Chartered Management Institute · RQF Level 7
CMI Level 7 Diploma in Management Consultancy (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 7
- Total credits49
- Guided learning168 hours
- Units in this qualification16
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.
Appraise with a consultancy client options to address their problems/opportunitiesReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Agree with the client the involvement of others in the option appraisal process.
- Determine with the client evaluation criteria capable of discriminating between options.
- Support the client in generating options.
- Support the client in evaluating options.
- Support the client in managing risks.
Consultant-client relationshipsReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to establish professional working relationships with clients.
- Understand how to optimise the impact of the client's personality, competence, organisational role and level of authority.
- Understand how to use feedback to build mutual trust and respect with clients.
- Understand how to manage conflicts with clients.
- Understand how to evaluate relationships with clients to improve working practices.
- Understand how to maintain records of interactions with clients
Develop a common understanding with a consultancy client of their problems/opportunitiesReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Agree with the client the nature of the presenting problem/opportunity.
- Evaluate information that may impact on the problem/opportunity.
- Agree with the client the impact of the information gathered on the problem/opportunity.
- Confirm with the client the problem/opportunity to be addressed.
- Review the problem/opportunity with the client.
Develop a consultancy client's capacity and competence to implement and sustain solutionsReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Support the client in managing the resources required to implement and sustain solutions.
- Support the client in developing knowledge, skills and competences to implement and sustain solutions.
- Support the client and client's organisation to manage culture changes.
- Support the client to develop the expertise necessary to implement and sustain solutions.
- Provide constructive feedback to the clients.
Develop working relationships with colleagues and stakeholdersReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Identify stakeholders and their relevance to an organisation.,
- Understand how to establish working relationships with colleagues and stakeholders.,
- Create an environment of trust and mutual respect with colleagues and stakeholders.
Develop, maintain and review personal networksReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the benefits of networking and the need for data privacy.
- Develop a personal network of contacts.
- Review networking relationships.
Facilitate performance management with a consultancy clientReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Identify key measures of performance with the client.,
- Support the client in developing data systems for key measures of performance.,
- Develop and agree with the client targets for key measures of performance.,
- Support the client in monitoring performance against targets.,
- Support the client in evaluating performance.,
- Support the client to take decisions based on the evaluation of performance.
Facilitate the implementation of solutions with a consultancy clientReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Agree with the client roles and responsibilities in the implementation of solutions.
- Facilitate the implementation of solutions with a client.
- Support the client in monitoring risks to the implementation of solutions.
- Support the client in monitoring the implementation of solutions.
- Support the client in communicating progress in implementing solutions.
- Support the client in reviewing the implementation of solutions.
Manage a budget for own area or activity of workReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare a budget for own area of responsibility.
- Manage a budget.
- Review budget management performance.
Manage a programme of complementary projectsReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand principles, processes, tools and techniques of programme management.
- Develop a programme plan.
- Communicate programme aims and plans to project managers.
- Monitor project and programme progress.
- Evaluate a programme.
Manage relationships with consultancy clientsReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Establish relationships with consultancy clients.
- Manage communications with clients.
- Optimise the impact of the client's personality, competence, organisational role and level of authority.
- Build mutual trust and respect with clients through feedback.
- Manage conflicts with clients.
- Evaluate relationships with clients.
Plan the implementation of solutions with a consultancy clientReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Agree with the client the involvement of others in the implementation planning process.
- Support the client in producing an implementation plan.
- Support the client in planning to manage risks.
- Support the client in developing processes for monitoring progress against the plan.
- Support the client in communicating the implementation plan.
Professional, ethical and quality standards in consultancy workReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to comply with legal requirements.,
- Understand how to comply with professional and ethical standards/codes of practice.,
- Understand how to resolve conflicts between the requirements of consultancy work and professional and ethical standards.,
- Understand how to assure the quality of consultancy work.,
- Understand how to maintain professional boundaries.,
- Understand how to maintain client confidentiality.
The consultancy processReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to develop a common understanding with a consultancy client of their problems/opportunities.
- Understand how to work with a client to agree solutions to their problems/ opportunities.
- Understand how to plan the implementation of solutions.
- Understand how to support a client in implementing solutions.
- Understand how to develop a client’s capacity and competence to implement and sustain solutions.
- Understand how to work with a client to measure and evaluate performance.
Work productively with colleagues and stakeholdersReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Provide colleagues and stakeholders with information.,
- Consult with colleagues and stakeholders in relation to decisions or activities.,
- Understand the importance of fulfilling agreements and honouring commitments made to colleagues and stakeholders.,
- Understand how to manage potential conflicts of interest.,
- Understand how to be able to monitor working relationships.,
- Review and improve the effectiveness of working relationships.
Work with a consultancy client to prepare and promote the business case for solutionsReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Agree with the client the involvement of others in the process of developing the business case for solutions.
- Support the client in preparing the business case for the solution.
- Support the client in agreeing the business case with decision-makers.
- Prepare an agreed solution with the client.
- Support the client in gaining the support of stakeholders for the business case.
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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.
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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.
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- Maintain communication with project stakeholders
- Manage Consultancy Assignments for IT Enabled Systems
- Manage Internal and External Non-Client Relationships
- Manage Relationships During Consultancy Assignments for IT Enabled Systems
- Manage a Business Link client portfolio
Where this can lead
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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 Management Consultancy (QCF)
16 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Chartered Management Institute.
- Appraise with a consultancy client options to address their problems/opportunities
- Consultant-client relationships
- Develop a common understanding with a consultancy client of their problems/opportunities
- Develop a consultancy client's capacity and competence to implement and sustain solutions
- Develop working relationships with colleagues and stakeholders
- Develop, maintain and review personal networks
and 10 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.
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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
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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.
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