Multi-Unit Leadership and Strategy - PgDip
Postgraduate
In Birmingham
Description
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Type
Postgraduate
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Location
Birmingham
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Duration
13 Months
We’ll look at the five key attributes of effective multi-site managers – expertise, emotional intelligence, entrepreneurialism, energy and ethics.
You’ll explore staff deployment and use of capacity, as well as devising exciting business strategies and showing great self-awareness. As a multi-unit manager, you’ll be responsible for a number of branch managers and staff, so you must possess a strong amount of trustworthiness and a good moral compass. You’ll also be responsible for helping keep customers happy and sales high, so a strong knowledge of what customers want, alongside a drive to succeed, is highly desirable.
Businesses need to change and adapt to move with the times, so this course will also provide a critical understanding of how to lead change, ensuring you make the right decisions that guarantee a good transition for a business.
A business thrives on cost, speed, quality, safety, dependability and flexibility. These key areas will be explored, and you’ll become an expert at ensuring these topics are used effectively in an everyday business environment.
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About this course
Our postgraduate diploma in Multi-Unit Leadership and Strategy is designed to help those currently working as an area manager gain the extra skills and knowledge needed to become a successful multi-unit manager.
OpportUNIty: Student Jobs on Campus ensures that our students are given a first opportunity to fill many part-time temporary positions within the University. This allows you to work while you study with us, fitting the job around your course commitments. By taking part in the scheme, you will gain valuable experiences and employability skills, enhancing your prospects in the job market.
It will also allow you to become more involved in University life by delivering, leading and supporting many aspects of the learning experience, from administration to research and mentoring roles.
Degree or equivalent
Minimum 2 years in unit or multi-unit role
Top quartile company performance indicators
Interview
Our course enables you to become a highly effective multi-unit manager.
With a wide range of professional accreditations, excellent industry links and a practice-based approach to learning, we’re committed to enhancing your career.
The University is an active research centre, and the latest Research Excellence Framework 2014 report found that we’ve doubled the amount of staff producing internationally recognised research.
You’ll work in our new, cutting-edge facility, The Curzon Building, which opened in September 2015 becoming a focal point of the City Centre campus and a hub for all of our student support service.
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Subjects
- Leadership
- Strategy
- Branding
- Leading
- Business
- Operational
- Improvement
- Innovation
- Research
- Project
Course programme
Each module will be assessed either by assignment or a written report with presentation.
- Strategy and Branding
- Leading Service and Change
- Finance and Business Models
- Operational Improvement and Innovation
- In-Company Research Project
The course is delivered part-time over 13 months and consists of 14 workshop days, supported periods of self-study.
For all assessments, emphasis is placed upon combining multi-site practice-based learning with rigorous frameworks and concepts supplied by our multi-site experts. This takes the form of lectures, case studies, videos and group work. You’ll reflect on your own performance and experiences, as well as using the skills you learn on the course in your professional role.
Submissions for each of the first four modules are written reports of 2,500 words, while for the fifth module, you’ll conduct a 5,000-word report based on solving a major multi-site business challenge.
On completion of this course, you can progress on to the Masters course to gain the qualifications, knowledge and skills needed to rise up the career leader and conduct your role effectively and professionally.
Additional information
Award: PgDip Starting: Sep 2021
Mode
Part Time
Duration
13 months - 15 days taught and self-study
Multi-Unit Leadership and Strategy - PgDip