Chartered Management Institute · RQF Level 6
CMI Level 6 Diploma in Public Service Leadership (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 6
- Total credits61
- Guided learning168 hours
- Units in this qualification13
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.
Collaborative Public Services ProjectReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Identify and justify a collabourative investigative project.
- Conduct research, using sources, and synthesise data and options.
- Draw conclusions and make recommendations that achieve the project aim.
- Evaluate and present the results of the project.
Contributing to the Financial Efficiency in Public ServicesReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Produce and assess budgets, to support organisational objectives, based on financial data.
- Evaluate financial proposals for expenditure submitted by others.
- Develop and evaluate a public service tender.
Developing Public Service Teams.Real unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the team dynamics which may impact team development.
- Understand links between individual and organisational performance and identify development opportunities
Ethical organisational managementReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of organisational ethics
- Understand ethical codes and related legislation
- Understand an integrated approach to business ethics and corporate social responsibility
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
Managerial networksReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the development of personal networks to support current and future organisational objectives
- Understand how collection of data or information from the networks can inform on the environment in which the organisation operates
- Understand the skills of encouraging and supporting implementation of ideas, from the network across the organisation
Managing ideas and innovationReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the identification of ideas and innovation across the organisation
- Understand the encouragement of innovation across the organisation
- Understand the analysis of ideas and innovations
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
Managing the change processReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the forces for change in an organisation
- Understand the impact of the change process
- Understand the management of the change process
Performance managementReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Identify and agree performance objectives
- Assess performance and provide feedback
- Understand performance support for improvement
- Understand and apply the organisation’s disciplinary and grievance procedures
Planning to Meet Public Services Customer RequirementsReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how organisational structure can be determined to deliver services.
- Identify and apply improvements to service provision.
- Deliver an improvement in service provision.
Public Services LeadershipReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand leadership skills and their development, evaluate and develop leadership skills.
- Understand communication strategies to support employee commitment and trust.
- Understand conflict, methods to prevent or minimise conflict and the need to maintain records of conflict situations.
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
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
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Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 6 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
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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.
- Cultivate Effective Communication and Stakeholder Engagement
- Develop the Culture of Your Organisation
- Driving Innovation: Identifying and Implementing New Ideas
- Identify and evaluate opportunities for innovation and improvement
- Implement strategies and plans for change initiatives
- Manage agreed project changes
- Manage performance in commissioning, procurement and contracting
- Manage the impacts of organisational change
Where this can lead
Head of Idea Management
Your journey here is about more than just a job; it's about building a career where you genuinely shape the future of our business. We're excited to see where you take us, and we'll be here to support you every step of the way.
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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 6 Diploma in Public Service Leadership (QCF)
13 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Chartered Management Institute.
- Collaborative Public Services Project
- Contributing to the Financial Efficiency in Public Services
- Developing Public Service Teams.
- Ethical organisational management
- Leading equality and diversity
- Managerial networks
and 7 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
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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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