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ILM Level 3 Award in Leadership & Management Days: 6

Location: Nationwide

With increasing pressure to produce better results with fewer resources, leadership and management capabilities are more important than ever. Our training programme will help to develop the knowledge, skills and behaviours which are needed by highly effective people managers.

Course Structure support, supplementary resources, and hands-on assignment projects.

Who Should Attend

move up to the next level of management, and managers who need to lead people though organisational change, budget cuts or other pressures.

Course Content Our engaging course includes case studies, and offline work, promoting reflective review, book and extra resources recommendations design to inspire participants to identify opportunities to implement their learning in the workplace.

• Define the meaning of vision, mission and values.

• Explore employee engagement and alignment with organisational strategy.

• Examine a range of motivational theories.

• Identify a range of leadership styles that will promote the growth of individuals and team.

• Identify a range of tools for an effective workplace coach.

• Develop the skills to effectively identify workplace problems.

• Discover methods to generate suitable options.

• Address techniques for analysing options.

• Identify methods of evaluation and review.

Modules All modules and resources are accessed via our market leading Learning Management System.

Module 1 Understanding Leadership • Understand leadership styles.

• Describe the factors that will influence the choice of leadership styles or behaviours in workplace situations.

• Explain why these leadership styles or behaviours are likely to have a positive or negative effect on individual and group behaviour.

• Understand leadership qualities and review own leadership qualities and potential.

• Assess own leadership behaviours and potential in the context of a particular leadership model and own organisation’s working practices and culture, using feedback from others.

• Describe appropriate actions to enhance own leadership behaviour in the context of the particular leadership model.

Module 2 Planning Change in the Workplace • Set clear directions and align objectives within the team • Utilise delegation and empowerment as motivational tools • Balance team and individual goals for enhanced performance • Understand team development stages and utilise team roles for balance • Recognise the significance of direction and values in building effective teams • Manage remote teams using effective techniques • Employ a coaching style and apply the GROW model for goal-setting and performance improvement

Module 3 Understanding the Communication in the Workplace • Understand the nature and importance of the communication process in the workplace.

• Describe the stages in the communication cycle.

• Identify and overcome possible barriers to communication in the workplace.

• Explain how non-verbal communication can influence the effectiveness of oral communication.

• Explain the value of feedback in ensuring effective communication.

• Be able to assess own effectiveness in communication.

• Assess own performance in a frequently used method of communication.

• Identify actions to improve own performance in communicating.

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ILM Level 7 Award in Leadership & Management

Days: 6

Location: Nationwide

the world of strategic leadership. In this course, you'll build on your existing skills and learn how to approach leadership from a strategic perspective. We focus not just on teaching theories, but also on how to apply strategic leadership and management techniques to your own professional situations. motivate your team, and guide your organisation towards its objectives. Join us for a practical, hands-on exploration of advanced leadership with our Level 7 Course in Leadership and Management.

Course Structure personalised 1:1 support, supplementary resources, and hands-on assignment projects.

Who Should Attend satisfy various stakeholders and want to invest in their own personal brand, to create organisational and personal impact through high level engagement with practice, innovation and critical thinking, underpinned by practical and applied research and the application of theoretical frameworks.

Course Content Our engaging workshops include facilitated discussions, presentations, case studies, and group work, promoting reflective review and inspiring participants to identify opportunities to implement their learning in the workplace.

Each delegate will be encouraged to develop an improvement or change project to deliver back into knowledge and skills, as well as providing tangible returns for both themselves and their organisations.

• Focus on your specific leadership and management development needs • Learn to use networks and harness the power of social learning • Know how to use an enquiry led evidence based approach to develop your leadership and management capability • Develop and enhance your personal brand • Develop, implement and evaluate high-level, strategic, business cases • Embed your leadership and management development in real work • Develop knowledge and skills to support your future career aspirations.

Workshop 1 Strategic Analysis • • Define your ability to lead others.

• Be able to implement your own personal development plan.

• Understand an organisation’s ethical and value-based approach to leadership.

• Understand leadership styles.

• Understand the leadership skills required to succeed.

Workshop 2 Leading Teams • Learn the theories of leadership and how to assess leadership capability.

• Define your leadership and management team structure, roles and responsibilities.

• Learn how to effectively lead teams to achieve organisational goals and objectives.

• Learn how to assess your team and leadership capability.

• Identify and agree performance objectives for your team and individuals.

• Define how to assess performance against objectives and provide feedback.

• Learn how to provide guidance and support to improve performance.

• Learn how to apply the organisation’s disciplinary and grievance procedures effectively.

Workshop 3 Leading and Implementing Change • Define what we mean by change and why we make it, how to effectively communicate the need for change.

• Know the importance of planning change within a company, the steps and processes.

• Be able to lead and manage change, using teams within an organisation.

• Learn how to identify stakeholders (power/influence) and their influence and effect within the business.

• Measure what matters; how to apply and improve quality standards.

• Learn how to conduct a quality audit and how to use it to drive up quality standards.

• Learn the leadership skills needed to promote continuous improvement and change.

• Be able to produce and implement a communications plan for a change process

Workshop 4 Organisational Performance • Learn how to plan work in the workplace based upon performance measurements.

• Know how to allocate work to team members to ensure ownership, resources and leadership are effective.

• Learn how to improve the performance of a team in delivering to plan and how to deal with variance.

• Know the value of assessing performance to meet organisational and individual needs.

• Leaders must manage the performance of individuals in the team.

• Develop leaders’ skills in the value of feedback in the workplace.

• Learn how to manage underperformance in the workplace and what to do with it

Workshop 5 Strategic Transformation • Communicate the need for innovation and change management within an organisation, being able to communicate that to all • Clear Career Progression stakeholders.

Each level provides a •stepping to the next, offeringsolutions a clear progression Evaluatestone and propose innovative to improve pathway for your team.organisational performance, being fit for purpose and in line with strategic goals.

• Global Recognition • Identify and justify a management making a business ILM accreditation is recognised internationally, enhancing project, the professional case and defining business outcomes. standing of your team members.

• Initiate and conduct research using sources and analyse data • Consistent Learning Approach and options available in making decisions, using risk analysis.

• Draw conclusions and recommendations that achieve the project of the level of leadership. aim, how to measure evidence and make recommendations.

• Be able to show and review the results of the project outcomes to • Applicable Skills stakeholder Each level focuses on the skills that are most relevant and impactful for that stage of leadership development.

Workshop 6 • Empowered Leaders By offering accreditedManagement development atPresentations each career stage, we empower your

leaders to lead confidently, no matter where they are in their leadership • Participants will give a presentation on their chosen journey. assignment/project.

• Managers and/or Directors from their organisation will be invited to attend their session.

• Feedback and results from the course will also be covered

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