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Professional Qualifications - All Levels

Level 3 to Level 7

The framework of professional qualifications in Management & Leadership ranges Key issues raised
from Level 3 – for first line managers & supervisors – through Level 5 – for
departmental and middle managers - to Level 6 – for business unit and senior in the programmes:
operational managers and then to Level 7 – for those leading at a strategic and
executive level.
The big challenges for a
In any of our qualification programmes, the purpose is to support leaders to modern leader
improve their understanding, enhance their impact on performance and increase
the range of capabilities they have as a leader. Each leader will explore the many Enabling, inspiring,
challenges set by our programme and content development design team. These empowering, supporting &
challenges will seek to stretch their thinking, introduce them to new ideas and allow mentoring
them to see their own reflection, so that they can understand the way others see
them and the ‘shadow’ they cast for their peers, colleagues and stakeholders. Balancing the need to
The programmes we create are not designed simply to enable the achievement of a manage with the need to
qualification. They are leadership development programmes, designed to enhance, lead
sharpen and even transform the capabilities and impact of every participating
leader. The design of the programmes allows each leader to shape and apply the Delivering the goals of the
learning to fit their own context, to be truly practical and to be immediately organisation
applicable to their daily practice. While there is some theory contained in any unit or
learning outcome, the focus is primarily on the leader’ s own workplace and on the Meeting the expectations of
real-world experience of the practising leader. multiple stakeholders

Assessment is every bit as practical and real – using reflective logs, practical Influencing and improving
challenges, real value-adding activity and creating useful outputs that will help both performance at every level
leader and organisation.