Leadership and Management training

Leadership plays a crucial role on any construction site. Being able to motivate, inspire and lead a team, while dealing with what can be challenging, changing or demanding situations, requires skilled leaders and managers.

Why do it?

Leadership plays a crucial role on any construction site. Being able to motivate, inspire and lead a team, while dealing with what can be challenging, changing or demanding situations, requires skilled leaders and managers.

Industry has identified a need to provide greater Leadership and Management support and training, to ensure that those skills are in place.

Employers who equip their employees with the necessary skills and knowledge to effectively lead their teams, have seen:

Leadership and management training contributing towards a safe working environment for all staff

Improved employee retention, through supporting long term career ambitions and continuous professional development.

Choose the right training option for your team

CITB offers leadership and management training routes that suit individual learning requirements and company needs.

Knowledge only - select a single short course or take a “pick and mix” approach to learning as and when required.

The Benefits

This framework helps all CITB Registered employers access standardised and transferable Leadership and Management training through a series of short courses. Meaning:

  • Employers can choose from a range of short courses that support their own managers and supervisors’ skills development

  • There are no long assignments as part of the training, minimising the amount of time the training takes to complete

  • Employers are able to access funding for Leadership and Management training

  • There is flexibility of delivery – employers can find training providers who offer the courses in person or remotely

  • The new standards act as a guide for employers who are not sure what training would be useful for a supervisor

  • The courses can be used as personal development for someone not quite ready to move into a supervisory role but is part of their long-term career ambitions.

Short courses available

The 12 courses cover a variety of skills needed, from handling difficult conversations right through to commercial awareness and logistics. The courses are:

  • Achieving performance through people

  • Delivery of site operations and logistics

  • Developing yourself as a team leader

  • Handling difficult situations

  • Leadership and management practice in construction

  • Planning and monitoring work in construction

  • Solving problems and making decisions

  • Understanding commercial awareness

  • Understanding organising and delegating in construction

  • Understanding the induction and onboarding of new staff in construction

  • Understanding the recruitment and selection of new staff in construction

  • Understanding training and coaching in construction.

Finding an approved training provider

Leadership and Management short courses are only available through CITB’s Approved Training Organisations (ATOs) or Training Provider Network (TPN) members. The training can either be completed in person or remotely. This means any employers and employees looking to minimise travel time can opt to take part in the training at a location convenient for them, with access to a live learning session with a tutor online.

For more details of the courses and training providers offering this training, please fill in the short online form and your local CITB engagement adviser will be in contact.

For more information - online form

If you would like to use a training provider that is not currently an Approved Training Organisation (ATO) or Training Provider Network (TPN) member, CITB can help them to become one - How to become a TPN member

Please note it is no longer possible to become an ATO. All new approved providers will become TPN members.

Funding

CITB registered employers can access funding for training through the Employer Networks.

Knowledge and qualification – funding available through the Employer Networks.

ILM Qualification – from City & Guilds

  • Achievement of a recognised qualification that is transferable

  • The courses can be used as personal development for someone not quite ready to move into a supervisory role but is part of their long-term career ambitions

  • ILM level 3 Leadership and Management Practice for the Construction and Built Environment Sector Qualification

  • The qualification can be used to apply for a White (academic) CSCS Card.

The course consists of 5 modules

There are two mandatory modules:

  • 8626-300 Leadership and Management Practice for the Construction and Built Environment Sector

  • 8626-301 Delivery of Site Operations and Logistics.

Plus the 3 modules below: 

  • 8626-302 Understanding Commercial Awareness

  • 8626-303 Handling Difficult Situations

  • 8626-305 Achieving Performance Through People.

Note: completion of the 2 mandatory modules entitles the learner to a certificate, all 5 modules must be completed to gain the qualification

Knowledge and optional qualification - funding for employers who want to create a bespoke training programme for their team.

What's available?

In addition to the short courses available through ATOs and the Training Provider Network,  and the funding options available to those wanting the full qualification through the Employer Networks, there are other options for large employers (above 250 direct employees) wishing to offer more bespoke leadership training.

The new Large Employer Fund launched 1 April 2026. Talk to your local Adviser to get support for your training and skills needs.