Apprenticeship - Senior Leader (Degree)
This course would suit professional strategic leaders in the private, public or third sector and all sizes of organisation, who lead, manage and direct organisations. Specific job roles may include Senior Leader, Section Leader, Executive, Director, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Information Officer, Senior Military Officer.
The ideal candidate will be working in a role where they are asked to lead and influence people, challenged to build constructive working relationships across teams, and typically would include direct and potentially matrix management.
Through your commitment to a day-a-week learning and development, you will be upskilled to provide clear, inclusive and strategic leadership and direction relating to your area of responsibility within your organisation.
Learning will be blended, with a few in person days, with most taught sessions delivered online either through day release or block teaching.
This intake is your last opportunity to draw down government funding via the apprenticeship route.
Course Overview
The Senior Leadership Apprenticeship will allow you to build on previous experience and acquire a sound theoretical background in business and management. You'll acquire more management expertise, leading to a widening of responsibilities, and learn about the sustainable issues in business which are applicable to private, public, and third-sector organisations. Students often use the Senior Leader programme a stepping stone and have found other management roles at a more senior level within their organisation.
This is a 24-month apprenticeship programme where students are released by their employers one day a week for learning and development. This will be a mix of taught sessions, research, and study time in work. The modules are scheduled over two years with individual timed assessment. As you progress you will also develop a portfolio of evidence which is used to shape your EPA Professional Discussion.
Towards the end of the programme, you'll carry out an independent project based on your professional experience and/or the industry sector you have been working in.
On this course you will...
- Develop relevant leadership and management skills, behaviour and knowledge.
- Develop critical reflection skills and engagement with organisational and professional theory to understand, and where appropriate, challenge existing individual and organisational perspectives and practice.
- Identify, develop, and implement solutions to current issues such as the growing need to better manage supply chain as well as create more effective talent acquisition and retention solutions.
- Develop into agile, well rounded and outward looking business leaders and managers with a high concern for customers and colleagues, capable of taking responsibility for themselves, their people, their areas of responsibility and their organisation.
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