Diploma of Leadership and Management

Overview

Leadership skills are sought-after in every industry. Are you ready to step up? Inspire and motivate the workforce of the future with the nationally accredited Diploma of Leadership and Management. Learn the skills needed to guide teams through major change and innovatively overcome obstacles to meet strategic goals.

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

LEARN NEW SKILLS

Through theoretical course work you will learn to:

Communicate using emotional intelligence
Lead and manage a diverse workforce
Manage budget, financial and operational plans while managing risk and improving practices
Develop policy and procedures to support a sustainable work environment

DEVELOP YOUR TALENT

Strengthen the qualities and skills needed to get ahead in this field and become:

Self directed and disciplined
Self motivated and able to prioritise work
Experienced leading small teams
An aspiring or emerging leader in the workplace
A critical thinker

ACHIEVE YOUR GOALS

Completing this course provides you with:

A nationally recognised Diploma
Hands-on experience in leadership management essentials

Career opportunities include:

Corporate Services Managers
Middle Managers
Production Manager
Supervisors
Business Operators

GROW YOUR CAREER

Take your study further with the:

Advanced Diploma of Leadership and Management

Direct degree articulation pathways:

Bachelor of Business
Bachelor of Business (Management)
Bachelor of Management
Bachelor of Commerce (Major in Management)

INDUSTRY DEMAND

Over the next five years to 2023, an anticipated 14,000 job openings will become available for Corporate Services Managers.

Transferable leadership skills are also in demand across a variety of sectors. With the Diploma of Leadership and Management you will be able to apply what you gain to any role you have.

This course is superseded.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 39 campus locations across NSW and online. Enquire now for other locations.

Course details

Character Traits

People who are successful in this industry are:

Aspiring or emerging leaders in the workplace
Self directed and disciplined
Self motived and able to prioritise work
Experienced in leading small teams
Critical thinkers

Assessments

This course has been designed to deliver clusters of like units of competency together to ease your study load and improve efficiency. Many of the assessments are integrated with your course work and demonstrate:

Task skills - performing the task
Task management skills - managing a number of tasks
Contingency management skills - dealing with irregularities e.g. unexpected problems and breakdowns in routine
Job and role environment skills - fulfilling job and workplace responsibilities and expectations and transferring competencies to new contexts

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The Certificate IV is designed to provide you with the skills you need to begin supervising your own team.

To be successful in the Diploma level course, you should complete the Certificate IV or have existing supervisory experience. The Diploma deepens your knowledge gained and equips you with the skills to succeed in management roles.

Hands-on skills

You will gain hands-on experience:

In leadership and management across a range of enterprise and industry contexts
Planning, organising, implementing and monitoring your own workload and the workload of others as well as evaluate solutions to unpredictable problems

Real world projects

You will work on real world projects such as communicating with others, leading teams and developing policy and procedure resources for the industry area of your expertise.

Through case studies and assessments, you will have the opportunity to role play, using a fictional organisation or your own workplace as a basis. Practice your concepts and ideas and bring these to life in your workplace.

Campus facilities

The Diploma of Leadership and Management offers a blended delivery of face-to-face and online learning. You will study in TAFE NSW campus classrooms, simulated classrooms and within our online delivery platform. You may also choose your own workplace to use in case study scenarios.

Industry trends

Over the next five years to 2023, an anticipated 14,000 job openings will become available for corporate services managers.

During that time, the number of people working as general office managers is expected to fall with a trend for workers to take similar roles in other industries.

Transferable skills are in demand across a variety of sectors. Almost every job in every industry involves an element of leadership and management. This means that you will be benefit from the skills gained through the Diploma of Leadership and Management and be able to apply them in any job you have.

Course of the future

The leaders and managers of the future need to be innovative, creative and able to manage disruptive changes to organisational management. This course will provide you with the skills to guide your organisation and teams through major change and innovatively overcome gaps and meet goals.

Nationally Recognised Training
Traineeship Allowed
VET Student Loans Available
Blended, Full Time, Part Time Day, Part Time Evening, PTE Connected
Study Online
Fully government-subsidised
JobTrainer

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