ILM Level 6 Award in Leadership & Management

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Course outline:

This level 6 Award qualification in leadership and management is unit-based, giving you full flexibility to identify the areas of development specific to your own work context and of particular interest and relevance. It provides a comprehensive and complete toolkit for Senior Leaders and Managers.

There are 9 half-day sessions during which the learner will:

• Be able to apply the meta skills required for an effective manager
• Understand leader behaviours within an organisation
• Be able to apply their understanding of crisis management, agility and resilience to improve their personal impact
• Understand the strategic management process and the role of cross functional interaction in supporting organisational strategy
• Be able to support and assess the process of strategic management and cross functional interaction

Further details of all 9 sessions can be found in the Delegate Guide which will be emailed to you upon request.

Course outcomes

Your achievement of this qualification not only benefits you but also has a positive impact for your employer:

• Develops the senior leadership talent pipeline for effective succession planning
• Gives prospective senior leaders the tools to understand, develop and evaluate their own performance
• Combines leadership development with real work projects
• Ensures immediate relevance and practical benefits to the organisation with assessments emerging from the work context
• Enables customisation to meet the organisation’s senior leadership and development needs
• Demonstrates ROI by enabling leaders and managers to develop their leadership and management practice within real time organisational needs

Who Should Attend?

This qualification is for senior managers seeking to prepare themselves for promotion and sharpen their strategic management capability. It provides a valuable bridge towards level 7 qualifications, as learners can carry unit achievement forward to level 7.

Why Should You Attend?

This course will help you to:

• Enables you to understand how leadership and management theories and models influence practice
• Develops your ability to critically review and implement ideas and practices
• Provides flexibility to allow you to study topics which match your development needs and context
• Embeds leadership and management development in real work
• Enables you to evidence how completion of the qualification provides return on investment, by demonstrating how it aligns with your own and organisational needs
• Develops knowledge and skills to support your future career objectives
• Offers progression opportunities into level 7 qualifications

Assessment

To achieve a Level 6 Award in Leadership & Management you will need to complete the units: 

• Unit 601 Developing personal effectiveness and impact (6 credits). This unit will enable the learner to fully explore ongoing learning in the utilisation of meta skills, crisis management, agility and resilience to develop their personal effectiveness and impact. 
• Unit 612 Introduction to strategic management (4 credits)

Progression

This qualification will provide progression to expand your qualification by studying one or more units to:

• The Certificate in Leadership & Management builds on the Award and learners must achieve overall a minimum of 15 credits 
• The Diploma in Leadership and Management builds on the Certificate learners must achieve overall a minimum of 40 credits