Senior Leader Apprenticeship - Business Administration (Taught)

This Senior Leader Apprenticeship programme provides you with the knowledge, skills and capabilities required to be an effective leader.

The Senior Leader Apprenticeship in Business Administration (SLA BA) is a part-time 2-year programme that will help you respond to complex organisational issues at a senior management level. The programme supports you in examining strategic responses to organisational issues to create value & pragmatic solutions within your organisation. It develops you to become a confident, competent, forward-thinking senior leader who can identify & critically analyse data, prospects, and balance strategic thinking with excellent operational focus.

The central underpinning themes of the programme are transformation; both individual and organisational. It is intellectually challenging, insightful, and focused on improving practice in the workplace across all areas of management, leadership, and functions of a business. In consultation with employees, the curriculum has been developed to cover a broad range of business disciplines, including strategy, leadership, systems, innovation & finance that prepares and enables you to take a strategic perspective in senior leadership.

Who is it for?

This programme is suitable for middle and senior managers, from any sector looking to better support their organisation’s strategic direction. We are dedicated to supporting mature, professional students and preparing you for work in the challenging and rewarding arena of senior leadership.

Benefits

• Part-Time, Block Taught delivery to support your development alongside your current role.

• Develop and å strategic decisions within your organisational area.

• Confidence in horizon scanning and developing insight and foresight in organisational planning.

• Benefit from teaching informed by business research & local business needs.

• Expand your professional network and learn alongside local senior leaders and managers.

• Highly qualified & experienced teaching team.

• Specialised Masterclasses from business leaders.

• Transform your professional practice and enhance career progression prospects.

• All students and alumni benefit from membership of Liverpool Leadership Network.

• Senior Leader Apprenticeship Award.

• Chartered Manager Status (Chartered Management Institute).

• Top- up your award to the full MBA degree (Additional Fee £2650- Fee subject to change.

An important element of the programme is the opportunity it provides to apply your learning to organisational situations. The fact that learning is applied, rather than being purely theoretical, is crucial to empower you to contribute to, and impact your organisation.

Modules have therefore been developed in consultation with businesses, who identified the following training themes.

• Your leadership development

• Strategies for engaging and motivating others

• Complex operational strategies

• Organisational change, innovation, systems & people

• Sustainable business practices & ethical business

In addition, learners’ digital skills will be developed and enhanced to increase impact within these themes and the programme. As such, the curriculum aligns to emerging social and business approaches to maximise the impact you can make individually, organisationally, and societally.

What our learners say?

"The learning I acquired during my time studying has supported me to be a concise and confident report writer, presenter and professional. It has given me personally the confidence and resilience to deliver in one of the most challenging and transformational time to work in Health and Social Care. I am incredibly grateful for the experience and the value of studying alongside my professional work thorough an apprenticeship and although the level of commitment and hard work shouldn’t be underestimated, I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend others should take the opportunity if ever offered to them."