Certificate IV in Leadership and Management

National Course Code: BSB42015

Overview

The nationally recognised Certificate IV in Leadership and Management equips you will the skills to provide stable leadership and manage your team in a variety of working environments. Take your career to the next level, develop transferable skills and discover your leadership style with TAFE NSW.

This is a fully government-subsidised JobTrainer course. Eligibility criteria applies.

LEARN NEW SKILLS

Through theory and practical course work, you will learn how to:

Lead and manage a team in a range of environments and changing priorities
Manage a virtual team in a gig economy
Plan, organise, implement and monitor your workload and others
Evaluate solutions to unpredictable problems

DEVELOP YOUR TALENT

Develop the personal attributes that will help you get ahead:

Strong interpersonal and communication skills
Build successful workplace relationships
Manage a diverse group of people at various levels of skill
Learn how to guide people to meet their goals

ACHIEVE YOUR GOALS

Completing this course will provide you with:

A nationally accredited qualification at Certificate IV level
The opportunity to take your career to the next level and find your leadership style
The ability to communicate effectively as a workplace leader

Career opportunities:

Team leader
Sales team coordinator
Leading hand
Line manager

GROW YOUR CAREER

Take your leadership career further:

Diploma of Leadership and Management
Bachelor of Business with TAFE NSW Degrees
Bachelor of Business Studies

INDUSTRY DEMAND

An increase in more diverse teams, virtual teaming and the gig economy highlight the need for leaders and supervisors to keep up with the new ways of working. With workers less likely to remain in the same job, you need transferable skills across multiple industries.

This course is superseded. You can still enrol in this course, and you will be contacted if you need to transition into the next version when it is available.

Locations

This course is currently available at 43 campus locations across NSW and online. Enquire now for other locations.

Course details

Character Traits

People who are successful in this course have:

An interest in working in leadership roles
Attention to detail
Effective verbal and written communication skills
The ability to relate to a wide range of people
Critical thinking

Assessments

Assessments give you the opportunity to demonstrate what you have learned and to identify the knowledge or skills that may need further development.

In this course you will undertake task management assessments, skills assessments and written assessments.

Compare course levels

This course, the Certificate IV, equips you with the skills you need to begin supervising your own team with confidence.

The Diploma level course builds on your significant experience and prepares you to succeed in management roles.

Hands-on skills

You will gain hands-on experience in:

Leadership and management across a range of industry workplaces
Planning, organising, implementing and monitoring your own workload and of others as well as evaluating solutions to unpredictable problems

Real world projects

TAFE NSW is known for delivering theory along with practical, hands-on learning. As part of this you will work on real world projects communicating with others, leading teams and implementing plans for the industry area of your expertise.

Campus facilities

TAFE NSW offers you a range of online and on-campus study environments - industry specific computer rooms, simulated workplaces, study areas, presentation areas and general student facilities - to enhance your learning and employability.

This course offers a blended delivery of face-to-face and online learning. You will study in TAFE NSW campus classrooms, simulated classrooms, and online delivery platform. You may also choose your own workplace to use in the course case study scenarios.

Industry trends

LinkedIn research indicates that the most in-demand soft skills include leadership, communication, collaboration and time management, with communication, creativity, organisation and critical thinking especially vital for managers and senior managers.

Course of the future

The leaders and supervisors of the future need to be innovative, creative and able to apply continuous improvement practices to organisational management. This course provides the skills to guide your team through disruption and resourcefully overcome gaps to meet goals.

Technological changes such as automation and the trend towards contract, freelance and gig work will increasingly impact on the role of leaders, who will need project management skills and an ability to upskill staff in diverse working environments.