CAKE Open Programme Menu Autumn 2026

Our open programmes are designed for individuals or small groups who want high-quality

development without building a full internal programme.

Learn alongside peers, apply it in real time and gain recognised qualifications where needed.

CAKE PROGRAMME MENU

LEAD UP - ILM Level 3 (September 2026)

Virtual Delivery

For Team Leaders and First Line Managers

What we cover together:

• Discover your leadership style and understand what great leadership and management really looks like. Get honest about your own strengths and the areas you want to grow

• Tackle problems with confidence with a structured approach to diagnosing issues, gathering the right information and making decisions you can stand behind

• Communicate so people actually listen with exploration into why communication breaks down and how to get your message across clearly up, down and across your organisation

• Manage performance and even the difficult conversations by learning how to set clear expectations, give feedback that lands and handle underperformance before it becomes a bigger problem

Workshop Dates:

📅 22 Sept 2026

📅 20 Oct 2026

📅 10 Nov 2026

£1,795 + VAT per person

Includes ILM Level 3 Award, full assessment support, ILM membership and internal quality assurance

For further details or to book your place

call 01603 733006

or email slice@cakepd.co.uk

LEAD ON - ILM Level 5 (September 2026)

Virtual Delivery

For Middle Managers and First Line Managers ready for the next step

What we cover together:

• Understand your own leadership capability and honestly assess how your style impacts the people and performance around you, then build a clear plan to lead with greater effectiveness

• Motivate and influence your team with purpose by exploring what drives people, how to adapt your approach and how to use communication and persuasion to get the very best from others

• Identify real opportunities for innovation and change within your organisation and build the confidence to propose solutions that will genuinely improve performance

• Lead change that actually happens by moving from idea to action with structured tools to manage resistance, bring people with you and measure what matters

Workshop Dates:

📅 24 Sept 2026

📅 22 Oct 2026

📅 12 Nov 2026

📅 17 Dec 2026

£2,175 + VAT per person

Includes ILM Level 5 Award, full assessment support, ILM membership and internal quality assurance

For further details or to book your place

call 01603 733006

or email slice@cakepd.co.uk

LEAD BEYOND - CMI Level 7 (October 2026)

In-Person Delivery (Norfolk / Suffolk)

For Directors, Executives, Entrepreneurs and Senior Managers

What we cover together:

• Define your role as a strategic leader by understanding the difference between strategic and operational leadership and clarifying where your energy and focus needs to be to drive your organisation forward

• Create and communicate a compelling mission, vision and strategic plan for your organisation using key strategic tools to analyse your internal and external landscape with confidence

• Build and lead a high performing team by exploring what great team development, performance management, employee engagement and coaching looks like at a senior level

• Turn strategy into action by learning how to lead change, manage resistance, communicate your strategy effectively and develop a clear implementation plan that delivers real results

Workshop Dates:

📅 21 Oct 2026

📅 9 Dec 2026

📅 10 Feb 2027

📅 14 Apr 2027

£4,250 + VAT per person

Includes CMI Level 7 Certificate, all course materials, CMI registration and membership, CMI assessment and verification

For further details or to book your place

call 01603 733006

or email slice@cakepd.co.uk

Effective Coaching & Mentoring - ILM Level 5 (Start Anytime)

Virtual Delivery

For Managers, HR and L&D Professionals

What we cover together:

• Understand the real difference between coaching and mentoring, when and how to use each effectively, and how to build a case for coaching and mentoring culture within your organisation

• Develop your practical coaching skills by exploring proven models and tools including GROW, and building the emotional intelligence and ethical practice that underpins great coaching conversations

• Put your skills into practice through observed coaching sessions, structured feedback and one-to-one supervision that builds your confidence and develops your personal coaching style

• Benchmark your organisation's coaching and mentoring readiness, prepare a strategy and create your own development plan using diagnostics and self-assessment to identify where you are and where you want to be

Workshop Dates:

📅 Start Anytime (contact us to discuss your start date)

£2,995 + VAT per person

Includes ILM Level 5 Certificate in Coaching and Mentoring, full assessment support, ILM membership and internal quality assurance

For further details or to book your place

call 01603 733006

or email slice@cakepd.co.uk

Executive Coaching & Mentoring - ILM Level 7 (Start Anytime)

Virtual Delivery

For Senior Leaders, Directors and Experienced Coaches and Mentors

What we cover together:

• Understand the strategic purpose of coaching and mentoring at executive level and analyse the knowledge, skills and behaviours required to practise effectively with senior leaders

• Develop and refine your coaching practice through real coaching experience, group supervision sessions and one-to-one support that challenges and stretches you at the level your clients expect

• Reflect deeply on your own practice, your values and beliefs as a coach and build a personal development plan that sets the direction for your ongoing professional growth

• Achieve a globally recognised ILM Level 7 Certificate through three structured assignments that demonstrate your capability to coach and mentor at the most senior levels of an organisation

Workshop Dates:

📅 Start Anytime (programme tailored to your experience and starting point)

£3,495 + VAT per person

Includes ILM Level 7 Certificate, ILM registration and membership, group workshops, one-to-one support, supervision, assessment and internal verification

For further details or to book your place

call 01603 733006

or email slice@cakepd.co.uk

DELICIOUS DELIVERY

At CAKE, we believe that developing people should be the essential ingredient at the heart of

every organisation.

Our open programmes are accredited by the best known membership and accreditation bodies

in the increasingly professionalised roles of management and leadership.

They are a cost effective way of developing people with the added benefit of peer learning,

participating in diverse groups from a wide range of businesses and sectors.

Each programme is supported by our on-line learning community CAKE Connect, enriching the

learning experience through sharing additional learning material, online discussions and work-

based challenges

LOOKING TO DEVELOP A GROUP OF PEOPLE?

For four or more participants, a bespoke programme allows us to tailor the content to your

organisation, align it to your goals and often deliver this in a more cost-effective way.