Introduction To Leadership And Management ILM/City & Guilds Unit Certificate

Course details

Management and leadership are not the same thing. Some managers can also be very good leaders, while some excellent leaders are hopeless managers. When a person can combine top-notch leadership abilities with modern management skills they give themselves and their organisation very strong competitive advantages.

Key Management and Leadership skills include:

• Understanding Leadership
• Leadership Style For You
• Management Styles
• Management Behaviour
• Ethics
• Impact On Others
• Getting Results

Understanding Leadership

• Defining leadership
• Defining management
• Comparing leadership and management
• Importance of the leader-manager approach

Leadership Style for You

• Leadership styles - overview
• Dictatorial style of leadership
• Paternalistic style of leadership
• Consultative style of leadership
• Transformational style of leadership

Management Styles

• Management styles - overview
• Objectives-driven management
• Management styles matrix
• Management context
• Developing an ethos of management

Management Behaviour

• Role-related behaviours
• Individual and corporate culture
• Approach to human motivation
• Emotional intelligence for managers
• Decision-making behaviours

Ethics

• Ethics - overview
• Ethics Vs the law
• Unethical behaviours
• Fostering an ethics-driven culture

Impact on Others / Getting Results

• Understanding teams and teamwork
• Developing a culture of teamwork
• Practical implementation of teamwork
• Results through teams

Assignment - No Examination

Each learner will complete an assignment as set out by the course tutor