CIPD Leadership and Management

Our CIPD Leadership and Management programme provides the knowledge, skills and understanding required by practitioners to operate highly effectively at a management level. It is the first key element or 'field' of the CIPD Professional Development Scheme (PDS).

The Leadership and Management programme builds a solid foundation in management and HR principles. The syllabus covers a wide range of topical management concepts and issues. This will enable students to 'speak the language' of business while driving forward ethical people management policies and procedures.

Leadership and Management consists of four modules, which are:
Managing in a Strategic Business Context (MSBC)

* Developing strategy
* PESTLE issues
* Labour markets and HR strategic fit
* Employment law
* Ethics and corporate responsibility

Managing Information for Competitive Advantage (MICA)

* Introduction to finance
* Budgetary and planning control
* Costing and cost benefit analysis
* Introduction to statistics
* Time series and trend analysis
* Correlation and regression analysis

Managing for Results (MFR)

* Organisational dynamics of structure developing strategy
* Formal and informal function
* Culture and self-management
* Change management
* Continuous improvement
* Creating customer-centricity

Managing and Leading People (MLP)

* Creating high performance
* Motivation and engagement
* Effective leadership
* Practicalities of leading and managing
* Competence/competency for leadership

How is the programme taught?

The programme is delivered via CIPD flexible learning, which is a blended learning approach involving workshop attendance and self-study. Run over a ten month period with attendance required approximately once a month, our Leadership and Management programme consists of twelve workshops:

* one full day induction workshop
* eight full day workshops (two workshops per module)
* one full day exam preparation workshop
* two full days of exams
* self-study using BPP and CIPD flexible learning materials

The workshops include tutor-led discussions, case studies, and group and individual exercises.

During the self-study periods, we would recommend you dedicate approximately twelve hours per week towards background reading and the completion of assignments. When undertaking self-study you will have access to:

* tutor support
* our Virtual Learning Environment
* the online resources via the CIPD website

Suggested self-study requirements:

* assignments: 5 - 6 hours a week
* flexible learning materials: 5 - 6 hours a week

Included in your fees are the CIPD flexible learning materials including workbooks, text books and audio CDs. The CIPD materials provide comprehensive cover of all four modules. To help guide your study students are also provided with a BPP Student Handbook and supplementary resource materials.