Professional Consulting ‑ CMI Level 7
Course Overview
This course leads to a qualification:
Level 7 in Professional Consulting
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Tutor-led Learning: | 4 days over 2 modules | ||
Applied Learning Sessions: | 1 set @ 3.5 hours duration | ||
Total CPD Earned: | 31.5 hours | ||
CPD Accredited by: | ChTC CPD | ||
Qualification Registration: | CMI level 7 |
CMI Level 7 Qualification Support Summary | |
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Supporting Feature | Certificate |
Tutorial Support Sessions: | 4 x 1 hour duration |
Our Chartered Management Institute (CMI) accredited Professional Consulting programme has been designed to give participants the opportunity to develop their knowledge, skills and expertise to operate as professional consultants within organisations.
Designed by the CMI in partnership with the Management Consulting Association (MCA) learners work towards a Level 7 CMI qualification which has been mapped to the Chartered Management Consultant Competency Framework, creating a strong foundation for onward professional development journey’s.
Whether you are an existing consultant seeking a recognised qualification, an individual seeking to add consultancy services to your portfolio or an individual acting as an internal consultant in a Business Partnering, Organisational Development or Continuous Improvement role this programme will support the next phase of your development journey.
Through exploration of industry recognised models and frameworks, case studies, research, group discussion, shared peer group experiences plus tutor knowledge and insight the programme explores and analyses the principles of client centred consultancy.
Next Available Course
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In PersonVirtualBlended
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CMI Level 7 in | ||
Professional Consulting | ||
Option | In Person | Virtual |
Certificate | 2145 | 2005 |
Prices exclusive of VAT |
About the programme
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Benefits for individuals
- Develop your professional consultancy skills
- Explore a range of tools and techniques that can support your consultancy interventions
- Enhance your consultancy value proposition
- Practice your consultancy skills in a safe learning environment
Benefits for employers
- Support your internal staff to develop consultative approach to their organisational role
- Grow the knowledge and skills existing organisational consultants
- Develop capacity and capability aligned to a recognised competency framework
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Daily Programme Structure
Time Event 09:00 Registration 09:30 Session A 11:00 Morning Break 11:15 Session B 12:45 Lunch Break 13:15 Session C 14:45 Afternoon Break 15:00 Session D 16:30 Day End Important information:
- The Daily Programme Structure table, provides a useful overview of approximate timings for each day.
- The programme commences at 09:30 daily, kindly arrive or sign in remotely no later than 09:15 please.
- Each Guided Learning session is approximately 90 minutes in duration (precise timing will be content specific).
- Breaks are facilitated between sessions, however you are free to stretch your legs or grab some refreshements at any time.
- Lunch is taken at approximately 12:45 for 30 Minutes.
- We aim to finish activities at approximately 16:30 daily.
- Greater detail regarding the each days planned topics, are shown in the Day Planner below.
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Day Planner - Level 5 Programme
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Pre-course Activity
Undertake a self-assessment of current consulting knowledge and skills against the Chartered Management Consultant competency framework.
Prepare a short rationale for attendance and their consultancy value proposition
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Day One - Leading the Principles & Practice of Professional Consulting
Delegates will explore the skills required of professional consultants to develop an ethical, credible, creative, agile, and resilient practice with the ability to adapt and to respond to client requirements in the contemporary workplace. We will consider the scope and types of consultancy, before exploring their current or aspirational consultancy offer.
Recognised models and approaches to consultancy practice will be explored and critiqued prior to learners developing their own framework for the delivery of effective, viable client centred consulting including processes for scoping, commissioning, contracting, and planning consultancy interventions.
Learners will then consider leadership within the consulting relationship, both in terms of the consultant’s own leadership role, power dynamics and the impact that organisational leaders have on consultancy interventions. We will then explore group dynamics and the development of facilitation skills in complex consulting environments.
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Day Two - Delivering Client Centred Consulting
Consultants must not only have a macro view of an organisation’s strategic context, but they must also understand the impact of technological, and geo-political change in a globalised, high-tech, fast paced, and unpredictable world. Learners will examine case studies and organisational scenarios in typically complex operating environments considering how relationships are developed with senior leaders. We will explore the industry competence framework and contextualise this to individual learners current or aspirational operations.
