Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management · RQF Level 7
IWFM Level 7 Extended Diploma in Facilities Management
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 7
- Total credits60
- Guided learning600 hours
- Units in this qualification10
Awarded by Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management · on the Ofqual register
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
The IWFM Level 7 Extended Diploma in Facilities Management is designed for professionals in the facilities management sector. It develops strategic skills and knowledge in areas such as business, information management, and staff management.
These are the units Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Finance and Facilities ManagementReal unit · Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management
What you'll be able to do
- Appraise an organisation’s financial performance.
- Appraise an organisation’s financial position.
- Appraise an organisation’s financial prospects.
- Identify an organisation’s financing requirements.
- Recommend how an organisation’s financing requirements should be addressed.
- Evaluate investment opportunities.
- Recommend whether investment opportunities should be pursued.
- Combine financial and non-financial measures in the creation of performance control processes.
Knowledge, Information and Change Management for Facilities ManagementReal unit · Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management
What you'll be able to do
- Apply understanding of the flow of information and knowledge within an organisation to the development of facilities management strategy.
- Explain how the effective use of information and knowledge brings benefits to an organisation.
- Apply change management theory to influence the vision and strategy of the organisation in the context of facilities management.
- Develop and embed a change management strategy in the context of the strategic position of the facilities management function.
Leadership, Partnership and Change within Facilities ManagementReal unit · Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management
What you'll be able to do
- Critique theories and current research exploring the complex nature of change in the context of facilities management.
- Critique theories and current research exploring the complex nature of partnership and leadership in the context of facilities management.
- Recognise leadership as a process of adaptation and evolution within facilities management.
- Compare the implications of different values, cultures, and organisational forms in the approaches to partnership and leadership within facilities management.
Legislation, Finance and Risk in Facilities ManagementReal unit · Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the impact of corporate governance on stakeholders.
- Understand an organisation’s ethical responsibilities to their stakeholders.
- Understand an organisation’s social responsibilities to their stakeholders.
- Evaluate the application of risk management in the context of an organisation’s strategy.
- Apply risk management strategies within facilities management.
- Manage risk management strategies within facilities management.
- Develop budgets relevant to facilities management.
- Critically review budgets relevant to facilities management.
- Evaluate the financial performance of the facilities management function.
- Monitor key policies and procedures for facilities management.
- Review key policies and procedures for facilities management.
Managing Facilities Management Projects and ContractsReal unit · Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management
What you'll be able to do
- Develop the decision-making processes leading to the inception of facilities management projects.
- Implement the decision-making processes leading to the inception of facilities management projects.
- Critically review the decision-making processes leading to the inception of facilities management projects.
- Critically appraise key project management principles in relation to facilities management projects.
- Critically appraise key project management processes in relation to facilities management projects.
- Develop procurement methodologies used within facilities management projects.
- Implement procurement methodologies used within facilities management projects.
- Critically review procurement methodologies used within facilities management projects.
- Appraise contracting arrangements for facilities management.
- Manage contracting arrangements for facilities management.
- Manage the working dynamic between project stakeholders.
- Manage the working dynamic between project leaders.
- Manage the working dynamic between the project team.
Managing Organisations and People in Facilities ManagementReal unit · Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management
What you'll be able to do
- Critically evaluate organisational human resource strategies and policies within facilities management.
- Understand the range of factors that influence behaviour in organisations, including individual, group, and organisational factors.
- Motivate, engage, and empower staff within the facilities management function to achieve organisational goals.
Managing Staff and Customers in Facilities ManagementReal unit · Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management
What you'll be able to do
- Develop strategies for improving performance measurement and customer service within facilities management.
- Implement strategies for improving performance measurement and customer service within facilities management.
- Critically review strategies for improving performance measurement and customer service within facilities management.
- Develop strategies for improving customer relationships within facilities management.
- Implement strategies for improving customer relationships within facilities management.
- Critically review strategies for improving customer relationships within facilities management.
- Motivate staff within the facilities management function.
- Engage staff within the facilities management function.
- Empower staff within the facilities management function.
- Apply appropriate leadership styles to encourage customer satisfaction and engagement.
- Apply appropriate management styles to encourage customer satisfaction and engagement.
- Analyse the wider context that affects relationships with colleagues, stakeholders, suppliers and specialists.
- Interpret the wider context that affects relationships with colleagues, stakeholders, suppliers and specialists.
Procurement and Measurement in Facilities ManagementReal unit · Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management
What you'll be able to do
- Develop different models of facilities management procurement.
- Implement different models of facilities management procurement.
- Critically review different models of facilities management procurement.
- Develop performance measures for the evaluation of facilities management delivery.
- Implement performance measures for the evaluation of facilities management delivery.
- Critically review performance measures for the evaluation of facilities management delivery.
- Develop strategies for improving performance measurement and customer service.
- Implement strategies for improving performance measurement and customer service.
- Critically review strategies for improving performance measurement and customer service.
Strategic Facilities Management and BusinessReal unit · Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management
What you'll be able to do
- Explain the importance of positioning facilities management at a strategic business level within an organisation.
- Apply generic management theory to the context of facilities management.
- Review, analyse, and evaluate the importance of embedding innovation management within facilities management practices.
- Envisage future trends in facilities management and critically apply these to the development of facilities management strategy.
Strategic Property Asset ManagementReal unit · Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management
What you'll be able to do
- Appraise the core business activity to determine operational property requirements.
- Operate effectively and formulate decisions when dealing with legal matters in relation to property assets.
- Evaluate and appraise the value and performance of property assets.
- Act as an informed organisational stakeholder in strategic property asset management decisions.
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Learners will appraise an organisation's financial performance, position, and prospects through analysis of financial statements and ratios. They will identify financing requirements, evaluate investment opportunities, and make informed financial recommendations.
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Built for IWFM Level 7 Extended Diploma in Facilities Management
10 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management.
- Finance and Facilities Management
- Knowledge, Information and Change Management for Facilities Management
- Leadership, Partnership and Change within Facilities Management
- Legislation, Finance and Risk in Facilities Management
- Managing Facilities Management Projects and Contracts
- Managing Organisations and People in Facilities Management
and 4 more in the full unit list below.
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