Digital Leadership Programme - CMI Level 7
Our Digital Leadership Programme - CMI Level 7 is designed to help current and future leaders adapt to the challenges of a fast-paced digital environment. It will equip leaders with the skills needed to lead themselves, then translate that knowledge into leading others and forming effective team collaboration.
For organisations to successfully undergo digital transformation, it is important that the leadership team have the skills and confidence to make the right decisions.
Digital transformation and staying relevant in a digital world are the most significant challenges facing organisations today. The Digital Leadership Programme will provide the tools, concepts and perspectives required to help you develop strategic responses to new digital opportunities and align your organisation to deliver strategies effectively.
Through attendance on this course you will become a digitally-informed and empowered leader and know how to prepare and help your organisation respond more effectively to technologically-driven change.
Course Summary
Level 7 Award in Strategic Management and Leadership Practice - Optional
Duration:
3 Day
Location:
Virtual
Delivery Method and Price:
Virtual Classroom:
£1,600
Face to Face Classroom:
£1,900
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About the Programme
This training programme has been designed for those with a minimum of three years senior management experience including senior executives, managers, business owners, board members, CEOs and trustees.
Benefits
This course is for you if you want to:
- Understand the opportunities and threats presented by digital disruption
- Understand current trends and emerging themes
- Develop a digital action plan to implement in your business
- Learn how to develop and implement a digital transformation project
- Become a future digital leader
*Please note that some of the materials and objectives may be subject to change depending on discussions, activities and needs of the cohort upon reflection of delegate responses to the pre-programme questionnaires.*
On completion of this programme, delegates will:
- Understand how to create and communicate a compelling digital vision
- Understanding digital disruption drivers
- Discover how to align and influence stakeholders
- Explore and understand the different kinds of innovation possible for your business
- Understand how to manage developing a digital culture across your organisation
- Understand how to accelerate change through agile methods and taking an iterative approach
- Understand how to lead cultural change within your organisation and bring people on board
- Discover why transformations fail (and how to ensure their success).
- Creating your digital transformation roadmap
- Gain an understanding why digital change is different to traditional change
- Explore different models to help your transformation to succeed
- Come away from the programme with a suite of tools and exercises to take back to your team to explore collaboration, co-creation, innovation, reduce risks, build teamwork and create more robust outcomes.
Session 1
Digital Transformation – Understanding the Digital Environment
Key themes include:
- Digital Transformation: What is it? Why Does it Matter? What does Success look like?
- Digital Transformation Roadmap
- Disruption or Transformation
- Emerging Technologies
- Gartner’s Hype Cycle
Session 2
Digital Leadership – Becoming a Digital Leader
Key themes include:
- Understanding Your Own Business Readiness
- Create a Digitally Ready Culture
- Barriers to change
- Influencing stakeholders and Stakeholder engagement
- Areas Ripe for Transformation
- Collaborative Working
- Getting Buy-in Across the Organisation
- Building Teams for Transformation
Session 3
Digital Strategy and Implementation
Key themes include:
- Developing Your Digital Transformation Strategy
- Innovation & Digitally Disruptive Business Models
- Challenging Existing Business Models
- Planning Your Digital Transformation
- Running a Digital Project
- Executing Your Transformation
- Tools & Methodologies for Implementing Digital transformation
- Review and Measuring Results
- Build Your Action Plan
CMI Level 7 Award in Strategic Management and Leadership Practice
Following completion of the Digital Leadership Programme, learners can opt to continue their studies by completing a CMI Level 7 Award in Strategic Management and Leadership Practice. This qualification is designed for practising middle managers and leaders at operations, division, departmental or specialist level, who are typically accountable to a senior manager or business owner.
Learners are required to complete one 4,000-4,500 word written assignment. Units to be completed include:
- 705: Leading Strategic Change
Benefits of completing the qualification include:
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Learners also receive:
- Targeted tutorials run by our CMI-qualified tutors, to help learners complete the assignment writing phase.
