ILM Level 4 Award in Leadership and Management - Sept 2014

Through Skills Support for the Workforce, Greater Manchester, GMCVO is able to offer fully funded places for eligible learners.

Do you work for a small or medium sized organisation, or are you Self-employed? Is your workplace based in Greater Manchester? YES?

Then you may be eligible to participate in this course FULLY FUNDED (the full course fee would normally cost £549.00). For eligibility details see bottom of this page.

Accredited by the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM)

The Level 4 Award in Leadership & Management has been designed to give practising or aspiring middle-managers a solid foundation for their development.

It does this by helping candidates to appreciate the nature of the middle manager role in order to help them operate more effectively. It also enables candidates to examine how levels of motivation can be raised to improve performance in the workplace.

The qualification will also prepare candidates for the more rigorous demands of study at a higher level.

Topics covered include:

• Understanding the nature and purpose of organisations
• Stakeholders and their objectives
• The management task
• Management styles
• The difference between management and leadership
• The range of human behaviours
• Theories of motivation

'Marie is an excellent trainer and very knowledgeable.  She makes the environment very relaxed and conducive to a positive learning experience.  I really enjoyed the course and it has already changed and improved my practice as a manager'  former student.

Course dates: 12th, 19th, 26th September, 13th & 20th October 2014

(This is a 5-day course over an 8 week period )
Times: 9.30am - 4.30pm (approx)
Trainer: Marie O'Donnell
Course Fee : FREE (for eligible learners
Full course fee: £549.00 (for non-eligible learners)
Self-study hours and assignments: In order to achieve the Award learners will need to spend approximately 30 hours self-study time outside of the regular classes. Learners will need to complete two assignments of 2,000 words each.

Registration closes Friday 22nd August 2014 at 5pm.

Directions and map to GMCVO

Eligibility Criteria for subsidy towards accredited training fees

• The learner’s workplace is based in Greater Manchester
• The learner’s organisation must employ fewer than 50 staff (when calculating the number of employees organisations should include all full and part-time employees plus any volunteers who are regularly providing eight hours of volunteering per week)
• The learner must be 19 years old or over.
• The learner must be a resident of England for 3 years or more.
• The learner must be employed or self-employed and working at least 8 hours per week, or be a regular volunteer with a signed volunteer agreement and consistently volunteering for 8 or more hours per week
• The learner must not already hold a leadership and/or management qualification at level 4 or above
• The learner has not previously accessed Skills Support for the Workforce funded training with GMCVO or any other training provider

Learners and organisations benefiting from a free place should understand that following commencement of the course, should the learner withdraw from the course either learner or the organisation will become liable to pay the full course fee. Further, the learner needs to agree to complete all assessment tasks and confirm that they will be able to make enough time available to complete this work (including self-study time at home).

For further information about funding please call Andy Rawling on 0161 277 1032 or email andy.rawling@gmcvo.org.uk.

This course is financed by the European Union.