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- You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer Chartered Management Institute has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and Chartered Management Institute awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from Chartered Management Institute.
The CMI Level 7 Certificate is for managers who translate organisational strategy into operational performance. It requires managers to build on strategic management and leadership skills. Areas of study include personal leadership development, performance management strategies, and financial management.
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. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.
Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with Chartered Management Institute. It does the teaching and the mapping. Chartered Management Institute sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
CONDUCTING A STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT PROJECT Real unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Identify and justify a strategic investigative project
- Conduct research and synthesise data to produce options that support the project aims
- Draw conclusions and make recommendations that achieve the project aim
- Develop and review the results of the investigative project
DEVELOPING PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES Real 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 and initiate changes where necessary
- Apply influencing and persuading skills, to the dynamics and politics of personal interactions
DEVELOPING A MARKETING STRATEGY Real unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how the marketing plan supports strategic objectives
- Understand the construction of a marketing plan
- Construct a marketing plan Understand how to promote the marketing plan in support of strategic objectives
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT Real 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
FINANCIAL PLANNING Real unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how the financial plan supports strategic objectives
- Understand the construction of a financial plan
- Construct a financial plan
- Understand how to promote the financial plan in support of strategic objectives
IMPLEMENTING ORGANISATIONAL CHANGE STRATEGIES Real 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 the implementation models
- Understand how to analyse an organisational response to the change
- Evaluate the impact of change strategies
PERSONAL LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT AS A STRATEGIC MANAGER Real unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Identify skills to achieve strategic ambitions
- Manage personal leadership development to support achievement of strategic ambitions
- Evaluate the effectiveness of the leadership development plan
- Advocate a staff welfare environment that supports organisational values
REVIEWING ORGANISATIONAL STRATEGY PLANS AND PERFORMANCE Real unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Review the organisational strategic aims and objectives
- Analyse progress towards organisational strategic aims and objectives
- Evaluate strategic options to support a revised strategic position
STRATEGIC HUMAN RESOURCE PLANNING Real unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how the HR plan supports the strategic objectives
- Understand the legal and organisational frameworks for employment
- Understand the effect of the organisational culture on staff
- Understand the grievance, discipline and dismissal process
STRATEGIC INFORMATION MANAGEMENT Real unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the impact of management information on decision making within an organisation
- Understand the importance of information sharing within the organisation
- Use information to inform and support strategic decision making
- Monitor and review management information
STRATEGIC PLANNING Real unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose of a strategic plan
- Select a strategic direction from analysis of alternative strategic options
- Implement and evaluate the strategic plan
STRATEGIC PROJECT MANAGEMENT Real unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the impact of projects and project management on strategic objectives
- Understand the elements of a project process and plan
- Understand how to implement the project plan and evaluate the outcome(s)
The national standards these units are built against
What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
- Standard
Create and evolve a marketing strategy for an organisation
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Create or evolve a marketing strategy for an organisation
- Standard
Develop a Strategy for Inspections or Reviews
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Influence, Develop and Review Strategy
- Standard
Review and Restructure an Individual or Corporate Portfolio
The jobs these credits are mapped to
A qualification is never a dead end here. Each of these is a job record this qualification is a mapped route into.
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Showing 6 roles, drawn from 87 job records mapped to this qualification. Near-identical records are folded together, and each row says how many it stands for.
Where this can lead
MI Manager (Finance)
This role can lead to senior finance leadership, such as VP of Finance or CFO, or into data leadership roles such as Chief Data Officer.
See the whole journeyThe credits, and who awards them
Level 7 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by Chartered Management Institute rather than by Zavmo. 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 have covered and what is next.
What you would be collecting
CONDUCTING A STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT PROJECTDEVELOPING PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT STRATEGIESDEVELOPING A MARKETING STRATEGYFINANCIAL MANAGEMENTFINANCIAL PLANNINGIMPLEMENTING ORGANISATIONAL CHANGE STRATEGIESPERSONAL LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT AS A STRATEGIC MANAGERREVIEWING ORGANISATIONAL STRATEGY PLANS AND PERFORMANCE
Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.
How you’d practise it
You don’t watch this. You do it.
You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.
The Coach · your practice partner Illustration - Pitch it Evaluate
“DEVELOPING A MARKETING STRATEGY” gets practised as a pitch. You make the case out loud, Zavmo asks the question the room would ask, and you make it again.
- Bring your own plan Create
For “CONDUCTING A STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT PROJECT” you bring the plan you are actually working on, not a case study. Zavmo pulls on the assumptions in it until the weak one shows.
- Draft the real one Create
You do “FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT” on a real document of your own. Zavmo works on the draft you have to send anyway, so the coursework and the job are the same piece of work.
- Lead it Apply
“DEVELOPING PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES” is practised on the team you actually have. You talk through the call you are about to make, and Zavmo makes you say it the way you would say it to them.
What you leave holding
The standards this credential builds, in the shape the product keeps them
Nothing here is marked learned. There is no learner on a public page, so the map shows what the qualification covers rather than what anybody has done.
- Create and evolve a marketing strategy for an organisation
- Create or evolve a marketing strategy for an organisation
- Develop a Strategy for Inspections or Reviews
- Influence, Develop and Review Strategy
- Review and Restructure an Individual or Corporate Portfolio
How you would learn this
One to one, on the work you already do
A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.
A lesson from CONDUCTING A STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT PROJECT, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
This unit develops learners' ability to identify and justify a strategic investigative project, conduct research, synthesise data, and produce options aligned with project aims. Learners will draw conclusions, make recommendations, and review project outcomes to support strategic management.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for CMI Level 7 Certificate in Strategic Management and Leadership Practice
12 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Chartered Management Institute.
- CONDUCTING A STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT PROJECT
- DEVELOPING PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES
- DEVELOPING A MARKETING STRATEGY
- FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
- FINANCIAL PLANNING
- IMPLEMENTING ORGANISATIONAL CHANGE STRATEGIES
and 6 more in the full unit list below.
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