Training

The Certificate II in Indigenous Leadership is an introduction to leadership models and styles and how these impact on the community, with a key focus on developing personal, professional and community leadership.

This 3-day workshop provides unaccredited training in Aboriginal cultural heritage management. This training workshop provides essential practical skills and builds on the community's existing knowledge base.

Training Services NSW has created the Aboriginal Initiatives unit to manage a number of programs. These programs focus on providing workplace mentoring, improving access to employment and training and creating business opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

This qualification reflects the role of individuals who apply specialised knowledge and skills, together with experience in leadership and management, across a range of enterprise and industry contexts. Individuals at this level use initiative and judgement to plan and implement a range of leadership and management functions, with accountability for personal and team outcomes within broad parameters.

AICD offers a range of courses designed for the professional development of company directors. Courses topics such as governance, finance and strategy and risks and are of varying lengths, including short intensive courses, residential courses, webinars and e-learning options.

Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education, in partnership with Charles Darwin University (CDU), has offered the following courses in Applied Social Science: Diploma of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Knowledges (YATSI1); Bachelor of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Advocacy (BATSIA); Associate Degree of Applied Social Science (XASSO1), Bachelor of Applied Social Science (WASSO1).

This qualification is suitable for individuals working as board members, contact officers and senior staff within Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations. It also applies to public servants working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander boards of governance.

This qualification can provide skills that will enable you to provide support for the effective functioning of a business in a range of industry areas.

IBA offers an online learning course to assist Indigenous entrepreneurs to progress their ideas for business at their own pace. All the materials are provided via IBA’s online Learning Place platform, so participants can easily access them from anywhere with internet access.

Business SA offers courses to promote and enhance organisational capacity and personal capacities in the business world.

This qualification is suited to those working as administrators and project officers. In this role, individuals use well developed skills and a broad knowledge base to apply solutions to a defined range of unpredictable problems and analyse information from a variety of sources. 

Need help on managing your business, or want to get training? There are a number of free and low-cost webinars, events and online training packages available to help you.

Various federal and state government agencies and departments run training for small businesses. These are run by professionals working in the relevant fields. These workshops and webinars cover topics related to tax, record keeping and advertising.

CIT provides a range of training courses at various levels covering a wide range of topics including:

• Business and management
• Conservation and land management
• Community service

The Yurauna Centre is a dedicated Indigenous student support centre at CIT.

The Cape York Leaders Program supports the development of current and future Cape York leaders. The four phases of the Cape York Leaders Program are: academic, youth, skilling and excelling leaders.

The Centre for Community Welfare Training (CCWT) provides cost effective and accessible training opportunities for people working across the community welfare sector in NSW, in particular those working with vulnerable children, young people and families. 

In this program you will develop your language, numeracy, digital and learning skills to participate more fully in everyday life, further learning and work.

This course is for students who want to return to the workforce or study, increase their skill in workplace communication or are looking to change careers and would like to develop a career plan.

This program is designed for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people either wishing to enter or already working in the community services sector. 

This program is designed for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people either wishing to enter or already working in the area of community development.

This qualification reflects the varied roles of individuals across different industry sectors who apply a broad range of competencies using some discretion, judgment and relevant theoretical knowledge. They may provide technical advice and support to a team.