Management and Leadership MSc Brochure - Employers

Management and Leadership MSc

In partnership with

Cranfield Masterships Master’s level apprenticeships ®

Our MSc in Management and Leadership, delivered in partnership with Grant Thornton, provides a unique opportunity to sponsor your high potential talent through a highly-regarded course. It will develop their leadership and management capability, enabling them to become more reflective and evidence-based leaders of the future. Who is it for? This course is for employers who want to accelerate the development of high potential, early-career managers, building the organisation’s management and leadership pipeline and strategic leadership capability. It has been designed to meet the requirements of the Government Senior leader master’s degree apprenticeship standard. Benefits to your learners Your future managers and leaders will benefit from a postgraduate qualification and personal development opportunity with one of the UK’s top business schools. The practical nature of the course enables learners to gain a ‘real-world’ business education which they can apply directly back to their workplace. The course equips participants to: • develop leadership capabilities in themselves and others, in order to meet modern societal and business challenges, • gain comprehensive knowledge of core business functions enabling them to progress into a variety of management areas, • develop a strategic mindset to enable the achievement of business objectives, • develop the self-awareness and confidence to effectively lead and operate as part of a team. Benefits to your organisation As an employer you will accelerate the development of your managers and leaders, improve retention, and empower a network of individuals to work on meaningful organisational initiatives with the support of a world-class business school partner. The organisation-based project can be tailored to your needs and deliver a specific piece of research or consultancy work of value to you, and throughout the course employees have the opportunity to network with talented professionals from a range of industry backgrounds, providing a continual source of new ideas and benchmarks. As they become more analytical, learn how to adapt and contribute to strategy development, they will be able to apply best practice and be more effective in your organisation. Strengthen your management and leadership pipeline

Business impact through progressing your strategic agenda

Organisation-based project to advance your organisation’s strategic agenda

Application of all learning to your organisation’s context

Alignment to your organisational development initiatives

Assessment by assignment focusing on practical application

Develop staff through peer coaching and professional coaching sessions

Modules that provide an integrated approach to your business

Course details Our Management and Leadership course will develop your future managers’ and leaders’ skills through insights, commercial application and effective management frameworks. It leads to a Master of Science (MSc) qualification.

Modules

Course information

Leading Strategic Operations

Start date March and September

Part-time Two years Eight residential weeks made up of one week face-to-face modules per quarter, and approximately 20% through a mix of online and face-to-face learning. Fees Please see the individual course pages on our website for full fee information. The Apprenticeship Levy meets the full tuition and assessment costs for eligible learners. Terms and conditions apply.

Marketing Strategy

Leading Corporate Sustainability

Entry requirements Normally between one and five years’ post-qualification work experience in any sector with a first or second class UK honours degree (or international equivalent). If candidates do not have a good first degree, we will consider a professional qualification together with five years’ post-qualification work experience. We will also evaluate other relevant qualifications, together with significant experience.

Accounting

Economics for Managers

Leading with Impact: Organisational Behaviour

Strategic Management and Leadership

Enterprise Performance and Risk Management

Management Consulting

Disruptive Innovation

People Management and Leadership

Location Cranfield School of Management and Grant Thornton London.

Delivery 65% taught modules 35% organisation-based project.

Evidence-based Management

Organisation-based project

The Cranfield and Grant Thornton partnership Cranfield University and Grant Thornton are delighted to jointly offer this MSc grounded in real-world insight and taught by leading academic experts. We have listened to the market and, based on our insight into what makes truly great leaders, we have developed a curriculum that responds to the needs of modern dynamic organisations. This unique partnership combines the best of academic insight and commercial application. We will use this to help your staff become the impactful leaders of the future and establish connections to propel their personal and professional development. Cranfield School of Management A world-leading, purely postgraduate university and home to one of the most internationally recognised and long-established business schools in Europe. We have a global reputation for developing high-performing leaders in technology and management. We unlock the potential of people and organisations by partnering with business and governments to deliver transformational research, postgraduate education and professional development. Grant Thornton Grant Thornton UK LLP is part of one of the world’s leading organisations of independent advisory, tax and audit firms. Driven by the ambition to build a vibrant economy by unlocking growth in dynamic organisations, Grant Thornton is committed to developing the skills and knowledge critical for future productivity and sustainable, long-term prosperity. The course is challenging and will stretch even the brightest minds, encouraging future managers and leaders to explore new areas and push themselves beyond their comfort zones.

Accreditation Cranfield School of Management is one of an elite group of business schools worldwide to hold triple accreditations from:

Management MSc Ranked 3 rd in the UK and 30 th in the world in The Economist Which? MBA Masters in Management (MiM) 2019 ranking TOP 10

Contact us

Cranfield School of Management Cranfield, MK43 0AL, UK

Grant Thornton 30 Finsbury Square London, EC2P 2YU, UK

@cranfieldmngmt /cranfieldsom /cranfieldmanagement Cranfield School of Management

T: +44 (0)1234 754432 E: studysom@cranfield.ac.uk www.cranfield.ac.uk/som/mml

T: +44 (0)20 7728 2387 E: apprenticeship@uk.gt.com www.grantthornton.co.uk

Every effort is made to ensure that the information in this leaflet is correct at the time it is printed. Please check www.cranfield.ac.uk/som for the latest details.

Terms and conditions can be found at www.cranfield.ac.uk/som/feeinformation

Version July 2020