ILM Level 5 - Developing & Leading Teams to Achieve Organisational Goals & Objectives
Course Information
- Course Code: EC223A
- Duration: 3 weeks x 6 hours
- Price: £480.00
- Times: 13:00-19:30
- Validated by: NONE
- Delivery Type: PT
Start Dates
- Overview
This ILM Level 5 Unit is designed for middle managers, helping them to develop their skills and experience and prepare for senior management responsibilities.
- What will I study?
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.
By undertaking this unit, students will better understand the following:
- The importance of leading teams to achieve organisational goals and objectives
- Concepts of authority and power; responsibility and accountability
- Differences between managing in public, private and voluntary sectors
- Processes of delegation and empowerment
- Factors influencing behaviour at work; theories of motivation and their application to individuals, including incentives and rewards
- Strategies to encourage managed risk-taking and to learn from failure
- The characteristics and behaviours associated with initiative, leadership, creativity and
innovation, and how to foster them
- Need for performance assessment, and provision of development and/or counselling where necessary
- Relationship between team performance and organisational goals and objectives
- The Balanced Scorecard
- Quality initiatives such as TQM
- Techniques to evaluate team performance
- Feedback, recognition and reward techniques to support, motivate and monitor
- Develop and lead teams
- Characteristics of groups and teams, team membership and leadership
- The importance of direction and values in creating effective teams
- Stages in team development, use of team roles for building a balanced team
- Teams in different contexts, e.g. operational, project, management, contractors, volunteers
- Inter-relationships between team and individual performance and development
- Factors influencing behaviour, theories of motivation and their application to teams, including reward systems, promotion, succession, and job rotation
- Techniques to evaluate team performance
- Techniques to review own performance, such as peer review and 360° feedback
- Entry Requirements
Candidates would normally have completed the ILM Level 3 Certificate in Leadership & Management and/or be employed in a managerial role. An informal discussion with the Programme Leader is recommended to ensure that the qualification meets individual needs.
- How will I be assessed?
Written management report
- What can I do next?
This course forms part of the full Level 5 ILM Diploma in Leadership & Management. For more information about this qualification, please see our website or contact us.
- For more information
For more information about this course, contact our specialist team on 01254 29 25 00 or email business@blackburn.ac.uk