Learning Resources

ILM offers a comprehensive range of learning resources to support your employees' management development, whether they are studying ILM qualifications or have taken up ILM membership as part of their continual professional development (CPD).

By working with ILM through the corporate membership scheme or upskilling staff through ILM qualifications, businesses gain access to a range of professional and practical learning resources for their staff.

Support through studying membership

Employees registered on any ILM qualification, Endorsed or Development Programme receive one year's free studying membership of ILM. This service has been created to support leadership and management development with a selection of specialist services, including:

  • Harvard Business Publishing's online reference modules on leading and motivating, delegating, time management, finance and budgeting, team management and coaching
  • Harvard's Stepping up to Management, a programme designed to get new managers up to speed with quickly for maximum impact
  • Study guides with essential information for success in ILM qualifications
  • Book loans and ebooks  
  • Ejournals
  • Reading lists for ILM qualifications and key management topics
  • Edge online magazine
  • Newsroom, the monthly roundup of topical management news
  • Evening seminars – one free event for every studying member
  • Great discounts on a range of insurance, business and leisure services ranging from car insurance to gym membership, from meeting venues to family days out – many of which are backed by a price promise

Find out more about studying member resources

Additional support through professional membership

Professional members of ILM receive all the benefits enjoyed by studying members. In addition, they are granted access to a far wider range of resources and services tailored to provide support through every level of management. This ultimate CPD package includes:

  • The full suite of 40+ Harvard Business Publishing's online reference modules covering every leadership or management topic you could think of
  • Leadership Transitions, a Harvard programme aimed at new leaders to prepare them for moving into new roles and to make a positive impact right from the start
  • Online assessment of mental toughness and leadership skills
  • CPD scheme and logbook
  • Access to a free and confidential legal helpline for queries on work or domestic issues, supported by a comprehensive website for business and consumer law
  • Recognition of their qualifications and/or management experience with the use of post nominal letters (eg MInstLM)
  • Access to special interest groups for enterprise or local government
  • ILM News with updates on membership services
  • ILM pocket diary

Find out more about the resources available to professional members

ILM publications

ILM also provides a wide range of learning resources to support organisations delivering ILM qualifications – in-house or in conjunction with a private trainer.
Published by ILM and in partnership with Elsevier, there are materials for tutors, trainers and learners at all levels.

  • Building Success 2, flexible resource materials on CD and the Leading Teams text book together support the ILM Level 2 Award and Certificate in Team Leading
  • Super Series, a collection of 40 management development workbooks to support the ILM Level 3 Award, Certificate and Diploma in First Line Management
  • Management Extra, higher level management development workbooks to support the ILM Level 5 Award, Certificate and Diploma in Management
  • Concepts of Coaching, an key text for employees working towards ILM’s suite of coaching and mentoring qualifications

Visit ILM's online shop now to browse the full range