Diploma in Leadership and Management

Key Points

  • Campus: Brisbane / Melbourne / Sydney

  • Start dates: Jan, Mar, Apr, Jun, July, Aug, Oct, Nov

  • Duration: 64 weeks, including scheduled breaks

  • Type: Full Time
  • Hours: Daytime

  • Tuition Fee: From $ 12,000 AUS / year

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The Diploma in Leadership and Management course will provide you with knowledge, practical skills and experience in leadership and management that can be applied in a wide range of companies and industry contexts. Learn to develop and display initiative and judgment when planning, organizing, implementing, and monitoring your own workload and the workload of others. Develops communication skills to help people and teams achieve the goals and objectives of the organization.

Program results

  • Develop and display initiative and judgment when planning, organizing, implementing, and monitoring your own workload and the workload of others.

  • Develops communication skills to help people and teams achieve the goals and objectives of the organization.

  • Manage people’s performance.

Learning method

In all of our programs, you will create a schedule that combines 14 hours per week of face-to-face study in class and 6 hours per week of online study. The online study component includes exercises, discussion forums, and resources to help with homework and provide foundational learning and academic skills. Class study schedules combine the core lesson with basic skills and PASS classes.

You must attend both conferences, as each conference covers different content. PASS classes are practical assessment support sessions. In PASS classes, you will meet with your teacher to discuss any questions you may have about the study or the assessments. Foundation Skills sessions help you develop language and other business skills. You will learn to speak and present ideas with confidence. Topics include conducting meetings, writing business emails, negotiating, and making presentations.

Program structure

Learn to effectively manage a diverse workforce. Explore methods for assessing workforce diversity and developing, implementing, and reviewing diversity policies and procedures in the workplace.

Learn to develop strategies to manage organizational systems that ensure products and services are delivered and maintained to establish customer service standards.

This unit describes the skills and knowledge necessary to perform financial management within a work team in an organization. It includes planning and implementing financial management approaches, supporting team members whose role involves aspects of financial operations, monitoring and controlling finances, and reviewing and evaluating the effectiveness of financial management processes.

Learn about the steps and processes involved in managing workforce planning. Explore how to research requirements, develop objectives and strategies, implement initiatives, and monitor and evaluate trends.

Learn to develop and use emotional intelligence to increase self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management in the workplace. The course helps you identify the impact of your own emotions on others in the workplace; recognize and appreciate the emotional strengths and weaknesses of others; promote the development of emotional intelligence in others; and use emotional intelligence to maximize team results.

This unit describes the skills and knowledge necessary to lead and manage effective work relationships.

This unit describes the skills and knowledge necessary to manage the performance of the staff who report directly to them. The development of key result areas and key performance indicators and standards, along with regular and timely training and feedback, provide the foundation for performance management.

This unit describes the skills and knowledge necessary to develop and monitor the implementation of the operational plan to provide efficient and effective work practices within the productivity and profitability plans of the organization. Management at the strategic level requires systems and procedures to be developed and implemented to facilitate the organization’s operational plan.

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to undertake a simple project or a section of a larger project. It covers developing a project plan, managing and monitoring the project, completing the project, and reviewing the project to identify lessons learned for application to future projects.

Acquire the skills and knowledge necessary to manage risks in an organization. Learn to identify potential risks and understand, analyze and prioritize them based on their context and potential impacts and consequences. Explore ways to develop and implement solutions and action plans to mitigate risk.

Learn to create systems and processes to organize information and prioritize tasks. Learn to set personal work goals, set and meet work priorities, develop and maintain professional competence.

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to lead teams in the workplace and actively participate in the direction of the organization.

Admission requirements

A general equivalent of Australia’s 10th year. It would be helpful to have previous work knowledge and experience in a business environment.

  • International students will require a Bachelor’s degree from their country of origin. The degree and grades must be officially translated into English.

International students must meet a minimum language requirement of IELTS 5.5 with a minimum band score of 5.0. TOEIC 650 with a minimum reading score of 350. Direct entry is available through ILSC Intermediate 3 and above. Students must be at least 18 years old at the beginning of studies.

  • Develop and show initiative and judgment when planning, organizing, implementing and monitoring your own workload and the workload of others.
  • Develop communication skills to help people and teams achieve the goals and objectives of the organization.
  • Manage people’s performance.

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