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.
What will you learn?
ILMÂ Level 5Â Leadership and Management (Module 4)
Module 1 – Assessing Your Own Leadership Capability and Performance
- Understand leadership styles within an organisation
- Review the prevailing leadership styles in the organisation
- Assess the impact of the prevailing leadership styles on the organisation’s values and performance
- Be able to review effectiveness of own leadership capability and performance in meeting organisational values and goals
- Assess own ability to apply different leadership styles in a range of situations
- Assess own ability to communicate the organisation’s values and goals to staff in own area
- Assess own ability to motivate others and build commitment to the organisation’s values and goals
- Be able to adopt an effective leadership style to motivate staff to achieve organisational values and goals
- Justify the most effective leadership style to motivate staff in own area, to achieve the organisation’s values and goals
- Implement the most effective leadership style in order to motivate staff in own area to achieve the organisation’s values and goals
Module 2 – Managing own continuing professional development ( M5.31 )
- Be able to review personal and work-related development experiences, aims, objectives and priorities
- Evaluate prior learning and work-related experience to identify personal strengths and weaknesses in self-development
- Assess personal development aims, objectives, and priorities for the long, medium and short term
- Be able to undertake and evaluate planned development activities
- Evaluate development opportunities for the long, medium and short term
- Justify undertaking planned personal development activities to employment and learning supervisors
- Negotiate and undertake planned and resourced development activities
- Evaluate the effectiveness of the development activities in meeting personal aims, objectives, and priorities
- Be able to review and reflect on learning and its effect on workplace performance
- Critically review how learning and development has been applied in the workplace to improve own or others’ performance
- Review and revise short, medium and long-term goals based upon personal development activities and their impact on the workplace
Module 3 – Managing personal development
- Understand how to identify and prioritise work-related development requirements
- Prioritise own work-related development needs with employment supervisor and/or learning supervisor
- Evaluate available development support and resources and their constraints, with employment supervisor and/or learning supervisor
- Be able to implement and evaluate planned development activities and apply learning in the workplace
- Plan and agree development activities with employment supervisor and/or learning supervisor
- Undertake development activities as planned
- Review at agreed intervals, with employment supervisor and/or learning supervisor, the effectiveness of development activities in meeting objectives and needs
- Determine, with employment supervisor and/or learning supervisor, how learning and development can be used to improve workplace performance
- Understand the impact of development on workplace performance
Module 4 – Becoming an effective leader
- Understand own ability to fulfil key responsibilities of the leadership role
- Evaluate own ability to use a range of leadership styles, in different situations and with different types of people, to fulfil the leadership role
- Use theories of emotional intelligence to review the effect of emotions on own and others’ performance
- Be able to evaluate own ability to lead others
- Review own ability to set direction and communicate this to others
- Review own ability to motivate, delegate and empower others
- Produce a personal development plan to improve own ability to lead
How to gain your certification?
- Work through each of the modules sent to you by Harpar Ltd
- At the end of each module, there will be an assignment
- Complete the assignment with the guidelines provided and send your assignment via email to carol@harpar.com
- Once you have completed all the assignments to the required standard, you will gain your certification.
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