BSB42015 Certificate IV in Leadership and Management – Aspiring Leaders Program

Course overview

This course is no longer available to new students.

IMPORTANT: This qualification has been impacted by recent changes announced by the Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA). As a result, the final date Kaplan Professional will accept assessment submissions is 18 March 2022. This means you may not receive the full maximum duration advertised for this qualification and/or may not be able to access one or more extensions that might otherwise have been available to you under Kaplan Professional’s vocational education extension policy. It is essential that all students review the information here to understand what this means for you before proceeding with your enrolment. If you enrol, it will be taken that you have read and understood this information.

If you want to explore the opportunity to embark on a leadership and management journey, our Aspiring Leaders Program is for you.

Designed for individuals who are ready to take their first step into a leadership and management role, this program will help build your leadership qualities, confidence and a foundation for career progression.

With the guidance of a personal online coach, you will explore your potential and develop your own unique leadership characteristics to ensure you’re well equipped to lead in today’s fast-paced and dynamic business environment.

This program comprises three subjects:

Develop Your Leadership and Management Skills
Support and Manage Team Performance
Implement Operational Plans and Processes

On completion of the Aspiring Leaders Program, you will be awarded the nationally recognised BSB42015 Certificate IV in Leadership & Management.

Please refer to our course outline for more information.

Subject information

1 Subjects

Develop Your Leadership and Management Skills

Your success as a leader and manager is often based on the foundation skills you develop. This subject focuses on ensuring you develop the foundation leadership and management skills you need to succeed in leadership and management roles.

Support and Manage Team Performance

You will learn about managing and maximising the performance of the people and the teams you work with.

Implement Operational Plans and Processes

In this subject, you will learn how to effectively use limited resources available to you to implement plans, achieve goals, manage risks, and prepare a continuous improvement plans for your area of the organisation.

2 Learning Outcomes

This comprehensive program will teach you to:

Recognise how to enhance the effectiveness of their communications and motivate others to follow their directions.
Identify how to be an effective networker and build capability to consult, collaborate, make good decisions and obtain feedback.
Identify how to use technology to manage information.
Explain how to ensure compliance with organisational and external standards.
Demonstrate how to set goals that align to those of the organisation.
Create work plans and schedule people’s time.
Apply the process of managing performance, underperformance and provide feedback.
Monitor, measure and adjust productivity.
Demonstrate the process of assessing, managing and evaluating learning and development.
Demonstrate understanding performance expectations for their area of an organization and determine, request and acquire resources to achieve those expectations.
Outline how to use those resources effectively and efficiently to maximise performance and productivity, and reduce waste.
Apply the processes of assessing and managing risk and managing change.
Use project methodologies.
Assist and support improved performance of their people, teams and area of the organisation.

3 Units of Competency

The 12 units of competency are awarded for the successful completion of Certificate IV qualification; 4 core and 8 electives. For information on the units of competency see the course outline in the course overview tab.

4 Course fact sheet

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Duration

Individuals have a total of:

36 weeks to complete the learning and assessment requirements for BSB42015 Certificate IV in Leadership & Management, from their initial activation date.
An additional four (4) weeks resubmission time per subject– If you reach the end of your initial enrolment period and have been deemed not yet competent in one or more assessment items, then an additional 4 weeks will be granted, provided you attempted all assessment tasks during the initial enrolment period. There is no fee for this extension.

Therefore, if an individual completes the learning and assessment, and the resubmission time in every subject is granted, the duration will be 48 weeks.

The subject breakdown for this course is below:

Subject	Duration
CIVLM1 – Develop your Leadership and Management Skills	12 weeks course work 4 weeks resubmission time as outlined above
CIVLM2 – Support and Manage Team Performance	12 weeks course work 4 weeks resubmission time as outlined above
CIVLM3 – Implement Operational Plans and Processes	12 weeks course work 4 weeks resubmission time as outlined above

The amount of training for this course may be up to 15 hours per week. The amount of training is the hours an individual can expect to spend to complete their course work and assessments.

In addition to the amount of training, individuals who are new to industry or vocational training could need up to 5 hours per week known as unsupervised hours. These additional hours are for study skills or further research. For example, an individual not working in industry would need more time to review industry websites that are usually introduced in workplace compliance training. Individuals working in industry may be able to complete the course requirements in a shorter timeframe or less hours per week.

If a student applies for extensions beyond the 36-week completion timeframe or is granted special consideration, the maximum period of time to complete this qualification is two years from the qualification activation date. If enrolling in single subjects with the intention of completing a qualification, the two year timeframe is calculated from the initial activation date of the first subject.

Additional study-related fees apply to formal extensions and re-enrolments. Please refer to the Vocational Education Fees schedule found here.

Please also refer to our Vocational Education and Training (VET) Enrolment Terms and Conditions here or our Student Handbook here for important information on:

Subject activation and completion timeframes
Extensions
Subject re-enrolment

Assessment

The assessments for each subject are listed below. Units of competency are co-assessed by topic within subjects, as listed in ‘Units of competency’.

