Our Apprenticeship programmes are delivered through a blended approach, tailored to your organisation’s needs.
We provide fully online programmes, in-person programmes (e.g. running workshop sessions in our clients offices) and a blend of the two. We tailor our delivery method to the apprentices and employers specific requirements.
Our L3 team leader and L5 departmental or operational manager apprenticeship programmes have an accreditation pathway to the Level 3 and Level 5 ILM Diploma qualifications in leadership and management.
The ILM Diploma in Effective Coaching & Mentoring can be achieved by undertaking our L5 coaching professional apprenticeship programme. Those who undertake our Senior Leader Level 7 apprenticeship programme will also receive an Extended Level 7 CMI Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership.
Our apprenticeship programmes are delivered online and in-person through:
- workshops
- personal tutoring / coaching sessions
- small group discussions
- action learning sets
- web based forums
- workbooks, online learning library with further reading, video and audio
- off the job learning
- regular self-evaluation and discussions with tutor / line managers
- written reports, assessments and presentations and Q&A with the Board/senior management team. The latter featuring in the End Point Assessment requirements
These are blended to create a learning journey to suit all styles.
Apprentices would be expected to dedicate between 5-8 hours per week undertaking the learning modules and to complete the assessments.
You can find more detail on the specific structure and activities for the individual apprenticeship programmes pages. Generally speaking our apprenticeship programmes have the following weekly and monthly structure and activities.
Typical monthly apprenticeship programme structure
- Group/Individual Workshop
- Independent study and group work
- 1-2-1 online tuition / coaching session – usually held monthly
- Independent study and group work
Typical weekly activities
Group/Individual Workshop
These sessions will deliver course content, provide opportunity for interactive learning and expert tuition as well as guest speakers from your organisation where appropriate. Where the programme is delivered to a group and include opportunities for debate, discussion and peer learning.
Independent study
During these allocated weeks learners will be required to work on their ILM workbooks and formal written assignments as well as compiling evidence for their skills/behaviours portfolio.
Individual 1-2-1 tuition, action and accountability sessions
This will be a safe, confidential space for the learner to ask questions follow up questions from the workshop session, set course reading and assignments.
We would recommend that line managers are involved at regular intervals as part of the employees ongoing job appraisal and to measure and report on outcomes being achieved both on the programme and on the job. The tutor will also ask the learner about access to their Off The Job training time allocation, as well as how they are using this designated time.
Group work
We will encourage the learner to work in small groups as they progress. Although not timetabled, the self-directed sessions will support the learner to apply their learning and building their network, connections across your organisation and their personal brand.
Small group project
Apprentices may work in a small group on a project that will be sponsored by a more senior manager. This will be looking at developing results for your organisation. We will meet with the apprentices and line managers to discuss potential projects within departments and/or across departments to support your strategic objectives to embrace new and innovative ways of working to improve service delivery and the operations of the business. The learners will be asked to present the results to the senior management team once they have delivered it and evaluated the results.
Assessments
Each month, apprentices will complete an assignment, based on the learning module, themes and topics and the application to their role and organisation and their own development as a manager and leader.
Apprenticeship Policies & Procedures
Our apprenticeship programmes are underpinned by our key polices & procedures. Our policies & procedures manual has been designed to articulate the company’s policies, what we believe in as a company, and have committed ourselves to and our procedures or, to put it simply, how we go about doing what we believe in >read more
