CMI Level 3 Award and Certificate in The Principles of Management & Leadership

These qualifications are aimed at practising or aspiring managers who supervise or manage a team, or project officers or shift managers, to achieve clearly defined outcomes.

They will set and monitor goals and objectives by providing instruction, direction and guidance. Day to day operational and project activities are a key part of their role.

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Typical units include (click on the details tab for more)

  • Principles of Management and Leadership
  • Managing a Team to Achieve Results
  • Building Stakeholder Relationships Using Effective Communication
  • Contributing to the Delivery of a Project
  • Managing Budgets and Resources
  • Managing Data and Information
  • Principles of Equality, Diversity and Inclusive working practices
  • Managing Own Personal and Professional Development

Duration

2-3 months (Award) 6 months (Certificate)

Attendance Method

Online delivery, featuring executive coaching and tutor support.

Award: 3 x 1-2-1 tuition sessions – monthly (MS Teams or Zoom).

Certificate: 7 x 1-2-1 tuition sessions – monthly (MS Teams or Zoom).

Credits, total qualification time and number of units

Award: 4 credits, 2-3 months, 1 learning unit

Certificate: 13 credits, 4-6 months, 3 learning units

Cost

CMI Level 3 Award £600 + VAT (£720 incl. VAT)

CMI Level 3 Certificate £1,375 + VAT (£1650 incl. VAT)

*an instalment payment arrangement is available for self-funding students

Benefits for learners

  • Monthly 1-2-1 tuition and professional discussions with an experienced business coach
  • Learn how to support and monitor goals
  • Provide instructions around objectives for your team
  • Give direction and guidance
  • Support day-to-day operations
  • Understand and learn more about effective project planning tools and techniques
  • Overview of the roles and responsibilities required for managers and how to develop the skills required to succeed
  • Helping to equip you with knowledge, skills and experience required to meet your job role and organisational objectives.

What are the learning activities?

Each unit involves a number of learning activities which may include:

  • Online learning
  • Monthly tutorial sessions with your personal tutor
  • Practical work based assignments
  • Regular feedback from your tutor and the assessment team

Completing a CMI qualification offers you more than just academic standing, alongside your qualification you have access to CMI Membership and Support for the duration of your study. This includes access to digital learning resources through ManagementDirect.

For information on any aspect of the programme or to make an application, contact 0845 890 2549 or email info@academylm.co.uk.

These qualifications are aimed at practising or aspiring managers will supervise or manage a team to achieve clearly defined outcomes. They will set and monitor goals and objectives by providing instruction, direction and guidance.

Day to day operational and project activities are a key part of their role.

Upon completing the Certificate and Diploma qualifications you will be awarded Foundation Chartered Manager Status. Putting aspiring and early-career managers on a guided development pathway to becoming a fully-fledged Chartered Manager.

This qualification is aligned to CMI Professional Standards and the Apprenticeship Standards for the Team Leader/Supervisor ST0384/01

The qualifications have been designed for practising or aspiring managers in roles such as:

  • Team Leader
  • Supervisor
  • Project Officer
  • Shift Manager
  • Foreperson

CMI Level 3 Award in Principles of Management and Leadership

Learners must complete at least one unit to a minimum of 40 TUT hours, 4 credits to achieve this qualification.

CMI Level 3 Certificate in Principles of Management and Leadership

Learners must complete any combination of units to a minimum of 130 TUT hours, 13 credits to achieve this qualification.

CMI Level 3 Diploma in Principles of Management and Leadership

Learners must complete any combination to a minimum of 370 TUT hours, 37 credits to achieve this qualification

Unit summaries

Click on the links below to read more about the units that are available for the Level 3 Principles of Management and Leadership qualifications.

Foundations for excellence

CMI 301 Principles of Management and Leadership

Being equipped with the knowledge, skills and behaviours to manage and lead effectively is essential if an individual and their organisation are to succeed.

This unit has been designed for learners who want to develop or sharpen their professional edge

and enhance personal effectiveness.

The unit focuses on the ways organisations operate. The application of management and leadership approaches and how these can positively impact on own role, lead to improved performance, and support teams, colleagues and customers.

The aim of the unit CMI 301 is to introduce the foundations for managers, which will be developed in the further units.

By the end of this unit, you will be able to:

 Understand how organisations operate

  • Understand the management role
  • Understand the application of management and leadership approaches
  • Understand the knowledge, skills and behaviours to be an effective manager

Theme: Developing capabilities, delivering results, driving best practice. Interpersonal excellence - managing people and developing relationships

CMI 302 Managing a Team to Achieve Results

The ability to manage teams, which are able to communicate effectively and overcome barriers to achievement, is a critical skill for any manager. High performing cohesive teams are created in

an environment where there is a collective understanding of values, goals and objectives.

This unit has been developed to support managers in understanding the nature of teams in the workplace, and how these can be managed to achieve results.

