Award/Certificate/Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership
The CMI Level 7 Award gives senior managers a solid foundation from which to progress in their careers and in their formal leadership development. These qualifications are designed for practising or aspiring senior managers who wish to develop their strategic management skills and knowledge. These qualifications require directors and senior managers to build on their skills in strategic management and leadership and to focus on the requirements of inter-organisational strategy.
There are three Chartered Management Institute senior management qualifications at Level 7; the Award, Certificate and Diploma in Strategic Leadership and Management.
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Who is this course for?
The course is designed for practising or aspiring senior or strategic managers.
The course covers the following areas:
Strategic Performance Management
Financial Management
Change Management
Strategic Marketing
How does the course work?
Study Time:
You can study at a pace to suit you. Your tutor will create a timetable for you, and will set you work and assignments to complete each week.
If you can spend around 3 hours a week studying, you should be able to complete the course in 6 months for the Award, 18 months for the Certificate or 30 months for the Diploma. If you can spend more time studying than that, you could fast-track and complete the course faster.
Course Structure:
You must complete any of the units below to make up at least 6 credits to gain the Award, or 13 credits to gain the Certificate. To gain the Diploma, you must complete all of the units in Group A along with 3 optional units from Group B.
Assessments
Assessment is normally via practical work-based assignments.
Qualification Received:
You will receive the Chartered Management Institute Level 7 Award, Certificate or Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership.
Your Course Fee Includes:
Tuition
Study Materials
12 Month Institute Membership
VAT
Course Details - Unit Breakdown
Group A units
Personal Development as a Strategic Manager (6 credits)
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This unit is about the leadership skills required by a manager to operate effectively at a strategic level. It looks at managing personal leadership development to support the achievement of strategic ambitions, and being able to advocate a staff welfare environment that supports organisational values.
Strategic Performance Management (7 credits)
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This unit is about ensuring that the performance of the team contributes to meeting strategic objectives. It looks at agreeing team performance targets, and monitoring actions and activities to improve team performance. It also looks at influencing and persuading skills and organisational politics.
Financial Management (7 credits)
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This unit is about understanding financial data using a variety of tools and techniques, assessing budgets based on financial data and evaluating financial proposals for expenditure submitted by others.
Strategic Information Management (9 credits)
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This unit is about using management information to inform and support strategic decision making. It looks at the importance of information sharing within an organisation, and at methods and processes for analysing management information and its impact on strategic decisions.
Conducting a Strategic Management Project (10 credits)
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This unit is about identifying, researching and producing the results on an investigative project, analysing and synthesising data to draw conclusions and make recommendations that achieve the project aim, and evaluating the results and impact of the project.
Organisational Direction (9 credits)
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This unit is about reviewing strategic aims and objectives, analysing progress towards organisational strategic aims and objectives and evaluating alternative options to support a revised strategic direction.
Group B units
Being a Strategic Leader (7 credits)
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This unit is about strategic leadership skills and the understanding of ethical and cultural issues within the organisation. It looks at how different leadership strategies are used within an organisation, and how they relate to the organisation's ethics and values as well as emerging social concerns.
Human Resource Planning (8 credits)
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This unit is about the role of human resource planning and the links with strategic objectives. It looks at the effect the organisational environment has on staff, as well as the legal and organisational frameworks for employment as well as the grievance, disciplinary and dismissal processes.
Strategic Planning (9 credits)
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This unit is about the purpose, direction and implementation of strategic plans. It looks at how to select a strategic direction from a range of options, and how to review and monitor the strategic plan.
Organisational Change (7 credits)
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This unit is about identifying and developing change strategies to meet organisational objectives. It explains how to use implementation models to develop a change strategy, how to analyse an organisational response to change and evaluate the impact of change strategies.
Strategic Project Management (6 credits)
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This unit is about the development of a project plan and its impact on strategic objectives. It looks at the elements of a project process and plan, how to implement the project plan, the methods for securing stakeholder support for project implementation, and the evaluation of the outcome.
Strategic Marketing (6 credits)
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This unit is about identifying, developing, agreeing and monitoring a marketing plan that supports strategic objectives. It looks at the construction of a marketing plan, and how to gain agreement for the marketing plan by explaining how it supports strategic objectives.
Financial Planning (6 credits)
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This unit is about identifying, developing, agreeing and monitoring a financial plan that supports strategic objectives. It looks at the construction of a financial plan and how to gain agreement on the plan by explaining how it supports strategic objectives.
Strategic Leadership Practice (7 credits)
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This unit is about the links between strategic management and leadership, key leadership principles, theory and organisational strategy. It looks at different leadership strategies and their effect on organisational direction.
Introduction to Strategic Leadership and Management (10 credits)
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This unit is about the foundation skills and knowledge of a strategic manager and leader, aimed towards those who are new to the role. It looks at how a strategic manager's personal development plan can impact on performance, at the use of quantitative analysis to understand data and at core marketing concepts, staffing issues and the evaluation and support of others.
Strategic Risk Management (9 credits)
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This unit is about assessing risk, developing an organisational risk management strategy, aligning this to business objectives, communicating and resourcing risk management strategies, and evaluating outcomes.
Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility (9 credits)
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This unit is about developing an organisational Corporate Social Responsibility strategy, aligning this with business objectives, implementing the strategy, measuring outcomes and reinforcing the Corporate Social Responsibility strategy.
