Chartered Management Institute · RQF Level 7

CMI Level 7 Certificate In Leadership Coaching and Mentoring

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  • LevelRQF Level 7
  • Total credits13
  • Guided learning55 hours
  • Units in this qualification6

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What you’ll learn

What each unit actually teaches you to do

This Level 7 Certificate in Leadership Coaching and Mentoring is designed for managers and leaders. It allows learners to develop skills in coaching and mentoring. The qualification covers embedding coaching and mentoring in organisations.

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 policiesReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
You'll construct organisational coaching and mentoring policies aligned with strategic objectives. The unit includes designing policy frameworks and evaluating relevant legal and ethical considerations within the organisation.

What you'll be able to do

  • Construct organisational coaching policies that align with strategic objectives
  • Construct organisational mentoring policies that align with strategic objectives
  • Demonstrate how the impact of coaching is recognised and accepted within the organisation
  • Demonstrate how the impact of mentoring is recognised and accepted within the organisation
  • Demonstrate how support for coaching is provided within the organisation
  • Demonstrate how support for mentoring is provided within the organisation
Coaching and mentoring within organisational cultureReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
It teaches you to understand the relationship between strategic performance and coaching and mentoring programmes within organisational culture. It covers analysing cultural impacts and evaluating the alignment of existing programmes with organisational objectives.

What you'll be able to do

  • Demonstrate the links between strategic performance and the implementation of coaching programmes
  • Demonstrate the links between strategic performance and the implementation of mentoring programmes
  • Understand the impact of organisational culture on the effectiveness of coaching initiatives
  • Understand the impact of organisational culture on the effectiveness of mentoring initiatives
  • Understand how coaching can positively impact the organisation's performance and culture
  • Understand how mentoring can positively impact the organisation's performance and culture
Embedding coaching and mentoring in the organisationReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
This unit focuses on developing coaching and mentoring strategies tailored to individual and organisational needs. You'll analyse skills and knowledge to identify needs, create tailored plans, and evaluate the effectiveness of coaching and mentoring interventions.

What you'll be able to do

  • Develop coaching and mentoring strategies for individuals within the organisation
  • Develop coaching and mentoring strategies for the wider organisation
  • Support the achievement of evolving organisational objectives through coaching interventions
  • Support the achievement of evolving organisational objectives through mentoring interventions
Leadership coaching and mentoring skillsReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
This unit covers how coaching and mentoring programmes support business objectives and their implementation to achieve organisational goals. You'll learn to devise implementation plans and evaluate the impact of these programmes, including analysing potential return on investment.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how coaching and mentoring programmes can support the achievement of business objectives
  • Understand the processes involved in implementing coaching and mentoring initiatives to achieve organisational objectives
  • Devise a detailed implementation plan for a coaching and mentoring programme
  • Evaluate the impact of a coaching and mentoring plan on individuals and the organisation
  • Understand how to develop personal leadership skills in the context of coaching and mentoring
Organisational coaching and mentoringReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
You'll analyse challenges encountered during the adoption of organisational coaching and mentoring programmes. The unit also covers developing change plans through these processes and determining the need for ongoing high-level support.

What you'll be able to do

  • Analyse the key issues and challenges involved during the adoption and implementation of organisational coaching and mentoring programmes
  • Develop and implement changes within an organisation through the application of coaching and mentoring techniques
  • Determine the ongoing need for continual high-level support for coaching and mentoring initiatives within an organisation
Strategic impact of coaching and mentoringReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
It teaches you to understand how coaching and mentoring support individual, team, and departmental development. It includes analysing their contribution to achieving strategic performance objectives within an organisation.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how individual, team, and departmental development can be supported through the coaching and mentoring process
  • Understand the effect of coaching and mentoring on the achievement of strategic performance objectives within an organisation

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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.

Coaching and mentoring policiesCoaching and mentoring within organisational cultureEmbedding coaching and mentoring in the organisationLeadership coaching and mentoring skillsOrganisational coaching and mentoringStrategic impact of coaching and mentoring

Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.

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Where this connects

Where these credits take you

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Where this can lead

Manager, Leadership Coaching & Mentoring

This isn't just a job; it's a chance to truly shape the future of our leadership. If you're passionate about developing people, driven by strategic impact, and ready to lead a critical function, then we'd love to hear from you. Your journey here could be the launchpad for a truly impactful career.

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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.

Coach or Mentor EmployeesDevelop coaching and mentoring within organisational strategies

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.
Coaching and mentoring policiesLevel 7

Applied to your work in any of these jobs

Learners will construct organisational coaching and mentoring policies aligned with strategic objectives. The unit includes designing policy frameworks and evaluating relevant legal and ethical considerations within the organisation.

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 Certificate In Leadership Coaching and Mentoring

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

  1. Coaching and mentoring policies
  2. Coaching and mentoring within organisational culture
  3. Embedding coaching and mentoring in the organisation
  4. Leadership coaching and mentoring skills
  5. Organisational coaching and mentoring
  6. Strategic impact of coaching and mentoring
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.

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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.

  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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