This apprenticeship course has been designed for aspiring or newly appointed operations or departmental managers. An operations or departmental manager is someone who manages teams and/or projects. They support achievement of operational or departmental goals and objectives, as part of the delivery of the organisation’s strategy. They are accountable to a more senior manager or business owner.

 

The program is based on the principles of action centred leadership, first published by John Adair in 1973. This model identifies three core management responsibilities which are achieving the task, managing the team, and managing individuals. The professional manager apprenticeship has adapted this to focus on you as the individual and how you manage yourself. Once you understand yourself and what motivates you, then you can manage people in a team. This then allows you to achieve the task. You will therefore study three modules which are:

• Managing yourself
• Managing people
• Managing operations

 

In line with the apprenticeship model, the course is designed to support a training in practice approach. You will already be employed by an organisation who will sponsor you throughout the course and enable you to transfer your learning to your job role.

 

The professional manager apprenticeship is a 19 months L5 course based on a blended model of classroom-based teaching, remote online learning, and work-based task completion. You will complete the course by conducting a live project agreed between you and your line manager which allows you demonstrate a wide range of knowledge and skills.

 

Throughout the course you will be supported by a dedicated course leader and subject experts with current occupational competence gained in a variety of industries. Your work-based learning coach will support you to link theory to practice and build a portfolio of evidence that demonstrates your competency against the apprenticeship standards.