Level 7 Diploma for Senior Leaders

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This qualification will close to registrations on 31 December 2025. Certifications will remain open until 31 December 2028.

Develop your Senior Leadership skills, providing you with the most current strategic leadership capabilities needed to effectively lead a department or organisation.

This Level 7 Diploma is designed for senior leaders seeking to develop as strategic leaders within an organisation and gain confidence in executing great leadership skills. It is ideal for a leader who has senior management responsibility or is undertaking the Senior Leaders Apprenticeship.

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Results for you
  • Develop and establish your strategic leaderships skills needed to face the current demands required of Senior Leaders
  • Develop your leadership and influencing skills to deliver organisational strategy such as change and agile transformation programmes, diversification, new product implementation and customer experience improvement
  • Develop your critical analysis and decision-making skills using strategic insights and data analysis 
  • Proactively use social, economic and technological trends and developments, promote innovation to address changing requirements and take advantage of new opportunities
  • Develop your crisis / risk management skills which could affect business/department performance, while finding solutions in a responsible and ethical way
  • Develop your skills in leading people development including talent management, succession planning, workforce design, and coaching and mentoring 
  • Develop your skills on how to cultivate and maintain collaborative relationships
  • Develop your skills in shaping external communications which align with any wider organisational communications strategy 
  • Ensure compliance with internal governance and external governance, such as any regulatory and statutory requirements.
Benefits to the organisation  
  • Senior leaders who have a full breadth and depth of leadership practice
  • Senior leaders who have developed skills in line with national standards
  • Senior leaders who can drive forward an organisation and face current demands 
  • Senior leaders who have established deep knowledge and proved competency in their Senior Leadership skills enabling them to have a direct and positive impact on their organisation or business. 
  • Fully flexible units: Use the units as stand-alone programmes or for continuous professional development, allowing you to be responsive to business needs and focus on specific topics
  • Maintain staff motivation: learners will receive a certificate for all completed units, recognising their achievement  
  • Measurable results: workplace-based assessment ensures new skills are effectively transferred to your business  

Focus on the skills you need

The Diploma for Senior Leaders is unit-based, giving you full flexibility to identify the areas of development specific to your own work context and of particular interest and relevance.  It provides a comprehensive and complete toolkit for Senior Leaders. 

Guided learning hours: 547 hours
Total qualification time: 1001 hours
Structure: 7 mandatory units. Individual units can be undertaken and certificated. To achieve the qualification, learners are required to complete the seven mandatory units (700-706).

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