Skip to content
ILM Level 3 Certificate in Leadership and Management
Seven months. Seven units. One qualification that turns “the person who got promoted” into the manager the team actually needed.
£1,795 + VAT · 7 monthly sessions · Leah’s Yard, Sheffield city centre.
You were good at the job. Then they made you manage it.
That’s how most managers start. Best operator on the line, sharpest planner in the office, and one Monday morning, you’re responsible for the people doing it.
Nobody hands you a manual. You learn discipline by getting it wrong. You learn recruitment by hiring the wrong person. You learn communication when someone good hands in their notice and you didn’t see it coming.
82% of people who step into management in the UK do so with no formal training. It works, right up until it doesn’t.
ILM Level 3 is the training that should have come with the promotion. Practical, built around a full-time job, and assessed on your real workplace, not a case study about a company you’ve never heard of.
Who is it for?
First-line managers and supervisors who’ve been in the role a while and want the structure behind what they’re already doing.
Newly promoted team leaders who’d rather learn it properly than learn it the hard way.
Experienced staff being lined up for management, the ones you want to keep, and keep confident.
If your managers are dealing with hiring, performance, change and difficult conversations, this is their level.
What will your managers actually be able to do?
By the end of the programme, they’ll be able to:
- Hire the right person first time — with a proper person spec, structured interviews and a decision they can defend.
- Fix problems at the root — not just the symptom that turned up on Tuesday.
- Lead change without losing the team — plan it, explain it, land it.
- Handle discipline fairly and legally — and know when a conversation should happen before a process does.
- Develop their people — spot the gaps, build plans, and stop the best ones walking out the door.
- Understand their own leadership style — and what it’s doing to the people around them.
- Communicate so it lands — including the feedback nobody enjoys giving.
The seven units
One unit a month. Each one is a full day in the room, then a written assessment applied to your own workplace.
- Recruitment and Selection How employment law and policy shape hiring. Writing a person specification that means something. Shortlisting with a structured decision model. Designing interview questions — then practising them.
- Solving Problems and Making Decisions Spotting problems before they become emergencies. Understanding their real impact, digging out the root cause, and choosing the right fix. Then planning it — and measuring whether it worked.
- Planning and Implementing Change Analysing where the business is and where change is needed. The different types of change, what each one does to people, and how to plan and manage it through.
- Understanding Discipline The legal framework, your own policies and procedures, and what a disciplinary process is actually for. Plus the interpersonal skills that keep most issues from needing one.
- Developing Yourself and Others How people learn, how to spot development needs, and what gets in the way. Evaluating options, building development plans and tracking progress — for your team and for you.
- Understanding Leadership The core principles, the models worth knowing and the behaviours that make leaders effective. Then the honest bit: identifying your own style, what it does to your team, and a plan to strengthen it.
- Understanding the Communication Process How communication really flows at work and where it breaks down. Body language, tone and wording. Your own style, how to adapt it, and how to give constructive feedback that changes something.
How does assessment work?
No exams. Each unit is assessed by a written assignment based on your own role and organisation, so the work you submit is work you can use.
You’re not left to it. Every learner gets feedback and assessment coaching throughout, and the whole process is walked through at induction.
Complete all seven units and you achieve the ILM Level 3 Certificate in Leadership and Management.
Need something shorter?
Complete four units for the ILM Level 3 Award. Please contact us.
What’s included for £1,795 + VAT?
- All seven taught sessions at our Sheffield city centre venue
- All seven unit assessments, marked with written feedback
- ILM registration, no hidden fees
- Assessment coaching from start to finish
Many employers fund the programme as part of staff development, it’s an easier conversation with your MD than a resignation letter from your best supervisor.
Where and when?
Venue: BrookConsult, Leah’s Yard, Units S6 & S7, 22 Cambridge Street, Sheffield S1 4HP. Ten minutes’ walk from Sheffield station.
Next intake: TBC, places are limited to keep groups small.
Can’t make the dates, or want to put a whole cohort through? We can run the programme in-house for your organisation.
BrookConsult
Leah’s Yard, Units S6 & S7
22 Cambridge Street
Sheffield, S1 4HP
