Construction Leadership and Management Development Programme - CMI Level 5
Our Construction Leadership and Management Development Programme- CMI Level 5 is designed specifically for managers in the construction industry, equipping them with practical tools and techniques to become highly effective leaders and managers with outstanding people skills.
This programme helps participants refine their leadership style to confidently manage teams in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment. It provides the skills to navigate the balance between leadership and management, ensuring stronger team coordination, improved performance, and a more motivated, engaged teams.
With a strong focus on team management and people skills, delegates will gain practical strategies to enhance communication, drive productivity, and address industry-specific challenges such as performance improvement, managing different personalities, and personal effectiveness. The course also covers conflict resolution and running effective meetings and discussions, ensuring that leaders can build strong relationships and maintain team harmony.
By completing this programme, construction managers will be better equipped to lead their teams effectively, ensuring that their management approach aligns with the organisation’s long-term success and workforce development.
Course Summary
CMI Level 5 Award in Leadership and Management - Optional
Duration:
2 Day
Delivery Method and Price:
Virtual Classroom:
£1,450
About the Programme
This course is for aspiring managers and recently promoted managers.
This course will allow delegates to build their confidence together with expertise needed to drive effectively manage a team or function.
On completion of this programme, delegates will:
- Greater awareness of one self’s leadership style
- An understanding of how to motivate staff who create and maintain a high-performance culture
- Greater responsibility for self-development
- More ability to effectively implement strategy
- The ability to make informed, evidence based, decisions
Session 1
Your Role as a Leader and Manager
Key themes include:
- When to Manage and When to Lead
- Supporting Performance
- Manging Conflict and Difficult Conversations
- Thriving Under Pressure
Session 2
Professional Effectiveness and Leading Others
Key themes include:
- Professional Effectiveness and Decision Making
- Influencing Others Effectively
- Coaching and Mentoring Skills for Setting Professional Objectives
- Data Use to Inform Decision Making
CMI Level 5 Award in Management in Management and Leadership
These qualifications are aimed at practising or aspiring managers who supervise or manage a team, or project officer and shift manager to achieve clearly defined outcomes. They will set and monitor goals and objectives by providing instruction, direction and guidance. Day to day operational and project activities are a key part of their role.
Learners are required to complete one 3,500-4,000 word written assignment. Unit to be completed include:
- 501: Principles of Management and Leadership in an Organisation
Benefits of completing the qualification include:
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Learners also receive:
- Targeted tutorials run by our CMI-qualified tutors, to help learners complete the assignment writing phase.
- Dedicated support from the Quality Assurance Team here at In Professional Development, including regular CMI learner drop-in sessions.
- Access to a wealth of CMI online learning resources through their Management Direct website.
Please take a look at our CMI FAQs to find out more about how the qualification works.

Fitzroy Andrew
Tutor
Fitz’s 45-year career encompasses director and CEO-level experience since the mid-1990s, award-winning research, and strategic leadership and governance roles with agencies tackling some of society’s most complex challenges including sustainability, community development, and youth violence and knife crime.
His outlook combines enduring and related interests in leadership and inclusion, grounded in a belief that they are foundational to each other – creating inclusion requires leadership, and leadership at its best requires an inclusive approach. Fitz’s work incorporates open and bespoke programme design and facilitation, alongside leadership coaching.
Fitz continues to play a significant role at INPD as a key subject lead on inclusion, evolving a philosophy which goes beyond a more commonplace ‘EDI’ narrative.

Mike Hurst
Tutor
Mike Hurst is a chartered construction manager and member of the Chartered Institute of Builders (MCIOB) and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). With over 30 years experience as an Industrialist and academic manager & practioner in both the public and private sectors. Currently at the University of East London as a senior lecturer within the School of Architecture, Computing & Engineering, he has held many roles which have developed the construction curriculum including programme leaderships in Civil Engineering, Construction Management and Building Surveying. Currently developing the Universities graduate skills and resilience programme which forms a major component of all our undergraduate and postgraduate courses. He is also a technical author for Pearson publications and has written a number of construction-related text books and study guides, including the National Core text book for the BTEC Level 3 Construction & Built Environment Diploma qualification. He lectures widely on modern methods of construction, sustainability and built heritage and the implementation of learning technologies in technical education 4.0.
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Is this course right for you?
- Learn about your leadership style
- Understand what makes a highly effective manager
- Understand how to manage performance and conflict
- Understand how to become an irreplaceable asset to the organisation
Testimonials
Natalie Celik
Genco Construction Services, Manager
Aiden McNicholas
Conneely Group, Construction Director
Jamie Herd
Lord Builders Merchants, Director
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