THE LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT VIRTUAL ACADEMY

The Virtual Academy is another Knowledge Exchange™ testbed established by The Institute for Working Futures Pty. Ltd. (Working Futures™).  You can access free and commercial courses associated with a competency, career pathway (job role), or qualification. Competencies may be national competencies, behavioural competencies or capabilities, and/or occupational or other skill attributes.  

The Virtual Academy has a current focus on promoting competency development in three Leadership and Management fields:

• General leadership and management
• Learning (Training and HRD)
• Transport and Logistics

YOU DRIVE HOW CONTENT, LEARNING AND RECOGNITION WILL OCCUR

The Virtual Academy is neither a training provider nor a broker.  The Leadership and Management Virtual Academy ensures learning and assessment is driven by your needs. Whether an individual, an enterprise or industry body you can use our tools to complete a needs analysis and identify skill gaps.

All learning needs will be recorded in an individual’s Development Plan. Any and all units (modules and competencies) in the package can credit against national qualifications. As learning or recognition occurs it will be tracked and then recoded in your Skillspassport. You manage the addition of other records and who can view your profile.

At all times you may opt to access content associated with learning and knowledge, or for recognising competencies already held. Free online content has been made available wherever possible.  Other content can be accessed commercially on a fee per person or licensing arrangement. Where you believe you have a competency and want it to credit towards a formal qualification it is possible to access recognition of prior learning/competency (RPL) tool.

If you know what competencies you want and seek immediate access to content, go to our “content’ area.

If you are unsure of your needs as an individual go to the “Development Plan” area, or as an enterprise or group go to our “Training Needs Analysis” area.

ABOUT THE LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT VIRTUAL ACADEMY

Without highly skilled leaders our national economies and businesses cannot thrive, prosper and continue to add value.  The need to fill leadership skill gaps is recognised across the globe. 

Current investment is being made into training and developing leaders and managers to fill the skill needs. Yet it is patchy both in terms of coverage, business benefits and relevance to performance.  More importantly it is marked by an inability to access specific learning needs on demand, as required, in any location, at any time.

The Leadership and Management Virtual Academy is positioned to compliment the wider mosaic of existing educational providers while focusing on packaging learning to the competency, skill or behavioural needs of an individual, business, job, region, or industry.  All learning can link to a qualification or credential while still being packaged across occupations, levels of qualification or courses.

This Virtual Academy can be configured and branded to be your organisation’s solution. Instead of investing in complex and costly learning technology and systems the Virtual Academy can be cloned to your needs.  This can usually be organised in 24 hours. Imagine an e-learning site configured with your content and brand without the usual hassles and expense.