Course overview
The Certificate is suitable for an individual who has a large span of management responsibilities, or those with prior experience in a managerial role who is seeking to develop their skills, improve personal and team performance and be prepared for senior management responsibilities.
The ideal candidate will develop their ability to lead, motivate and inspire to drive better results within their organisation.
Credit Value: 15 Credits
What you'll learn
Successful completion of this unit will enable you to take responsibility for managing your own development.
In this unit, you will develop, work on and evaluate your own personal development plan. You will write monthly reflections on your progress and, at the end, evaluate what you have learned and how it has impacted you and your organisation, before resetting your plan for the future.
As part of the process, you need to agree on your CPD Plan with both your coach and your line manager.
By the end of this unit, you will be able to:
- review personal and work-related development experiences, aims, objectives and priorities.
- undertake and evaluate planned development activities.
- review and reflect on learning and its effect on workplace performance.
You will be asked to:
- evaluate your prior learning and work-related experience to identify personal strengths and weaknesses in self-development.
- assess your personal development aims, objectives and priorities for the long, medium and short term.
- evaluate development opportunities for the long, medium and short term.
- justify undertaking planned personal development activities for your employment and learning supervisors.
- negotiate and undertake planned and resource development activities.
- evaluate the effectiveness of the development activities in meeting personal aims, objectives and priorities.
- critically review how learning and development have been applied in the workplace to improve your own or others’ performance.
- review and revise short-, medium- and long-term goals based upon personal development activities and their impact on the workplace.
The learning is designed to increase your understanding and stimulate your own insights into leadership and management as it relates to your own situation, circumstances and preferences, in order to enhance your performance and that of your organisation. You will be asked to explore the following, through a critical comparison of your own performance against existing feedback and external sources:
- your performance as a manager
- your knowledge base.
- the requirements of your role and/or profession
- your leadership style.
- your learning preferences
Study method
- Online
- Blended
- In-class
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Duration study load
- 6 months
Entry requirements
There are no formal entry requirements, but participants will normally be either practising or aspiring middle managers who are serious about developing their abilities.
Assessment
Personal Development Plan
Delivery
Attendance Method: Online delivery, featuring executive coaching and tutor support.
Certificate: 7 x 1-2-1 coaching/tuition sessions – monthly (MS Teams or Zoom)
Each unit involves a number of learning activities which may include:
- Online learning
- Monthly tutorial sessions with your personal tutor
- Practical work-based assignments
- Regular feedback from your tutor and the assessment team
All students are provided with studying membership of the Institute of Leadership & Management or Chartered Management Institute (CMI) for the duration of their course.
Subjects
Successful completion of this unit will enable you to take responsibility for managing your own development.
In this unit, you will develop, work on and evaluate your own personal development plan. You will write monthly reflections on your progress and, at the end, evaluate what you have learned and how it has impacted you and your organisation, before resetting your plan for the future.
As part of the process, you need to agree on your CPD Plan with both your coach and your line manager.
By the end of this unit, you will be able to:
- review personal and work-related development experiences, aims, objectives and priorities.
- undertake and evaluate planned development activities.
- review and reflect on learning and its effect on workplace performance.
You will be asked to:
- evaluate your prior learning and work-related experience to identify personal strengths and weaknesses in self-development.
- assess your personal development aims, objectives and priorities for the long, medium and short term.
- evaluate development opportunities for the long, medium and short term.
- justify undertaking planned personal development activities for your employment and learning supervisors.
- negotiate and undertake planned and resource development activities.
- evaluate the effectiveness of the development activities in meeting personal aims, objectives and priorities.
- critically review how learning and development have been applied in the workplace to improve your own or others’ performance.
- review and revise short-, medium- and long-term goals based upon personal development activities and their impact on the workplace.
The learning is designed to increase your understanding and stimulate your own insights into leadership and management as it relates to your own situation, circumstances and preferences, in order to enhance your performance and that of your organisation. You will be asked to explore the following, through a critical comparison of your own performance against existing feedback and external sources:
- your performance as a manager
- your knowledge base.
- the requirements of your role and/or profession
- your leadership style.
- your learning preferences
About Academy of Leadership & Management
At The Academy of Leadership & Management, we focus on developing leaders, managers, coaches, mentors and business advisers through practical work-based and distance learning programmes. All our courses lead to globally recognised qualifications from an awarding body e.g. ILM or the Small Firms Development Initiative (SFEDI). We are also an Institute of Enterprise and Entrepreneurs (IOEE) approved academy.
We offer distance learning courses in the following subject areas:
- Leadership & Management
- Coaching & Mentoring
- Business & Enterprise
- Business Advice & Consulting
- Education
Our development programmes are available to both individual students and employers who want to develop their people at an organisational level. Our courses are delivered online – making for a flexible and cost-effective learning option which can fit into a busy schedule. We also have a strong track record of designing tailored in-house programmes suitable for employers. Additionally, we also provide programme management, accreditation and learning consultancy services.