CIPD Level 7 Advanced Diploma in
Strategic Learning & Development (DSLD)
Course Content & Delivery
Block 1
On completion of this unit, learners will:
- Understand ways in which major, long-term environmental developments affect employment, work and people management in organisations.
- Understand current and short-term developments in the people management business environment.
- Understand how change, innovation and creativity can promote improvements in organisational productivity.
- Understand the key interrelationships between organisational commitment to ethics, sustainability, diversity and well-being.
On completion of this unit, learners will:
- Understand the benefits of aligning people practices with organisational strategy and culture.
- Understand how the development of people practices improve organisational performance and employee experience.
- Understand current practice in major areas of people management and development work.
- Understand the role and influence of people professionals in different organisational settings.
Block 2
On completion of this unit, learners will:
- Understand ways in which major, long-term environmental developments affect employment, work and people management in organisations.
- Understand current and short-term developments in the people management business environment.
- Understand how change, innovation and creativity can promote improvements in organisational productivity.
- Understand the key interrelationships between organisational commitment to ethics, sustainability, diversity and well-being.
On completion of this unit, learners will:
- Understand the benefits of aligning people practices with organisational strategy and culture.
- Understand how the development of people practices improve organisational performance and employee experience.
- Understand current practice in major areas of people management and development work.
- Understand the role and influence of people professionals in different organisational settings.
Block 3
On completion of this unit, learners will:
- Understand the concepts and theories underpinning organisational design and development.
- Understand the range of options for organisational design and how these align with organisational aims and objectives.
- Understand the methods and approaches to organisational development as a means of enabling organisations to meet their goals.
- Understand responses to organisational change and the strategies for a successful implementation.
On completion of this unit, learners will:
- Understand management and leadership within the wider organisational, social, political and cultural context.
- Understand differences between a range of leadership and management development interventions.
- Understand the outcomes of leadership and management development programmes.
- Understand the development of international managers and leaders so that they can operate in a global context.
Block 4
On completion of this unit, learners will:
- Understand how learning is impacted by both the external environment and internal organisational context.
- Understand the importance of learning needs assessment to inform the design process.
- Understand the role of impact measurement within the learning process.
- Understand the importance of design and delivery of learning events in context.
On completion of this unit, learners will:
- Understand how major strategic and contextual forces shape the management of people in international organisations.
- Understand how and why people management practice varies between different countries and regions across the world.
- Be able to manage staffing and employment practices in international organisations.
- Understand effective and sustainable people management activities in international contexts.
