Management and Leadership Training

The Management & Leadership Diploma covers 7 key management and leadership areas:

• Developing, Managing and Leading Individuals and Teams to Achieve Success
• Managing Performance
• Managing the Customer Experience
• Principles of Developing a Skilled and Talented Workforce
• Managing Quality and Continuous Improvement
• Principles of Delivering Coaching and Mentoring
• Managing Finance

 The Management Essentials Certificate covers the following 3 key areas:

• Developing, Managing and Leading Individuals and Teams to Achieve Success
• Managing Performance
• Managing the Customer Experience

 The Continuing Improvement Certificate covers the following 3 key areas:

• Principles of Developing a Skilled and Talented Workforce
• Managing Quality and Continuous Improvement
• Principles of Delivering Coaching and Mentoring

 The Growing Leader Certificate covers the following 3 key areas:

• Managing Conflict
• Managing Change
• Managing Finance

 The Management & Leadership Diploma requires 370 hours total learning carried out over 12 months.

Each of the Certificates requires 140-160 hours total learning carried out over 3 months.

E-learning or online learning refers to the idea of using online tools for learning.  Resources, assignments, quizzes and tutor support are all enabled via a Learning Management System (LMS). This means you will not have to travel at all for your studies.

 The courses will be run by the Association of British Dispensing Opticians (ABDO).

The course is suitable for people who are new to a management/leadership role as well as those who have been in such a role for a period of time.

The course ensures that learners have the knowledge and resources to perform their roles to the best of their abilities by formalising any previous informal learning as well as offering new facets of management and leadership.

There are no formal qualifications required. However, due to the nature of study we do recommend that all applicants have English at GCSE level 4 (grade C).

There is an expectation that the learner will already be a manager/leader (or working towards such a role) with the ability to apply the skills and experience learned during their qualification.

ABDO members will benefit from discounted course fees. Joining ABDO comes with many more benefits and is well worth doing while studying this course if you are not a member already.

Upon completion of the qualifications, learners will receive either the CMI Level 5 Diploma in Management & Leadership or the CMI Level 5 Certificate in Management & Leadership.

Successful learners who remain a member of CMI will also have fCMgr – Foundation Chartered Manager post-nominals after their name.

No, learning materials will be available via the LMS and also CMI’s excellent ManagementDirect platform.

CMI will only recognise their own qualifications in terms of APL and RPL. So if you have a certificate with CMI at the correct level, you can get APL towards the diploma.

Yes, you will be allocated a tutor at the start of your course. You will be able to contact your tutor via the LMS.

Please refer to the ABDO MLT Course withdrawal and refund of fees document.

Please refer to the ABDO MLT Course withdrawal and refund of fees document.

Discounted costs for ABDO members:

• Diploma: £2,112.00 (INC VAT) for ABDO members (£2,376 INC VAT for non-members)
• Certificate: £1,008.00 (INC VAT) for ABDO members (£1,112 INC VAT for non-members)

Cost includes all learning materials, tutor support, assessments, and affiliate membership of the Chartered Management Institute for the duration of the course.

For those requiring spread payment options we will offer the following:

Diploma – £360 (INC VAT) up front and then 8 monthly payments of £219 INC VAT (ABDO members) or £252 INC VAT (non-members). Monthly payments will commence in your first month of study.

Certificate – £360 (INC VAT )up front and then 2 monthly payments of £324 (INC VAT) (ABDO members) or £381 INC VAT (non-member). Monthly payments will commence in your fist month of study.