Level 7 Award Certificate Diploma Extended Diploma in Strategic Leadership and Management

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Develop your strategic leadership and management skills with the most current leadership and management capabilities needed for effective leadership.

Who are these qualifications for?
This qualification is designed for senior / strategic leaders and managers seeking to sharpen their strategic leadership capability, enabling them to deliver successful outcomes for their organisation.

It is suitable for leaders who want to make the best use of resources, develop commercially viable propositions, innovate, optimise performance and drive impact. 

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

Results for the individual

·       Enables you to develop, implement and evaluate high-level strategies

·       Enhances your strategic leadership and management development in real work

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

·       Enables you to evidence how completion of the award 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 further level 7 qualifications or our level 8 unit for CEOs

Benefits for employers

·       Gives senior leaders the tools to 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 contexts

·       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 7 qualification in strategic 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 Strategic 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

7 - 7
Structure

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

Learners must achieve a minimum of 7 credits from units (703, 715 to 717).
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 (700 to 703, 710 to 717, 601, 606, 607, 609 to 612).
– A minimum of 8 credits must be from units (700 to 703, 710 to 717).
– A maximum of 7 credits may be taken from (601, 606, 607, 609 to 612).
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 (700 to 703, 710 to 717, 601 to 612).
– A minimum of 21 credits must be from (700 to 703, 710 to 717).
– A maximum of 19 credits may be taken from units (601 to 612).
ExtendedDiploma

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

60 - 60
Structure

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

Learners must achieve overall a minimum of 60 credits from units (700 to 703, 710 to 717, 601 to 612, 800).
– A minimum of 31 credits must be from units (700 to 703, 710 to 717).
– A maximum of 29 credits may be taken from units (601 to 612, 800).

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