ILM Recognised Programme - Management Skills for Middle Managers

Course Overview

The ILM Recognised Programme in Management Skills for Middle Managers is designed to strengthen your ability to lead effectively at the core of your organisation. This course equips you with essential management and leadership skills to drive high performance, align teams with strategic objectives, and contribute to organisational success. You will develop a deeper understanding of business strategy, financial performance, and organisational structures, enabling you to lead with confidence and clarity in a dynamic business environment.

What You Will Gain?

By attending this course, you will gain the skills to enhance your strategic management perspective and play a more active role in business planning and decision-making. You will improve your ability to analyse financial performance, focus on key control areas, and strengthen your team’s contribution to organisational goals. You will also develop the confidence to lead by example, build strong relationships with your team, and drive measurable improvements in performance and productivity.

You Will Learn

You will learn how to connect business strategy with effective management practices and understand how financial statements and key parameters reflect organisational performance. You will explore different organisational structures and their impact on growth and success, and develop leadership approaches that support team alignment and accountability. You will also learn how to make leadership a strategic responsibility, enabling you to guide your team towards achieving sustainable business results.

Who Should Attend

All executives, middle managers, managers and team leaders who want to improve their management performance and help successfully accomplish a high-performance operation will benefit from this course’s middle management training topics. This middle management training program will also greatly aid the progress of managers who must understand the bigger picture and gain additional skills in leadership, strategy, finance, marketing, and people management.

Course Methodology

The course modules, interactive workshop sessions and case studies will give you the opportunity to learn and discuss how you can mirror the success of other companies. You will receive your own unique and highly comprehensive workbook, providing: detailed notes from the course; subject matter on all the case studies; in-depth material on leadership and teams; a book list and other reference material; and a bonus soft copy.

Certification Criteria

You must meet two criteria to be eligible for an Informa Connect Academy Certificate of Completion:

• Satisfactory attendance: You must attend all sessions of the course. If, for any reason, you miss more than 2 hours of the course sessions, you will not be eligible to sit the course assessment
• Successful completion of the course assessment: Assessments will be ongoing and based on in-class participation and activities

Delivered by John

John brings extensive expertise as a strategy consultant, leadership coach, and facilitator with decades of international experience in markets across Europe, the Middle East, and beyond.

Certified by CPD UK

The CPD Certification Service is an independent accreditation centre working across all sectors, disciplines and further learning applications and supports policies of institutional and professional organisations globally.

About ILM

The ILM is the UK’s largest awarding body for leadership and management qualifications. ILM partners with over 2,000 ILM approved centres, comprising private training providers, further and higher education colleges, and employers delivering in-house management training.

Run this course in-house

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