Course description
Team Leader/Supervisor Level 3 Apprenticeship
Through real-life experience, your employees will learn how to offer important direction, instruction and guidance in a management role. By building specific Knowledge, Skills and Behaviours, your employees will be better able to carry out their manager responsibilities, which will include how to support, manage, and develop team members, as well as maintain key relationships.
All businesses need levels of management to develop teams of people: to guide growth, implement change, manage productivity and lead the business to success. Team leaders play an integral role in this – looking after the needs of people within a team for the benefit of the organisation and for the personal development of each team member.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Set by individual employers, but typically includes:
- Five GCSEs including English and mathematics or equivalent*
- or significant work experience
Your employees must be in a role relevant to this programme to be eligible to apply.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
What will your employees learn?
- How to adopt a proactive approach to developing skills that improve processes – such as planning and quality assurance
- How to manage priorities and individual time pressures while showing initiative
- Key decision-making skills
- How to effectively deal with a range of stakeholders and communicate with different audiences
- How to use relevant project management principles and tools to scope, plan, monitor and report on small-scale projects
- How to become more confident as a manager and have a positive impact on your organisation’s productivity
- Development Coaches will help your managers understand their weaknesses and how to overcome challenges, while building on individual strengths.
Skills and Behaviours
You will develop the following:
- Understanding of the organisation and its operating environment
- Value of their skills
- Stakeholders
- Relevant regulation
- Policies
- Business fundamentals
- Processes
- External environment factors
- Professionalism
- Personal qualities
- Managing performance
- Adaptability
- Responsibility
Qualification achieved
- Team Leader/Supervisor Level 3 Apprenticeship
- CMI Level 3 Diploma in First Line Management
Training Course Content
- Principles of Management and Leadership
- Contributing to the Delivery of a Project
- Managing Daily Activities to Achieve Results
- Managing a Team to Achieve Results
- Managing Budgets and Resources
- Building Stakeholder Relationships Using Effective Communication
- Managing Data and Information
- Managing Own Personal and Professional Development
Course delivery details
Contextualised learning
The programme includes virtual classroom sessions aimed at interactive activity and reflection with peers, alongside developmental workshops aimed at improving the skills developed in a practical way.
Supporting synchronous delivery
BPP’s virtual learning platform includes video content, e-text books, case studies and other learning resources. Self-study prepares your employees for expert discussion within class whilst setting objectives to apply learning in the workplace, retrospectively encouraging reflection for further development and improvement.
One-to-one professional mentoring
Your employees will be allocated a qualified and experienced professional to operate as a mentor throughout the programme. They will provide meaningful feedback on individual practice whilst helping to reflect on strengths and development areas to improve overall capability and performance of your employees.
Your employees will have telephone or video calls every 6 weeks with a BPP Coach who will help your employees to consider how their learning has been applied and to agree development objectives.
Participants will be required to build a professional portfolio to showcase their capabilities that include how they have applied the tools and frameworks that they have learnt throughout the programme.
Peer networks
Your employees will have access to BPP’s virtual community, with networking opportunities that attract a diverse mix of professionals.
Professional workshops
BPP will help your employees to further embed and reflect on their newly developed knowledge and skills with a host of dynamic workshops. These sessions are run by professional facilitators and are designed to be fun, interactive and engaging. There are six professional workshops for this programme which align with all six modules to ensure learning is being applied and bolstered with a network of live examples across various industries.
Continuing Studies
Progression upon completion:
- Application to become an Associate Member of the Chartered Management Institute (CMI). Chartered membership can be achieved through further qualifications or experience-based assessment
- Further career progression through work experience
- Qualifications and further study up to postgraduate level, including Associate Project Manager Level 4 Apprenticeship, Operations/Departmental Manager Level 5 Apprenticeship or Chartered Manager Level 6 Degree Apprenticeship progressing to the Senior Leader Master’s Level 7 Degree Apprenticeship
- Typical job roles for individuals studying this programme include Junior Manager, Shift Supervisor/Manager and Team Leader.