Diploma in Professional Communication
Course Overview
The Diploma in Professional Communication at the London School of International Business and Management (LSIBM) is a Level 4 practitioner qualification for candidates ready to own the way an organisation talks to its people, its customers and its stakeholders — an internal-comms lead at a UK bank, a corporate-communications executive at a listed firm, or a change communications adviser inside a public-sector transformation. Sitting inside the Entrepreneurship & Executive Studies faculty, the Diploma covers executive drafting, internal comms strategy, cross-channel planning, crisis-comms basics and stakeholder mapping.
The Diploma runs over 9 to 12 months and is available on-campus in central London, fully online, or by distance learning. Tutors are working communications practitioners drawn from CIPR and IABC networks, and the closing assessment is a 90-day comms plan for a simulated UK restructuring or acquisition. The sections below cover modules, audience and progression.
Key Features
- Curriculum reviewed against the CIPR Advanced Certificate and IABC foundation communication standards.
- Three study modes — central London campus, fully online, or distance learning — with the same tutor cohort.
- Real-world assessment: a 90-day comms plan for a simulated UK restructuring or acquisition.
- Working practice on Poppulo, Workshop, LinkedIn Elevate and Microsoft 365 as internal-comms platforms.
- Direct articulation into the LSIBM Advanced Diploma or Higher Diploma in Professional Communication.
What You Will Learn
The Diploma builds a working comms professional. You will finish able to draft a CEO all-hands script, run a stakeholder mapping session, plan a phased internal announcement, and hold your own with a UK exec team under pressure.
- Executive drafting — CEO memos, board notes and all-hands scripts.
- Internal communications strategy and channel design.
- Change communications — Kotter, ADKAR and Bridges applied to UK workplace reality.
- Stakeholder mapping — power/interest, Salience and RACI-style comms plans.
- Cross-channel planning — email, intranet, town hall, chat and video.
- Crisis communications basics and holding lines under pressure.
- UK GDPR, workplace consultation duties and the ACAS Code in comms decisions.
- Measurement — reach, sentiment, action and comms ROI evidence.
Who This Course Is For
- Communications executives ready to own a portfolio and a channel plan.
- HR business partners inheriting communications responsibility during change.
- Change managers formalising their comms practice at a UK employer.
- Executive assistants moving from admin support into strategic comms drafting.
- Consultants building an internal-comms practice line inside a UK firm.
Career Pathways
Diploma graduates step into first-tier comms roles across UK corporates, financial services, professional services, public sector and mid-market SMEs. The Diploma is a working credential — outcomes remain individual.
- Communications Executive (senior)
- Internal Comms Manager
- Change Communications Adviser
- Corporate Communications Officer
- Executive Communications Specialist
- Employee Engagement Lead
The Diploma is a direct feeder into the LSIBM Advanced Diploma, the CIPR Diploma in Internal Communication, and the CIPR PR & Communication Diploma.
Entry Requirements
- A relevant Certificate (Level 3) or equivalent — mature applicants with two years of comms, HR or change experience are welcomed on a portfolio route including a writing sample.
- GCSE English Language at grade 4/C and Mathematics at grade 4/C (or international equivalent).
- IELTS 5.5 overall (no band below 5.0) for non-native English speakers.
- A short statement of intent and one academic or professional reference.
Why Study at LSIBM
The London School of International Business and Management (LSIBM) is a specialist business-education provider based in central London and part of Harold International College. We teach in small cohorts so every student is visible to their tutor, run a single intake schedule that students can rely on, and partner with UK professional bodies — CMI, CIM, CIPD, ACCA, CIMA, CFA UK, CIPS and IOE&IT — so qualifications carry weight with employers.
London puts the City, Canary Wharf, Whitehall, Companies House, the FCA, the Bank of England and the West End within a short tube ride of every classroom. Diploma cohorts run structured cohort clinics with working practitioners — a Big-Four tax adviser, a CIM Fellow in marketing, a CIPD-chartered HR director — so students meet professional expectations well before graduation.
Apply for the Diploma in Professional Communication
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