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Certified Management Consultant Designation

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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.

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Program Details

Program Highlights

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:

Requirements

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:

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.

AIMC Code of Ethics

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.

Curriculum

Students of Certified Management Consultant Designation are able to complete the program’s full curriculum or sign up for the individual courses that meet their needs.

Individual Courses

Data Analytics and Insights

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.

Enroll in the Data Analytics and Insights course

Organizational Transformation and Change

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.

Enroll in the Organizational Transformation and Change course

Customer Experience and Service Focus

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.

Enroll in the Customer Experience and Service Focus Course

Strategy and Business Acumen

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.

Enroll in the Strategy and Business Acumen course

Project Management

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.

Enroll in the Project Management course

Management Consulting

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.

Enroll in the Management Consulting course

Coaching & Team Development

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.

Enroll in the Coaching & Team Development course

Process Design and Improvement

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.

Enroll in the Process Design and Improvement course

Leadership and Professional Impact

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.

Enroll in the Leadership and Professional Impact course

Admission and Tuition

Admission

Students progress through the content at their preferred pace, accessing lectures, readings, and assignments on their schedule. Support channels are available for inquiries or assistance throughout their learning journey. Completion certificates are awarded upon fulfilling course requirements. The program’s rolling basis enrollment allows individuals to join and commence their studies at any time, offering flexibility and convenience. After completing the simple registration process, students have immediate access to the course(s). Individual courses and annual subscriptions can be accessed for 12 months from the registration date.

To complete the registration process, select the registration link for the specific course(s) or annual subscription from the curriculum list. If you do not have an account in Butler’s catalog platform, you will be promoted creating one. Once logged in, you will be able to select “enroll” and complete the payment process.

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