By the end of this unit, you will be able to:

  • Understand the role and purpose of teams
  • Be able to recognise the characteristics of a high performing team
  • Know how to lead, communicate with and motivate a high performing team
  • Know how to respond to challenges when managing a team proactively
  • Know how to manage the performance of a team

CMI 304 Principles of Communication in the Workplace

As the range of communication tools used by a business continues to grow, and new technologies emerge, managers are faced with the challenge of how to select and use different tools to ensure that communication is effective, timely and has impact.

The aim of this unit is to equip managers with the knowledge and skills to select and use a range of workplace communication methods. These must be measurable and tailored to the needs of the target audience.

By the end of this unit, you will be able to:

  • Know the channels and types of communication used in the workplace
  • Understand the communication cycle
  • Be able to plan communication for a target audience
  • Know how to measure the effectiveness of communication with a target audience

CMI 305 Building Stakeholder Relationships using Effective Communication

Developing relationships with internal and external stakeholders is an essential management skill. Stakeholders can have a positive or negative impact on the success of an organisation.

The aim of this unit is to equip managers to identify and understand stakeholder’s needs, know the purpose and benefits of building relationships with different stakeholder groups, and the methods of communicating with them to achieve results.

By the end of this unit, you will be able to:

  • Know the purpose of building stakeholder relationships
  • Understand different channels and types of communication used to build relationships with stakeholders
  • Know how to respond to barriers when communicating with stakeholders
  • Know how to use stakeholder communication

CMI 306 Principles of Equality, Diversity and Inclusive Working Practices

Treating colleagues, customers and stakeholders with dignity and respect enables relationships to develop and thrive.

This unit focuses on how to develop inclusive working practices in line with

organisational and legal frameworks. This will not only improve the productivity and well being of staff, but impact positively on the whole customer experience.

By the end of this unit, you will be able to:

  • Know the legal and organisational frameworks for inclusivity, equality and diversity
  • Understand equality, diversity and inclusive working practices in own area of responsibility
  • Know how to support equality, diversity and inclusive working practices within own area of responsibility
  • Understand how to monitor and manage equality, diversity and inclusive working practices within own area of responsibility
  • Know how to challenge discrimination in own area of responsibility

Theme: Organisational performance – delivering results (day to day activity)

CMI 311 Contributing to the Delivery of a Project

Whilst the scale, significance and complexity of a project will vary, the principles of carrying out a project will ultimately be the same.

This unit aims to equip managers with the knowledge, tools, and techniques for managing and monitoring projects. It also identifies approaches to managing risk and responding to the needs and

expectations of stakeholders.

The skills a manager will learn will not only enable them to improve own working practice, but will impact on the achievement of project outcomes.

By the end of this unit, you will be able to:

  • Understand the role and purpose of projects in an organisation
  • Understand how projects are developed
  • Know how to deliver a project
  • Know how to monitor progress to ensure successful project delivery

CMI 312 Managing Daily Activities to Achieve Results

Working efficiently is essential if a business is to remain competitive. A well structured workload is key to individual and team success.

The aims of the unit are to equip managers with the knowledge to identify priorities and set measurable objectives.

Managers will know how to organise and allocate daily work activities, monitor outcomes, and respond practically to problems in a manner which supports the achievement of results.

By the end of this unit, you will be able to:

  • Understand the purpose of daily work activities in the context of an organisation
  • Understand how to prioritise and set objectives for daily work activities
  • Know how to organise and allocate work
  • Understand how to monitor outcomes and respond to problems

CMI 314 Managing Budgets and Resources

Budgets and resources are crucial to the functioning of any organisation. Organisations need to plan and manage money and resources to remain operational.

The aim of this unit is to equip managers with the knowledge that they need to manage budgets

and other resources. This allows them to remain efficient and effective.

By the end of this unit, you will be able to:

  • Understand the importance of managing resources in own area of responsibility
  • Understand the use of budgets in an organisation
  • Understand how to manage costs within a budget
  • Know how to monitor and control a budget in own area of responsibility

CMI 318 Managing Data and Information

The ability to solve problems, make timely business decisions and respond to customers needs is all dependent on the ability to access good quality data and information. With growing volumes of

data, this challenge has become increasingly difficult to manage.

The aim of this unit is to equip managers with the knowledge of how to gather, assess and analyse different types of data and information, and how to report findings for different business purposes within legal and organisational guidelines.

By the end of this unit, you will be able to:

  • Understand the reasons for collecting data and information
  • Know the types and use of data and information used by organisations
  • Know how to manage data and information
  • Know how to interpret data and information and communicate findings

Theme: Personal Effectiveness – managing self

CMI 321 Managing Own Personal and Professional Development

In order to meet the demands of an ever changing workplace, individuals need to ensure they continue to update and develop their knowledge and skills.

Planning for personal and professional development ensures greater opportunities for success.

The purpose of the unit is to support the manager to identify the benefits of engaging in personal and professional development. By using the knowledge gained, a meaningful development plan will be created to support them to become an effective manager in the workplace.

By the end of this unit, you will be able to:

  • Understand the benefits of personal and professional development
  • Understand how personal and professional development is informed
  • Know how to identify opportunities for personal and professional development
  • Know how to create and monitor a personal and professional development plan

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