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Level 2 Certificate in Team Leading

The skills and knowledge you need to tackle the role with confidence

Who is this qualification for?

This qualification is designed for new and aspiring team leaders – get an in-depth introduction to the role and its responsibilities. This is a nationally recognised qualification – the ideal launch pad for your management career.

Results for you

  • The core skills to lead a team successfully
  • Motivation techniques to get the best from people
  • The confidence to tackle difficult issues, like underperformance
  • Tools to develop yourself as a leader

Impact for your employer

  • Team leaders equipped with the skills they need to perform
  • Staff who are competent to manage people and relationships
  • Better communication and collaboration in teams
  • Incentivise your staff to develop their potential
ILM Level 3 Certificate in Principles of Leadership and Management

Who is this qualification for?
The ILM Level 3 Certificate in Principles of Leadership and Management is ideal for new and aspiring junior managers. Learners will pick up the core skills and
understanding needed to deal with management responsibilities and develop as leaders, helping to start their career with confidence.

Benefits for individuals
● Get a solid grounding in what it takes to organise, manage and motivate your teams
● Be confident about your ability to perform in your role
● Learn tools and techniques to develop yourself as a leader
● A national qualification to recognise your abilities and experience.
Benefits for employers
● Confident and effective managers
● Better communication, increased productivity, more motivated teams
● A highly flexible qualification – close skills gaps, develop a well-rounded first-line
management team.
The qualification starts with a single mandatory unit which focuses on getting and using
information to make effective decisions and find solutions to problems. Learners then
choose optional units from Levels 2, 3 and 4 according to their needs and skills to help
their formal career development.

ILM Level 5 Award, Certificate and Diploma in Leadership and Management (8607)

Who are these qualifications for?

The Level 5 Award, Certificate or Diploma in Leadership and Management is designed for practising middle managers, helping them to develop their skills and experience, improve performance and prepare for senior management responsibilities.

Benefits for individuals

  • Use core management techniques to drive better results
  • Develop your ability to lead, motivate and inspire
  • Provide strategic leadership as well as day-to-day management
  • Benchmark your managerial skills
  • Raise your profile in your organisation.

Benefits for employers

  • Encourage strategic thinking at this level of management, to foster business improvement
  • Engage middle managers with training and development – this qualification is designed to provide
  • clear, measurable benefits to career-minded professionals
  • Customise this qualification to your development needs.

The qualifications are made up of a broad range of units covering skills in six core areas – working with people, managing yourself and personal skills, providing direction, facilitating innovation and change, achieving results, and using resources. The flexibility in unit choice allows the qualification to be tailored to meet the needs of the individual and employer

ILM Level 6 Award and Diploma in Management

Who are these qualifications for?
These qualifications are designed for senior managers who are new in their roles, or middle managers who are preparing for promotion. They are aimed at sharpening learners’ critical thinking skills and evaluating their performance to prepare for senior leadership. Credits can be carried forward to Level 7 qualifications, so it is a valuable bridge for learners moving from an ILM Level 5 qualification to a Level 7 qualification.

Benefits for individuals
●●Understand the role of a senior manager
●● Take a critical and informed look at your own performance
●●Understand how management theories and models influence management practice
●●Develop your ability to critically review ideas and practices
●●Carry out relevant research to inform the way you work
Benefits for employers
●●Develop senior leadership for succession planning
●●Give prospective senior leaders the tools to understand and evaluate their own performance
The Level 6 Award comprises of two mandatory units, the first unit aims to develop the learners’ knowledge and skills as an executive manager, the second unit requires learners to critically review relevant management theories or models, and undertake research to inform their own management and leadership practice.
The Level 6 Diploma comprises of two unit groups which focus on developing self and the wider organisation, including optimising organisational capacity, managing operations research and developing the executive manager. These skills provide learners the knowledge and skills needed to work and progress in a broad range of occupational areas.

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ILM Level 3 Diploma in Management (Combined Qualification)

Who is this qualification for?
The ILM Level 3 Diploma in Management (Combined Qualification) is ideal for individuals looking to take their first step into line management and for those who already have some management responsibilities.

This combined knowledge and competency based qualification will build and develop new skills to enhance their management career. 

Benefits for individuals
▶ Develop your portfolio of essential management skills
▶ Take charge of your personal and
professional development
▶ Get an in-depth understanding of what is expected of
a manager
▶ Manage your team effectively
▶ Get a recognised qualification for your
personal development.
Benefits for employers
▶ First-line managers with proven competence in the role
▶ A broad selection of optional units to tailor the
qualification to suit your organisations’ learning and
development needs

Learners take five mandatory units in this qualification. The
first unit looks at personal and professional development,
helping the learner to identify their own development
needs and plan how to fulfil them. The second unit
develops practical team management skills. And the
three remaining units of this section delve into the theory
behind people management, leadership and business.

ILM Level 5 Diploma in Principles of Leadership and Management (8610)

Diploma in Principles of Leadership and Management

Who is qualification for?
This qualification is designed for new and aspiring middle managers seeking a thorough grounding in their
role and responsibilities, plus the opportunity to consolidate and further develop the key skills and
knowledge they need at this level.

Benefits for individuals

  • Enhance core management capabilities
  • Develop knowledge in specialist areas, such as finance and marketing
  • Take responsibility for your own development as a leader
  • Prove you can make a measurable impact on your organisation through work-place based projects
  • and assessment
  • Benchmark your managerial skills with a nationally recognised qualification.

Benefits for employers

  • Build sustainable management practice that works for the long term
  • Encourage staff to proactively manage their career progression
  • Close skills gaps – the broad range of optional units means you can customise this qualification to fit organisational development needs.
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Qualification aim

To provide learners working in an organisation with the leadership and management knowledge and skills required to progress in their career and on to further study.

Who is the qualification for? Ideal for professionals who manage teams or projects and are responsible for achieving operational or departmental goals and objectives as part of their organisation’s strategy. The learner must be in employment to take this qualification.

Benefits for individuals

  • Develop your ability to lead, motivate and inspire to drive better results.
  • Use core management techniques to provide practical leadership and operational management skills.
  • Benchmark your managerial capability against other professionals.
  • Raise your professional profile within your organisation
ILM Level 4 Certificate and Diploma in Principles of Leadership and Management

Who are these qualifications for?
The Level 4 Certificate and Diploma in Principles of Leadership and Management are designed to develop aspiring middle managers and first line managers. Learners build core skills in middle management and can access a wide range of optional study areas to help them gain specific management skills to suit their needs. The Diploma also forms part of the ILM Level 4 Management Apprenticeship.

Benefits for individuals

  • Gain the knowledge to support your middle management role
  • Take control of your personal development
  • Understand change in the workplace
  • Build positive and productive relationships at work
  • Get a nationally recognised qualification.

Benefits for employers

  • Motivated middle managers with proven ability to perform
  • Managers who can assess and improve their development
  • Better communication and collaboration in teams
  • Flexible choice of units – customise the qualification to suit your organisation
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