ILM Level 5 Certificate in Leadership & Management

The Level 5 Certificate in Leadership and Management is designed for practicing 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

Progression:

This qualification will provide progression opportunities to other qualifications including:

• ILM Level 5 Extended Diploma in Leadership and Management
• ILM Level 5 Diploma in Principles of Leadership and Management

The units that will be covered during this course are as follows:

Managing Improvement

• Understand the effectiveness of the organisation and own ability to manage and improve quality to meet customer requirements
• Be able to plan and implement projects to meet, and if possible exceed, customer requirements

Understanding Organisational Cultures and Ethics

• Understand organisational ethics and culture, in relation to own organisation
• Understand how an organisations ethics and culture influence leadership style and organisation structure
• Understand how to leverage ethics and culture to improve organisation performance

Becoming an Effective Leader

• Understand own ability to fulfill key responsibilities of the leadership role
• Be able to evaluate your own ability to lead others

Delegating Authority in the Workplace

• Understand the benefits of delegation
• Be able to delegate effectively in the workplace
• Be able to improve own ability to delegate and empower others

Each candidate must complete to a national standard:

Work-based assignment and Unit assessments to cover the units.

A minimum of 13 credits and a maximum of 36 credits are required to complete this qualification and must be completed within 3 years.