ILM Personal Development Award - A Home Study Distance Learning Course

COURSE OVERVIEW

A distance learning course is the ideal way to gain an ILM Award in Personal Development. Whether you're looking to go on to further education, improve your job prospects or expand your knowledge, distance learning Personal Development Award is a flexible and convenient course, which allows you to comprehensively prepare for the exam or career through home study. What's more, because the distance learning ILM Award in Personal Development course is a fully comprehensive course, no prior knowledge is required.

The Award in Personal Development is a qualification designed enable students to progress in their current role with a view towards a management or supervisory role.

This ILM Award is comprised of four mandatory units. It provides a guided development programme beginning with the unit Managing Yourself which addresses the best way to approach self management and includes techniques for planning your work and the work of a team. Students will then go on to study Workplace Communication during which you will study techniques for ensuring that you are communicating effectively with your team. The third module is Diversity in the Workplace which introduces the key concepts of different working styles and how it applies to you and in business in general. The final module in the Award is Induction and Coaching in the Workplace. This unit to enable to you get the best from yourself and other staff through the design and implementation of effective processes and covers the importance of induction, coaching and mentoring in the workplace for continual improvement.

The specific aims of the ILM Award in Personal Development are to:

• provide a recognised industry standard qualification at NQF Level 2 for to develop key business skills accredited by the Institute of Leadership and Management
• allow students to learn, develop and practise the skills required to develop their work performance
• provide a comprehensive basis for further study

Home Study Tutor Support

You will be provided with comprehensive materials designed to provide you with everything required to complete your ILM Personal Development Award. You will have access to your own courses tutor on a FREEPHONE helpline or if you choose by e-mail. Your tutor will be with you throughout your course Plus you can contact our Student Advisors by email or phone for all the practical advice you may need – so we really are with you 100%.

What's more, you'll have access to the online student portal, where you can interact with other students, browse our resource library and manage your account.

Course Assessments

The ILM Personal Development Award is marked through a process of continuous assessment guided by your tutor. This means that your qualification will be awarded according to your performance on assessments rather than by taking an exam.

We send the full course out, you then read through the course in your own time and complete the assignments which you send to your tutor for marking. There is no word count for these assignments. However, one sentence answers will be rejected and you will have to re-submit it for marking.

Upon verification of the activities, exercises and assignments, a certificate of achievement will be awarded by the national awarding organisation ILM, as confirmation that your written work has met all of the learning outcomes and assessment criteria for the programme.

Course Duration

We recommend you spend approximately 120 hours of your time studying for the ILM Personal Development Award. The pace of study is completely up to you. To give an example, if you dedicate 2 hours a week to the course it would take you a year to complete but if you could spare 4 hours a week you could complete it in six months.

Get started today, and you can earn your ILM Award in Personal Development in as little as six months, or take up to a year, if you prefer – the choice is yours.