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Solution Focused Thinking & Leadership – (M.Sc.)

Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus

Lord Ashcroft International Business School
Application Deadline: as early as possible
Location: Cambridge / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴
Duration: 18 months Start Date: September
Educational Form:
  • Taught
Education Variants:
  • Parttime
Languages: English 
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Location of Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus

Our Solution Focused Thinking & Leadership course has been designed with three integrated awards:

Postgraduate Certificate in Solution Focused Thinking & Coaching\

This level will provide a foundation by focusing on coaching and developing teams/others to adopt solution focused thinking approaches to your organisational context, with the over-arching aim of demonstrating a contribution to enhancing organisational performance.

Postgraduate Diploma in Solution Focused Leadership

This level will build on the coaching context and integrate the knowledge and applied learning achieved at Certificate level to the wider context of leadership and strategic related initiatives that focus on enhancing employee engagement, business improvement and facilitating innovative thinking and practice.

MSc in Solution Focused Thinking & Leadership

This level will focus on specific contemporary leadership related issues in line with leading edge practice and research.

All phases of this Masters course will focus on solution focused thinking and leadership related issues. Each stage of our course can be completed within a minimum of six months and therefore the full Masters qualification can be achieved within 18 months.

Additional course information
Our MSc in Solution Focused Thinking & Leadership aims to meet the personal and professional requirements of managers and leaders within organisations, whilst also adding measurable value to both your and your organisation via providing the opportunity to align your development opportunities with organisational needs.
Our qualification framework has been designed to progressively develop the acquisition and application of a solution focused thinking approach, which can be contextualised and applied to any contemporary organisational issue.
The emphasis of this course is on a strong, practical and professional orientation to the curriculum with work-based learning at the core of its design, which naturally facilitates alignment to organisational experiences.


Contents

Module guide
Core modules: PG Cert

* Solution Focused Thinking - Performance Improvement Coaching
* Solution Focused Thinking for the Reflective Leader

Core modules: PG Dip

* Solution Focused Thinking for Business Improvement Methodologies
* Solution Focused Thinking for the Strategic

Core modules: MSc

* Management Practice Portfolio

Assessment
Our course facilitates the development of knowledge, skills and behaviours through work based learning and application. It offers you the opportunity to align their academic study with work-based practice and undertake assessment through work-based application therefore facilitating experiential learning.

Forms of assessment include:

* project-based assignments will assess your intellectual skills via your ability to integrate theory and practice to draw meaningful insights into complex business issues
* project-based assignments will assess your intellectual skills via producing rigorous analysis, conclusions and recommendations that your organisations can adopt and thereby facilitate opportunities for business impact to be assessed
* reflective based assignments at both Certificate and Diploma level and a reflective related requirement within the Portfolio Based project at Masters level will continually refocus your mind on drawing new meaning and understanding from project-related experiences
* the portfolio based approach at Masters level will equally require you to present tangible evidence that demonstrates both academic rigour and business impact and the extent to which innovative approaches have been adopted in determining new insights to complex, business related problems.

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Requirements

1. Entrants to hold a degree from a UK university. Usually this will be at a minimum classification of lower second class honours. 2. Holders of other awards, including those from non-UK universities will be considered on the equivalence of their qualification. 3. Entrants to demonstrate previous relevant experience, preferably no less than 2 years at junior or middle management level. 4. Candidates who do not possess any of these entry criteria, but can demonstrate appropriate relevant experience in a post of management or professional responsibility may be admitted if, in the opinion of the admissions tutor, they are capable of profiting from and contributing to the programme. 5. Requests for admission for AP(E)L will be managed via standard university procedures. 6. Entrants to complete and submit, along with their application form, a document of no more than 500 words that outlines what specific personal development goals they hope to achieve by embarking on the award(s). 7. Students will need to be in employment or have access to an organisation in order to be eligible for this pathway. Non-Academic Conditions: Samples of written work required

Additional Requirements

Minimal degree required: Bachelor's degree
Minimal amount of work experience Not specified

Language Proficiency

IELTS Band: 6.5
Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): Grade C (Score: 60)
TOEFL Paper-based: 600
TOEFL Computer-based: 250
TOEFL Internet-based: 100

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