Chartered Management Institute · RQF Level 7
CMI Level 7 Diploma in Leadership Coaching and Mentoring (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 7
- Total credits53
- Guided learning168 hours
- Units in this qualification10
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.
Coaching and mentoring and organisational directionReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Develop coaching and mentoring for individuals and organisations
- Understand how coaching and mentoring can support evolving organisational objectives
Coaching and mentoring policiesReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Construct organisational coaching and mentoring policies
- Understand the acceptance of coaching and mentoring policies in the organisation
Coaching and mentoring within organisational cultureReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the links between strategic performance and coaching and mentoring
- Understand the impact of organisational culture on coaching and mentoring
- Understand how coaching and mentoring can impact organisational culture
Leadership coaching and mentoring skillsReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how coaching and mentoring programmes support business objectives
- Plan the implementation of coaching and mentoring to achieve organisational objectives
- Develop skills as a leader in coaching and mentoring
Leading equality and diversityReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the commitment to equality of opportunity and diversity
- Understand the application of equality of opportunity and diversity
- Understand the needs of others in relation to equality of opportunity and diversity
Managing organisational cultureReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how organisational culture can impact on organisational behaviour
- Understand the relationship between organisational culture, strategy and performance
- Understand the skills of cultural development
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 coaching and mentoringReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the issues involved during the adoption of organisational coaching and mentoring
- Understand changes occurring through the coaching and mentoring process
- Understand the need for continual high level support for coaching and mentoring
Strategic impact of coaching and mentoringReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand individual, team and departmental development from the coaching and mentoring process
- Understand the effect of coaching and mentoring on strategic performance 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
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.
There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.
And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.
Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 7 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
The Evidence Evaluator
Assessor
Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
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Where these credits take you
A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.
- Coach or Mentor in the Organisational Setting
- Develop coaching and mentoring within organisational strategies
- Develop the culture of your organisation
- Enable coachee or mentee to access alternative support
- Implement and evaluate organisational change
Where this can lead
Organisational Change Specialist
Your journey here as a Change Practitioner is just the beginning. We're committed to giving you the tools, experience, and mentorship to grow into a true leader in business transformation, whether that's leading large programmes or specialising in a niche area. If you're ready to roll up your sleeves and help people navigate the exciting, sometimes messy, world of change, then we want to hear from you.
See the whole journey →Showing 6 roles, drawn from 117 job records mapped to this qualification.
Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
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
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for CMI Level 7 Diploma in Leadership Coaching and Mentoring (QCF)
10 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Chartered Management Institute.
- Coaching and mentoring and organisational direction
- Coaching and mentoring policies
- Coaching and mentoring within organisational culture
- Leadership coaching and mentoring skills
- Leading equality and diversity
- Managing organisational culture
and 4 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- 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.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.
Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
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.
Build my plan, freeNo card. See how this qualification maps onto your role and meet the tutors who’d teach it, free. The learning begins when you subscribe. It’s £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.