Universal Manager component of ILM Certificate in Management at Cambridgeshire County Council

When Cambridgeshire County Council launched their ILM Certificate programme three years ago it followed on the back of their already successful Diploma programme.

Michele Austin, Employee Development Programmes Manager wanted the Certificate to have its own distinctive features so an Open Learning component was built into the content.

The criteria for this was that it should be:

As varied as possible

Pitched at the right level for their managers who had good

academic qualifications

Use learning resources recommended by ILM

Comprise 30 hours of guided learning

Fill gaps in the indicative content of the Certificate workshops.

The variety and 30 hours of learning were provided by combining one Universal Manager Dossier with worksheets based on the ILM Progress Resource Files and the ILM video Teams that Work.

Maggie Abbott, the Programme Leader, has found that The Universal Manager Dossiers are pitched at just the right level to elicit excellent reflective responses from these managers in the Public Sector, providing a relevant choice of dossiers is selected.

These can inform current developments in the managers' responsibilities such as partnership working, best value and accountability.

"Our Certificate groups really like the combination of working alone on the Dossiers and working with a learning buddy on the Resource Files and the video."

"This is also cost effective as the recurrent cost of the individual Dossiers can be set off against the once only cost of the video and the files, the worksheets being produced in house."

"With the ILM New Framework programmes the Universal Manager will continue to prove relevant to the Level 4 Diploma as well as the Level 5 Executive Diploma."

Contact Maggie Abbot at maggie.abbott@lwcdial.net

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