This programme is suitable for psychology graduates, human resource professionals, corporate leaders, life coaches and trainers who will be able to use the skills acquired to influence government, business, education, and communities. We offer a wide selection of modules that allow you to tailor your learning to your career goals.

With the Postgraduate Diploma in Positive Organisational Psychology and Leadership, career pathways include working as a positive psychologist in government agencies such as the Army, as well as in human resource departments, schools, research and consulting firms, healthcare facilities and hospitals, and organisations that offer counselling services.

Industry applications include:

• Developing wellbeing policies and programmes in government agencies, educational institutions, companies, social enterprises and charity organisations
• Enhancing the clinical work of qualified clinical psychologists, counsellors and psychotherapists with positive psychology theories, research and applications
• Helping patients/clients discover ways to better understand themselves, develop better ways to cope with behavioural problems, reduce negative and unhealthy thought patterns, and build positive relationships at home and at work
• Applying the science of positive leadership, authentic leadership and strengths-based leadership to transform a business into a positive organisation and elevate your company to the next level
• Incorporating positive organisational behaviour theories to optimise human capital in the areas of talent management, recruitment strategies and employee engagement

• Optimising the potential of a group, community or institution

How can you optimise the effectiveness of your employees or training participants?

How does an individual’s belief system affect their personal motivation and how can we trigger a change in mindset to enhance intrinsic motivation?

How can we harness the collective intelligence of organisational members to encourage prosocial behaviours in the workplace?

These are some of the questions and topics that will be explored in the Positive Psychology Training and Consultancy module.

In this module, you will learn how to design, implement and evaluate various Positive Psychological Interventions (PPI) that can be used to elicit behavioural change, and gain a sound understanding of when to deploy a specific intervention in the context of your training and consultancy work.

You will critically assess the various PPIs; their skills, techniques and strategies, as well as identify the blind spots and weaknesses of each PPI. You will also learn how to determine the effectiveness, fit and relevance of each PPI in relation to your participants’ training objectives.

Learning methodology will cover both theoretical and practical tools for training around the concepts of happiness and emotions, through the use of the Hands-On-Thinking Method (HOTM) and research-based tools such as HEXTM Cards and Lego Serious Play to facilitate learning and creative collaboration.

In the course of this module, the relationship between time, wellbeing and performance will be discussed and operationalised for organisational excellence vis-à-vis empirical research on the psychology of time, time perspective and subjective time use. It will further equip learners with the skills to facilitate and sustain optimal performance in your training participants by helping them achieve work-life balance or time affluence.

Finally, the module will explore the interaction between our conscious and unconscious cognitive processes, including known barriers to implementing a successful change such as beliefs, mindset, low levels of self-regulation, and the complexity of the change process itself, and introduce participants to the theories and tools of attention-focusing, cognitive flexibility, and the concept of “nudge theory” in behavioural science.

How is the science behind quality social connections?

How can we enhance existing relationships and build new ones?

How is individual and collective wellbeing interrelated?

This module describes the science behind social connection and its goal. The first goal it to examine how we can use the research to improve the quality of our relationships, in the broadest sense of the term – not just family and friends, but also colleagues, neighbors, and strangers. This is not a course on love and marriage or our most intimate relationships; it is about the dozens of exchanges we encounter in our daily lives, whether in person or virtual.

The second goal is to examine the power of the situation in shaping our behavior. As social animals, we are highly influenced by immediate context, the larger culture, and the behavior and expectations of others.

The social side of our lives is rich. There is a wealth of research to discover. There are countless applications in our personal lives and in our professional lives. In presenting the science of social connection, the influence of the situation and how these two interact to yield countless possible applications.

Students will leave with an enriched understanding of the positive side of human social behavior, the potential it holds, and the potential each of us has to change it for the better.

How do we build the psychological capital of our employees and coachees to induce optimal performance?

How do we capitalise on their existing strengths and maximise their potential?

How do we successfully implement a change management programme to increase intrinsic motivation and engagement in the pursuit of individual and organisational goals?

This module is dedicated to optimising the performance and output of your employees or training/coaching clients through the deployment of science-based coaching methodologies and interventions.

In the study of Positive Psychology Coaching, traditional assumptions of human behaviour will be challenged as we critically explore the argument for strengths- rather than a deficiency-based approach to performance improvement.

This module will equip coaching practitioners with a tangible toolkit of skills to create, implement and sustain optimal performance by helping their coachees identify and harness their strengths while building upon their psychological capital.

It will introduce new positive psychology-based tools and models developed specifically for coaching practice, and discuss the various contexts in which to deploy existing Positive Psychology Interventions.

Learners will acquire the skills necessary to function as an effective change agent in the capacity of a manager, coach or mentor using leading-edge interventions based on the latest scientific research and discoveries. These include business-relevant skills such as strengths-development, and the application of goal theory and “hope diagnosis” to promote perseverance and develop courageous leadership skills.

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology (with bridging modules GPSY 02 Applied Positive Psychology and GPSY 05 Resilience Training for Practitioners), or

• A Bachelor’s Degree in any discipline (with bridging modules GPSY 02 Applied Positive Psychology and GPSY 05 Resilience Training for Practitioners) and working experience in:

  ○  a supervisory or leadership role, or
  ○  a Human Resource, Learning and Development or Organisational Development position, or
  ○  Healthcare, Allied Health, or Education industry

World-renowned authorities on the subject of positive psychology from Europe and North America will lead the programme in Singapore through intensive week-long masterclass seminars for each of the four modules, based on a schedule designed for adult learning.

Our professors will impart their leading edge expertise on positive organisational psychology including the latest research, industry experiences and evidence-based organisational leadership and coaching intervention tools. In between these face-to-face training sessions, self-directed study is recommended to build on your understanding of the concepts.