Delivering a client centric consultancy intervention, which has a tangible, positive impact on the client, requires a plethora of knowledge and a comprehensive toolkit.
Learners will spend a significant part of day 2 exploring their current consulting toolkit before investigating and deploying a broad range of strategic, analytical, and organisational developmental consultancy tools.
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Inter-module Activity
Learners to identify a business / organisational challenge that can be explored by colleagues during Module 2 and prepare a short presentation regarding the background and parameters of the challenge.
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Day Three - Innovation & Change in Professional Consulting
The ability to drive innovation and change is an essential skill for a professional consultant. Innovation defined simply as ‘doing something new or different’, is a powerful catalyst for change. It can revolutionise an organisation’s operational activities, create dynamic new opportunities, and contribute to the achievement of strategic goals. Change occurs in many forms and professional consultants must be able to lead changes, which may be radical, incremental, or evolutionary.
Day 3 of the programme will take learners on a myth-busting journey into innovation in both the organisational and consultancy context. We will spend the morning exploring what innovation is and isn’t and the consultant’s role in supporting clients on their innovation journey.
We will then spend the afternoon considering organisational change, how change thinking is developing post-pandemic, what this means for our consultancy practice and the consultant’s role in influencing, leading or scaffolding change processes in the client organisation.
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Day Four - Professional Consulting Expertise
The programme concludes with delegates putting learning their into practice.
Delegates will present their business / organisational challenges, and the group will select a number to work on during the course of the day.
Once the consultancy projects are selected, we will work in small groups to develop engagement propositions and scoping processes. Intervention will then be designed and delivered.
The session will be comprehensively discussed and debriefed with delegates exploring the tools deployed and knowledge, skills and behaviours demonstrated during the consultancy intervention against the Management Consultancy Competency Framework.
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Pre-course Activity
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This qualification is mapped to the CMI accredited Level 7 Award or Certificate in Professional Consulting.
The Award is a 70 Total Unit Time (TUT) qualification requiring learners to complete one assignment from the list below.
The Certificate is a 140 Total Unit Time (TUT) qualification requiring earners to select any two units from the list below.
TUT-hours include:
- Pre-course and inter-module activity
- Classroom / virtual classroom time
- Time spent undertaking our own reading or researching around the course topic or content
- Assignment completion time
- Tutorial attendance
Unit Number & Total Unit Time (TUT)
Unit Title
Assessment Method
720
TUT 100
Learners will discuss professional consulting in a range of contexts, explore the skills and strategies required to build effective consulting relationships and critically review the role of ethics, CSR and sustainability in professional consulting practice
Assignment / Report
4000 – 4500 words
721
TUT 90
Learners will critically appraise the consultant’s leadership role and explore a range of leadership styles and strategies as they relate to professional consultancy practice. They will then explore strategies for developing and valuing people in an organisational context.
Assignment / Report
4000 – 4500 words
722
TUT 100
Learners will conceptualise a process for the delivery of client centric consultancy practice before exploring approaches to generate consulting opportunities and maintain effective client relationships.
Development of consultancy model & supporting guidance
4000 – 4500 words
723
TUT 90
Learners will explore the rationale for innovation and change, critically appraise approaches to innovation and critique approaches to organisational change before developing a strategy for leading change in response to a client requirement.
Assignment / Report & Strategy
4000 – 4500 words
724
TUT 70
Learners will critically reflect on their own consultancy capability, consider the factors that impact personal and professional development for consultants and develop a PDP for their onward development.
Report & Professional Development Plan
3500 – 4000 words
725
Tut 70
Learners will present a research-based insight into an industry or sector exploring how this aligns with their own ability to effectively consult in that sector. They will then prepare a consultancy proposition based upon their consulting specialism or expertise.
Report & Proposal
2500 – 3000 words
726
TUT 100
Learners will construct a formal proposal to consult with a client, deliver the consultancy intervention and then report on the consultancy process including recommendations made and a critical review of the intervention.
