Chartered Management Institute · RQF Level 7
CMI Level 7 Award in Strategic Management and Leadership (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 7
- Total credits6
- Units in this qualification17
Awarded by Chartered Management Institute · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Chartered Management Institute 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.
Being a strategic leaderReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the organisation’s ethical and value-based approach to leadership
- Understand strategic leadership styles
- Understand leadership strategies and their impact on organisational direction
Conducting a strategic management projectReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Identify and justify a strategic investigative project
- Conduct research, using sources, and synthesise data and options
- Draw conclusions and make recommendations that achieve the project aim
- Develop and review the results of the investigative project
Financial managementReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Analyse financial data
- Assess budgets based on financial data to support organisational objectives
- Evaluate financial proposals for expenditure submitted by others
Financial planningReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how the financial plan supports strategic objectives
- Understand the construction of a financial plan
- Understand how to promote the financial plan in support of strategic objectives
Human resource planningReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Explain how the human resource (HR) plan supports the organisation's strategic objectives
- Describe the legal and organisational frameworks that govern the employment of staff
- Analyse the effect of the organisational environment on staff behaviour and performance
- Outline the organisation's grievance, discipline, and dismissal processes
Introduction to Strategic Management and LeadershipReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the relationship and construction of a personal development plan
- Understand data and information and apply knowledge to the skills of quantitative analysis
- Understand core marketing concepts, the need for staff increases and the evaluation and support of others
Organisational changeReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to apply solutions to organisational change
- Understand how to develop a change strategy using implementation models
- Analyse an organisational response to change
- Understand how to evaluate the impact of change strategies
Organisational directionReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Review and determine the organisational strategic aims and objectives
- Identify and analyse progress towards organisational strategic aims and objectives
- Determine and evaluate strategic options to support a revised strategic position
Personal development as a strategic leaderReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Identify personal skills to achieve strategic ambitions
- Manage personal leadership development to support achievement of strategic ambitions
- Evaluate the effectiveness of the leadership development plan
- Advocate a staff welfare environment that supports organisational values
Strategic Corporate Social ResponsibilityReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the development and alignment of a Corporate Social Responsibility strategy
- Understand the implementation of a Corporate Social Responsibility strategy
- Understand the evaluation, impact and reinforcement of the Corporate Social Responsibility strategy
Strategic Risk ManagementReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the concept of risk, roles and responsibilities for risk management, and risk management tools and models
- Understand the resourcing and implementation of risk management strategy
- Understand the evaluation and management of risk management strategies
Strategic information managementReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the impact of management information on decision making
- Understand the importance of information sharing within the organisation
- Use information to inform and support strategic decision making
- Monitor and review management information
Strategic leadership practiceReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the relationship between strategic management and leadership
- Understand leadership principles that support organisational values
- Understand leadership strategies and the impact on organisation direction
Strategic marketingReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how the marketing plan supports the achievement of strategic objectives within an organisation
- Understand the key components and construction of a comprehensive marketing plan, including market analysis, target audience identification, and marketing strategies
- Understand how to effectively promote the marketing plan internally and externally in support of strategic objectives
Strategic performance managementReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Set performance targets of teams to meet strategic objectives
- Agree team performance targets to contribute to meeting strategic objectives
- Monitor actions and activities defined to improve team performance
- Apply influencing and persuading skills, to the dynamics and politics of personal interactions
Strategic planningReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose of a strategic plan
- Select a strategic direction from analysis of alternative strategic options
- Implement, evaluate, monitor and review the strategic plan
Strategic project managementReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the impact of projects and project management on the achievement of strategic objectives within an organisation
- Understand the key elements of a project process and plan, including initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, and closure
- Understand how to implement the project plan effectively and evaluate the outcome(s) against strategic objectives
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How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
- Remember
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- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for CMI Level 7 Award in Strategic Management and Leadership (QCF)
17 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Chartered Management Institute.
- Being a strategic leader
- Conducting a strategic management project
- Financial management
- Financial planning
- Human resource planning
- Introduction to Strategic Management and Leadership
and 11 more in the full unit list below.
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No two people run this the same way
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- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
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Why it sticks
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- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
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Why the companion is worth £70 a month
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Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
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