With this advanced diploma in leadership and management, you’ll tackle leadership at both a personal and organizational level, taking account of the complexities presented by a rapidly changing workplace.

You will be challenged to reflect on your personal leadership qualities and how you can develop your leadership potential.

The curriculum also encompasses organizational behavior, change management, risk analysis and other key elements of the modern leader’s toolbox, equipping you with the skills you’ll need to climb the corporate leadership ladder.

Developing your Leadership Potential

Before we can lead and influence others, it is first prerequisite that we understand ourselves – including our strengths and weaknesses, our uncomfortable zones, and the way we tend to behave under certain situations. By tackling these topics, this course helps you unlock the power of yourself.

Leading People to Success

This course focuses on understanding how to motivate others, differentiating generational factors that influence behavior and attitudes, as well as mastering different styles suited to different circumstances. Also discover how to manage conflicts and learn from mistakes. 

Managing Diverse High Performing Teams

Learn the process behind creating and maintaining high performing teams. You’ll  develop an understanding of how different cultures can bring different perspectives, thus enhancing the team’s power but also requiring structure and tools to engineer a common purpose.

Team Coaching

Through this course, you will acquire a solid coaching foundation and learn the skills needed to coach individual employees as well as entire teams. Mentoring principles and best practices will also be covered as powerful tools to increase the efficacy of coaching efforts.

Effective Communication

Through this course you will work on developing greater emotional intelligence as a means to deliver useful and constructive feedback, while also ensuring your messages hit home. You will also work on your public speaking skills as a key tool for impactful message delivery.

Change Management, Negotiation and Networking

In this course, you will acquire critical skills and competences required during a negotiation, then learn how to apply them in simulated exercises. In addition, networking skills will also come into play as means to create, maintain and expand your professional connections.

Practical Approach Project

Through practical application of the high performance skills and competences you’ve learned, this project will help you bring your competences to a very high level. You’ll achieve a strong and practical performance with effective communication and management of diverse scenarios.

Internship

Your six-month professional internship will place you directly into a hospitality setting, enabling you to put to the test what you learned in the previous semester.

This is our recommended option if you did not have significant hospitality industry experience before joining the program.

Research Project

Working with a partner company, you will tackle a real-world business challenge, drawing upon the skills and knowledge you learned in class.

This is our recommended option if you already accrued hospitality experience before joining the program.