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Consultation on the Review and Development of Leadership Qualifications

Updated 12 December 2024

Between 1st October 2024 and 8 November 2024, Ringa Hora Services Workforce Development invited feedback on the proposed changes to the suite of leadership qualifications.  

Please find amended draft copies of the qualifications below with incorporated feedback received during the national consultation period.  

The main changes proposed as a result of the review are: 

Level 3 

Current qualification: New Zealand Certificate in Business (Introduction to Team Leadership) (Level 3) [Ref: 2453]  

New qualification:  New Zealand Certificate in Leadership (Level 3) 

  • The Strategic Purpose Statement better reflects the introductory leadership skills focus of the qualification. 
  • The qualification has a broader focus beyond team leadership to be able to identify own values and develop leadership skills to contribute to objectives, organisations, teams, project, and communities.  
  • Graduate Profile Outcomes better reflects the strategic purpose of the qualification.   
  • 6 Graduate Profile Outcomes have been reduced to 5.  
  • The education pathway has been expanded beyond business qualifications to better reflect the entry and exit points, and that leadership is required and relevant to all sectors.   
  • Conditions for Programme have been added to give guidance to education providers.  
  • The significant changes therefore require a new title and a new qualification to replace the New Zealand Certificate in Business (Introduction to Team Leadership) (Level 3). The title of the new qualification will be New Zealand Certificate in Leadership (Level 3).  

 

Level 4 

Reviewed qualification: New Zealand Certificate in Business (First Line Management) (Level 4) [Ref: 2456]. 

New Qualification: New Zealand Certificate in Leadership (Level 4)  

  • The New Zealand Certificate in Leadership (Level 4) has broadened out to incorporate management practices which is covered in the graduate profile outcomes.  
  • 7 Graduate Profile Outcomes have been reduced to 6.  
  • Some of the Graduate Profile Outcomes have increased in credit values.  
  • It was decided by the working group that a new qualification that focussed on people leadership was needed, and the current New Zealand Certificate in Business (First Line Management) (Level 4) focussed on management processes which didn’t meet the leadership needs we had consulted on.  
  • The education pathway has been expanded beyond business qualifications to better reflect the entry and exit points, and that leadership is required and relevant to all sectors.   
  • Conditions for Programme have been added to give guidance to education providers.  
  • The degree of changes requires a new title and a new qualification ID to replace the New Zealand Certificate in Business (First Line Management) (Level 4). The title of the new qualification will be New Zealand Certificate in Leadership (Level 4).  

 

Level 5 

  • It was decided by the working group to separate the strands of leadership and management.  
  • Leadership has enough to cover in the diploma to be able to stand on its own and the Graduate Profile Outcomes have been written to reflect operational leadership competencies.  
  • Conditions for Programme have been added to give guidance to education providers.  
  • It is in line with the generic leadership suite of credentials.  

Update: Feedback of the changes to Level 5 has informed that we need to look at the implications made to management if it is split. We will be submitting the Level 5 Diploma once the entire Diploma with the other strands have been reviewed.   

Level 6  

New Qualification: New Zealand Diploma in Strategic Leadership (Level 6)

  • This will be a new qualification on the NZQCF.  
  • The leadership strand in the New Zealand Diploma in Business (Level 6) will be removed and there will be a brand-new diploma at Level 6 titled the New Zealand Diploma in Advanced Leadership (Level 6) which focuses on strategic leadership. 
  • New Graduate Profile Outcomes were developed to align to the strategic purpose of this qualification.  
  • Feedback from national consultation suggests to change the title from Advanced Leadership to Strategic Leadership to meet the Strategic Purpose Statement and avoid any misinterpretation of what “advanced” may mean.  

 

Your participation in this consultation is invited 

Your thoughts and feedback on the proposed changes are welcomed, particularly about any key changes such as credit values, and changes to the outcomes and qualification specifications.

Please send in any further feedback to [email protected] by 20 January 2025. 

The next working group meeting will be on 21 January 2025.  

Once we have received feedback, we will incorporate any changes into the qualifications and seek signed stakeholder attestation before we submit to NZQA for evaluation.   

We are happy to add people to the email network at any time. If you wish to be included in the email network or have any questions, please email [email protected] 

 

Ringa Hora Services Workforce Development Council, Qualifications Systems Products Team 

For more information on what informed the process, please visit Te Manu Arataki Leadership Project home page. You can also view the environmental scan and the summary of engagement findings.