Leadership and Teamwork Level 4 and 5

Understand why effective management of people is essential within an organisation. You’ll also learn why needs must be understood and respected in order to achieve objectives.

Here, you’ll answer the question of what culture is and how to identify with it. You’ll be introduced to the ways people associate with culture, drawing on the definition provided by Terpstra and David (1991), that culture is ‘a learned, shared, interrelated set of symbols which unite and identify members of a society’.

In this module, you’ll learn why managers working in a modern organisation need a wide range of skills. These include communication, leadership, encouraging teamwork, listening, and many others

You’ll become aware of the importance of communication in multiple settings, whether that is verbal encouragement, informing team members of change, or informal exchanges. You’ll also recognise why good communication applies to email correspondence and in strategy meetings.

This module examines various ethical considerations leaders need to make and the impacts that each action could cause. You’ll also understand the difficulties of ethical considerations and doing what is perceived as ‘the right thing’.

Here, you’ll understand how performance management leads to business success. You’ll identify how performance equates to an organisation’s growth and the need for a good culture.

Without people there is a limit to what the organisation can achieve. Human resources is a key practice in maintaining morale and ensuring accomplishments are recognised.

Performance in an organisation requires a blend of diverse skills and experiences. In this module, you’ll learn why organisations must recognise that this blend is best achieved through team working.

In a constantly changing competitive environment, innovations in technology and changing economic conditions have led to the realisation that leadership is a skill to be developed. You’ll understand how leadership results in the success of an organisation and why it is a key skill.

In this final Level 4 module, you’ll consider the different ways of motivating teams and how to gain success out of individual teams aiming to complete the same task.

This first Level 5 module explores the skills and qualities of entrepreneurship.

You’ll understand why organisations are structured in a certain way and what determines an optimum business structure, using numerous models and key theories.

In this module, you’ll complete a series of accounting exercises to understand the information these can present and how to conduct the analysis that is needed.

You’ll address key questions within a business’s goal-setting and aim to create clear plans to achieve vital objectives.

Here, you’ll understand the influence politics plays in business and how helps and hinders operations.

This module introduces you to the statutory responsibilities of managers and the legal requirements of individual business executives.

This module focuses on the importance of governance and equality and why these are essential when conducting business ethically and responsibly.

Here, you’ll understand how businesses grow with their people and explores how measures such as CPD and reward structures are key in this growth.

This module examines how you can analyse markets, customer data, and competitors, and bring this information together into a cohesive plan.

By successfully completing this final Level 5 module, you’ll have complete knowledge of various numeric exercises and how you can use these within the wider context of business.