Chartered Management Institute · RQF Level 7
CMI Level 7 Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 7
- Total credits39
- Guided learning140 hours
- Units in this qualification9
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.
Developing a marketing strategyReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how the marketing plan supports the organisation's strategic objectives
- Understand the key components and construction of a comprehensive marketing plan
- Construct a detailed marketing plan that aligns with strategic objectives
- Understand how to effectively promote the marketing plan to gain support for strategic objectives
Developing risk management strategiesReal 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
- Develop a risk management strategy
- Evaluate a risk management strategy including a disaster recovery plan
Financial managementReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Analyse financial data
- Assess budgets based on financial data to support organisational objectives
- Understand how to evaluate financial proposals for expenditure submitted by others
Introduction to strategic management and leadershipReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Construct a personal development plan
- Understand data and information, skills of quantitative analysis
- Understand core marketing concepts
- Understand the need for staff increases
- Understand methods that support performance improvement
Strategic corporate social responsibilityReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Develop a Corporate Social Responsibility strategy
- Implement a Corporate Social Responsibility strategy
- Evaluate the impact and reinforcement of the Corporate Social Responsibility strategy
Strategic human resource planningReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how the human resource (HR) plan supports the organisation's strategic objectives
- Understand the legal and organisational frameworks that govern employment practices
- Understand the effect of the organisational culture on staff behaviour and performance
- Understand the organisation's grievance, disciplinary, and dismissal processes
Strategic leadershipReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand an organisation’s ethical and value-based approach to leadership
- Understand strategic leadership styles
- Understand leadership strategies and their impact on organisational direction
Strategic leadership practiceReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the relationship between strategic management and leadership
- Understand leadership principles that support organisational values
- Understand leadership strategies and the impact on organisational direction
Strategic project managementReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
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.
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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.
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.
- Create and evolve a marketing strategy for an organisation
- Create or evolve a marketing strategy for an organisation
- Develop a risk management strategy
- Develop and maintain relationships relevant to risk management in a financial services organisation
- Develop brand strategy
- Develop risk management policies and procedures
- Establish strategies and action plans to meet the social marketing goals
- Manage Financial Resources
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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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
This unit equips learners with the knowledge and skills to develop marketing strategies aligned with strategic objectives. Learners will understand marketing plan construction, including situation analysis and budgeting, and how to promote the plan effectively.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for CMI Level 7 Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership
9 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Chartered Management Institute.
- Developing a marketing strategy
- Developing risk management strategies
- Financial management
- Introduction to strategic management and leadership
- Strategic corporate social responsibility
- Strategic human resource planning
and 3 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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