ILM L7 Leadership & Management Diploma

Course details

EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT - EARN 60 MBA CREDITS
 
The ILM Level 7 Leadership & Management qualification provides the opportunity for you to reflect, explore and evaluate where you are as a leader, how you can be future ready, and how you can naviage through the challenges of ; You will be afforded the opportunity to explore strategies, theories, application, techniques and best practices to further support and developyour skills as a leaader and manager.

Course Structure
The ILM Diploma requires that you complete 60 credits  - you must complete all three mandatory units to obtain the qualification

Unit 1- Developing Leadership & Management Capability through Enquiry - 20 Credits
Assessing the challenges ahead, regionally, globally, what competencies are required to tackle these issues?  What Makes a Great Business Leader?   How can we future proof our leadership skill set?   Going beyond leadership stereotypes, exploring cross cultural trends, social and emotional intelligence, looking at leadership in action.
Reviewing assessing own leadership competencies and development. Leadership in context - Ethical leadership
The ability to think critically and to make informed decisions is crucial to the leadership role, tools for generating a problem solving approach to leadership challenges is essential.
Evidenced based management 
Making informed decisions - Tools to help you clarify the problem, generate ideas, develop and implement more creative solutions
Be able to generate and evaluate viable options and apply decision-making techniques  Critical thinking -  
Tools and strategies to generate innovative responses to business problems and opportunities 

Unit 2 - Developing a high-level Business Case
20 Credits
Navigating the winds of Change and volatility
The current global business climate ensures dynamic change will be a major concern for the discerning leader. Despite the best efforts, creating stability, healthy organisations and being responsive to business environments will continue to challenge leaders.
Becoming a strong visionary as a tool for fighting volatility
Communication strategies for creating corporate "buy in" for vision
Becoming an 'agent for change'
The psychology of change and uncertainty
Stakeholder management - Developing a vision that engages and resonates with stakeholders
Fresh perspectives, collaboration and dealing with complexity
Developing agility in decision making
Developing a high-level business case

Unit 3 - Developing & Maintaining High Performance Culture & Optimising Resources  
20 Credits 
Reviewing organisational vision, business context, operating environments
Shaping the vision into a strategy with an emphasis on outputs, ownership and performance
Linking strategic planning and decision making with business' overall objectives. Strategic planning and influencing factors
Establishing relevant metrics for optimum performance
Assessing and benchmarking performance, against organisational strategy
Case study - Implementation of The Balanced Scorecard
operational management - developing excellence 
Determining quality - TQM approach to excellence
Identification of risks and challenges to current ways of working
Managing corporate risks
Developing robust systems and strategies to minimize corporate risks 
Establish strategies for the development and maintenance of high levels of performance that take account of stakeholder needs, identified risks, challenges and diversity
 
Assessments          
As part of your qualification, you will be required to complete an assessment in relation to all of the units on your ; ILM's approach to assessment is to ensure that it enables you apply and demonstrate their knowledge, skills and awareness to real-life workplace challenges.
 In order to obtain this prestigious and highly recognised qualification, you will need to complete an assessment for each unit, which is usually 1 assessment per ;  Assessments can be taken in a variety of formats, from presentations to written reports.
 
Resources and Support
As part of this course you will be provided with the essential requirements for success!  You will be allocated an experienced and expert Leadership E-coach who will provide support and guidance throughout your ; They will assist you with the completion of your assessments, providing feedback and ; You will also be provided with access to a range of resources, both online and hard copy ; As part of the course you will receive complimentary ILM studying membership, the benefits of which include:
Complimentary subscription to Edge magazine, the Institute's leadership and management magazine
The Ci Zone, free access to a suite of interactive career development tools and resources.
The Resource Centre brings you the access to latest leadership and management thinking through a free online catalogue of e-books, business books summaries and thousands of e-journal articles.
The Learning Zonehas over 400 digital learning resources covering essential management and leadership topics, many of which have been mapped to directly support learners on the ILM programmes.
Full access to the ILM Insight  - where managers, leaders, HR professionals, training experts,
academics and opinion-formers come to network, share advice and find hot topics and research.

What is included in the cost?
• Registration and certification
• Course materials/handbook/e-learning resources
• ILM Studying Membership
• Assessment marking and feedback on assessments
An allocated tutor who provides support and guidance Updated on 09 July, 2018