Leadership Track: ILM Level 3 Award in Leadership & Management

Course details

Course Overview

Overview
This combination of ILM units focuses on leadership skills, including team building, motivation, organizing & delegating.

Qualification
To earn the ILM Level 3 Award in Leadership & Management, candidates must pass practical assessments with a minimum of 4 credits.
In addition, each unit also counts as credit towards the Full Qualification of the Level 3 Certificate in Leadership & Management.

Target Audience
Practicing or aspiring first line managers who wish to develop leadership and management skills.

Prerequisites
There are no formal entry requirements, but learners must be in a position to meet the assessment demands – ideally
using their workplace as the basis for assignments.

International Curriculum
Validated by the Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM).

About ILM
The Institute of Leadership and Management is Europe's leading awarding body for leadership and management qualifications. More people in the UK gain leadership and management qualifications with ILM than from all other awarding bodies in the UK combined.

ILM qualifications bring about practical benefits because they focus on improvement – improvement of leaders and managers in their roles, improvement in the teams they lead and in the products and services they provide, and improvements in organizations and the way they operate.

*Please note: ILM Vocationally Related Qualifications (VRQs) are part of the Qualifications and Credit Framework applicable in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, providing successful candidates with transferable qualification credit.

ILM L3 UNDERSTANDING LEADERSHIP
ILM # 8600-308
7 Hrs, 2 Credits

SECTION 1 APPRECIATING THE ROLE OF THE LEADER

• Leadership
• Management v Leadership

 
SECTION 2 UNDERSTANDING THEORIES OF LEADERSHIP

• Trait theories
• Behavioral theories
• Contingency theories
• Situational leadership
• Transactional leadership
• Transformational leadership
• Team leadership styles

SECTION 3 USING THE TECHNIQUES OF LEADERSHIP

• Leadership Style
• Power, authority and influence
• Trust

ILM L3 SOLVING PROBLEMS AND MAKING DECISIONS
ILM # 8600-300
7 Hrs, 2 Credits

SECTION 1 APPROACHES TO PROBLEM SOLVING

• Problem solving and decision making
• Types of problems and decisions
• Understanding the problem
• Objective setting
• Problem solving approaches
• The problem with solving problems

 
SECTION 2 DATA AND INFORMATION

• Data vs Information
• Finding data
• Turning data into information
• Analysis, averages and statistics
• Using charts and graphs
• Scatter diagrams
• Displaying information
• Making sense of qualitative data

 
SECTION 3 EVALUATING AND PRESENTING YOUR DECISIONS

• Decision making context
• Information for problem solving and decision making
• Leadership styles and decision making style
• Evaluation of options
• Evaluating potential solutions

SECTION 4 IMPLEMENTING THE DECISION

• Communicating the decision
• Planning and monitoring projects
• Monitoring and evaluation

 ILM L3 UNDERSTANDING HOW TO ESTABLISH AN EFFECTIVE TEAM
ILM # 8600-309
7 Hrs, 1 Credit

SECTION 1 BUILDING THE RIGHT WORKING RELATIONSHIPS

• Building effective relationships that work
• Barriers to effective relationship building
• The importance of trust in the workplace

SECTION 2 MAKING GROUPS INTO TEAMS

• Team structures
• The difference between a group and a team
• The hierarchical team
• The expert team
• Stages of team development
• Team roles
• The effective team

ILM L3 UNDERSTANDING HOW TO MOTIVATE TO IMPROVE PERFORMANCE
ILM # 8600-310
7 Hrs, 2 Credits

SECTION 1 IDENTIFYING WHAT MOTIVATES TEAM MEMBERS

• Behavior at work and motivation
• Factors affecting motivation
• The traditional theories of motivation
• Maslow’s hierarchy of human needs
• Frederick Herzberg – two factor theory
• Douglas McGregor
• Modern frameworks for understanding motivation
• The three needs theory
• Goal setting theory
• Reinforcement theory

SECTION 2 USING THEORY OF MOTIVATION TO IMPROVE PERFORMANCE

• Designing motivating jobs
• Equity theory
• Expectancy theory
• Suggestions for motivating employees

ILM L3 UNDERSTANDING ORGANISING AND DELEGATING IN THE WORKPLACE
ILM # 8600-319
7 Hrs, 1 Credit

SECTION 1 PLANNING THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE TEAM

• Planning and organizing the team’s work
• Human resource planning
• Succession planning
• Job design
• Techniques of job design
• Redeployment

SECTION 2 EFFECTIVE DELEGATIONS AND EMPOWERMENT

• Delegation and empowerment
• Power
• Delegation
• How to delegate
• Negotiation
• Empowerment
• Benefits of empowerment
• Problems with empowerment
• Techniques for monitoring delegation and empowerment