Description
About our Course
An advanced entrance MBA course, the level 7 diploma in strategic management and leadership offers students 120 of the 180 credits needed to acquire a full MBA. The course consists of eight written assignments, thirty interactive modules, and about forty hours of guided learning for each module. An extra 30 to 50 study hours of optional materials are included with each module. These materials include suggested readings, suggested tasks, Internet resources, and self-testing exercises. In addition, a range of other support mechanisms, including tuition, will be available to you around-the-clock.
After receiving your level 7 diploma, you are eligible to apply for an MBA top up course, either online or on campus at a range of UK universities. The top up portion will usually consist of the final 60 credits of either a dissertation or a dissertation and one module.
This course is eligible for ELCAS funding.
To enrol onto the level 7 programme, you must be either a university graduate who is over 22 years old, or a non-university graduate over 24 year old, and with at least five years of managerial experience.
Qualification
Qualification Numbers: Qualifi Level 7 Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership – 601/5335/0
Qualifi Level 7 Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership
Course Content
Qualities of effective leadership
Learners will explore the making and developing of powerful leaders.
Developing interpersonal skills
Connecting and bonding with people within the commercial sectors is extremely important for good business. This module trains learners in skills to improve and enhance communication techniques to create strong bonds.
Motivating and influencing people
Inspiring people to create a unity of direction within business.
Making decisions
Doing the right things in the right way at the right time. Learners will look at the process of making a good decision.
Creativity and problem solving
Do problems pose a threat or are they an opportunity to improve? Here, learners will figure out how to turn a problem into an advantage.
Studying and using management theories
There are many theories concerned with management and the various models developed from these theories. This module looks over these theories with real life examples.
The external operating environment of business
Planning for influences on the business outside your control.
Culture and ethics
The culture and ethics involved in the business world today.
Governance and directorships
Structuring and controlling a business the professional way.
Analysing the competition
What are my competitors doing, how are they doing it, why are they doing it? Reviewing and analysing competitor actions to enhance managerial roles.
Marketing strategy
Creating an effective and successful market presence. Looking at the development of marketing strategies to create successful marketing campaigns.
High performance sales
Learners will grasp the key elements of successful selling.
E-Marketing communication
Understanding and using effective electronic messages to market.
Customers and their needs
Ensuring that your customers are recognised and valued.
Strategic human resource management
Human Resource Management must play a central role in the strategy of any organization. It is concerned with people as an asset of the business.
Recruiting and CPD
Getting the best people. Developing the best people. Keeping the best people.
Measuring and rewarding performance
Knowing and measuring how your people are performing.
Interpreting business accounts
Using and understanding the litmus tests of business health.
Tools of financial analysis
Resources, tools and techniques to keep a finger on the pulse of the business.
Managing cash and working capital
Cash, cash flow and working capital. The lifeblood of business.
Exercises in quantitative techniques
How to use and understand key figures.
Impact of technology on business
Analyse and exploit the role of e-business within a business sector.
Innovation and R&D
Creating commercial advantage from innovation and research.
Implementing and managing quality systems
Right first time, right every time. The place of quality in business strategy.
Strategic planning tools
Resources, tools and ideas to help create an effective business strategy.
Strategic and systems management
Options for strategic direction. Making the right choices for your business.
The business plan
Creating a plan that targets the stated aims and objectives of a business.
Developing high performance teams
Cohesion and teamwork that enhances business performance.
Managing projects
Getting things done. Using the right tools to run projects.
Strategies for growth
Career Path
After completing the final year of an accredited postgraduate degree program and the postgraduate diploma in strategic management and leadership, students will be prepared to take on professional managerial roles in a variety of industries, including accounting, business consulting, marketing, and accounting.
Key cognitive abilities including critical thinking, analysis, assessment, and writing are developed in business management diploma and MBA programs. Presentation and numeracy skills are established to augment knowledge and experience. These abilities are essential for advancing your professional status.
What is included in the cost of our course?
- All course material, including online modules and written assignments
- Personal tutor support with 1-2-1 Zoom sessions
- committed student assistance
- Having access to a social learning forum online
- Assignment evaluation and comments
- Get FREE access to our HUB
University Progression
On completion of this course students have the opportunity to complete an MBA programme from a range of UK universities. The top up programme can be studied online or on campus. The MBA top up comprises the final 60 credits which consists of either a dissertation or a dissertation and one module.
University of Gloucestershire
MBA Business Administration – £3,250
Anglia Ruskin University
MBA (Top-Up) – £5,200
University of Bolton
MBA Business Administration – £3,500
University of Sunderland
MBA Business Administration – £5,145 (campus)
Westcliff University
Master of Business Administration – £10,700 (online) / £11,120 (campus)
Northampton University
Executive MBA– £3,500
MA in Human Resource Management – £2,200
Executive Master of Business Administration – £3,690
University of Derby
Top up to MBA – (partial exemption)
