To purchase this micro-credential

Visit the website Leadership and Stages of Business Development and complete the following steps:

  1. Go to “How to Apply” 
  2. Add this micro-credential (and others) to a shopping cart 🛒 
  3. Login or establish your account if you don’t already have one

Micro-credential Summary:

This online micro-credential will outline the business growth cycle, also called the Sigmoid Curve or the S-curve. The stages along the S-curve are development, introduction, growth, maturity and decline. You will learn about the characteristics of the organisations in each of these stages and explore what leadership means for each stage. In addition, Verne Harnish’s Scaling Up (2014) and Peter Senge’s The Fifth Discipline (1990) will be explored and you will learn how these can apply to businesses along the S-curve. Case studies from great business leaders will be provided to consolidate these concepts.

This online micro-credential provides a non-creditable micro-credential and digital badge which can be shared to your social networks and displayed in your professional portfolio.


Learning Outcomes:  

  1. Identify methods to improve team and individual performances using measures of effective performance
  2. Describe each of the stages of the business growth cycle
  3. Outline what leadership means for each stage of the business growth cycle.

Assessment:  Online Quiz

Fee: $153

Duration:  17 hours

CPD Hours:  17 hours

Intakes:  Enrolments are taken throughout the year on a continuous basis.

Study Mode:  Online

Outcomes, Career Opportunities and Occupations:

This micro-credential provides Professional Development for Business Professionals.

Undertaking this micro-credential enables students to meet their Continuing Professional Development obligations and industry update requirements in their profession. Upon successful completion of the micro-credential, students will be awarded Continuing Professional Development (CPD) hours, a non-creditable micro-credential (Digital Badge) and a Certificate of Completion.

Course Enquiries:  CPD-Enquiries@cqu.edu.au

To purchase this micro-credential

Visit the website Leadership and Disruption and complete the following steps:

  1. Go to “How to Apply” 
  2. Add this micro-credential (and others) to a shopping cart 🛒 
  3. Login or establish your account if you don’t already have one

Micro-credential Summary:

This online micro-credential will introduce you to the issue of disruption and how it affects 21st century business practices and leadership strategies. You will investigate the two-sided nature of disruption, that is, the way that it can act as both a productive and negative force. You will also review examples of business practices and leadership strategies that exhibit both the positive and negative aspects of disruption.

This online micro-credential provides a non-creditable micro-credential and digital badge which can be shared to your social networks and displayed in your professional portfolio.


Learning Outcomes:  

  1. Outline what the concept of ‘disruption’ means in the context of a business setting
  2. Identify the two-sided nature of disruption as both a productive and negative force
  3. Review examples of business practices and leadership strategies that exhibit both the positive and negative aspects of disruption.

Assessment:  Online Quiz

Fee: $153

Duration:  17 hours

CPD Hours:  17 hours

Intakes:  Enrolments are taken throughout the year on a continuous basis.

Study Mode:  Online

Outcomes, Career Opportunities and Occupations:

Undertaking this micro-credential enables students to meet their Continuing Professional Development obligations and industry update requirements in their profession. Upon successful completion of the micro-credential, students will be awarded Continuing Professional Development (CPD) hours, a non-creditable micro-credential (Digital Badge) and a Certificate of Completion.

Course Enquiries:  CPD-Enquiries@cqu.edu.au