BMF Senior Management Training
We are pleased to offer another opportunity to gain an ILM qualification in management for senior managers.
The programme has been designed to stretch and encourage individuals who are ready to move from single branch management into managing several branches, or who are being prepared for other senior roles within your company. It involves 10 days of classroom study, linked to project work which applies the lessons learned to the real-world work environment. On successful completion, learners receive a nationally-recognised VRQ Level 5 Award, accredited by the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM).
What’s in it for you?
Many things. Here are just a few:-
• Increased levels of professionalism amongst your key staff
• Efficient, focused and effective managers
• A real ‘USP’ - invaluable when filling in and winning tenders
• Specific business issues can be tackled as part of the learning
• Motivated managers who can lead from the front
• Decrease in staff turnover
What’s in it for the learner?
• Core management competencies, in the context of real businesses
• Nationally recognised qualification
• A chance to think outside the box
• Time-bound, project-driven learning that balances time spent away from the business with
time spent solving specific business issues
How will it work?
(Please see ILM guidelines and course details below)
• The BMF's ILM-approved management tutor will lead the course
• All course materials will be verified by ILM before delivery
• All work based assignments will by marked by an ILM-accredited centre
• Weekly classroom sessions underpin work-based assignments
• The ILM’s external verifier checks and awards certification post verification
• Level 5 Award can be used as the first step to degree-level learning
Our strategic partner
In order to gain ILM qualifications for our members we need to work with an approved ILM centre. The leading one of these is the LMT- a highly respected specialist organisation who deliver ILM throughout the UK and International forums.
The Tutor
Ian Moody is one of the BMF's most experienced management trainers, and is a fully accredited ILM tutor. Ian’s role is not simply to deliver the workshops but to offer tutorial support throughout the programme.
Date and Venue
The course starts in April 2009 and takes 10 days spread over two months, finishing. It will be delivered at the BMF’s premises at 15 Soho Square, London W1.
For further information and to make a booking please contact Sean Kelly on 0207 534 7423.
ILM Level 5 Award
Aim and Objectives
The ILM Level 5 Award in Management aims to give practicing or potential managers the foundation for their formal development in this role. The qualification does this by developing upper middle management skills and assisting participants in gaining the basic knowledge required at this level.
Entry Requirements
There are no formal entry requirements, but participants will:
• Normally be either practicing or aspiring managers with the opportunity to meet the
assessment demands, and
• Have a background that will enable them to benefit from the programme
• Learners who are sponsored by their employers and those without such sponsorship are
equally eligible
• Prior to enrolment all participants must complete a pre-enrolment assessment
Advanced Manager Profile
The following profile is provided to assist Centres in advising and recruiting participants on to programmes of an appropriate level.
ILM believes that ...
• Senior managers can be distinguished from the first line managers below them by their wider span of control, counted in the tens and possibly extending to a few hundreds. A tier of team leaders or first line managers will frequently mediate their links with the people for whom they have responsibility. This means that they will have a similar or even smaller number of people reporting directly to them as managers nearer the front line, but will be accountable for the performance of all those over whom they have control, direct or indirect.
• Characteristic of their role will be a responsibility for allocating resources with some autonomy within defined boundaries, reflected in financial accountability for their area of activity. Such managers will normally be budget-holders but with limited ability to vire funds between budget headings and can authorise recurrent expenditure and expenditure on small capital items within defined, budgeted, limits. This resource responsibility will also include responsibility for recruiting, promoting and disciplining people, within defined parameters and often with the agreement of HR specialists or senior managers. This may extend to sole responsibility for recruiting the most junior people in their area of responsibility.
• Advanced managers will engage in direct negotiation with internal and external customers and suppliers over the terms and prices governing their relationship, albeit within prescribed boundaries. They will also be accountable for the quality of the goods or services supplied by their area of responsibility and for improvements in quality and efficiency of operations.
• Advanced managers are also likely to engage in project leadership where such projects are designed to bring about changes in products, services, resources or systems. However, they will operate within defined boundaries and report progress and budgetary performance to more senior managers on a regular basis. Such managers are more likely than first line managers to have a specialist management role which may extend to a technical specialism but which is primarily managerial in its focus. That means that they will be responsible for establishing, maintaining and improving systems (e.g. quality, marketing, sales, energy, health and safety, etc) as well as/rather than operating them.
• Unlike the directors (both operational and strategic) above them, advanced managers have clearly defined limits on their freedom to act or take decisions, and are expected to report regularly on their performance. They may propose changes to systems and will be responsible for ensuring that those systems are operated effectively, but they may only change those minor systems operated wholly within their own areas of responsibility without approval from others.
Progression
Successful candidates may benefit from career enhancement and/or progress to any of the further qualifications listed, according to their circumstances:
Level 5 Award in Management
• L4 S/NVQ in Management
• L5 Certificate or Diploma in Management
Level 5 Certificate in Management
• L4 S/NVQ in Management
• L5 Diploma in Management
Level 5 Diploma in Management
• L4 S/NVQ in Management
• L6 Award in Management
• L7 Award in Executive Management,
• L7 Award in Strategic Leadership,
• L7 Certificate in Executive Management,
• L7 Certificate in Strategic Leadership,
• L7 Diploma in Executive Management,
• L7 Diploma in Strategic Leadership
• L7 Diploma in Executive Management and Strategic Leadership
• Another qualification at a suitable level within or outside the National Qualifications
Framework
ILM Membership
All registered candidates automatically become studying members of the ILM for one year and can enjoy a range of member benefits accessible through the ILM website.
Program to be delivered in Soho Square, London.
For BMF Members, matched funding may be available through the BMTT - contact Frances Greene on 020 7534 7420 for more information.