Management and Leadership Training – Continuing Improvement Certificate

 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

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.

• 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.

You will pay the fees up front.

ABDO will offer easy payments to those individuals wanting this.

• 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 first month of study.

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.

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