ILM Award in Leadership and Management – Level 3

This qualification is ideal if you have management responsibilities but no formal training, and are serious about developing your abilities. It’s particularly suited to practising team leaders seeking to move up to the next level of management, and managers who need to lead people through organisational change, budget cuts or other pressures.

Learners must achieve a minimum of two units / four credits to gain this qualification.

All ILM learners receive a minimum of 12 months membership of the Institute of Leadership and Management, providing access to a range of resources that supports their leadership development.

You will have an interview with a course tutor. Ideally you should be a practising or aspiring supervisor/manager.  Applicants who are new to the course must take a numeracy and literacy Level 2 initial assessment test and an interview to ensure that the programme is suitable for them.

The units in this qualification fall into seven broad areas. These are:

• core management skills – such as understanding how to organise and delegate
• ability to perform management tasks – manage projects and lead meetings
• team leadership – for example, how to motivate people to improve performance
• change and innovation – plan and manage change and create a culture of innovation
• a full range of communication skills
• managing people and relationships – negotiation, networking and building relationships
• leadership – understand leadership, using action learning to develop leadership capabilities

This course is delivered off-site.

Nothing additional is needed.

You will develop your knowledge and understanding of solving work-based problems and making decisions based on gathering and interpreting information and evaluating options to determine the most appropriate solution. 

You will also develop an understanding of the factors that influence how people behave at work and you will investigate a range of leadership styles to motivate individuals and monitor performance.  There is the opportunity to look at the importance of planning and delegation and, in the later stages of the course, you will develop your knowledge and understanding of how effective communication at work can increase staff motivation and productivity.

This qualification will provide progression opportunities to other qualifications such as the:

• ILM Level 3 Diploma in Management
• ILM Level 4 NVQ Diploma in Management
• ILM Level 4 Diploma in the Principles of Leadership and Management.

For more information contact Derby College on 0800 0280289 or enquiries@derby-college.ac.uk