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  3. 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.

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01What it is

QN: 603/5893/2 | 603/5894/4 | 603/5895/6 | 603/5896/8

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.

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02The units

What each unit actually teaches you to do

COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES FOR CONSULTING Real unit · Chartered Management Institute
You'll explore the impact of communication on the consulting process and develop communication strategies for interventions. The unit covers verbal and non-verbal communication methods and how to effectively communicate consultancy results.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how communication impacts on others involved in the consulting process
  • Create a communication strategy for a consultancy intervention
  • Understand how to communicate the results of consultancy interventions
DEVELOPING PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES Real unit · Chartered Management Institute
This unit covers the setting and agreeing of team performance targets aligned with strategic objectives. You'll learn to monitor team actions, apply influencing and persuading techniques, and evaluate tools for measuring and improving team performance.

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
ENTRY AND DIAGNOSIS Real unit · Chartered Management Institute
You'll establish and maintain effective working relationships with clients during entry and diagnosis phases. The unit includes managing communications, developing strategies to identify client needs, and preparing client proposal documents.

What you'll be able to do

  • Establish and maintain working relationships with the client
  • Manage communications during entry and initial diagnosis
  • Develop a strategy for identifying and scoping client needs
  • Develop the client proposal document
GROUP DYNAMICS AND FACILITATING SKILLS Real unit · Chartered Management Institute
This unit develops understanding of group dynamics and skills to lead groups strategically. You'll evaluate models of group behaviour, devise strategies to overcome challenges, and foster productive working relationships to achieve objectives.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand group dynamics and the impact on the achievement of objectives
  • Strategically lead groups
  • Develop productive working relationships with others
IMPLEMENTING ORGANISATIONAL CHANGE STRATEGIES Real unit · Chartered Management Institute
You'll study organisational change models and frameworks, applying creative problem-solving to develop and implement change strategies. The unit includes analysing organisational responses and evaluating the impact of change initiatives.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how to apply solutions to organisational change
  • Understand how to develop a change strategy using change implementation models
  • Understand how to analyse an organisational response to change
  • Evaluate the impact of change strategies
LEADERSHIP COACHING AND MENTORING SKILLS Real unit · Chartered Management Institute
It teaches you to understand how coaching and mentoring support business objectives. You'll devise implementation plans, evaluate their impact, and develop guidelines and protocols for effective coaching and mentoring programmes.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how coaching and mentoring programmes support business objectives
  • Understand the implementation of coaching and mentoring to achieve organisational objectives
  • Devise an implementation plan
  • Evaluate the impact of the coaching and mentoring plan
  • Understand how to develop skills as a leader in coaching and mentoring
MANAGING CONSULTANCY INTERVENTIONS Real unit · Chartered Management Institute
It teaches you to understand the consulting model and apply different approaches to interventions. You'll analyse the consulting cycle, evaluate risks and challenges, and develop strategies to manage them effectively.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the consulting model
  • Understand how to use different approaches to a consultancy intervention
MANAGING THE BUSINESS OF CONSULTING Real unit · Chartered Management Institute
You'll learn to promote a consulting organisation, manage resources within a consulting practice, and lead a consulting team. The unit includes creating customer-focused value propositions, evaluating promotional channels, and understanding pricing and resource management.

What you'll be able to do

  • Effectively promote the consulting organisation
  • Manage resources within a consulting practice/department
  • Lead and manage a consulting team effectively
ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE AND CULTURE Real unit · Chartered Management Institute
This unit explores how organisational structure and culture affect an organisation's performance and consultancy work. You'll analyse different structures and cultures, evaluating their impact on strategic objectives and consultant effectiveness.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the effects of organisational structure
  • Understand the impact of organisational culture on an organisation
  • Understand the impact on a consultant’s work of structure and culture within a client organisation
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN CONSULTING Real unit · Chartered Management Institute
You'll manage their own professional development and that of others within a consulting environment. The unit covers appraisal of development activities, construction of personal development plans, and management of professional networks in response to emerging trends.

What you'll be able to do

  • Manage personal professional development
  • Manage the personal development of others
  • Manage personal networks
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE Real unit · Chartered Management Institute
This unit provides knowledge of professional conduct, ethical behaviour, and confidentiality in consultancy. You'll understand the importance of integrity, codes of conduct, and acting responsibly within the profession.

