Leadership and Management Practice (full award)

LJMU's Leadership and Management programme supports career progression for managers or those with ambitions to take up a management role.

The MSc in Leadership & Management Practice takes you on a personal leadership discovery of concepts and theories to help you understand your own position in relation to your organisational context and leadership journey: it puts you at the centre of your learning experience. It is a part-time 30-month programme.

The programme has a strong emphasis on recognising that the workplace is an important place to learn. The modules cover a variety of contemporary leadership topics within different areas of a business that open your eyes to new ways of working, help to build self-awareness and confidence in your leadership decisions. You will develop the ability to think critically about traditional, current, and future leadership theories & practices within your organisation, the impact this can have on others and ways in which practice can be improved. Thought leadership will also be employed on the programme, fostering intellectual skills, and addressing the ever-changing nature of leadership and management in the real world.

The programme is personalised to individuals and customised for businesses so that they can apply the necessary management practices to ensure that:

learners make an immediate impact in their job.

skills are practiced and knowledge applied.

time away from work is kept to a minimum with learning happening in the workplace.

Who is it for?

LJMU's Leadership and Management programme has been designed with the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) to meet employer-training needs for middle managers and leaders. It supports career progression for early to mid- career managers or those with ambitions in leader and leadership development from a personal, professional, or organisational perspective.

Benefits:

A personal leadership journey.

Aids management career progression.

CMI designed course with Charter Mark recognition.

Job focused leadership theory and skills.

Offers an alternative leadership and management development programme to the MBA, focusing on personal practice and development rather than strategic & operational focus.

Part-Time, Block Taught delivery to support your development alongside your current role.

Benefit from teaching informed by business research & local business needs.

Expand your professional network and learn alongside local senior leaders and managers.

Highly qualified & experienced teaching team.

Specialised Masterclasses from business leaders.

Transform your professional practice and enhance career progression prospects.

All students and alumni benefit from membership of Liverpool Leadership Network.

What our learners say?

“The effect of my newly acquired knowledge of aspects of leadership theory has created a greater confidence in my own abilities.”

“I believe my experience on the course has been key in gaining my recent promotion”.

“This course has changed the way I view leadership. I am much more reflective, and I look for the evidence before making decisions”.

“I am a much different manager now. My tutors, my peers, and my own research have changed my world view”.