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How you’d get this certificate

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  2. 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.
  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

Aimed at practising or aspiring managers and leaders, the CMI Level 5 Certificate in Principles of Management Consulting develops knowledge of management and leadership principles within an organisation. It covers managing and leading individuals and teams, as well as performance 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.

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.

02The units

What each unit actually teaches you to do

MANAGING PERFORMANCE Real unit · Chartered Management Institute
You'll understand the rationale for managing performance within organisations and the frameworks supporting it. The unit covers legal and organisational impacts, diagnostic and evaluation tools, and good practice principles for performance management.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the rationale for managing performance within organisations
  • Understand frameworks, diagnostic and evaluation tools used for performance management
  • Manage performance
PRINCIPLES OF DEVELOPING, MANAGING AND LEADING INDIVIDUALS AND TEAMS TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS Real unit · Chartered Management Institute
You'll explore approaches to developing, managing, and leading individuals and teams for success. The unit includes evaluation of theoretical models, practical leadership techniques, and strategies for managing team leaders and multiple teams.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand approaches to developing, managing and leading teams
  • Understand approaches to achieving a balance of skills and experience in teams
  • Know techniques for leading individuals and teams to achieve success
PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP IN AN ORGANISATIONAL CONTEXT Real unit · Chartered Management Institute
This unit covers factors impacting an organisation's internal environment and the application of management and leadership principles. You'll examine legal status, mission and vision statements, organisational structures, values, and ethics in management decision-making.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand factors which impact on an organisation’s internal environment
  • Understand the application of management and leadership theories
  • Understand the knowledge, skills and behaviours to be effective in a management and leadership role
PRINCIPLES OF MANAGING AND LEADING INDIVIDUALS AND TEAMS TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS Real unit · Chartered Management Institute
This unit provides learners with knowledge of managing and leading teams, balancing skills and experience, and effective leadership techniques. You'll evaluate theoretical models, discuss practical approaches, and analyse strategies for managing team leaders.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand approaches to managing and leading teams
  • Achieve a balance of skills and experience in teams
  • Know techniques for managing and leading individuals and teams to achieve success
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03Where 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 16 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

Manager, Performance Consulting

This work can lead to senior leadership roles that shape people strategy across an organisation, such as chief learning officer or head of people analytics.

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04The credits

The credits, and who awards them

Level 5 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

MANAGING PERFORMANCEPRINCIPLES OF DEVELOPING, MANAGING AND LEADING INDIVIDUALS AND TEAMS TO ACHIEVE SUCCESSPRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP IN AN ORGANISATIONAL CONTEXTPRINCIPLES OF MANAGING AND LEADING INDIVIDUALS AND TEAMS TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS

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 The Coach · your practice partner Illustration
The Coach You have to tell the team what “MANAGING PERFORMANCE” means for them next month. Say it to me now, the way you would say it to them.
You The new process goes live on the 3rd and full training will be provided.
The Coach That is the announcement. Now try the one that starts with the bit they are going to hate, and we will see which you would rather receive.
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.
  • Lead it Apply

    “MANAGING PERFORMANCE” 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.

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 MANAGING PERFORMANCE, one of this qualification's own units.

MANAGING PERFORMANCE Level 5

Applied to your work in any of these jobs

Which job do you mean?
Manager, Performance ConsultingPerformance Consulting Specialist ManagerPerformance Consulting ManagerManager, Performance ImprovementLead Performance Consulting SpecialistSenior Chief Performance Advisor

Learners will understand the rationale for managing performance within organisations and the frameworks supporting it. The unit covers legal and organisational impacts, diagnostic and evaluation tools, and good practice principles for performance management.

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

Built for CMI Level 5 Certificate in Principles of Management Consulting

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

  1. MANAGING PERFORMANCE
  2. PRINCIPLES OF DEVELOPING, MANAGING AND LEADING INDIVIDUALS AND TEAMS TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS
  3. PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP IN AN ORGANISATIONAL CONTEXT
  4. PRINCIPLES OF MANAGING AND LEADING INDIVIDUALS AND TEAMS TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS
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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