Proposal, Report and Reflective Account
4000 – 4500 words
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This programme is accessible in the following modes:
In-person
Our in-person courses are designed to provide an immersive learning experience that fosters direct interaction with instructors and peers. You'll benefit from a dynamic classroom environment where ideas are exchanged freely, hands-on activities reinforce your learning, and real-time feedback enhances your understanding. The personal connections you build in our face-to-face sessions create a supportive community that extends beyond the classroom, offering valuable networking opportunities and collaborative projects. With access to our cutting-edge facilities and resources, attending in person allows you to fully engage with the course material and participate in spontaneous discussions that can enrich your educational journey.
Virtual Classroom
Our virtual classroom brings the quality and engagement of in-person learning to you, wherever you are. Leveraging the latest in online education technology, our virtual courses are designed to be interactive and engaging, with live lectures, real-time discussions, and collaborative activities that mirror the in-person experience. You'll have the flexibility to join from the comfort of your home or office. Our virtual platform ensures that distance is no barrier to accessing high-quality education, with all the tools you need to succeed, including digital resources, virtual breakout rooms for group work, and direct communication with instructors and fellow participants.
Hybrid
Some of our programs offer the same live training to both in-person and virtual participants, ensuring a cohesive and integrated learning experience for all. As we develop our skills in various co-coaching sessions, in-person attendees will have the unique opportunity to coach both online and face-to-face, bridging the gap between traditional and digital environments. This dual-mode coaching experience is invaluable in today's world, where the ability to navigate and excel in both physical and virtual spaces is increasingly essential. By mastering the art of hybrid coaching, you’ll gain practical skills that are not only relevant but critical for thriving in a rapidly evolving professional landscape.
Blended
This flexible learning model allows you to tailor your educational experience to seamlessly fit your lifestyle, offering the best of both in-person and remote participation. With the blended approach, you have the freedom to attend sessions on campus when you can, enjoying face-to-face interactions and hands-on experiences, while also having the option to join remotely whenever needed. This adaptability ensures that your learning remains consistent and uninterrupted, regardless of your location or schedule. Whether you’re balancing work, travel, or other commitments, the blended model empowers you to stay engaged and fully participate in your education on your terms.
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ChTC CPD
ChTC CPD is the trust mark we add to our training to demonstrate the high value of a learning experience for our participants.
CPD is the ongoing process through which professionals maintain and enhance their knowledge, skills, and competencies throughout their careers. Whilst CPD is mandatory only in some industries such as finance, healthcare, law and others, continuous learning on and for work is part of the natural competence development process for all individuals engaged in any professional activity.
It is not about the validity of our professional knowledge; instead, it focuses on our ability to deliver training that enables our participants to achieve their professional goals, but these rely on them being added .
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The Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation
The Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual) regulates qualifications, examinations and assessments in England.
For your convenience, we provide the related OFQUAL Qualification numbers and links the the gov.uk website where this data is maintained. From that page, the awarding organisation may be confirmed and access to the relevent specification is also provided.Qualification OFQUAL Link Certificate 60358944 -
Tutorials are designed to support you to complete the assessment / assignment elements of your selected qualification.
Tutorials are led by one of the ChTC team and are there for you to use in whatever ways best suits your personal learning approach and style.
Ways Our Learners Use Their Tutorials
- To get some initial support with their thinking ahead of starting to write an assignment.
- To get motivated to start writing their assignments.
- To discuss something they are stuck on or where they are unclear as to what the is required from a particular AC.
- To get the tutor or groups view about the work they have done to date and its readiness for assessment.
- To discuss feedback received from an assessor regarding one or more AC that has been referred rather than passed.
Each assessed piece of work required for the successful attainment of your qualification, including written assignments are broken down into “assessment criteria”, sometimes referred to as an AC. When completing an assessed piece of work, you are required to show understanding, awareness and evidence against each AC.
From early 2025 ChTC learners will also be able to access video tutorials for specific AC areas.
Qualification Option Quantity Duration Certificate 4 sessions 1 hours each
Upcoming Course Dates
Spring Course
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Late Summer Course
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Duration: 2 Days
15 September 2025
16 September 2025
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3 November 2025
4 November 2025
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