ILM Level 7 Diploma in Strategic Leadership and Management Training Course Outline
Total Credit Value – 46
Total Guided Learning Hours - 92
Unit 8618-601: Developing Personal Effectiveness and Impact
Credit Value: 6
Guided Learning Hours: 14
Module 1: Apply the Meta Skills Required for an Effective Manager
- Communication Skills and Their Use within the Management Role
- Introduction to Meta Skills
- Communications Skills in Management Role
- Effective Use of Communication Skills at Internal and External Level
- Assess Own Skills in Critical Thinking and Its Relevance to Problem Solving
- Critical thinking to analyse all available facts, evidence, observations and arguments
- Theories of critical thinking Like bounded rationality
- Different Critical thinking skills
- 3C’s of Complex Problem Solving
- Compare and Creative Thinking Tools/Techniques
- Creative Thinking Models
- Creative Tools/Techniques
- Produce an Action Plan
- Peer Learning
- Action Sets
- Reflective Practice
- Research
- Webinars
Module 2: Leader Behaviours within an Organisation
- Evaluate Models of Continuous Development and Their Importance
- Introduction to Continuous Development
- Continuous Development Models: Peer, Collaborative, and Experiential
- Importance of Continuous Learning at Management Level
- Analyse the Characteristics of a Self-Aware Leader
- Characteristics of Self-Aware Leader
- Ability to be Self-Aware and Understand Impact of Own Behaviours
- How They Apply to Own Behaviours?
- Evaluate Theories of Behaviours which Support Impression Management
- Introduction to Impression Management
- Models of Behaviours: Folkman’s, Lewin, and Goffman
Module 3: Apply Their Understanding of Crisis Management, Agility and Resilience
- Importance of Crisis Management
- Stages of Crisis Management
- Prevent Damage to Organisations Reputation
- Understand Factors That Led to Crisis
- Restore Calm and Stability
- Develop Adaptive Coping Strategies for Future Situations
- Critique Organisational Agility and Resilience
- Organisational Agility
- Organisational Resilience
- Personal Effectiveness and Preparedness
- Assessment of Personal Effectiveness and Preparedness for Crisis Management, Agility, and Resilience
- Produce an Action Plan to Develop Personal Effectiveness and Preparedness
- Setting SMART Action Plan
Unit 8618-608: Delivering a commercially focused strategy
Credit Value: 8
Guided Learning Hours: 17
Module 4: Promoting Creative Culture and Team Performance
- Reflect on Leadership Suitability in a Creative Culture
- Evaluate Creative Culture Components for Strategy
- Analyse High-Performance Team Factors
Module 5: Strategic Commercial Review
- Evaluate Organisational Strategy
- Analyse Organisational Capacity for Strategy Revision
- Analyse Markets for Strategic Opportunities
- Revise Commercial Strategy
Module 6: Strategy Delivery to Stakeholders
- Develop Strategy Pitch for Stakeholders
- Present Strategy to Stakeholders
Unit 8618-609: Principles and Practices of Risk Management
Credit Value: 5
Guided Learning Hours: 10
Module 7: Importance of Risk Management, Analysis, and Control
- Evaluate the Benefits of Risk Management in the Workplace
- Introduction to Risk Management
- Benefits of Risk Management
- Potential Barriers to Risk Management in the Workplace
- Assess Own Organisation’s Risk Management Approach
- Evaluate Techniques Supporting the Identification and Analysis of Risk
- Analyse Control Strategies to Manage Risk
Module 8: Develop a Risk Management Plan
- Appraise Methods of Monitoring and Reporting Risk
- Analyse Contingency Planning and Crisis Management
- Create a Risk Management Plan for Identification and Mitigation of Risks
Unit 8618-700: Developing Leadership and Management Capability Through Enquiry
Credit Value: 20
Guided Learning Hours: 30
Module 9: Enquiry-Based Approach
- Introduction to Enquiry-Based Approach
- Principles of Enquiry-Based Learning
- Benefits of a Research-Oriented Approach
- Identifying Complex Situations in Leadership and Management
- Common Challenges Faced in Complex Organisational Environments
- Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods
- Critical Analysis of Leadership and Management Theories
- Conducting Enquiry in a Learner-Specific Context
- Strategies for Addressing Uncertainty and Ambiguity in Leadership
Module 10: Design and Undertake an Enquiry-Based Approach
- Purpose a Valid Enquiry
- Current Practice in Leadership and Management
- Undertake Data-Driven Enquiry
- Design the Enquiry Process
- Collect Data
- Analyse the Data
- Present Your Findings
- Reflect on Enquiry Process
- Apply the Findings
- Summary Reports, Tables, Webinar, Podcast
- Portfolio of Evidence, Minutes of Meetings, Slide show with Voice Over
Module 11: Evaluate and Deliver the Outcome of Enquiry-Based Learning
- Define Evaluation Objectives
- Clarify the Purpose
- Set Measurable Goals
- Select Evaluation Methods
- Choose Appropriate Tools
- Use Mixed Methods
- Assess the Enquiry Process
- Evaluate Engagement
- Review Research Quality
- Analyse Problem-Solving Approaches
- Evaluate Learning Outcomes
- Knowledge Acquisitions
- Skill Development
- Application of Learning
- Gather Feedback from Learners
- Self-Assessment
- Peer Feedback
- Instructor Feedback
- Synthesise and Analyse Data
- Combine Data
- Interpret Results
- Deliver the Outcome
- Prepare a Summary Report
- Written or Recorded Narrative
- Communicate Results to Stakeholders
- Provide Actionable Feedback
- Specific and Constructive Feedback
- Recommendations for Future Enquiries
- Reflect on the Evaluation Process
- Review the Evaluation Methods
- Document Insights and Lessons Learned
- Follow Up and Continuous Improvement
- Implement Changes
- Encourage Lifelong Learning
Unit 8618-717: Evolving Approaches in Leadership and Management
Credit Value: 7
Guided Learning Hours: 21
Module 12: Innovation and Change in an Evolving World and Potential Impacts on Leadership and Management
- Analyse the Effects of Innovation and Change and Its Impact on Leadership
- Dynamic and Future Focused Working Environment
- Impact of Innovation and Change
- Fostering an Environment and Culture of Innovation and Change in an Evolving World
- Current Leadership Thinking in a Dynamic Working Environment
- Methods to Appraise Impacts on Leadership
- Cultural Engagement Techniques and Behaviours
- Analyse the Effects of Innovation and Change and Its Impact on Management
- Techniques to Enable Innovation and Change in an Evolving World
- Current Management Theories
- Methods to Appraise Impacts on Management
Module 13: Create a Development Plan
- Research Evolving Trends of Leadership and Management Practices
- Evolving Trends of Leadership in an Evolving World
- Past School of Thoughts, Current Thinking, Emergent Thinking
- Leadership Practices that to Support an Evolving World
- Evolving Trends of Management in Dynamic Working Environment
- Management Practices in the Context of an Evolving World
- Review Own and Organisational Leadership and Management Approaches
- Skills Radar
- Organisational Skills Gap Analysis
- Johnson and Scholes - Cultural Web Analysis Theory
- Plan Own and Organisational Future Leadership and Management Development
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