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MBA Micro: Design Thinking

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SKU
SC-177-T
Put people at the centre of design

Group pricing available.

Learn how to apply design thinking as a leadership tool to solve complex challenges, drive innovation, and create user-centred solutions that deliver real impact.

Duration
Tailored to your needs
Mode
Blended
Microcredential
$1,500.00

Why this course?

What your team will walk away with:

  • A clear understanding of design thinking and how to apply it in practice
  • Tools for empathising with users and reframing problems effectively

  • Skills in user observation, interviewing, and empathy mapping to uncover deep insights.

  • Tools for ideation, affinity mapping, low-fidelity prototyping, and customer testing

  • Confidence to lead teams through innovation processes that deliver feasible, viable, and desirable solutions.

 Benefits for your organisation:

  • Solutions that are better aligned with user needs and business goals
  • Faster, lower-risk innovation cycles
  • Stronger collaboration across functions through a shared approach
  • A more customer-focused, agile and innovative culture.

Course content

You’ll examine core topics including:

  • The benefits of design thinking for leaders

  • The value of empathising with users

  • Collaborating with users to define and prove the problem

  • Co-designing solutions with users 

  • Designing and testing prototypes

  • The three lenses of innovation: desirability, feasibility and viability.

Expect a mix of theory, case studies, practical tools and reflection. You’ll apply storytelling techniques, leadership models, and systems thinking to real-world challenges and finish with a clear strategy for leading sustainable change in your own context.

You'll learn

  • How to apply the Double Diamond framework to leadership and innovation

  • How to reframe challenges as opportunities through user empathy and observation

  • Practical approaches to prototyping, testing, and iterating user-centred solutions

  • Strategies for fostering creativity, collaboration, and continuous improvement in teams

  • Techniques for measuring impact and embedding design thinking as a cultural practice.

 On successful completion of this course, you will be awarded a digital credential and earn 5 credit points that can be accumulated with any two other MBA Micro courses to stack into unspecified credit towards an elective subject in the Master of Business Administration (if you're enrolled in that degree).

The learning experience

 This course offers flexible delivery options to suit your organisation’s needs. Whether you prefer an in-person workshop with our expert facilitators at your premises, or interactive online sessions your team can join from anywhere, we can tailor the format to maximise engagement and effectiveness.  We understand that every organisation has unique requirements, and we’re committed to providing a seamless learning experience.

Choose the delivery method that best fits your team’s schedules and learning preferences, ensuring they develop the resilience and adaptability needed to lead confidently through change and uncertainty.

 

Find out more.

Want to find out more about how this workshop can benefit you or your team?

Get in touch today and we’ll help you explore the right leadership learning pathway for your goals.
Email us :  latrobeprofessional@latrobe.edu.au

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I have paid the fee for a short course. When will I be able to access it?  

On completion of your registration, you'll be provided with an account on our Learning Management System (LMS) and the course material will be made available at the advertised date, or as outlined on your registration confirmation email.  For our on-demand courses, access will be immediate.

What payment options are there?

  • You may arrange to pay by BPAY or EFT
  • For group bookings, we encourage purchase orders.  Contact us for a quote, and upon receipt of your purchase order we can make the course available to you.
  • Unfortunately, we are not able to arrange instalment payments.

Contact us on LaTrobeProfessional@latrobe.edu.au for assistance. 

Can I arrange payment with a Purchase Order?

Yes, we accept Purchase Orders. Please email to LaTrobeProfessional@latrobe.edu.au and our La Trobe Professional team will provide you with payment details and access to your course. 

I am getting an error when I try to log into my LMS account. Can you help? 

  • The first thing to check is your order confirmation email - it will contain your Learning Management System (LMS) account and password.  Note that this account may not be the same as your staff, student or previous short course participant account. 
  • The second thing to check is that you're logging on as a short course participant and not as a student - choose 'Other Users' - select Short Course as your institution and use your account and password as provided.

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I want to enrol multiple staff in a short course. How do I go about this? 

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What certification will I receive?

The type of certification depends on the assessment involved in the course. For example:

  • Microcredentials:  You will receive a digital credential that confirms the skills you’ve acquired, any assessments you’ve completed and potential pathways for credit or advanced standing towards a degree. 
  • Other assessed short courses:  This may include bridging programs or courses that prepare you for external certification from a professional body.  You might receive a certificate of achievement or a digital badge (a digital version of a certificate of achievement).
  • Non-assessed courses:  If a course doesn’t involve formal assessment, you’ll receive a certificate of attendance.
  • Single-subject enrolment: If you enrol in a single subject, you will receive an official transcript for that subject.

Please note that short courses or microcredentials are not formal qualifications under the Australian Qualifications Framework but may be eligible for consideration as advanced standing (credit) towards a degree.

What is a microcredential? 

Microcredentials are short courses that are assessed, carry academic credit, and to deliver specific skills or knowledge.  While they can be taken as standalone courses, many are designed to be combined or ‘stacked’ with other microcredentials to form the equivalent of a subject within a degree program.  Upon successful completion, you’ll earn a digital credential that outlines the skills and credit obtained, and any opportunities for stacking.

For La Trobe microcredentials, any advanced standing or stacking pathways are clearly expressed on the course page.   

What is advanced standing?

Advanced standing refers to credit for prior study or formal learning that can be credited towards a qualification, thereby reducing the number of subjects required to complete a course. For short courses or microcredentials (if these have been completed through recognised institutions or platforms and are deemed equivalent to La Trobe University subjects), credit may be granted either for specific La Trobe subjects or as unspecified credit towards elective requirements of a La Trobe course.

For La Trobe microcredentials, any advanced standing or stacking pathways are clearly expressed on the course page.   Upon successful completion of the course, you’ll receive a digital credential, which may be used when applying for credit for the relevant degree at La Trobe.

For more details, visit the University’s advanced standing web page.