Chartered Management Institute · RQF Level 7

CMI Level 7 Diploma in Professional Consulting

You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.

  • LevelRQF Level 7
  • Total credits52
  • Guided learning210 hours
  • Units in this qualification6

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.

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
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
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 project managementReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
It teaches you to understand the impact of projects and project management on strategic objectives. You'll explore project processes and plans, and develop skills to implement and evaluate projects in alignment with organisational strategy.

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
Strategic project managementReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
This unit provides learners with knowledge of how projects contribute to strategic objectives. You'll identify key elements of project processes, understand implementation steps, and evaluate project outcomes, including risks and benefits for organisational performance.

What you'll be able to do

  • Explain the impact of projects and project management on the achievement of strategic objectives within an organisation.
  • Identify and describe the key elements of a project process and plan, including scope, resources, and timelines.
  • Describe the steps involved in implementing a project plan and the methods used to evaluate the project outcome(s) against the original objectives.

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.

Leadership coaching and mentoring skillsOrganisational changeOrganisational directionStrategic performance managementStrategic project managementStrategic project management

Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.

Who’d teach you this

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Where this connects

Where these credits take you

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Where this can lead

Strategic Projects Manager

This role is a launchpad for a truly impactful career. Whether you aspire to lead a function, become a deep subject matter expert, or eventually run a business unit, the Strategic Projects Manager position will equip you with the skills, experience, and network to get there. We're investing in you for the long haul.

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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.

One-to-one, on your real workNo lectures, no past-papers. Every unit is practised on the actual tasks your job throws at you, a tutor beside you, not a video in front of you.
Taught to the top, not the testMost courses stop at remembering. Your companion keeps climbing: analysing, judging, creating. That’s the part a machine can’t do for you.
Credits you keep, a map that continuesEvery unit is regulated and yours for good. The day you finish, Zavmo already knows the next role your new credits open.
Leadership coaching and mentoring skillsLevel 7

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How the thinking builds
  1. Remember
  2. Understand
  3. Apply
  4. Analyse
  5. Evaluate
  6. Create
An illustration of a Zavmo lesson, built from this role’s own route. The unit, its objective and every criterion above are the awarding body’s own words, not an example.
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Built for CMI Level 7 Diploma in Professional Consulting

5 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Chartered Management Institute.

  1. Leadership coaching and mentoring skills
  2. Organisational change
  3. Organisational direction
  4. Strategic performance management
  5. Strategic project management
These are the real units of this credential, in its own order. Nothing here is marked done, because this plan has not been started by anyone yet. Yours would fill in as you go.

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.

  1. Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.

  1. 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
  2. 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
  3. 4AnalyseThe Analyst
  4. 3ApplyThe Coach
  5. 2UnderstandThe Connector
  6. 1RememberThe Builder

Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you

Why this matters: AI can already remember and understand for you. What it can’t do is take your real problem and judge the right call. So the only learning worth paying for is the learning that takes you to the top. That’s exactly what a tutor doing it with you, on your real work, is for.

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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