Advanced Diploma

Advance your career to the next stage with the NI Academy's Leadership and Management Diploma.

The NI Academy's Advanced Diploma in Leadership and Management is designed for practicing middle managers at sea and ashore who want to advance their career to the next stage. This final advanced course reflects not only the lessons learnt in previous levels but also aims to develop participants ability to think and reflect critically, and to be able to manage individual and team development. Finally the course looks to develop a firm understanding and ability in developing and leading a team. 

Aims and objectives

This advanced level contains several modules all of which were created to develop: 

  • The ability to critically assess own beliefs, attitudes and value systems.
  • The ability to critically assess the validity of management theories in relation to own beliefs, attitudes and values.
  • The ability to evaluate individual performance in an organisation.
  • The ability to implement a personal development plan, for an individual in an organisation
  • Understanding of organisational ethics and culture, in relation to own organisation.
  • Understanding of how an organisation’s ethics and culture influence leadership style and organisation structure.
  • Understanding of how to leverage ethics and culture to improve organisation performance
  • Understanding the importance of leading teams to achieve organisational goals and objectives.
  • The ability to develop and lead teams.

By the end of this advanced diploma, participants should be able to:

  • Explain the difference between beliefs, attitudes and values.
  • Critically assess the impact of beliefs, attitudes and values on own behaviour.
  • Identify management theories relevant to your role.
  • Critically assess the impact of own beliefs, attitudes and values on a management theory relevant to your role.
  • Use the critical assessment to evaluate how someone with different beliefs, attitudes and values might interpret the theory differently.
  • Conduct a performance gap analysis with an individual in your area of responsibility, to determine development needs.
  • Critically assess the suitability of a range of development vehicles to meet the needs of an individual within the organisation.
  • Devise and justify a personal development plan to meet the needs of an individual within the organisation.
  • Explain how the personal development plan will be monitored.
  • Analyse own organisation’s policies and procedures which relate to ethical considerations, across a range of activities
  • Explain how ethical considerations and culture influence leadership style and organisation structure
  • Evaluate the most effective leadership styles in the context of own organisation’s ethics and culture
  • Assess the effectiveness of own organisation in measuring team performance against organisational goals and objectives.
  • Evaluate the role of leadership in helping teams to achieve organisational goals and objectives.
  • Critically review own ability to develop and lead teams to achieve organisational goals and objectives.
  • Implement changes to own leadership style in order to more effectively develop and lead teams.

Duration

Total Hours

The below timetable details the general expected course schedule:

Day One

Day Two

Day Three

Day Four

Day Five

Workshop

M001
(3 hours)

M001
(3 hours)

M001
(3 hours)

M001
(3 hours)

M002
(3 hours)

4 hours

 

Day Six

Day Seven

Day Eight

Day Nine

Day 10

Workshop

M002
(3 hours)

M002
(3 hours)

M002
(3 hours)

M003
(3 hours)

M003
(3 hours)

4 hours

Day 11

Day 12

Day 13

Day 14

Day 15

Workshop

M003
(3 hours)

M004
(3 hours)

M004
(3 hours)

M004
(3 hours)

M004
(3 hours)

4 hours

Tutor time:

Four-hours

 

Induction: one hour
Teacher contact: 66 hours (lead by Tutor)
Workshop contact: 12 hours (lead by Mentor)
Self-directed: 12 hours

Qualification total time: 91 hours

Scheme of work

Course modules:

Module 001   Developing critical thinking at sea and ashore.
Module 002   Managing individual development at sea and ashore.
Module 003 Understanding the organisation environment at sea and ashore
Module 004 Developing and leading teams to achieve organisational goals and objectives at sea and ashore.