PgCert City Region Leadership Programme
Part-time
Location • City Campus
Subject area • Business and management
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This course is designed to give you the skills you need to move your career, your organisation and the Sheffield City Region forward.
It allows you to work with leaders and managers from across the region, developing innovative solutions to problems while meeting your own learning objectives.
The focus is on developing entrepreneurial initiative in the region and giving our leaders the skills they need to make a difference.
Benefits of the course
The course is aimed at existing senior managers and future leaders. You gain the leadership skills and techniques needed to help your organisation succeed.
You
• create a social network and develop the ability to work collaboratively with peers in other organisations
• learn approaches to deliver better outcomes with less resources
• develop innovative solutions and coordinate services around user needs
• build the in-house consultancy skills necessary to tackle current business challenges
• become part of a dynamic leadership academy that can deliver improved results for your own organisation and South Yorkshire
This is the first time that a city region has taken a strategic approach to leadership across all public services, private and third sector organisations. This collaborative approach enables skill sharing across sectors, improved services and enhances the region’s ability to respond positively to current challenges.
Teaching and learning methods
The teaching and learning methods used are
• study workshops – held over two consecutive days
• one-to-one coaching
• master classes – which take place between 4.00-8.00pm
• action learning sets – half day sessions with cross-organisational teams, where you apply your learning to a shared strategic challenge
Success through partnerships
Initially developed for public sector services, the course successfully demonstrated that value is created by cross-agency working. Now it has been fine tuned and refocused to develop broader partnership working between public, private and third sector organisations.
The course is designed and delivered by Sheffield Hallam University and the University of Sheffield, through Business Advantage.
Find out more about PgCert City Region Leadership Programme
You attend eight days of study workshops, delivered in four blocks of two days. In addition, there are four master classes and four half days of group work, supplemented by independent study.
The course is usually completed in nine months.
To apply contact Matthew Collins by phone 0114 225 4586 or e-mail m.collins@shu.ac.uk
2013/14 academic year
Please contact us for more details
The course fee may be subject to annual inflationary increase. For further information on fees and funding see www.shu.ac.uk/funding
Assessments are focused on specific outcomes relevant to your professional role. Assessment is jointly managed by university staff and your employer and is based upon your portfolio of work, strategic approach and presentations.
For more information contact Matthew Collins by phone 0114 225 4586 or e-mail m.collins@shu.ac.uk
Cath Toovey
Station manager, South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue
From a personal aspect the course has given me the confidence to question things – is this the way we do it because we have always done it like that, or can we look at a different way of doing it? So it's really made me start looking at how we do our day-to-day jobs.
The project we are looking at is about saving and not spending money. It’s a cross-agency project so we’re using the attributes of the people on the course rather than buying in from somewhere else.
‘The course has gone beyond my expectations. I like the practical use of models that they gave us and we are constantly using examples from our own services. We work in teams with other public services, the voluntary sector, and also the private sector. Everyone brings a different slant to the table when discussing a problem you face, or by explaining the challenge in layman’s terms you simplify the problem.’
Profiles
Cath Toovey
Station manager, South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue
