This qualification reflects the role of individuals who apply specialized knowledge and skills, together with experience in leadership and management to manage business or business departments/sections with accountability for personal and team outcomes within broad parameters. Individuals at this level use initiative and judgement to plan and implement a range of leadership and management functions of their own workload and work outcomes as well as the work load and work outcomes of the staff who report to them. They use cognitive and communication skills to identify, analyse and synthesis information from a variety of sources and transfer their knowledge to others, and creative or conceptual skills to express ideas and perspectives or respond to complex problems.  

  The Target Market for this course is identified by Australian Smart College as international students who have an aptitude and aspiration for:

• Using this qualification as a vocational pathway to furthering their career as business managers and leaders and/or
• for undertaking further studies at an undergraduate level in business management and leadership

  At an Advanced Diploma  level it is anticipated that the overseas student, applying to enter this course, will have gained previous business qualifications obtained either overseas or in Australia and/or some previous work skills or experience obtained overseas  through which the student needed to apply specialised knowledge and skills, together with experience in leadership and management to manage business or business departments/sections with accountability for personal and team outcomes within broad parameters. These Individuals would have to have used initiative and judgement to plan and implement a range of leadership and management functions of their own workload and work outcomes as well as the work load and work outcomes of the staff who report to them