Certified Management Consultant Designation
The Certified Management Consultant Designation involves nine online learning modules/courses and a certification test that upon successful completion, along with other requirements, results in the award of the AIMC-CC designation.
Value of the Certified Consultant (CC) Designation:
- Indicates that you have the knowledge and abilities to be a fully functional consultant working with client teams
- Provides the credentials to give you an advantage in being hired and promoted in a consulting role by a variety of organizations
- Exposes you to leading methodologies and best practice approaches across all nine core consulting competencies, which have been provided by leading consulting practitioner
- For consulting organizations, it helps to enhance your overall training and development program and also makes your group more attractive to prospective talent
The learning modules and the test will cover the basic knowledge a consultant needs to be competent in each of the nine AIMC Core Consulting Competencies:
- Data Analytics and Insights
- Organizational Transformation & Change
- Customer Experience & Service Focus
- Strategy & Business Acumen
- Project Management
- Management Consulting
- Coaching & Team Development
- Process Design & Improvement
- Leadership & Professional Impact
Requirements to Receive Certification and AIMC-CC Designation:
- Complete all 9 Modules/Courses
- Pass the final exam based on content of these Modules (if you do not pass on the first attempt, a one retest is included in the price)
- Completion of a bachelor’s degree plus one year’s experience in an internal consulting type role prior to Certification Applicants who can demonstrate suitable equivalent experience could petition for approval
- Agreement with the AIMC Consulting Code of Ethics.
Cost
- $1,779 for all 9 Modules/Courses including the test.
- Fee for each Module/Course taken individually: $179 (with separate fee for test)
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- I will serve my clients with integrity, competence, and objectivity.
- I will keep client information and records of client engagements confidential and will use confidential client information only with the client’s permission.
- I will not take advantage of confidential client information for myself or anyone else.
- I will accept only engagements for which I am qualified by my experience and competence.
- I will recommend participants for client engagements in accordance with their experience, knowledge, and expertise.
- I will immediately acknowledge any influence on my objectivity to my clients and will offer to withdraw from or properly realign my responsibilities in a consulting engagement when my objectivity or integrity may be impaired.
Module Descriptions
This module focuses on the consulting fundamentals of using quantitative and qualitative research methodologies to provide insights that assist with strategic decision-making and organizational problem solving. This includes data collection and analysis for defining business challenges, gathering and communicating insights, as well as recommending and implementing solution paths.
This module focuses on the basic concepts and tools internal consultants can use to support effective organizational transformation and change efforts.
The module provides a basic understanding of some of the fundamental change models in use today and equips you with tools that are widely used in organizational change efforts. From this foundation, you will understand the building blocks needed to explore more complex concepts in large systems change and organizational transformation and evolution.
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This module focuses on providing the internal consultant with tools and frameworks to design and implement processes to improve the customer experience. It builds on the importance and impact of a consultant’s ability to develop a customer service focus. It also makes the connection between trust building and a service orientation on customer engagement and satisfaction.
The purpose of this module is to provide the knowledge needed to be considered competent with respect to strategy management and business acumen. To accomplish this, we will cover the basics of strategy management and provide general models that will help you understand how to address strategy management at an enterprise level or a functional level within a large organization.
The purpose of this module is to provide the project management practitioner with a strong foundation in project management. This includes a focus on the fundamentals and tools of project management that relate to implementing consulting solutions and ensuring project success.
During this course, an interactive toolkit is provided to assist the practitioner through each phase of the project management process.
The purpose of this module is to provide a basic understanding of the Management Consulting Process which includes contracting, discovery, solution design and implementation for sustainable outcomes. It does so by providing an end-to-end illustration of a potential lifecycle for an internal management consulting engagement for new and experienced internal management consultants. We will also explore how to measure the value of consulting work by introducing a comprehensive strategy for measuring return on investment.
This module provides the internal consultant with key coaching concepts and their application to working with clients and leaders to ensure project and strategic success. This module also provides insight into the processes and human performance fundamentals that are necessary for building, improving, and sustaining highly effective teams needed to support consulting work.
This course aims to provide the internal consultant with tools and frameworks to design and implement processes to improve organizational effectiveness. If focuses on approaches, methods and process improvement disciplines that impact key strategic and operational processes and overall organizational performance.
This module provides the internal consultant with basic principles of being a consulting leader. It also illustrates key concepts from servant leadership and how to be a trusted advisor enables a consultant to have greater professional impact. This module is built on the foundational connection between organizational and personal principles and values and the impact of cultural diversity and inclusion on organizational performance.