This unit improves communication skills through crafting and editing a wide range of print, online and visual texts. Communication techniques, structures, legal and ethical issues related to professional writing are developed. Students learn to evaluate, draft and revise a range of professional and technical communication using the principles of reader-centeredness, usability, and persuasiveness. This unit is for students from all disciplines to enhance communication across the range of academic, governmental, professional, industrial, corporate and public contexts.

This unit will equip students with the practical and theoretical skills necessary to give presentations in professional contexts. It encourages students to reflect on the ethical and critical development of persuasive techniques in professional writing and presentation, and it fosters critical analysis of their own work and the work of others. Students are encouraged to work collaboratively in professional contexts and engage with a variety of audiences. This unit is for students from all disciplines to conduct written or verbal delivery of persuasive communication.

The main purpose of instructional design is to create learning experiences that ensure participants are engaged and achieve the learning and performance objectives that have been established. In this course trainers, facilitators and learning designers will develop the skills in the application of the cognitive and motivational strategies that designers use to ensure that the learning experiences are memorable and impactful.

Summary of Learning: An understanding and skilful practice of cognitive and emotional empathy (including intercultural empathy) is essential to understand and improve human interpersonal relationships in the workplace, family and societal settings. This course will provide the participant with the ability to effectively apply empathy in these settings to assist in the development of group collaboration, creativity, problem solving, trust restoration and the identification and meeting of a variety of needs, as well application of cross organisational skills supporting interpersonal relationships The Learning Objective: 1. Develop an understanding of the meanings of and differences between cognitive and emotional empathy 2. Develop an understanding of the role and benefits of strong emotional and cognitive empathy in the development of interpersonal relationships in the workplace, families and society. 3. Develop the skills to effectively reflect upon and develop your personal levels of emotional and cognitive empathy in specific situations.

Summary of Learning: Discover how social, political and diplomatic environments have been disrupted and transformed by the power and influence of digital platforms. This course addresses how platforms have changed business models, political campaigns and international relations, as well as a deep exploration of the specifics of platforms and their audience and user cultures. It will examine the interplay between the media, society and power. The Learning Objective: 1. Develop an understanding of the specific ways that platforms have transformed media, social and political environments. 2. Develop an understanding of the specificity of social media platforms for content creation, distribution and user engagement. 3. Develop information literacy skills to understand the social, cultural, legal and ethical impacts of social media platforms and potential impacts and consequences for internal and external stakeholders.

Summary of Learning: This ‘holistic’ cyber security masterclass examines the ecosystem (internal and external to the organisation) and the impact on people, information, systems, processes, culture and physical surroundings. This course assumes no technical experience or competence in cyber security management and is aimed at professionals in digital-reliant organisations. It will aid participants to develop an understanding of potential organisational impacts from cyber-attacks and the relevant protective measures for your organisation. You will also gain the knowledge of an effective cyber security strategies for cyber security awareness and protection to deal with future cyber attacks. The Learning Objective: 1. Develop an understanding of the importance of cyber security to an organisation through a ‘sense-making’ approach across different organisational contexts; 2. Develop an understanding and skills to apply contemporary cyber security practices with respect to within organisational networks, as well as external supply chains and ecosystems.

Summary of Learning: This course provides the participant with the understanding of how to develop and sustain Communities of Practice (CoP) for the modern organisation with the aim of managing and supporting optimal knowledge exchange, collaboration and performance improvement. It examines the essential ingredients for developing strong engagement and exchange of knowledge including, content, curation, engagement and approaches to technology enablement. The Learning Objective: 1. Develop an understanding the value proposition for members of Communities of Practice through different approaches to community creation 2. Develop an understanding of the foundational elements for effective knowledge exchange, collaboration and learning through CoP 3. Develop an understanding of key strategies for developing and sustaining Communities of Practice

This course introduces participants to the foundations of robotics and computer vision. The unit introduces the technologies and methods used in the design and programming of modern intelligent robots, and encourages critical thinking about the use of robotic technologies in various applications. The objective of this course is to provide the understanding of the basic concepts and challenges in developing mobile robots that act autonomously in complex environments. The course introduces several types of robots such as wheeled robots, legged robots and drones. The Learning Objective: 1. Develop an understanding of the basic concepts of mobile robot development and application in both civilian and military applications. 2. Develop an understanding of the key technical elements required for robotics application such as locomotion and environment perception and motion planning 3. Develop an understanding realistic problems in robotics and computer vision at an introductory level.

Technological shifts, social change, uncertain economic conditions, and the emergence of new business models have created a highly competitive and dynamic business environment. In this new era, the effective management of change has become essential for sustained organisational success and has become an essential competency for professionals. In this course you will explore the complexities of change management, develop practical competencies in planning organisational change and the use of change management approaches.

This course provides participants with a comprehensive understanding of best practices in Performance Appraisal. It covers the performance Appraisal principles and techniques from the perspectives of both the organisation of the individual. It places the emphasis on the relationship between managers and the individual in order to meet the expectations of the organisation whilst building skills for the individual to have meaningful and realistic performance conversations.