CMI Qualification
Level 5 Award in Management and Leadership
Build on your leadership learning and gain professional recognition for the way you lead people and teams.
Qualification
CMI Level 5 Award
Who it’s for
Aspiring & practising middle leaders
Assessment route
Choose Unit 501 or 502
Programme connection
Leading Learning from the Middle
Develop your leadership. Build the capability of others.
For 25 years, KAA’s Leading Learning from the Middle programme has helped aspiring and established leaders worldwide develop their confidence, knowledge and practical skills. As a CMI Approved Centre, KAA now offers participants a route to formal recognition of that learning.
The CMI Level 5 Award in Leadership and Management brings together organisational purpose, leadership practice, relationships, performance and professional development. It encourages you to reflect critically on your experience and consider how your leadership can make a positive difference.
Is this right for you?
- Practising middle leaders and managers
- Aspiring leaders preparing for greater responsibility
- Participants building on Leading Learning from the Middle
Looking to develop leaders across your organisation? KAA can discuss how the qualification could support your team.
Your route to qualification
The CMI award is an optional next step following successful completion of Leading Learning from the Middle.
Build your leadership practice
Complete KAA’s Leading Learning from the Middle programme and reflect on the learning in your own setting.
Choose your assessment focus
Discuss Unit 501 or Unit 502 with KAA and identify the focus that best fits your leadership practice.
Evidence your learning
Complete the assessment requirements for your chosen route to work towards the CMI Level 5 Award.
What you'll learn
Explore how your leadership can support performance now while developing the people and capability your organisation needs for the future.
Lead with clarity and purpose
Connect organisational priorities with the way you lead. Create shared direction and help people understand how their contribution supports wider goals.
Create the conditions for success
Build trust and accountability, motivate and develop others, and support people to contribute with confidence.
Turn individual strengths into teamwork
Bring together different perspectives, capabilities and experiences. Strengthen collaboration so individual contributions become collective achievement.
Build leadership capacity for the future
Respond to change, develop capability in others and strengthen succession. Help teams become more adaptable and able to perform without depending on one leader.
For you
Reflect critically on your own leadership, consolidate your experience and translate professional learning into an assessed route towards a recognised qualification.
For your organisation
Develop stronger middle leadership, more effective teams and a deeper pool of people equipped to take on greater responsibility.
Qualification Details
Choose one of the two units below with KAA’s guidance. Each offers a different focus for your assessment.
CMI Level 5 –
Unit 501
Principles of Management and Leadership in an Organisational Context
Explore the relationship between management and leadership and the organisational context in which leaders operate. Consider how different leadership approaches affect culture, performance, decision making and the achievement of organisational objectives.
- Management, leadership and organisational context
- Leadership approaches, culture and performance
- Your own contribution to organisational objectives
7
Credits
70
Total unit hours
25
Guided learning hours
CMI Level 5 –
Unit 502
Principles of Developing, Managing and Leading Individuals and Teams to Achieve Success
Explore how individuals and teams can be developed, supported and led effectively. Consider how to draw on different strengths, perspectives and capabilities to improve individual and collective performance.
- Developing, managing and leading people
- Bringing different strengths and perspectives together
- Creating the conditions for people to contribute and succeed
6
Credits
60
Total unit hours
27
Guided learning hours
Your commitment and support
Discuss the route with KAA before you enrol, including your previous learning, the assessment requirements and the support you will need.
Your commitment
Attendance on Leading Learning from the Middle can be used towards guided learning time. The unit figures describe learning and assessment commitment, not a fixed course timetable. KAA can explain how these apply to you.
How we support you
Ask what evidence or assignments are required, how assessment is organised, what support is included and when work needs to be submitted. These arrangements are agreed with KAA.
Fees, assessment and dates
Contact the CMI Centre Co-ordinator for current fees, what they include, registration arrangements and available start dates.
Discuss your qualification with the KAA team.
We can help you explore the right route, assessment requirements and practical arrangements for you or your organisation.
Kate Beetlestone
CMI Centre Co-ordinator