Micro Credentials

Leadership: Empowering and Engaging the Team — Micro Credential

  • NQS Areas
  • 4
    Area 4Staffing arrangements
  • 6
    Area 6Collaborative partnerships with families and communities
  • 7
    Area 7Governance and leadership

Build your leadership confidence and empower your team to help you navigate the many challenges of an ECEC environment.

Course overview
Enrolment information
What you'll learn
What's included
Hours of study
Digital certificate
Multiple enrolment requirements
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Course overview

Would you like to build your leadership confidence and empower your team to help you navigate the many challenges of an ECEC environment?

Being in a leadership role can be incredibly rewarding, but it can also feel lonely and thankless at times. Many people are thrust into a position of leadership without any formal training or mentoring support and have little time to undertake further studies to boost their skills. As a result, leaders can spend many hours resolving problems within teams instead of focusing on quality outcomes for children.

Our Leadership — Empowering and Engaging the Team Micro Credential provides the perfect way for ECEC leaders to boost their leadership skills and confidence while studying at a time and pace that fits within their schedule.

Suitable for directors and early childhood teachers | NQS areas 4, 6, 7 

Enrolment information

After purchase, the student will be enrolled in our dedicated online learning hub. 

*Please remember to add a unique email address for each enrolment.

Note: On weekdays, enrolment will take up to 24 hours to process. Micro credentials purchased after 12pm on Fridays, or over a weekend, will receive their invitation to log in on Monday of the following week. 

Please choose carefully as we do not offer a refund if you change your mind or find yourself unable to take part - read our Terms & Conditions for further information. 

What you'll learn
  • Different leadership styles and how leadership differs from management
  • How to develop emotional intelligence in yourself and your team
  • Key strategies to empower the team
  • How to engage your team in the vision, philosophy and goals of the service
  • How to communicate successfully with different types of people
  • How to set up and run effective staff meetings
  • Why it’s important to undertake self-performance evaluation and how to successfully evaluate your team
  • Different personality styles and how to provide environments to suit different team members
  • The principles of cohesion and how we can build a cohesive team

The successful completion of this CELA Micro Credential will enable leaders in early education and care to build their own leadership skills and understand how to empower and engage their team through a range of tools and techniques.

What's included

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8 workshops

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28 videos

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5 templates

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10 quizzes

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4 activities

This course is organised into the following chapters:   

  • Introduction: Leadership — Empowering and Engaging the Team
  • Workshop 1: Leadership Styles
  • Workshop 2: Key Strategies of Leadership to Empower the Team
  • Workshop 3: Educational Philosophies
  • Workshop 4: Communication
  • Workshop 5: Effective Staff Meetings
  • Workshop 6: Self-Performance Evaluation
  • Workshop 7: Personality Styles and Team Cohesion
  • Workshop 8: Team Cohesion
Hours of study

How many hours of study are suggested?

This course will take around 5.5 hours of study.  

You have one year from the date of enrolment to complete this course. 

Digital certificate

You will receive a digital certificate on completion.

  • A unique email address is required for login, enrollment and certification upon successful completion of the micro credential.
  • Educators must successfully complete the quizzes embedded in workshops in order to gain their certificate.
  • You have one year from the date of enrolment to complete this micro credential.
  • Please choose carefully as we do not offer a refund if you change your mind or find yourself unable to take part - read our Terms & Conditions for further information. 

Multiple enrolments

Are you planning to purchase this course for multiple members of your service or organisation?

During the booking process, you must provide a unique email address for each attendee, service or staff member you are enrolling. This is required for login, enrolment and certification purposes once the micro-credential is completed.

Please note that a shared or generic service email address cannot be used for multiple participants. Each individual must have their own unique email address.

Your facilitator

Christine Irwin

Christine Irwin

Christine has over 30 years of experience in the early education sector. She held leadership positions in a range of ECEC services before moving into the tertiary sector as a teacher of children's services at TAFE.   Christine has a Bachelor of Teaching in Early Childhood and is passionate about coaching and mentoring educators. She possesses an in-depth knowledge of legislation and compliance, as well as expertise around leadership, early childhood development, pedagogy and practice.

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NQS Areas:

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