Level 7 Leadership and Management

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Develop your strategic skills, make informed decisions and enhance your personal brand

Who are these qualifications for?

These Level 7 vocational qualifications are designed for senior managers and leaders seeking to develop themselves as leaders and managers, who recognise they must satisfy various stakeholders and who want to invest in their own personal brand. They are looking to make the best use of resources, understand the need to innovate and optimise performance. They may also have to present arguments for change, construct business cases, lead change implementation and evaluate the impact of that change.

Results for you

  • Know how to use an enquiry led evidence based approach to develop your leadership and management capability
  • Develop and enhance your  personal brand
  • Develop, implement and evaluate high-level, strategic, business cases
  • Embed your leadership and management development in real work.

Impact for your employer

  • Senior leaders and managers who have the ability to think and act strategically
  • Senior leaders and managers who make informed evidence based decisions
  • Motivated staff who can create and maintain a high performance culture
  • Senior team members who are self-aware and take responsibility for self-development

Focus on the skills you need
The Award in Leadership and Management  consists of one, flexible, mandatory unit that allows the learner to identify and work on the areas of leadership and management development specific to their own work context and of particular interest and relevance.

The Certificate also consists of one mandatory unit that requires the learner to take a data-driven,  enquiry-based approach to their management development. 

The Diploma in Leadership and Management builds on the Certificate and contains two additional mandatory units. The first focuses on presenting arguments for change, constructing business cases and leading change implementation, the second on the creation and maintenance of high performance cultures. The Diploma is 60 credits is equivalent to a PG Certificate and one third of a Masters in most UK university business schools.

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

10 - 10
Structure

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

1 mandatory unit - 10 credits
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

20 - 20
Structure

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

Learners are required to complete one mandatory unit (700) with a credit value of 20 credits to achieve this qualification.
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

60 - 60
Structure

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

Learners are required to complete the three mandatory units (700-702) with a combined credit value of 60 credits to achieve this qualification.

Information for ILM centres

For each qualification select the units you want to deliver using the qualification specification builder. The builder does NOT verify if your selection of units meets the ‘rules of combination’. Rules are displayed at the top of each qualification page. If you have any questions about unit combinations please contact ILM Customer Services or your EV.

Award

Level 7 Award in Leadership and Management

Level 7 Award in Leadership and Management
  • Two hours induction
  • At least 3 hours tutorial support
  • One mandatory unit
  • 10 credits
Level 7 Certificate in Leadership and Management
  • Two hours induction
  • At least 3 hours tutorial support
  • One mandatory unit
  • 20 credits

Level 7 Diploma in Leadership and Mangement

6 hour induction
At least 9 hours tutorial support
Three mandatory units
60 credits

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  • 8617-703 Developing Strategic Leadership and Management Capability 10 15

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Certificate

Level 7 Certificate in Leadership and Management (FPR)

Level 7 Award in Leadership and Management
  • Two hours induction
  • At least 3 hours tutorial support
  • One mandatory unit
  • 10 credits
Level 7 Certificate in Leadership and Management
  • Two hours induction
  • At least 3 hours tutorial support
  • One mandatory unit
  • 20 credits

Level 7 Diploma in Leadership and Mangement

6 hour induction
At least 9 hours tutorial support
Three mandatory units
60 credits

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  • 8617-700 Developing Leadership and Management Capability through Enquiry 20 30

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Diploma

Level 7 Diploma in Leadership and Management (TPR)

Level 7 Award in Leadership and Management
  • Two hours induction
  • At least 3 hours tutorial support
  • One mandatory unit
  • 10 credits
Level 7 Certificate in Leadership and Management
  • Two hours induction
  • At least 3 hours tutorial support
  • One mandatory unit
  • 20 credits

Level 7 Diploma in Leadership and Mangement

6 hour induction
At least 9 hours tutorial support
Three mandatory units
60 credits

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  • 8617-700 Developing Leadership and Management Capability through Enquiry 20 30
  • 8617-701 Developing a High-Level Business Case 20 30
  • 8617-702 Developing and Maintaining a High-Performance Culture and Optimising Resources 20 30

Your qualification specification

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Unit Assessment Guidance Documents

8617-700 Developing Leadership and Management Capability through Enquiry

8617-701 Developing a High Level Business Case

8617-702 Developing and maintaining a high-performance culture and optimising resources

8617-703 Developing Strategic Leadership and Management Capability

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