Level 5 Award in Leadership and Management

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.

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 practicing 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.

Results for you

• Gain a range of key management skills
• Put new skills into practice in your own role
• Build your leadership capabilities
• Motivate and engage teams, manage relationships confidently
• Develop your leadership skills using your own knowledge, values and motivations.

Impact for your employer

• Effective and confident first-line managers
• Better relationships and communication in teams
• Measurable results: workplace-based assessment ensures new skills are effectively transferred to your business
• A broad range of optional units – qualification can be tailored to your organisation’s learning and development needs.

Focus on the skills you need

You can take this qualification as a concise Award, a broader Certificate or a comprehensive Diploma. 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, lead meetings
• team leadership – for example, how to motivate people to improve performance
• change and innovation – plan and manage change, create a culture of innovation
• a full range of communications skills
• managing people and relationships – negotiation, networking, building relationships
• Leadership – understand leadership, use action learning to develop your leadership capabilities.

Work with your employer or training provider to map units to your needs and skills gaps.