University of New South Wales
Advancing Social Impact: Addressing Inequality and Disadvantage
- Delivery: Online
- Study Level: Beginner
- Duration: 3 weeks
- Course Type: Short Course
- Total Price: $1,755
Integrate social impact into your organisation to drive meaningful change.
Course overview
Understanding the economic and social context and being able to deliver social impact is important for all organisations across industries, governments and not-for-profits. Employees, clients, customers, regulators and investors are increasingly interested in how organisations can do more to address social issues. An understanding of social context and how to make a meaningful difference is becoming a key skill for professional and aspiring leaders across industries and sectors.
Key facts
What you will learn
Advancing social impact: addressing inequality and disadvantage provides insights into understanding the sources and consequences of economic and social disadvantage. It provides a framework for individuals and organisations to understand how this impacts their customers, employees and stakeholders and the strategies they can develop to solve these problems. If you are seeking to develop your understanding of what ESG really means or working towards integrating social impact into your organisations, this course is a great introduction.
Who should attend
- Government, corporate and not-for-profit policymakers, researchers and advocacy organisations.
- Executives in social impact or diversity, equity and inclusion teams and all staff working towards UN Sustainable Development Goals.
How you will learn
This course is delivered as a Virtual Learning Sprint over three weeks. The Action Learning Sprint combines self-paced digital learning with virtual workshops, knowledge-to-action tasks and social learning to develop ideas, skills and practical solutions for a variety of business problems.
Throughout the three-week learning sprint, you will participate in four live sessions facilitated by an industry expert. In these sessions, you’ll have the opportunity to work in groups and explore problems relevant to your own context. These sessions are complemented by self-paced interactive materials to prepare you for robust discussion, plus questions to prompt reflection on what matters most to you. Throughout the course, you’ll work on an action learning project based on a problem from your own work to immediately test out ideas on issues relevant to your role, team, or organisation.
You can include a coach or mentor from your own network to help you through this journey. Once you add your coach to the platform, they’ll get a coaching guide and insights into your progress to help you move through the course and contextualise materials to your own situation.