What you'll be able to do

  • Act with professionalism and integrity as a consultant
  • Understand the importance of maintaining confidentiality in professional practice
  • Behave in an ethical manner when working as a consultant
REVIEWING ORGANISATIONAL STRATEGY PLANS AND PERFORMANCE Real unit · Chartered Management Institute
You'll review organisational strategic aims and objectives, analyse progress using strategic analysis tools, and evaluate options to support revised strategies. The unit develops skills in assessing strategic plans and considering stakeholder expectations.

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 PROJECT MANAGEMENT Real unit · Chartered Management Institute
This unit provides an understanding of project management's impact on strategic objectives. You'll explore project processes, planning, implementation, and evaluation, including stakeholder roles and project scoping.

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)
TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES FOR EFFECTIVE CONSULTING Real unit · Chartered Management Institute
This unit covers the identification of client needs and the development of research strategies for consultancy interventions. You'll explain the need for a structured approach and evaluate tools and methods for gathering and validating data.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how to identify client needs
  • Develop appropriate research strategies for consultancy interventions
  • Understand the importance of expert tools and techniques to a management consultant
03The standards

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.

  • Develop a Strategy for Inspections or Reviews

    Standard

  • Influence, Develop and Review Strategy

    Standard

  • Influence, develop and review strategy

    Standard

  • Review a collective fund portfolio and adjust investments within fund objectives

    Standard

  • Review and Restructure an Individual or Corporate Portfolio

    Standard

  • Review corporate performance

    Standard

  • Review the project and capture lessons learned

    Standard
04Where it leads

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.

Showing 6 roles, drawn from 116 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

Coaching and Mentoring Coordinator

This work can lead to broader roles running coaching and mentoring programmes, or into wider talent development positions.

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05The credits

The 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

COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES FOR CONSULTINGDEVELOPING PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT STRATEGIESENTRY AND DIAGNOSISGROUP DYNAMICS AND FACILITATING SKILLSIMPLEMENTING ORGANISATIONAL CHANGE STRATEGIESLEADERSHIP COACHING AND MENTORING SKILLSMANAGING CONSULTANCY INTERVENTIONSMANAGING THE BUSINESS OF CONSULTING

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 Navigator The Navigator · your what-if tutor Illustration
The Navigator Your plan for “IMPLEMENTING ORGANISATIONAL CHANGE STRATEGIES” assumes the same two people are free in March. What have you seen that makes you slightly uneasy about that?
You One of them has been pulled onto the migration twice already. Probably fine.
The Navigator That is the thread worth pulling. Let us build the version where it happens a third time and find the move that works either way.
The same lesson on the real thing: the conversation in the middle, the thinking ladder on the left, and the criteria each answer is evidencing on the right.
  • Bring your own plan Create

    For “IMPLEMENTING ORGANISATIONAL CHANGE STRATEGIES” 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.

  • 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.

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CMI Level 7 Extended Diploma in Professional Consulting
  • Develop a Strategy for Inspections or Reviews
  • Influence, Develop and Review Strategy
  • Review a collective fund portfolio and adjust investments within fund objectives
  • Review and Restructure an Individual or Corporate Portfolio
  • Review corporate performance
  • Review the project and capture lessons learned
This is your Mind Palace on learn.zavmo.ai. Every skill above comes from this role's own record, not an example borrowed from another job. A node lights up when you evidence it, and what you build stays yours between jobs. That is the part a course cannot do.

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 COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES FOR CONSULTING, one of this qualification's own units.

COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES FOR CONSULTING Level 7

Applied to your work in any of these jobs

Which job do you mean?
Coaching and Mentoring CoordinatorLead, Coaching & Mentoring ProgrammesManager, Internal ConsultingAssociate, Strategic ProjectsPerformance Consulting Specialist ManagerOrganisational Design Consultant

Learners will explore the impact of communication on the consulting process and develop communication strategies for interventions. The unit covers verbal and non-verbal communication methods and how to effectively communicate consultancy results.

How the thinking builds
  1. 1 Remember
  2. 2 Understand
  3. 3 Apply
  4. 4 Analyse
  5. 5 Evaluate
  6. 6 Create
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Your Plan Illustration

Built for CMI Level 7 Extended Diploma in Professional Consulting

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

  1. COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES FOR CONSULTING
  2. DEVELOPING PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES
  3. ENTRY AND DIAGNOSIS
  4. GROUP DYNAMICS AND FACILITATING SKILLS
  5. IMPLEMENTING ORGANISATIONAL CHANGE STRATEGIES
  6. LEADERSHIP COACHING AND MENTORING SKILLS

and 8 more in the full unit list below.

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.

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