Why Choose the Roffey Park Diploma in Management?
Roffey Park offers a Diploma in Management as an in-company qualification programme, giving managers with a minimum of three years experience the opportunity to gain a qualification indicating management competence supported by theoretical knowledge. The design of the Roffey Park Diploma programme combines both core/ generic elements of management and bespoke designed elements aimed at meeting the learning needs and business priorities of individuals and organisations. The Diploma encourages managers to learn in the same way as they work by identifying their own personal learning goals, objectives, targets and measures to achieve their learning.
What you will do and how you do it?
For individual managers, the diploma offers the opportunity to gain formal recognition for their achievements since the assessment process recognises practical as well as academic learning. On completion participants will have:
- A clearer understanding of the breadth of the field of management
- Undertaken projects focussing on issues pertinent to themselves and their organisation
- Learned new skills and behaviours, determining when and where to best use them
- Learned to relate theories to workplace practice
- Set clear and achievable learning objectives
- Developed the necessary skills, knowledge and understanding to achieve success
- Managed uncertainty and ambiguity
- Built improved networks with other colleagues from the programme
For organisations, the Diploma provides a consistent level of management development. As well as sharing knowledge, building internal networks and promoting cross-divisional project work, it offers scope for people to put something back into the organisation as the tailored content allows organisations to fully integrate the diploma with their current management and organisational development initiatives.
What does self-managed learning involve?
The Diploma, as with all Roffey Park’s qualification programmes, is unique in that it has no predetermined syllabus for participants to follow. Instead they are guided by a framework of Self-Managed Learning which allows participants to determine what they want to learn and how they are going to learn it, with others, in the context and framework of their organisation’s needs and to the standards required of a particular qualification.
There are several components to self-managed learning. It involves stages where you -
- initially review where you are now: what your current role and skills are, how they relate to the organisation and what has shaped you to this time
- mapping the field: reviewing the overall field of management both in terms of theory and your practice
- the production and delivery of your individual syllabus for the remainder of the programme
- a review of your overall learning journey including the process of learning
The other key components of self-managed learning and the Diploma are the processes, learning sets and community of which you are part. You will be actively involved in your set by agreeing standards, planning, assessing and critiquing your own and others’ work.
What does working in a set involve?
The learning set is a vital component of the programme. They help participants achieve the objective in their personal development plans through a process of challenge, support and collaborative problem solving. They also provide a vehicle for sharing learning across the organisation. Each Set is supported by a Set Advisor to establish boundaries, expectations and goals and to facilitate the process issues. Sets are formed of 5-6 managers and could be across functions to encourage knowledge sharing.
Although there are no formal exams, each participant has to compile a portfolio of work which shows evidence that they have met the criteria set out in their Learning Contract. This method of peer assessment is definitely not an easy option as members of the Learning Set are often tougher on themselves than any external examiners.
How is it structured?
The exact content of the tutorial days is tailored following a diagnostic stage in which Roffey Park consultants work with the organisation to determine the individual and organisational needs and expectations. Following a initial launch module, a further 5 development modules are designed upon agreement of key managerial competencies.
If your organisation has 6 or more managers who are interested in studying for the Diploma, please call Paula Wright on 01293 854022 or email paula.wright@roffeypark.com for more information. A programme director is appointed to work with you in order to create the programme structure.