BCS - Practitioner in Leading with an IT Mindset

Duration

Duration:

Just 2 Days

Method

Method:

Classroom / Online / Hybrid

Next date

Next date:

10/2/2025 (Monday)

Overview

This accelerated BCS: Practitioner in Leading with an IT Mindset course, is a practitioner level award encourages individuals in IT and technical roles to develop an improved understanding of their leadership style and discover tools, techniques and behaviours to lead a team successfully.

Enhance your career by building upon your personal and business skills with a holistic, industry-driven qualification. You’ll gain a good understanding of the facets of leadership in a digital organisation, including:

  • Understanding the core concepts of leadership, including identifying your own leadership style and delegation techniques;
  • Learning key methods in building motivated, solutions-driven teams;
  • How to incorporate ethics and Green IT into your team;
  • Methods for increasing digital productivity;
  • Understanding the drivers for change and continual improvement.

In just 2 days, you’ll learn to understand how to lead effectively, manage driven digital teams that enact solutions, and increase digital productivity across your organisation. You’ll also learn how to:

  • Develop skills and knowledge to support successful business change programmes within your organisation.
  • Aligned to CITP criteria.
  • Attain one of the four modules you need to achieve the IT Business Partner Award.

At the end of this course, you’ll sit the BCS exam, and achieve your BCS: Practitioner in Leading with an IT Mindset certification.

Through Firebrand’s Lecture | Lab | Review methodology, you’ll get certified at twice the speed of the traditional training and get access to courseware, learn from certified instructors, and train in a distraction-free environment.

Audience

This course is ideal for:

  • Digital professionals looking to enhance their soft skills in target areas.
  • IT business partners, business analysts, business managers and members of their team, business change managers and project managers.

Four reasons why you should sit your course with Firebrand Training

  1. You'll be trained and certified faster. Learn more on this 2-day accelerated course. You'll get at least 12 hours a day of quality learning time in a distraction-free environment
  2. Your course is all-inclusive. One simple price covers all course materials, exams, accommodation and meals – so you can focus on learning
  3. Pass first time or train again for free. Your expert instructor will deliver our unique accelerated learning methods, allowing you to learn faster and be in the best possible position to pass first time. In the unlikely event that you don't, it's covered by your Certification Guarantee
  4. Study with an award-winning training provider. We've won the Learning and Performance Institute's "Training Company of the Year" three times. Firebrand is your fastest way to learn, with 134.561 students saving more than one million hours since 2001

Curriculum

Module 1: The Skills of a Successful Leader (35%)

  • Demonstrate an understanding of leadership preferences
  • Analyse the suitability and application of different leadership styles
  • Analyse the suitability and application of different delegation styles
  • Explain how to develop personal resilience
  • Demonstrate actions that show investment in your own development

Module 2: Build and Support Teams to Provide Solutions (40%)

  • Explain the need for resilience in a team Interpret team dynamics
  • Explain methods for managing change
  • Analyse the presence of ethics in an organisation
  • Demonstrate behaviours that drive innovation
  • Explain how to collaborate with individuals whose expertise is different to your own
  • Analyse the sustainable practices and actions present in an organisation

Module 3: Explore the Role of Technology in Driving Continuous Improvement and Productivity (25%)

  • Explain the use of technology internally and externally to improve productivity
  • Analyse the impact of digital transformation on an organisation
  • Analyse the potential impact of future technology on an organisation

Exam Track

At the end of this accelerated course, you’ll sit the following exam at the Firebrand Training centre, covered by your Certification Guarantee:

BCS: Practitioner in Leading with an IT Mindset exam

  • Duration: 45-minutes
  • Format: ‘closed book’ exam format with 20 multiple choice 1- and 2-mark questions
  • Number of questions: 20
  • Passing score: 70% (21/30)

What's Included

Your accelerated course includes:

  • Accommodation *
  • Meals, unlimited snacks, beverages, tea and coffee *
  • On-site exams **
  • Exam vouchers **
  • Practice tests **
  • Certification Guarantee ***
  • Courseware
  • Up-to 12 hours of instructor-led training each day
  • 24-hour lab access
  • Digital courseware **
  • * For residential training only. Accommodation is included from the night before the course starts. This doesn't apply for online courses.
  • ** Some exceptions apply. Please refer to the Exam Track or speak with our experts
  • *** Pass first time or train again free as many times as it takes, unlimited for 1 year. Just pay for accommodation, exams, and incidental costs.

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites to attend this accelerated course.

Are you ready to get certified in record time?

We interview all applicants for the course on their technical background, degrees and certifications held, and general suitability. If you get through this screening process, it means you stand a great chance of passing.

Firebrand Training is an immersive training environment. You must be committed to the course. The above prerequisites are guidelines, but many students with less experience have other background or traits that have enabled their success in accelerated training through Firebrand Training.

If you have any doubts as to whether you meet the pre-requisites please call 21 96 61 82 and speak to one of our enrolment consultants, who can help you with a training plan.

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