Nomad

I will have to agree with the others on this point. The BTEC Level 3 is not a qualification that will make you an effective TL. Without practical experience how can you know how you will react to a real situation where you have to use judgement and skills that can only come from experience. I think we have all been in the situation where a "fresh out of management course" manager really had no idea how to effectively manage and get the best out of the team he is leading. The experienced guys working under that "new manager" had better judgement skills because of that experience gained from years of doing the job rather than simulations.

You may say well why are those experienced people not in a TL role if their experience is so good? It is simply that some people would rather not have the responsibility to lead a team and prefer another to make the final call and to organise the team as that is where they feel comfortable.

What makes a good TL or manager is confidence in their own skill set, the ability to understand how to get the best out of each team member and use their individual strengths for the combined good of the team. That skill can not be taught on a course and that is why there are some that are natural leaders and some that are happy to be lead. To think that a course will automatically fast track you to being TL is pure folly just as completing an SIA approved CP course will make you a great CPO. All it does is prepare you for a path to possibly becoming something more and that part comes from inside, not from coursework.

I am not trying to put you down but rather being realistic as that is a good basis to build on to become what you seek.