Subject	Assessment	Assessment Detail
CIVLM1 – Develop your Leadership and Management Skills	1 Written Assignment	Written assignment – two (2) attempts • Short answer questions and activities
CIVLM2 – Support and Manage Team Performance	1 Written and Oral Assignment	Written and oral assignment – two (2) attempts • Written – short answer questions and activities • Oral – includes oral questions, role play, presentation. The mode of oral assessment is by phone/Skype
CIVLM3 – Implement Operational Plans and Processes	1 Written and Oral Assignment	Written and oral assignment – two (2) attempts • Written – short answer questions and activities • Oral – includes oral questions and presentation. The mode of oral assessment is by phone/Skype

Individuals may submit their assignments at any time if they believe they are adequately prepared.

Individuals must be deemed competent in all assessment items in order to be awarded their qualification.

The BSB42015 Certificate IV in Leadership & Management qualification will be awarded upon successful completion of all units of competency.

Personal online coach

As part of the Aspiring Leaders Program, you will have access to a personal online coach.

The online coach is an experienced professional who will assist and guide your learning. At key milestones (below) throughout each subject, you will have the opportunity to submit your written assignment and receive feedback from your coach:

Week 3
Week 6
Week 9

In addition, you will have access to the Leadership and Management Community where you are able to meet your peers, share ideas and resources, and post any questions you may have to the community. Your coach will also be available through the Community to answer your queries.

Gary Pickworth, personal online coach

Gary is a self-motivated and passionate leadership and management facilitator with over 30 years’ experience in various leadership and management roles. With a strong reputation for engaging audiences and meeting milestones, he is highly skilled and experienced in managing the change process of individuals and teams in the training environment. He possesses flexibility, well-honed skills, deep insight, and a thorough understanding of human motivation, and highly developed communication and presentation skills with a flair for influencing, persuading and building rapport.

His facilitation style is engaging, entertaining and highly interactive, and is focused on integrating the new learning quickly and efficiently so participants can immediately apply this new learning effectively. As a people development specialist, his ultimate goal and passion is to transform learner’s raw potential and talent into refined performance excellence.

Entry Requirements

There are no entry requirements for this course.

Individuals are required to be aged 18 years or older to enrol in this course.

Individuals who are in Australia on a student visa are unable to enrol in this course. If you’re in Australia on a visa and wish to enrol, you need to ensure you’re enrolling in accordance with the study conditions of your visa.

Language, Literacy and Numeracy (LLN) requirements

This course requires you to read comprehensive learner workbooks, complete a range of written assessments, undertake independent research activities and at times engage in online forums and discussions. Furthermore, the delivery mode relies on the extensive use of written and oral communication.

If you have any doubts about whether you have the language, literacy and numeracy skills to undertake a Kaplan Professional program, we recommend you speak with our Student Services team on 1300 662 203 or email mail@kaplan.edu.au.

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Skill requirements

To successfully complete this qualification, individuals will require basic computing skills. This may include:

saving and editing Microsoft Office documents
researching, accessing and searching the internet
downloading and saving documents from websites
uploading documents through websites
participating in online discussions

This course requires you to read comprehensive learner workbooks, complete a range of written assessments, undertake independent research activities and at times engage in online forums and discussions. Furthermore, the delivery mode relies on the extensive use of written and oral communication.

If you have any doubts about whether you have the language, literacy and numeracy skills to undertake a Kaplan Professional program, we recommend you speak with our Student Services team on 1300 662 203 or email mail@kaplan.edu.au.

Recommended browsers

You can access KapLearn using any of the browsers below, but it runs best on the latest versions:

Firefox 3 or later
Chrome 4 or later
Safari 3 or later
Internet Explorer

You may find it helpful to have more than one browser installed on your computer. If you experience problems using Kaplan’s online learning system, try using another browser.

Browser settings and support

For the best user experience at Kaplan’s online learning system, select the following browser settings:

enable cookies
enable JavaScript
do not block pop-up windows

To successfully complete this qualification, individuals will require basic computing skills. This may include:

saving and editing Microsoft Office documents
researching, accessing and searching the internet
downloading and saving documents from websites
uploading documents through websites
participating in online discussions

Enrolment Information

1 Who should enrol?

Aspiring leaders looking to develop their leadership foundations and who are about to commence work in (or wish to secure) roles such as:

Team Leader
Unit Manager
Customer Service Manager
Supervisor
Office Manager
Sales Team Leader
Facilities Supervisor
Administration Manager

2 When can I enrol?

You may enrol into this program at any time and begin studying immediately on enrolment.

Enrol now

3 Delivery

The course is delivered online. Kaplan Professional’s online learning portal, KapLearn, enables us to provide you with innovative, interactive learning resources and support. You can access KapLearn from anywhere at any time using a computer or mobile device that has internet access. KapLearn is where you access the learning material, activities and assessments, as well as access ongoing support.

The course textbook Management: Theory and practice by Kris Cole (6th edition) is provided on enrolment.

4 Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL)

Individuals may be able to obtain Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) for a Kaplan Professional award subject based on their previous study and/or work experience. To do this, individuals must submit evidence that demonstrates they have already met the requirements of the subject through these other means.

Evidence can take many forms, such as information about approved study, information about work experience, certificates, transcripts or other credentials.

To find out if you are eligible for RPL, refer to our Credit Transfer and Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) page.

Policies

Student Policies

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