Intro to Management & Leadership

Course Overview

Struggling to find the right balance between managing and leading? Acquiring fundamental management skills can help you successfully grow a business and its people.

The Intro to Management & Leadership micro-credential will equip you with essential skills and knowledge to navigate both roles effectively. Learn when to take a structured management approach and when to adopt a leadership mindset to drive teams and businesses forward.

Throughout this 7-week management course, you will explore key management fundamentals, leadership theories, decision-making techniques, and contemporary business challenges.

Gain practical insights into leadership communication, employee motivation, and information management systems—critical skills for making informed business decisions.

By the end of the course, you will be able to analyze leadership practices, apply decision-making models, and understand the key factors influencing business success or failure. Whether you’re stepping into a management role or looking to refine your leadership approach, this course will help you confidently lead teams and keep businesses on track.

Time commitment per week

An average of 10 – 13 hours weekly.

Is this course for you?

This course is for you if you are a manager or leader or aspiring to be one.

Dates

• Class of 2025 April: 7 April – 25 May
• Class of 2025 May: 12 May – 29 June
• Class of 2025 August: 11 August – 28 September
• Class of 2025 October: 6 October – 23 November

There are no online classes. Course content is released on a weekly basis allowing you to work through course material, and meet weekly targets, at a time that is most convenient to you.

Certification

Upon completion, you will receive a digital certificate of competence and badge. Your certificate and badge can be shared on 100+ social media platforms, allowing you to share your achievement with a single click.

Credential Type

The OpenLearning team has reviewed this course to ensure quality academic learning within the Malaysian and Australian credentialing framework.

An OpenLearning OpenCred is a type of credential that can stand-alone, or interact with a formal qualification. OpenCred courses are market-leading online courses that prepare learners for the future of work.

This course has been designed and developed by experts in the field of psychology. The Intro to Management and Leadership micro-credential is for anyone needing to upskill in this area and offers 80 hours of learning and assessment.

Learners study online with peers and receive robust academic content while acquiring practical industry-relevant skills.

OpenCreds

Completing this course leads to obtaining an OpenCred.

• 80 hours of learning
• OpenCred classification: Pathway

Stackable Credentials

Stack specified combinations of micro-credentials and they can be recognised as equivalent to a module within the Bachelor of Applied Social Science Degree at SACAP.

Intro to Management & Leadership can be stacked with Foundations of Business Management: Global Trends & Organisational Functions, and if you meet the minimum entrance criteria, you can enrol for the Bachelor of Applied Social Science Degree and apply for module exemption.

What You’ll Need

• Access to Microsoft Word
• Google Chrome (recommended)
• Stable internet connection

What You’ll Learn

Over the course of seven (7) weeks, through videos, readings and discussions, you will explore the following topics:

Week 1: General management

Week 2: Leadership theories and organisational power and politics

Week 3: Leadership communication and employee motivation

Week 4: Managing information systems

Week 5: Managerial decision-making

Week 6: The drivers of business success and failure

Week 7: Undertake a summative assessment that captures all the key learning outcomes for this course.

Course Outcomes

By the end of this course you will be able to:

• Discuss the role and operational functions of a general manager.
• Explore leadership theories to discuss effective leadership practices.
• Discuss information management and evaluation in decision making.
• Apply decision-making techniques and models.
• Describe factors leading to the success or failure of businesses.

You will have also created a portfolio of evidence, which you can use to demonstrate your knowledge of understanding of the core principles that inform the way managers function and lead their teams successfully.

The Team

Our short course developers and assessors are expert practitioners. They have been selected for the breadth and depth of experience in their respective disciplines. The team loves sharing their knowledge and online learning expertise to help you get the most out of your learning journey.