Diploma of Leadership and Management

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This qualification reflects the role of individuals who apply knowledge, practical skills and experience in leadership and management across a range of enterprise and industry contexts. Individuals at this level display initiative and judgement in planning, organising, implementing and monitoring their own workload and the workload of others. They use communication skills to support individuals and teams to meet organisational or enterprise requirements. They plan, design, apply and evaluate solutions to unpredictable problems, and identify, analyse and synthesise information from a variety of sources.

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

While there are no entry requirements defined in the training package, the RTO requires the following criteria to be met:

• • Applicants must be minimum 18 years of age at the time of commencement
  • Successful completion of Certificate IV qualification within the Business training package or similar qualification or higher
  • Minimum IELTS score of 5.5 or PTE score of 42 or Certificate III in EAL or its equivalent.

In addition,

• • Applicants should have basic computer and MS Office skills (Word, Excel and PowerPoint).

COURSE DURATION

This course will be delivered over a 52 weeks of full time study including 12 weeks of holidays and breaks.

It is expected that the program would be of less duration for students who have completed components that can be identified by the Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL), and/or Credit Transfer.

TARGET GROUP

Target group for this program will be clients who are 18 years and above, including mature aged clients who is working in the leadership or Management area or completed Certificate IV qualification within Business training package or similar qualification.

PATHWAYS INTO THE QUALIFICATION

Individuals may enter BSB50420 – Diploma of Leadership and Management with 1 year vocational experience in leadership and management area or completed Certificate IV in Leadership and Management or similar qualification.

PATHWAYS FROM THE QUALIFICATION

After achieving BSB50420 – Diploma of Leadership and Management, individuals could progress to BSB61015 – Advanced Diploma of Leadership and Management.

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

This qualification provides a pathway to work in a managerial role within various Business settings. Possible job title includes

• • Manager
  • Team Leader

DELIVERY

Training is based on face-to-face classroom delivery including interactive classroom teaching roll plays and tutorials.

DELIVERY LOCATION

51 Brady Street, South Melbourne.

ASSESSMENTS

Assessment will usually commence in the session following delivery. As this is a competency-based program, assessment continues throughout the program until the participant either achieves competency in the assessment tasks or a further training need is identified and addressed.  Students will be required to perform in a range of assessment tasks including and not limited to: Written Assignment, Demonstration, Role Play, Project, and Case study

RPL/CREDIT TRANSFERS

The recognition of prior learning (RPL) pathway is appropriate for candidates who have previously attained skills and knowledge from outside the formal education and training system and which includes work and life experience.

Credit transfer is a process that provides students with agreed and consistent credit outcomes for components of a qualification based on identified equivalence in content and learning outcomes between matched qualifications.

Students may apply for RPL or Credit transfers for any unit in which they can successfully demonstrate competency.

UNIT OF COMPETENCY

To attain this qualification, 12 units must be completed consist of 6 core units and 6 elective units.