- Dedicated support from the Quality Assurance Team here at In Professional Development, including regular CMI learner drop-in sessions.
- Access to a wealth of CMI online learning resources through their Management Direct website.
Please take a look at our CMI FAQs to find out more about how the qualification works.
Julie Hall
Tutor
Julie Hall is a digital leadership and marketing consultant with over almost two decades of experience.
She is an experienced trainer in marketing, digital leadership and transformation and has worked with the Ministry of Justice, Barclays Bank, The Careers & Enterprise Company and Google.
She has trained and consulted with hundreds of organisations and individuals to support them with their digital projects. She is the Managing Director of Springmedia, a digital agency based in Surrey and The School of Marketing which mentors and supports businesses large and small with their Digital Marketing initiatives.
Julie believes that digital leadership is not just about technology, it is about working with your people, creating the right culture and developing mindsets across teams and people. It is collaborative, creative and about building capability during a time of uncertainty and change.
Matt Eld
Tutor
Matt is an expert in marketing strategy and business transformation. He is a senior leader with over 25 years’ experience of improving and growing businesses, gained from a variety of senior management roles. Matt has held MD and Director posts in a FTSE 250 organisation, Marketing and Communications agency and as a business owner. A CIM Marketer by background, Matt has amassed a wealth of commercial transformation and marketing communications experience. He is an accomplished communicator and is skilled at operating at all levels of the organisation, analyzing and quickly establishing business challenges and developing sustainable solutions. He has strong influencing and negotiation skills and can drive transformation change to success with authority and a clear vision. His broad range of experience covers multiple disciplines including marketing, communications and crisis management, commercial development, change management, organisational development, IT & technology deployment, project management and business improvement.
Matt is a director level project and transformation professional with demonstrated ability to create and translate strategy into measured operational performance improvement. He has extensive experience in marketing, customer acquisition, project management, organisational redesign and commercialization, which he has gained across direct and agency environments in Higher and Further Education, Media & Publishing and Local Government sectors. He is an accomplished leader and influencer from the boardroom to front line teams across multiple location.
Our dedicated In-House Training team can work with you to create a tailored training course that creates an optimal learning experience. Our bespoke built training programmes are designed around your needs and allow you to meet the specific requirements of your business.
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Is this course right for you?
- Understand the opportunities and threats presented by digital disruption
- Understand current trends and emerging themes
- Develop a digital action plan to implement in your business
- Learn how to develop and implement a digital transformation project
- Become a future digital leader
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Frequently Asked Questions
If we have the availability on our course, you can book as many places as you need for your organisation.
However, if you have a group of seven people or more, you may find it more cost effective to book an in-house training course.
The benefits of in-house delivery go beyond cost savings; the course is tailored to your business and industry sector, making the content highly relevant, plus we’ll deliver the training at a time and date to best suit you.
We offer several different types of accreditations for our courses, from CMI Level 5 and CMI Level 7, through to Post Graduate Certificates (PGCert).
A PGCert will contribute 60 points to a Masters, and there are 180 points required for a full Masters.
You can find out more about our accreditations on our Accreditations Page.
Face to face learning is just one of the two delivery methods available for your learning, but why choose the face to face delivery option? At In Professional Development, we ensure that your learning environment is one where you can get the most out of your study.
The benefits of learning in a face to face environment means you have the opportunity to connect with, problem-solve, and network with other delegates from a wide range of backgrounds. In Professional Development deliver the most up to date and relevant solutions, to everyday real world problems for the working professionals.
We strive to create a positive and lasting impact through the delivery of our courses, which is why all our sessions are structured around taught theory, interactivity and shared experiences from the real world. Our online training courses are designed to create the optimum learning experience for the virtual environment. Our training is highly interactive; our tutors make regular use of whiteboard, annotate, polls and other types of interactive software to enhance the learning experience.
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