CMI Level 7 Diploma in Strategic Management And Leadership Practice

Unit1- Strategic Risk Management

The ability to effectively lead strategic risk management is essential to safeguard an organization's prosperity and reputation. Ultimately, leaders must know how to develop and lead risk management in a manner that not only reacts to organizational needs but contributes to organizational success. The aim of this unit is for leaders to develop an in-depth understanding of strategic risk management. Leaders will critically appraise strategic risk within an organizational context. They will assess strategies for risk management and the leadership skills to lead risk initiatives successfully. Ultimately, leaders will be given the opportunity to develop a framework to deliver a risk strategy in an organizational context.

Unit2- Strategic Leadership

Effective strategic leadership is a catalyst for organizational success. Leaders have to be knowledgeable, creative, agile and resilient to respond to organizational need in the contemporary workplace. The aim of this unit is to equip leaders with an in-depth understanding of strategic leadership within an organizational context. Leaders will explore the complexities of the role and the theoretical perspectives, approaches, behaviors and skills which can enhance their professional practice. The unit focuses on the leader's ability to respond creatively to complex organizational challenges and understand how to set and deliver sustainable strategic goals.

Unit3- Collaboration and Partnerships

Collaboration and partnerships can have a huge impact on organizational success. These arrangements (formal or informal) can result in increased profitability and productivity as well as the development and delivery of new products and services. Collaboration and partnerships can turn ideas into reality, enhancing opportunities for innovation and creativity, research and development. Increasingly, collaboration and partnership working are required to be successful in gaining a bid or tender. The aim of the unit is for leaders to understand collaborative and partnership arrangements. Leaders will critically assess the scope and value of these, as well as evaluating the impact of organizational and legal frameworks on how these arrangements are delivered. The unit culminates in the requirement for the leader to present a rationale for collaboration or partnerships to further an organization's success.

Unit4- Developing Organisational Strategy

Leaders must have an in-depth understanding of strategy and how it can be developed if they are to operate effectively in complex local, national and global markets. The aim of this unit is to enable leaders to know how to develop and influence an organization's strategic direction through the development of a meaningful strategy. To support this outcome, leaders will critique the factors which drive the development of organizational strategy and appraise approaches to successfully develop strategy. The unit culminates in leaders developing an organizational strategy to achieve a business goal. To complement this activity, leaders will propose an approach to implement and monitor the strategy developed to ensure its sustained success.

Unit5- Entrepreneurial Practice

Entrepreneurial practice is a multi-dimensional concept. To some it is simply the pursuit of an opportunity; to others it could be an innovative business start-up, an invention or re-invention of a product, service or a process or the development of solutions to social, cultural or environmental issues. At its core entrepreneurialism or entrepreneurial action is a mind-set. Entrepreneurial practice covers several different perspectives; economic, management, sociology and psychology. The aim of this unit is to enable leaders to explore the principles of entrepreneurial practice, understand the different contexts in which entrepreneurship can flourish and the characteristics of entrepreneurial leadership