PGCERT Cooperative Leadership and Social Entrepreneurship

Course summary

• Enhance your leadership skills by encountering and managing varying perspectives on responsible management issues
• Study flexibly by combining block study in Sheffield with self-directed and distance learning
• Learn from specialists at Sheffield Hallam University, the Cooperative College and the Sobey School of Business

The Post Graduate Certificate in Cooperative Enterprise and Social Enterpreneurship, co-delivered with the Co-operativeCollege (Manchester, UK) and Co-operative Management Education Programme at Sobey School for Business (Halifax, Canada), is designed to enhance your leadership capability. The course focus is on providing you with support to identify your strengths and weaknesses, and delivers the necessary development to enable you to advance your career. This personal development is supported by practical experience and real world academic learning. Together this ensures that you have the skills, knowledge and experience that modern organisations seek from their leaders. On this specialist course, we connect you to staff and students studying at the Co-operative College (Manchester, England), the Co-operative Management Education Programme in Halifax (Canada) and social entrepreneurs coached by Social Enterprise International Ltd. This assists your professional networking efforts and increases your employment opportunities. On completion of the course you can choose to continue your studies and progressing to a full Masters degree, should you desire.

How you learn

This course offers a range of modules that will extend your current knowledge of social entrepreneurship and responsible management theory, including functional areas, people, processes and cooperative business strategy. In order to help you incorporate your learning with your career we streamline the module delivery into study blocks and distance learning activities , and the portfolio style assessments allows you to work related issues as part of your assessment for the programme.

You learn through

• Applying learning to real and simulated case studies
• Networking with industry professionals
• In-class discussions and tutor-led input

Future careers

The Post Graduate Certificate prepares you for a career in a wide range of industries, and this specialist route in Cooperative Leadership and Social Entrepreneurship will additionally equip you to use your skills across a wide range of social enterprises and the third sector.