Chartered Management Institute · RQF Level 7
CMI Level 7 Extended 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 credits62
- Guided learning190 hours
- Units in this qualification14
Awarded by Chartered Management Institute · on the Ofqual register
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
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, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES FOR CONSULTINGReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
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 STRATEGIESReal 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
ENTRY AND DIAGNOSISReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
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 SKILLSReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
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 STRATEGIESReal 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 change implementation models
- Understand how to analyse an organisational response to change
- Evaluate the impact of change strategies
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
- 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 INTERVENTIONSReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
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 CONSULTINGReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
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 CULTUREReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
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 CONSULTINGReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Manage personal professional development
- Manage the personal development of others
- Manage personal networks
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICEReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
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 PERFORMANCEReal 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 PROJECT MANAGEMENTReal 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)
TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES FOR EFFECTIVE CONSULTINGReal unit · Chartered Management Institute
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
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
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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.
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Where these credits take you
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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
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.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
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.
- COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES FOR CONSULTING
- DEVELOPING PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES
- ENTRY AND DIAGNOSIS
- GROUP DYNAMICS AND FACILITATING SKILLS
- IMPLEMENTING ORGANISATIONAL CHANGE STRATEGIES
- LEADERSHIP COACHING AND MENTORING SKILLS
and 8 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.
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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.
- 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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