Diploma of Advanced Studies in Leadership & Talent Management
2 semesters
Highly applied learning
Field trip to northern Spain
5 complimentary coaching sessions
Campus
Option to convert to a Masters ⓘ
Next intake: September 2024
Diploma of Advanced Studies in Leadership & Talent Management
2 semesters
Highly applied learning
Field trip to northern Spain
5 complimentary coaching sessions
Campus
Option to convert to Masters ⓘ
Next intake: September 2024
A postgraduate diploma in marketing that will make you think like a luxury expert
- Understand and develop your leadership potential
- Become a better communicator
- Acquire the skills to manage change effectively
- Learn how to lead diverse high performing teams
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.
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Academic Structure
Semester 1
Academic content
+ Field trip to northern Spain
(+Hospitality Immersion Program*)
Business Research Project
Or
6-month internship
An intensive marketing education across 7 modules
1 of 7
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.
2 of 7
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.
3 of 7
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.
4 of 7
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.
5 of 7
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..
6 of 7
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.
7 of 7
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.
Intensive leadership education across 7 modules
- Developing your Leadership Potential
- Leading People to Success
- Managing Diverse High Performing Teams
- Team Coaching
- Effective Communication
- Change Management, Negotiation and Networking
- Practical Approach Project
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.
Business field trip
In keeping with the leadership-focused content of this program, your field trip takes the form of a leadership retreat in an exclusive location. It will provide time for self-reflection, as well as for practicing and enjoying leadership and team related activities.
From managing stress to resolving conflict, throughout this immersive experience you will connect what you learn in class to the challenges faced by a modern leader, while also enhancing your industry network.
Final semester Internship or Business Research Project
At the end of your taught semester you can choose between a professional internship or Business Research Project to earn your diploma.
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.
Admission Information
Next intake dates:
September 2024
Minimum age:
21 years
Professional Experience:
With a degree: Minimum 2 years experience
Without a degree: Minimum 5 years experience
Qualifications:
Bachelor degree desirable.
*Hospitality Immersion Program:
Mandatory for students without a hospitality related degree or professional experience. The Hospitality Immersion Program (HIP) runs in parallel to the 1st semester with courses on “Hospitality in Context”, “F&B Beverage Operations Management”, “Rooms Division Operations Management”.
English level:
If English is not your first language, or if you have not spent the last two years studying in an institution where English is the primary language of instruction, please enclose a copy of one of the following:
- IELTS: overall 6.0 and min. 5.5 in every sub-component*
- TOEFL: Internet-based 80 or paper-based 550
- First Cambridge Exam: Grade A
- Cambridge Advanced Exam: Grade C
- Duolingo 115 with no component under 105
*Only tests taken/issued in an official IELTS testing center are accepted.
Help with your English
Those below the stated official English level can take additional English support classes. We offer intensive programs in Switzerland and Spain.
Learn more here.
Fees
This is an illustration of the basic fee structure you can expect for the program. For a full breakdown of fees download a course brochure.
Marbella
Academic Expenses | EUR |
Tuition fees | 17,510 |
Learning resources | 620 |
Les Roches for life career support | 1,500 |
Health and accident insurance | 940 |
Business Field Trip | 2,495 |
Total | 23,065 |
Living Expenses | EUR |
Hotel & Full board | 2,170 |
Total | 2,170 |
Turn your Diploma into a Masters
Upon successful completion of your diploma in leadership & talent management, you have the option to study a further semester focused on core hospitality business content.
This, combined with your choice of professional internship or Business Research Project, earns you a Master’s in Hospitality Management with Specialization
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FAQs
What is a diploma in leadership and management?
The Postgraduate Diploma in Leadership & Talent Management from Les Roches is a one semester (six months) study program designed to equip you with the skills you’ll need to climb the corporate leadership ladder.
Classes tackle leadership at both a personal and organizational level, taking account of the complexities presented by a rapidly changing workplace. The curriculum also encompasses organizational behavior, change management, risk analysis and other key elements of the modern leader’s toolbox.
The program includes an immersive Workshop Week in the form of a leadership retreat and, at the end of your taught semester, you will undertake a six-month professional internship or applied project.
What is talent management and leadership?
Talent management refers to the process of maximizing the performance of your human resources, by keeping them engaged, supported and on a constant path of learning and development. According to a 2018 survey by consultants McKinsey, 99% of respondents who reported their company’s talent management was very effective said they outperform their competitors, compared with 56% of all other respondents.
Leadership is defined by the Oxford Dictionary as ‘the action of leading a group of people or an organization’. There are many facets to being an effective leader, including ‘soft skills’ such as communication, problem-solving and conflict resolution – all of which are covered by this diploma program.
How to turn this diploma into a Master’s
Upon successful completion of your Postgraduate Diploma in Leadership & talent Management, you have the option to study a further semester focused on core hospitality business content. This, combined with your choice of professional internship or Business Research Project, earns you a Master’s in Hospitality Management with Specialization
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