Basic Award
Gain the skills and knowledge to advance your career to a senior level with the NI Academy's Leadership and Management in the Maritime Domain Basic Award.
The NI Academy's Leadership and Management in the Maritine Domain Basic course is the first stepping stone to preparing for higher levels of management. The course is designed to develop understanding and the ability to manage quality, to manage stress and conflict at sea and ashore, and to understand organisational ethics and culture.
Aims and objectives
Designed to develop knowledge and understanding in a varying number of key subjects including managing improvements, managing stress and conflict, and how to better understand your own organisations culture and ethics,
The aims of the course are:
- Understand the effectiveness of the organisation and own ability to manage and improve quality to meet customer requirements.
- Are able to plan and implement projects to meet, and if possible, exceed requirements.
- Understand the effectiveness of own organisation in dealing with workplace stress and conflict.
- Are able to improve the management of workplace stress and conflict in own area of responsibility
- Understand organisational ethics and culture, in relation to own organisation.
- Understand how an organisation’s ethics and culture influence leadership style and organisation structure.
- Understand how to leverage ethics and culture to improve organisation performance
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Critically assess the organisation’s effectiveness in managing quality to meet or exceed customer requirements
- Evaluate own ability to manage quality to meet or exceed customer requirements
- Develop an improvement plan that is designed to meet and, if possible, exceed customer requirements
- Implement improvement plans designed to meet or exceed customer requirements
- Evaluate the effectiveness of the organisation in recognising workplace stress and conflict and providing the necessary support mechanisms.
- Plan improvements to the identification and approach to dealing with workplace stress and conflict in own area of responsibility.
- Implement improvements to the identification and approach to dealing with workplace stress and conflict in own area of responsibility.
- Critically evaluate own ability to identify and deal with workplace stress and conflict effectively in own area of responsibility
- 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
Duration
Total Hours
The below timetable details the general expected course schedule:
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Day One |
Day Two |
Day Three |
Day Four |
Day Five |
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M001 (three hours) |
M001 (three hours) |
M002 (four hours) |
M002 (four hours) |
M003 (four hours) |
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Day Six |
Workshop |
Workshop |
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M003 |
Three hours, |
Three hours, |
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Induction: one hour
Teacher contact: 22 hours (lead by Tutor)
Workshop contact: seven hours (lead by Mentor)
Self-directed: five hours
Qualification total time: 35 hours
Scheme of work
This course includes the below modules:
| Module 001 | Managing improvement at sea/ashore. |
| Module 002 | Managing stress and conflict in the organisation and at sea/ashore |
| Module 003 | Understanding organisational culture and ethics at sea / ashore |