Leadership and Management (Top-Up)

The course focusses on creating high-performing managers, capable of engaging in the critical reflection and continuing personal and professional development required for successful professional practice. WHO IS IT FOR? The course is designed for both experienced and early career managers and supervisors. KEY FEATURES The course aligns with the knowledge skills and behaviours required to create competent managers to address the sector demand.

Learners are challenged to reflect on their position and practice in relation to considering key issues in the modern workplace. Contemporary issues such as the impact of artificial intelligence and robotics on the workforce, and those of corporate social responsibility and sustainability are explored within the modules. Through applied assignments, learners' application of business and management philosophies and practices are examined and their decision making brought to the forefront to aid in high-level critical self-evaluation. These practices serve to instil and embed an understanding of responsible leadership and management, forming graduates who create inclusive prosperity and promote freedom, justice, and peace in regenerative and resilient ecosystems.

The programme is unique in design, using the competency framework to ensure that the programme focuses on skills and application of knowledge through practical experiences. Learners develop high level competencies relating to the discipline of business and management and transferable skills including communication, strategic thinking, decision making, problem solving which significantly develop the skills profiles of learners for employment.

The course is delivered one day per week online, with the expectation that learners supplement their learning by applying theory to practice within their workplace and undertake reflective practice alongside independent study.

The teaching and learning approach utilises active learning strategies, role plays and leadership simulations to enable students to gain experience.

The assessment strategy supports the development of competencies through application of knowledge to practical assessment activities.

This course is also available as an apprenticeship. Please see the Chartered Manager Degree Apprenticeship for further details.

Course and Career Progression

This provision focuses on the holistic development of learners, with the competency based, work-integrated model providing a co-ordinated and interrelated approach to theoretical and practical learning, integrating knowledge and competence.

In line with Subject Benchmark Statement 1.7 (QAA,2023), graduates will be “effective, impactful and responsible employees, work colleagues, leaders and global citizens.” (QAA,2023:1.8). This equips graduates with the attributes required to be competent managers across sectors of the UK employment landscape.

Following completion of the course learners can progress (subject to successful application) to courses such as an MBA or Level 7 Senior Leader Apprenticeship.