Course features

This course will provide you with a deeper understanding of leadership, including what makes a good leader and how this translates into your own individual leadership style. Through guided exercises and activities, you'll apply these learnings to your own context in real time, understanding yourself as a leader, implementing new leadership tools and skills, and developing your own personal action plan and leadership development journey. hroughout the course you will reflect on strategies for your own and your team’s development and become equipped with information that you can take back to your team and your own manager to enable your continued professional development.

As this course is self-paced and fully online, you will be able to take yourself through a contemporary, evidence-based and content-rich guided journey, studying at a time, pace and location that suits you. The learning format of the course includes online lessons, videos, practice activities, surveys and self-reflective activities.

Alongside the course you will complete a detailed leadership workbook and have access to a range of contemporary articles, interviews, readings and activities to support your learning. You will finish the course by creating a plan for your future development as a leader that can guide your immediate and future career steps.

Our expertise

This course has been developed by Dr Ali Budjanovcanin. Ali studies organisational leaders to understand how they can more effectively enact their roles in the face of a changing world and has applied her research in the design of leadership programmes within the executive education and coaching she delivers.

Entry requirements

This course is designed for those who are in the early stages of their leadership career, working and participating in teams where you have a formal or informal leadership role. As this programme is taught entirely in English, it is essential that you’re able to converse, interact and write in English.

Further information

On completing this programme, participants will be able to:

• Construct a personal development plan to build leadership competencies for your future career.
• Explain the traditional perspectives on leadership, including leader traits, behaviours and skills and how it differs to management.
• Appraise your own values, skills and actions and identify your leadership profile based on these different perspectives and your own experiences to date.
• Identify the approaches needed to be a successful leader in the future.
• Apply theories and concepts to your own roles and situation in order to build teams for a collective approach to leadership.