ILM is dedicated to supporting and encouraging your professional development. This section allows you to audit your current skills, gain new ones, and improve your leadership and management performance.
Professional recognition
Professional membership of ILM is designed to boost your career. We offer a range of membership grades to reflect and support your career achievements. Learn more...
ILM LinkedIn community
Want to network with like-minded managers online? You can build your contacts, make friends and share expertise in our LinkedIn community. With over 1800 members, the ILM group in LinkedIn is a vibrant and fast-growing hub for management professionals, and a rich source of advice, information and best practice.
Visit ILM's LinkedIn community.
CPD support
As a professional manager, your self-development and continuous learning are key to a varied and successful career. To help you plan your development needs, and to record and review your professional and personal development activities, we have developed a downloadable guide to CPD and an activity planner and log. Learn more...
Evening events
ILM’s evening events mix expert speakers, no-nonsense advice and valuable networking opportunities with relevant and varied subjects such as career management and change management. Learn more...
Employment law advice
If you have a problem at work and think you may need legal advice, our friends at LZW Law have developed a range of summaries on the key areas of employment law. As an ILM member you can also benefit from a free initial consultation from Philip Landau, employment law specialist and partner at LZW Law.
Read more about employment law issues.
Special interest groups
ILM offers additional membership benefits to support members working in local government. Find out more about ILM’s Faculty of Local Government Managers. Learn more...