Level 6 Award Certificate Diploma in Leadership and Management

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Develop your senior leadership and management skills with the most current leadership and management capabilities needed for effective leadership and management within your area of responsibility.

Who is this qualification for?
This qualification is designed for senior managers who are new in their roles, or middle managers who are preparing for promotion.

It provides a valuable bridge towards level 7 qualifications, as learners can carry unit achievement forward to level 7. 

Individuals will have scope and opportunity to focus on their own specific strategic leadership and senior management development needs. The content is based on ILM’s in-depth experience of effective leadership and management development.

Results for the individual


·       Enables you to understand how leadership and management theories and models influence practice

·       Develops your ability to critically review and implement ideas and practices

·       Provides flexibility to allow you to study topics which match your development needs and context

·       Embeds leadership and management development in real work

·       Enables you to evidence how completion of the qualification provides return on investment, by demonstrating how it aligns with your own and organisational needs

·       Develops knowledge and skills to support your future career objectives

·       Offers progression opportunities into level 7 qualifications 

Benefits for employers


·       Develops the senior leadership talent pipeline for effective succession planning

·       Gives prospective senior leaders the tools to understand, develop and evaluate their own performance

·       Combines leadership development with real work projects

·       Ensures immediate relevance and practical benefits to the organisation with assessments emerging from the work context

·       Enables customisation to meet the organisation’s senior leadership and development needs

·       Demonstrates ROI by enabling leaders and managers to develop their leadership and management practice within real time organisational needs

Focus on the skills you need

This level 6 qualification in leadership and management is unit-based, giving you full flexibility to identify the areas of development specific to your own work context and of particular interest and relevance. It provides a comprehensive and complete toolkit for Senior Leaders and Managers.  

Full qualification details

Award

We have different sizes of qualification in increasing order of size

Qualification level
Credit Value

The range of credits a learner must undertake to gain this qualification

5 - 5
Structure

Details of the qualification, learning time involved and criteria a learner must satisfy

Learners must achieve a minimum of 5 credits from units (601 to 612)
Certificate

We have different sizes of qualification in increasing order of size

Qualification level
Credit Value

The range of credits a learner must undertake to gain this qualification

15 - 15
Structure

Details of the qualification, learning time involved and criteria a learner must satisfy

Learners must achieve overall a minimum of 15 credits from units (601 to 612, 504, 514, 522, 529,550, 717).
– A minimum of 8 credits must be from units (601 to 612).
– A maximum of 7 credits may be taken from units (504, 514, 522, 529, 550, 717).
Diploma

We have different sizes of qualification in increasing order of size

Qualification level
Credit Value

The range of credits a learner must undertake to gain this qualification

40 - 40
Structure

Details of the qualification, learning time involved and criteria a learner must satisfy

Learners must achieve overall a minimum of 40 credits from units (601 to 612, 504, 514, 522, 529, 550, 703, 710 to 717).
– A minimum of 21 credits must be from units (601 to 612).
– A maximum of 19 credits overall may be taken from units (504, 514, 522, 529, 550, 703, 710-717).

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