Professional Practice Credentials – recognising your on-the-job experience, coaching and workplace capabilities.
The next part of your Leading Transformation journey brings together your learning – on-the-job experience, coaching and program learning from your Action Learning Project – via the completion of Professional Practice Credentials.
MyState have selected credentials that will help empower, motivate and inspire you as a leader to respond to changes associated with MyState’s digital transformation.
Each of the four credentials – Leading and Developing People, Empowering Others, Adaptive Mindsets and Driving Strategic Results – will provide you with an opportunity to demonstrate your capability and experience. On completion of the leadership program, these credentials can be applied as credits to further university qualifications.
Keep reading to find out more about credentials and how they can help you in your career at MyState or if you’re ready to complete a credential, you can start now.
Deakin’s Professional Practice Credentials are a new form of assessing, recognising and uplifting your workplace capabilities. Credentials provide:
Formal recognition through Deakin University of your existing capabilities through your past and current on-the-job work experiences.
A blended reflective learning approach that leverages the 70:20:10 learning model
A simple online process for the completion of your credentials – you do not need to attend formal onsite classes or sit exams.
Expert assessment of your capabilities by university-verified assessors to provide independent validation and formalised feedback to further your professional development.
Why undertake credentials?
Deakin’s Professional Practice Credentials are a fast and efficient way of demonstrating and uplifting your capabilities to help you further the development of your career. The credentialing program will:
Strengthen your capabilities through the guided reflection of your existing skills, knowledge and your workplace experience, then improve your skills and knowledge through targeted activities to fill any capability gaps.
Provide credits to Deakin University eligible post-graduate courses
Showcase capabilities demonstrated throughout the nine-month Leading Transformation Program for Leadership Development at MyState.
Power of reflection
Reflection begins when you stop what you’re doing to focus on an event. Actively thinking about the experience, how you interacted with others and what you did, allows you to assess and determine the lesson learnt.
Reflecting on your experiences will help uncover insights about your capabilities, what you have achieved, and how you can improve the way of working for you and your team. It will also help you:
Get practical application of your learning to optimise your capability uplift.
Activate prior knowledge while drawing awareness to opportunities for improvements.
Build confidence in your own capability by reviewing what you have done and achieved in the workplace.
Your credential journey
Completed 100% online in your own time, and with the help you need every step of the way, the credentialling process couldn’t be simpler.
Reflect on your experiences and complete a diagnostic to determine to your credential level
Gather documents that of your capability to submit a reflective testimony and evidence of your skills
Answer a series of questions about existing skills and knowledge.
Have your submission assessed and receive your credential.
Credential portal: Complete and submit your reflective testimony
Your reflective testimony will be completed via Deakin’s custom-built credential platform which has templates, tips and reminders to guide you along. This is the opportunity to show how your have demonstrated the criteria and level of the credential, and how the evidence documents support your examples.
