Awards

Target Award

Award Description:Continuing Professional Development - COPD

Educational Aims of the Course

The Strategic Leadership Programme has been co-designed for the City of Liverpool College (the College), to be delivered across five modules addressing the College's strategic goals and core programme objectives, comprising of ten days face-to-face learning. The five elements will be delivered over approximately ten months.

The programme will be delivered via five elements - 

  1. Leading Change
  2. Leading People
  3. Leading Thinking
  4. Leading and delivering Strategy
  5. Leading Diversity

The wider learning experience will incorporate optional masterclasses, an active learning process, executive support and psychometric analysis to enable the college leaders to create a field of change, which achieves the strategic vision and inspires their own leadership learning. This pedagogical design is based on LJMU’s curriculum principles of sustainability, inclusive learning and education for wellbeing (Teaching and Learning Strategy, LJMU, 2023).

The Programme aims to:

1. Demonstrate understanding of the positive impact equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) bring to an organisation, with EDI considerations embedded across the programme.

2. Act as a catalyst for equitable social change and generate innovative collaboration, tracking and evaluating social value.

3. Support the College’s ambitious strategic plan, which supports and celebrates an aspirational culture for its diverse community, ensuring ethical development and accurate representation of culture to address the College's organisational priorities. 

4. Reflexively addresses the individual leader’s engagement with vision, strategy and leadership thinking and practice, critiquing diversity and ethical leadership whilst considering complexity, ambiguity and systems thinking.

Learning Outcomes

1.
To explore the theories of change in a complex organisation, appreciating the experience of and barriers to change across organisation and connecting key leadership approaches that facilitate effective change.
2.
To consider the practical implications and transitions of change, aligning change process to organisational values and reviewing leadership agency, quality enhancement and change management systems.
3.
To reflect on and analyse own leadership approach and values through critical reflection, demonstrating critical understanding of the effective leadership behaviours and appreciating the breadth of accountability across individual leadership roles.
4.
To evaluate the effectiveness of own team leadership approach, developing strategies for building high-performance teams and eliminate obstacles to effective teamwork, demonstrating critical understanding of the concepts of effective team coaching behaviours through contemporary theory and exploring methodologies to manage the complexities of network dynamics.
5.
To appreciate critical thinking in leadership theory, reflect on the wider organisational design and community networks and analysing the organisation as an external and internal system.
6.
To establish key principles of strategic decision making and analysis, defining organisational processes of questioning and reflection to drive performance and building diverse organisational capacity through practical systems leadership and innovation.
7.
To apply ethical leadership approaches to strategic thinking and decision making, generating collaboration and strategic understanding across the organisation and enabling strategic connectors from governance to students.
8.
To analyse and critique strategic approaches in the workplace, generating innovative cultures within the organisations and delivering strategic transformation from within the organisation.
9.
To understand the rich diversity across the organisation, connecting EDI policy and strategic goals, considering own developmental areas in diversity understanding and the values and conflicts of diversity leadership.
10.
To explore a range of diverse perspectives across the wider organisation, developing actions and practical skills to improve diversity leadership.

Teaching, Learning and Assessment

The Programme will be people-centred, supported by theory and action research, informed by data and focused on effective practice.

Teaching and Learning will be:

Personalised - using group exercises, simulations, case-based learning, peer-to-peer teaching, action learning, multimedia,  contextual and experiential discussion, guest speakers and virtual learning.

Ambitious - focused on quality transformation and and impacting on professional educational outcomes.

Courageous - authentic, iterative, innovative and co-designed to ensure impact.

Learner-centred - constructed by learners and stakeholders to ensure the facilitation of learning.

Programme Structure

Programme Structure Description

Zero credit CPD

Structure

HECoS Code(s)

(CAH17-01) business and management