot be combined and only one discount can be applied per person per course session. Discounts can only be applied to the full price. Discounts cannot be applied to any offered special price.

How to obtain your discount voucher code (UTS alumni)

Please contact the team at support@open.uts.edu.au with your student number to obtain your discount voucher code.

Contact information

For any questions on enrolment or payment, please email support@open.uts.edu.au 
If you have a specific question on course content or requirements, please email Business.Micros@uts.edu.au

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